The Jacqualyn Palchak Cancer Fund
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 010730501
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2011–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Pismo Beach, CA, USA
- Phone
- 8054894676
- Rating
- 96
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $72,464
- Expenses
- $117,467
- Assets
- $75,312
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MARIE PALCHAK (President)
People named in this filing
- MARIE PALCHAK (President)
- DONNA GLASS (MEMBER AT LARGE)
- THERESA SCHULTZ (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
To enhance medical and psychosocial services for cancer patients and support cancer research treatment efforts in our community.
What it reported doing in 2025
Data managment for cancer research program- the organization has joined with other cancer research groups countrywide to collect and organize cancer research data. The organization provides a computer and covers the costs of a part-time data manager and prart-time resarch nurse to collect, organize and submit data in required format for compilation by a cenral data management office. The research nurse also treats patients who go on clinical trials. Patients who desire experimental treatments have the option of some local trails or may be referred to other cancer centers. Patients are best served when a local physician helps them find a clinical trial at another center. The organization provides this service to all cancer patients in san luis obispo county from cuesta grade to the santa barbara county line.
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. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 99
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 22
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 97.5%; rating input score 97
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -62.1%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.64; rating input score 37; 37th 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: 5% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.1% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 97.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $115K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2011 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 10/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 37/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.