Cancer Patients Alliance

Analysis

Cancer Patients Alliance is a registered charity in United States, based in Pacific Grove, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in April 2002, 24 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education, which this site groups under education and training. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Cancer Patients Alliance reported income of $752k and spending of $818k, spending 109% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $629k to $752k (+20%), an average of +4.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 70%. Over the whole period it spent 82% of the income it received.

Among 66,972 United States charities whose main cause is education and training and that reported income, Cancer Patients Alliance sits at the 73rd percentile: it is larger than about 73% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 76th percentile, and in the 77th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Moed Incorporated ($752k), South Bend Montessori High School Inc ($753k) and Marshallese Educational Initiative Inc ($752k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 96% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $23k (2.9% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $57k. At year end it held assets of $1.1m against liabilities of $7, net assets of $1.1m. It reported 3 employees.