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← THOMPSON CANCER SURVIVAL FOUNDATION

Form 990 for tax year 2024

Filed by THOMPSON CANCER SURVIVAL FOUNDATION.

Totals

Total revenue
$840,184
Total expenses
$3,080,671
Contributions and grants received
$732,460
Grants paid
$2,875,862
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$2,875,862
Management and general expenses
$31,480
Fundraising expenses
$173,329
Program service expenses (Part III)
$2,875,862

Program services were 93.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Listed in Part VII

  • Erin Wakefield Mahan

    Director/Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Terry Turner

    Director/Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Robert Baird

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Grant Clark MD

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Mitch Dickson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Doug Kennedy

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Lisa Mellon

    Director(through Dec 2024)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Sam Mishu

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jeff Roth

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • James D VanderSteeg

    President & CEO

    Total calculated
    $3,242,830
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $2,880,556
    Other
    $362,274
    Hours/week
    1 + 50 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $1,578,849 related
    Bonus
    $0 + $1,078,259 related
    Other
    $0 + $223,448 related
    Deferred
    $0 + $335,103 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $27,171 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $3,242,830 related

  • William R Bryant Jr

    VP and Chief Philanthrophy Officer

    Total calculated
    $321,644
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $297,119
    Other
    $24,525
    Hours/week
    13 + 37 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $262,008 related
    Bonus
    $0 + $10,000 related
    Other
    $0 + $25,111 related
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $24,525 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $321,644 related

  • Patrick J Birmingham IV

    Fmr VP Philanthr. (through Feb 2024)

    Total calculated
    $303,083
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $265,432
    Other
    $37,651
    Hours/week
    8 + 42 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $187,576 related
    Bonus
    $0 + $30,000 related
    Other
    $0 + $47,856 related
    Deferred
    $0 + $10,699 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $26,952 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $303,083 related

  • Benjamin J Devore

    TCSC President & CAO

    Total calculated
    $308,820
    From this org
    $0
    From related orgs
    $268,528
    Other
    $40,292
    Hours/week
    1 + 50 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $0 + $210,084 related
    Bonus
    $0 + $36,000 related
    Other
    $0 + $22,444 related
    Deferred
    $0 + $8,590 related
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0 + $31,702 related
    Filer's total
    $0 + $308,820 related

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.

Schedule J

Answered yes

  • 4b · Supplemental nonqualified retirement plan

Answered no

  • 4a · Severance or change-of-control payment
  • 4c · Equity-based compensation arrangement
  • 5a · Pay contingent on this organization's revenues
  • 5b · Pay contingent on a related organization's revenues
  • 6a · Pay contingent on this organization's net earnings
  • 6b · Pay contingent on a related organization's net earnings
  • 7 · Other non-fixed payments
  • 8 · Paid under the initial-contract exception

The filer's explanations (Part III)

Part I, Line 3
Covenant Health, the parent company of Thompson Cancer Survival Ctr Foundation, used the following methods in establishing the compensation of President/CEO, James D. VanderSteeg: compensation committee, independent compensation consultant, written employment contract, compensation survey or study, and approval by the board or compensation committee. Additional detail is provided in response to Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Lines 15a and 15b within Schedule O.
Part I, Line 4b
Covenant Health maintains a nonqualified deferred compensation ("NQDC") plan intended to support retention of President and CEO, James D. VanderSteeg. Employer contributions of $321,903 are reported as deferred compensation on Schedule J, Part II, Column C. Contributions along with 2024 earnings of $114,551 are subject to a substantial risk of forfeiture. Amounts are combined with other compensation and considered for reasonableness. Compensation procedures are discussed in detail in Schedule O (Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 15a). Please note that the amounts included in Part II, Column C as contributions to the NQDC plan for James D. VanderSteeg and other executive leaders are deferred but NOT received during the filing year. We report compensation in both the year earned and the year paid, as required by IRS guidelines; however, wages appear overstated due to dual reporting of compensation earned in one year and distributed in a subsequent year.

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

Related organizations on this return

Schedule R Part II: tax-exempt organizations related to the filer by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2024
Filed
3 November 2025
IRS schema version
2024v5.2
Source object
202533079349301413

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