The Half Fund
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 271766745
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Brentwood, MO, USA
- Phone
- 3142674557
- Rating
- 66
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Film, Video
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $24
- Expenses
- $1,956
- Assets
- $2,171
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
2 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DANIEL P DUFFY (President)
People named in this filing
- DANIEL P DUFFY (President)
- JOSEPH M FARMER (Secretary)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The purpose of the corporation is to raise funds for projects which raise awareness and provide education regarding cancer detection, cancer treatments, and the impact of cancer on individual lives through the medium of film and video.The inception of The Half Fund is two-fold, and to be set up in two stages. The first stage is creating a narrative story for mass distribution in theaters, home video, and television. This narrative will be created with an estimated expense of $500,000. A further $250,000 will be required for prints and advertising, to bring this narrative to the marketplace. Such expenses will include, travel, public relations, and the fees for obtaining rights to screen the narrative in a national theater chain, thus creating interest in the narrative for further distribution to a wider audience.This initial sum of $750,000 will be obtained through a massive fund raising effort across the country, on radio, television, in print, and in live events. The narrative is bei
What it reported doing in 2025
In 2010, the primary achievements were to get the organization formed and apply for tax exempt status. The goal of raising $750,000 (to finance the creation of a narrative film that chronicles the struggle of a man in his late twenties who discovers that he has cancer) will be achieved in 2o14.
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
- Transfer-based 990-EZ. The 990-EZ reports grants or member benefits, but it does not separate enough spending to show the nonprofit’s full delivery mix.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Expenses are high relative to revenue and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 62
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 22
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -8,050%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.11; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -14% per year; rating input score 0; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -16.2% per year; rating input score 0; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 5 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 1/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 50/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.