Cure Childhood Cancer
Legal name: Cure Childhood Cancer Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 581244138
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Atlanta, GA, USA
- Phone
- 7709860035
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $12,610,723
- Expenses
- $12,455,682
- Assets
- $7,466,698
- Liabilities
- $3,653,437
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
25 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Nick Kray (President)
- Liz Stanton (Vice President)
- Susan Kaufman (Vice President)
- Kristin Connor (Chief Executive Officer)
Highest reported compensation
- Kristin Connor (Chief Executive Officer): $406,909 total reported compensation
- Kevin Kennedy (Chief Operating Officer): $195,372 total reported compensation
- Dawn Bradshaw (Chief Marketing Officer): $186,631 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To advance treatments and ultimately find cures for cancers which affect children, working to ensure children have the best chance to survive their cancer without sacrificing their future health and quality of life, to support the hands-on education and training of the best and brightest minds dedicated to extinguishing childhood cancer through the Pediatric Oncology Fellows Program, and to provide for the emotional, physical, financial and educational needs of children with cancer and their families.
What it reported doing in 2024
Education - CURE provides critical education to families of children diagnosed with cancer, on treatment, and in survivorship. CURE targets electronic newsletters with relevant material to each group, ensuring families have the information they need to navigate complex treatment protocols and know how to monitor for late effects of cancer treatments, maintains social media platforms on which to share information with families and others, and provides robust education to the community at large about the problem of childhood cancer, the need for research funding, critical ways to help families fighting childhood cancer, and important scientific advancements in the field.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 98% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 50% for direct work, and 50% for grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 83
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 31
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 87.9%; rating input score 88
- Program expense ratio: 88.6%; rating input score 89
- Fundraising efficiency: $23.39 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 99.8%; rating input score 100; 37th 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; 66th 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: 1.2%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.6; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.49; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 8.9%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.8% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 9.8% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 10.1% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 87.9% of revenue deployed · 88.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 23 of 23 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $11M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $407K · 25 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $460K reported
- Consistency: 36 of 36 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2013 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 15 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 10 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.
- 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 39/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 20/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 25/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 30/100.