Alliance Nctn Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 844029941
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2019
- Location
- Chicago, IL, USA
- Phone
- 7737029171
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Cancer
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $10,906,644
- Expenses
- $10,413,634
- Assets
- $4,473,409
- Liabilities
- $2,806,305
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
39 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- EVANTHIA GALANIS (PRESIDENT)
- OLWEN HAHN (VICE PRESIDENT/TRUSTEE)
Highest reported compensation
- DHRUVA GOLLERKERI (TREASURER/CFO): $296,654 total reported compensation
- SELINA CHOW (EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $277,214 total reported compensation
- LISA RENEE PITLER (SENIOR DIRECTOR, COMPLIANCE & HR): $268,906 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide scientific and operational infrastructure for the implementation of innovative clinical and translational research in academic and community settings and to reduce the impact of cancer on people by engaging a comprehensive research network, conducting high quality multidisciplinary cancer control, prevention and treatment trials.
What it reported doing in 2024
Alliance nctn foundation successfully initiated operational oversight of innovative clinical translation research in academic and community settings focused on reducing the impact of cancer by engaging a comprehensive research network and conducting high quality multidisciplinary cancer control, prevention and treatment trials, the results of which will be available to the public, and furthering the understanding of the biological basis for cancer and its treatment from discovery, to validation, to clinical practice.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 91% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 61% for direct work, and 39% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 71
- Accountability: 92
- Sustainability: 41
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 83.6%; rating input score 84
- Program expense ratio: 87.5%; rating input score 88
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 99.9%; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 94.4%; rating input score 94; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 4.5%; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.43; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.63; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.1%; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 21.7% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 22.7% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.4% per year; rating input score 100; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 83.6% of revenue deployed · 87.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 34 of 36 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $9.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $297K · 39 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 2 contractors listed · $2.9M reported
- Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 70 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 71 filed related-organization links
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 13/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 52/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 21/100.