Boon Project
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 821158646
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2018
- Location
- Summerville, SC, USA
- Phone
- 8437541879
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Philanthropy, Charity, Voluntarism Promotion
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $110,933
- Expenses
- $48,489
- Assets
- $241,143
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Katherine Brown (Executive Dir./President)
- Dr Joseph Matthews (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Katherine Brown (Executive Dir./President)
- Blair Grass (Director (YA Cancer Guide))
- Patrice Felder (Director (Mental Health Rep.))
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Boon Project exists to combat the increased rates of isolation and depression in young adult cancer fighters and survivors, as well as to equip them with resources in their fight to help increase survival rates. The mission of the organization is to support young adult cancer fighters and their unique needs, through providing beneficial programs and creating a cooperative cancer fighting culture that works to heal the whole patient.
What it reported doing in 2025
Patient Support: Our patient support program provides financial, emotional, and mental health support for young adults fighting cancer. We offer financial assistance grants, access to free counseling services with a licensed therapist, support from a young adult cancer guide with a background in oncology nursing, as well as care packages called "Boon Bags" with cancer fighting resources. This year we've increased the presence of our Boon bags and resources to hospitals and patient care facilities by partnering with local providers, navigators, and social workers. We continue to focus on building relationships with people who serve our demographic. This year we were able to fulfill 100% of local eligible financial assistance grant requests. Our cancer guide has worked with patients to help them advocate for themselves and seek the best care plans for their situations. In a collaborative effort, our Executive Director attended the MUSC SCOR Survivor Symposium in Charleston in June as well as the Adolescent Young Adult Cancer Coalition Conference in Chapel Hill, NC in October. Both events allowed us to collaborate with others in the AYA community as well as to learn more about how we can meet the needs of those we serve. We've continued our conversations with our local hospital about the importance of programs geared towards our demographic and have advocated for AYA specific services to be offered through their adult and pediatric cancer centers. We believe community is healing and working to connect those we serve with other organizations who can provide them assistance is an important part of our mission and patient support program.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 91% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 75% for direct work, and 25% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 52
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 82
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 36.5%; rating input score 37
- Program expense ratio: 76.2%; rating input score 76
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 56.3%; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.97; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 36.6%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.1% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13.6% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 23.9% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 36.5% of revenue deployed · 76.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $37K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2019 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 37/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.