Cancer Research and Treatment Fund Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 136272085
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 2122886604
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $879,584
- Expenses
- $1,054,997
- Assets
- $16,728,397
- Liabilities
- $403,119
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
21 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- CHAD FEAY (EMPLOYEE- ADMIN & DEVELOPMENT): $107,463 total reported compensation
- RICHARD T SILVER (DIRECTOR EMERITUS): $80,000 total reported compensation
- MICHAEL GURTOWSKI (VP-ADMIN & DEV.): $26,833 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Cancer research and treatment fund, inc.(cr&t) funds research emphasizing the cause, prevention, treatment, and cure of myeloproliferative neoplasms(mpns)and alsofunds other blood and solid tumor cancer research.
What it reported doing in 2025
Research and grants made for cancer care and cure.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 81% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 71% of its reported program spending out as grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - 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: 83
- Transparency & Controls: 73
- Accountability: 96
- Sustainability: 39
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 96.9%; rating input score 97
- Program expense ratio: 80.1%; rating input score 80
- Fundraising efficiency: $5.78 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.1%; rating input score 94; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 98.2%; rating input score 98; 50th 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: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- 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: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -19.9%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 15.86; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 20.3%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -1.1% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.6% per year; rating input score 100; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.5% per year; rating input score 100; 29th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 96.9% of revenue deployed · 80.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 17 of 18 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $846K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $107K · 21 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 27 of 28 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2011 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 2 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 19/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 7/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 16/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 51/100.