Vax 2 Stop Cancer
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 841758795
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2022, Form 990-N 2019
- Location
- Birmingham, AL, USA
- Phone
- 2059194329
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Public Health Program (Includes General Health and Wellness Promotion Services)
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $175,500
- Expenses
- $199,909
- Assets
- $126,494
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BARBARA S SCHULER MPH (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- BARBARA S SCHULER MPH (CEO): $65,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To prevent cancer by expanding the use of the human papillomavirus (hpv) vaccine through education, public awareness, and advocacy.
What it reported doing in 2025
Vax 2 stop cancer trains pediatric and family medicine providers in Alabama to improve their hpv vaccination rate. Since our launch in 2020, we have trained 486 healthcare providers and staff at 120 practices in 42 Alabama counties with our hpv vaccine provider education program titled preventing hpv associated cancers through effective provider education. In training, providers learn the most effective method for hpv vaccine recommendation starting at age 9, research-tested messaging to counsel hesitant parents, and strategies to decrease missed opportunities to give the vaccine. Vax 2 stop cancer also has a dental provider education program. The online program trains dentists, pediatric dentists, and hygienists on recommending the hpv vaccine to their 9-26-year-old patients. Oropharyngeal cancer is now the most frequently diagnosed hpv-associated cancer, surpassing cervical cancer diagnoses. Hpv causes 14,800 cases of oropharyngeal cancer each year in the us. The hpv vaccine recommendation is critical to preventing oropharyngeal cancer and all hpv cancers.both of these programs utilize methods endorsed by the national cancer institute and materials from the university of North Carolina and the national hpv vaccination roundtable. We also educate parents, adolescents, and the general public on the safety, efficacy, and importance of the hpv vaccine through our digital media programs on facebook, instagram, twitter, linkedin, and tiktok.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 86
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 79
- Sustainability: 26
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 91%; rating input score 91
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -13.9%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.63; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 32.5%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.7% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.6% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.7% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 91% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $182K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $65K · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 24 of 24 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 7 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 15/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 30/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 9/100.