The Cece Strong Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 333526638
- IRS 990-PF coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-PF 2025
- Location
- Elk Grove Village, IL, USA
- Phone
- 8476137719
- Rating
- 29
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Cancer Research
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $36,554
- Expenses
- $35,617
Source: IRS Form 990-PF. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Overview
Mission
Cancer Research
What it reported funding in 2025
The foundation reported 2 grants totaling $15,500. The stated grant purposes included travel expenses tofrom hospital for cancer patient and floor 17th- acute care unit.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the foundation's positive operating resources came from contributions.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The foundation combined direct charitable work with grants to other organizations or people.
The verdict
REVIEW - The filing clearly reports transactions involving insiders. A relatively small share of spending goes to grants and assets provide a limited cushion relative to annual grants.
Rating breakdown
- Grant Deployment: NotEnoughData
- Cost Efficiency: 44
- Transparency: NotEnoughData
- Compliance: 89
- Endowment Health: 25
Detailed rating inputs
Grant Deployment
- Grant deployment ratio: Limited
Cost Efficiency
- Grant expense ratio: 43.5%; rating input score 44; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency
- Grant recipient disclosure: Limited
Compliance
- Part VII-B activity disclosures: 19 of 19 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Property sale or exchange with a disqualified person: Pass
- Borrowing from or lending to a disqualified person: Pass
- Goods, services, or facilities involving a disqualified person: Pass
- Compensation paid to a disqualified person: Pass
- Assets transferred to a disqualified person: Pass
- Payment to a government official: Pass
- Uncorrected prior self-dealing: Pass
- Prior-year undistributed income: Pass
- Excess business holdings: Pass
- Investments that may jeopardize charitable purposes: Pass
- Uncorrected prior-year jeopardizing investments: Pass
- Attempt to influence legislation: Pass
- Attempt to influence an election: Pass
- Grants to individuals: Pass
- Grants to organizations: Pass
- Spending for a noncharitable purpose: Pass
- Funds received for a personal-benefit contract: Pass
- Premiums paid on a personal-benefit contract: Pass
- Prohibited tax-shelter transaction: Pass
- Filing consistency checks: 7; rating input score 78
Endowment Health
- Endowment-health comparison: 0.06; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Grants: Filed grants detail
- Payout: Filed payout detail
- Trustees: Filed trustees detail
- Self-dealing: 100% of reviewed questions answered “No”
- Investments: 25th percentile for endowment coverage
- Consistency: 7 of 9 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- 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.
- Moderate — Cost Efficiency: Grant expense ratio scored 44/100.
- High — Endowment Health: Endowment-health comparison scored 25/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Assets equal liabilities and net assets did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Balance sheet eoy total did not reconcile in the filed values.