Virginia Breast Cancer Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 541633519
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Richmond, VA, USA
- Phone
- 8042851200
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Health
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $785,829
- Expenses
- $859,299
- Assets
- $1,646,996
- Liabilities
- $500,774
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
17 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KIMBERLEY JENNINGS (IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT)
- TARA DAUDANI (PRESIDENT)
- ANNE WOODWARD (VICE PRESIDENT)
- KATY SAWYER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- KATY SAWYER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $126,806 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Virginia Breast Cancer Foundation (VBCF) empowers Virginians impacted by breast cancer through access, advocacy, education, and community action.
What it reported doing in 2025
Advocate: VBCF pursues long-term policy change strategies to improve breast cancer public policy, coordinating state and federal action to educate our elected officials. We offer annual scholarships to train volunteer advocates at national breast cancer conferences. At the state level, VBCF has supported the passage of a state bill to ensure access to diagnostic breast cancer care for state-regulated health insurance plans as well as legislative improvements for prescription affordability, public health access to care and paid medical leave. At the national leave, VBCF supports improvements to federal public health policies, including the Lymphedema Treatment Act, the Metastatic Breast Cancer Access to Care Act, and the Dept of Defense Breast Cancer Research Program that has brought $53.4 million to Virginia researchers since 1993.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 79% 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 30
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 88.8%; rating input score 89
- Program expense ratio: 80.4%; rating input score 80
- Fundraising efficiency: $7.2 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- 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: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -9.3%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.92; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.3; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 14.8%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.9% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.3% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 88.8% of revenue deployed · 80.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 16 of 16 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $691K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $127K · 17 people listed
- Consistency: 31 of 31 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2012 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 25/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 14/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 19/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 25/100.