Animal Cancer Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 943342838
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Port Washington, NY, USA
- Phone
- 5168584960
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Cancer Research
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $318,293
- Expenses
- $825,963
- Assets
- $359,638
- Liabilities
- $15,445
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- GERALD POST (PRESIDENT)
- BARBARA COHEN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- BARBARA COHEN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $74,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Animal cancer foundation is dedicated to finding new treatments and eventual cures for cancer by funding research in and increasing public awareness of comparative oncology, the study of naturally occurring, similar cancers in people and in companion animals.
What it reported doing in 2024
Animal cancer foundation has embarked on the canine cancer genome project ("ccgp") sponsored by blue buffalo foundation to enable a multi-institutional scientific investigational collaboration to map canine cancer genomes from samples donated to acf by the canine cancer oncology genomics consortium (ccogc) and to place those datasets in the public domain for use by all cancer research. This multi-year project will enable cancer scientists to build more robust comparative datasets and to further cancer research in pets and people. After a competitive selection process, the translational genomics research institute was selected as the principal investigators for this project.acf paid $410,000 in september 2024 and $100,000 in june 2025 for ccgp. An additional $200,000 is committed to ccgp.acf comparative oncology grants awards are research grants of $50,000 for one to two year comparative oncology research that is identified by a scientific advisory council as best-in-field early development that will have results poised to attract further government and large institutional funding and that encourage open share discovery to speed new scientific information and treatment to the clinical setting. These rfps are opened at the discretion of the acf board of directors.acf supports workshops, symposia and conferences furthering comparative oncology that include the veterinary cancer society ("vcs") annual conference.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 81% of its reported program spending out as grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 14
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 76.5%; rating input score 77
- Fundraising efficiency: $2.26 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -159.5%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.44; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 9%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 12.3% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.9% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.5% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 76.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $632K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $74K · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2012 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 10/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 1/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 22/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Document-retention policy not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 30/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 34/100.