Thompson Cancer Survival Foundation

Analysis

Thompson Cancer Survival Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Knoxville, TN. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 1994, 32 years ago. Its declared purposes cover diseases, disorders and medical disciplines, which this site groups under health and saving lives. The IRS classifies it as a supporting organisation under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Thompson Cancer Survival Foundation reported income of $483k and spending of $2.8m, spending 581% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $1.1m to $483k (-57%), an average of -19% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income dropped by 38%. Over the whole period it spent 320% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Thompson Cancer Survival Foundation sits at the 54th percentile: it is larger than about 54% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 70th percentile, and in the 71st percentile within TN. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Healing Impact Inc ($483k), Cancer Schmancer Foundation ($483k) and York County Disabilities Foundation ($482k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 75% of the total. At year end it held assets of $7.5m against liabilities of $313k, net assets of $7.2m.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.