Mama Bears Fighting Childhood Cancer
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 882095855
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Fair Oaks, CA, USA
- Phone
- 9162650925
- Rating
- 89
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Patient Services - Entertainment, Recreation
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $175,444
- Expenses
- $152,944
- Assets
- $67,754
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DEBRA MITCHELL (President)
- ANDREA VELASQUEZ (Vice President)
People named in this filing
- DEBRA MITCHELL (President)
- ANDREA VELASQUEZ (Vice President)
- SARA TAPPARO (BOARD MEMBER)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of Mama Bears Fighting Childhood Cancer (MBFCC) is to empower parents and caregivers of pediatric cancer patients through immediate support and ongoing community. We help parents navigate the pediatric oncology universe and provide them with the support and tools needed to advocate for their child.
What it reported doing in 2024
Mama Bears Fighting Childhood Cancer (MBFCC) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization supporting Northern California families with children up to 21 years old who are currently undergoing treatment for childhood cancer. We provide families whose child has an active cancer diagnosis with an MBFCC Hospital Survival Wagon or Clinic Cart based on the family's needs filled with essential items to live more comfortably in the hospital or during long outpatient clinic visits. MBFCC delivered 282 wagons and 12 clinic carts in 2024 to Northern California Children's Hospitals to support pediatric cancer families.We offer a uniquely supportive community for parents and caregivers with a child diagnosed with cancer. MBFCC provides a safe and private chat community in English and Spanish for parents and caregivers to support each other day and night through the ups and downs of treatment. MBFCC has an "Angel" support group for parents in our community whose child becomes an angel too soon. The private chat communities are confidential spaces where parents can share and support each other through the good, the bad, the ugly, and so much more. We also host in-person events for parents and their children.Our goal is to ensure that no parent walks this journey alone, and our motto is, "Carry your family, Well carry you!"
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 83
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 47
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 78.6%; rating input score 79
- Program expense ratio: 90.2%; rating input score 90
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: 12.8%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.44; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 34.2% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 21.4% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 39.8% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 78.6% of revenue deployed · 90.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $138K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 34/100.