Breast Cancer Solutions

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
330765783
IRS 990 coverage
2011–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Lake Forest, CA, USA
Phone
8669609222
Rating
76
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Heart and Circulatory System Diseases, Disorders

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$355,808
Expenses
$330,102
Assets
$180,782
Liabilities
$-29

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

Highest reported compensation

  • JENNIFER ANDERSON (Executive Dir.): $69,111 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Breast cancer solutions is a non-profit organization that provides breast cancer patients with direct assistance, community referrals, and compassionate support

What it reported doing in 2025

Amount listed is program expenses for providing community based resource navigation, referrals, and support to breast cancer patients. Navigation and referrals are provided to all who contact our organization to enable breast cancer patients to access care and complete their treatment. Services include coordination with partner agencies to provide cross referrals, assistance with accessing applications for government programs, providing all clients with a detailed resource guide of available programs and services, mental health support, and assessment and referrals for therapy and intervention as needed. Our organization partners extensively with other programs and services to assist callers in accessing additional services to enable access to treatment.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 65% for direct work, and 35% for grants.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 70
  • Transparency & Controls: 94
  • Accountability: 84
  • Sustainability: 34
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 72.1%; rating input score 72
  • Program expense ratio: 77.7%; rating input score 78
  • Fundraising efficiency: $8.23 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 32; 32nd 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; 81st 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
    • 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: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 7.2%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.55; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 20.9%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -3.4% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -5.4% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 1.4% per year; rating input score 100; 28th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 72.1% of revenue deployed · 77.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $256K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $69K · 9 people listed
  • Consistency: 24 of 24 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
  • Filing history: 13 filing years from 2011 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: Fundraising efficiency scored 32/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 51/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 27/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 17/100.