The Cactis Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 273330205
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2013–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2012
- Location
- Scottsdale, AZ, USA
- Phone
- 6023734324
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Medical Disciplines Research
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $59,568
- Expenses
- $46,138
- Assets
- $13,168
- Liabilities
- $46,792
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
People named in this filing
- HIRSCH HANDMAKER MD (Chairman)
- GARY CHIATE (Director)
- JONATHAN LEVY MD (Director)
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 cactis foundation is a community-based 501(c)3 institution focused on advancing the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease. We accomplish this by supporting research-oriented preclinical and clinical programs, and early phase clinical trials and continuing medical education (cme) programs for health care professionals. Our current focus includes personalized medicine, theranostics and traumatic brain injury (tbi) aka concussions, in young athletes, victims of intimate partner violence (ipv), industrial and motor vehicle accidents, the military and first responders, with a significant attention to addressing health care delivery disparities and underserved populations.
What it reported doing in 2024
The CACTIS Foundation continues to lead and coordinate the MC3DV (Maricopa County Collaboration on Concussion from Domestic Violence) with the Maricopa County Attorney's Office Family Violence Bureau, the Mesa and Tempe, Arizona Police Departments, the University of Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix (UACOM-P), and the Phoenix VA Healthcare System Intimate Partner Violence Assistance Program. The CACTIS Foundation continues to investigate and address the frequency and impact of TBI in the underrepresented, diverse cohort of intimate partner violence victims (women, men, and children), participate in educational programs and baseline concussion testing of youth athlete organizations focusing on concussions. CACTIS initiated and continues to emphasize the analysis of local, regional, and national data with the goal of creating a concussion registry and developing a "Best Practices" concussion assessment and treatment program in collaboration with the Arizona Department of Health Services. CACTIS has hosted and sponsored none (9) annual programs in Phoenix, Arizona since 2010: "Concussions: Advances in Sports Medicine and The Public Health Epidemic: Traumatic Brain Injuries in Victims of Intimate Partner Violence".
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 96% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 48
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 66.6%; rating input score 67
- Program expense ratio: 86%; rating input score 86
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 22.5%; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.29; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 3.55; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 1.9% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -1% per year; rating input score 0; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.4% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 66.6% of revenue deployed · 86% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $40K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2013 to 2024
- 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 — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 20/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 2/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.