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CANCER FOR COLLEGE

EIN 93-1144756 SAN DIEGO, CA

Largest nonprofits in California

Revenue 2023
$3,961,967
Expenses 2023
$2,256,354

Program services were 59.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
G30
Classification
1000
Street
2247 SAN DIEGO AVE STE 130

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

AT CANCER FOR COLLEGE, OUR MISSION IS SIMPLE YET PROFOUND: TO PROVIDE HOPE AND INSPIRATION TO CANCER SURVIVORS THROUGH ACADEMIC SCHOLARSHIPS, MEDICAL DEBT RELIEF, AND EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCES.

Activities or mission (Part I)

PROVIDE COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIPS, EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCES AND MEDICAL DEBT RELIEF TO CANCER SURVIVORS.

  • CANCER FOR COLLEGE PROVIDES NEED-BASED COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIPS, EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCES AND MEDICAL DEBT RELIEF TO CANCER SURVIVORS. COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIPS: SCHOLARS MUST BE ATTENDING AN ACCREDITED COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OR TRADE SCHOOL IN THE UNITED STATES. SCHOLARS MUST BE A SURVIVOR OF CANCER AND HAVE A HOUSEHOLD INCOME OF $150,000 OR LESS. A SURVIVOR IS DETERMINED AS SOMEONE WHO HAS BEEN DIAGNOSED EITHER CURRENTLY OR PREVIOUSLY WITH CANCER. SINCE INCEPTION IN 1993, CANCER FOR COLLEGE HAS AWARDED MORE THAN $7 MILLION AND 1,700 SCHOLARSHIPS TO CANCER SURVIVORS ALL ACROSS THE UNITED STATES. EACH YEAR WE AWARD MANY GENERAL, NATIONWIDE SCHOLARSHIPS AS WELL AS SEVERAL SPECIALTY SCHOLARSHIPS. EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCES: WE ARE COMMITTED TO EMPOWERING OUR SCHOLARS NOT ONLY THROUGH THEIR ACADEMIC JOURNEYS BUT ALSO BEYOND. OUR EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS ARE MEANT TO CONNECT, EDUCATE, AND ENRICH THE LIVES OF OUR SCHOLARS THROUGH PERSONALIZED CURRICULA DESIGNED FOR THEIR HOLISTIC DEVELOPMENT. MEDICAL DEBT RELIEF : WE ALSO LAUNCHED A PILOT PROGRAM TO ADDRESS MEDICAL DEBT AMONG OUR SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENTS, REDUCING SCHOLARS' MEDICAL DEBT BY OVER 75%.

    Expenses $1,335,810 · Grants $882,097

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • O Craig Pollard

    PRESIDENT/CEO

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20
  • Dan Hughes

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Scott Sproule

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jolene Leonard

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Emil Wohl

    AT LARGE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Mark Wernig

    AT LARGE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Rob O'Carroll

    AT LARGE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Steve Short

    AT LARGE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Kate Wojik

    AT LARGE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Heather Alexander

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Kevin Dee

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Taylor Haden

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Ashley Kline

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Matt Kline

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Steve Leonard

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Jolene Leonard

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Dr Robert Lisac

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Will McCoy

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Andrew McMahon

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Tim Old

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Amelia Old

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Stacy Pollard

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Larry Simon

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Anjuli Timmer

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Michael Waterbury

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

The first 25 listed. 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, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $3,961,967
    Expenses
    $2,256,354
    Contributions
    $3,028,390
    Grants paid
    $882,097
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $3,936,151
    Expenses
    $1,459,244
    Contributions
    $3,579,226
    Grants paid
    $760,255

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2023 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2022 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,786,674
    Expenses
    $1,169,362
    Assets (EOY)
    $11,977,080
  • 2021 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,329,471
    Expenses
    $1,077,516
    Assets (EOY)
    $9,457,023
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,836,919
    Expenses
    $1,132,031
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,512,360
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,125,318
    Expenses
    $982,200
    Assets (EOY)
    $6,946,172
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $822,906
    Expenses
    $753,390
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,933,106
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $986,639
    Expenses
    $682,262
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,204,715
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,901,445
    Expenses
    $730,599
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,619,613

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.