Check For a Lump
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 274626148
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2017–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2016, Form 990-N 2011
- Location
- Phoenix, AZ, USA
- Phone
- 6026885232
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Cancer
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $494,175
- Expenses
- $544,241
- Assets
- $97,673
- Liabilities
- $6,874
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Sommer Gunia (President)
- Tonsa Price-Edwards (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- Ashley Plum (Executive Dir.): $66,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide free breast health education, mammograms, testing, wigs, support, and resources in Arizona.
What it reported doing in 2025
In 2025, Check for a Lump provided 419 uninsured/underinsured women in Arizona with free, lifesaving mammograms and follow-up diagnostic testing. Including 384 initial screenings and 35 follow-up tests. Our Free Mammogram Program removes financial and logistical barriers, ensuring women receive timely care. We address transportation and childcare challenges by hosting mobile mammogram events, bringing essential services directly to communities in partnership with local health centers, grocery stores, and churches. For those requiring follow-up, we cover costs up to diagnosis. Early detection is critical, according to the CDC, women diagnosed at early stages have an 88.5% five-year survival rate, and early diagnosis often reduces treatment costs, benefiting Arizonas healthcare system.At mammogram events, we empower women with prevention strategies through our breast health publication, available in English and Spanish. This also gives them information to learn more through our podcasts, website and social media channels, and how to find resources should they have a diagnosis.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 98% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
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 expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 69
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 18
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 77.8%; rating input score 78
- Program expense ratio: 70.7%; rating input score 71
- Fundraising efficiency: $4.66 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 20; 20th 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: Limited
- 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: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -10.1%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.18; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.07; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 12.1%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.9% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.2% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.9% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 77.8% of revenue deployed · 70.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $385K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $66K · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2017 to 2025
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 20/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 19/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 11/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 25/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 25/100.