Arizona Cancer Foundation for Children Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 462691606
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2016–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2014
- Location
- Scottsdale, AZ, USA
- Phone
- 4803507055
- Rating
- 66
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Public, Society Benefit N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,153,966
- Expenses
- $2,373,729
- Assets
- $7,890,104
- Liabilities
- $3,840,521
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CHRISIE ABRAMO (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- CHRISIE ABRAMO (PRESIDENT): $130,510 total reported compensation
- TYLER MAHNKE (VP PHILANTHROPY): $115,626 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Arizona Cancer Foundation for Children provides social, emotional, and financial support to families managing the health and well-being of a loved one with pediatric cancer.
What it reported doing in 2024
Our mission is to create a centralized hub of support for pediatric cancer warriors and their families, all within one location. By providing essential services and programs, we aim to alleviate the burdens associated with pediatric cancer and provide support to the entire family.Emotional Licensed counseling for children and families K9 therapy Calming and respite space for caregivers.Financial Meals in Baxters Kitchen Financial Assistance Groceries, to-go meals, clothing, and household essentials End-of-life and bereavement support.Social Academic and school support Toy store and play space Birthday celebrations, end-of-treatment parties and special events Paint splatter room and art studio Teen rooms Quarterly family events.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 75% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 71% for direct work, and 29% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of total spending goes to programs and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 61
- Transparency & Controls: 63
- Accountability: 70
- Sustainability: 66
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 51.9%; rating input score 52
- Program expense ratio: 80.5%; rating input score 80
- Fundraising efficiency: $14.52 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 89.5%; rating input score 89; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 0%; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 57.1%; rating input score 57; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 24.7%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.32; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.49; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 10.4%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 28.6% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 24.9% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 33.3% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 51.9% of revenue deployed · 80.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 7 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $131K · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 27 of 29 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2016 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 52/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 57/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 50/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Audit committee oversight not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 22/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 29/100.