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CURING KIDS CANCER INC

EIN 20-3388093 IRVING, TX

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Revenue 2025
$3,240,800
Expenses 2025
$3,017,723

Program services were 88.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P20
Classification
1000
Street
3341 REGENT BLVD STE 130 PMB 184

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 · 2025

Mission

The Organization was formed in 2005 and is dedicated to changing the world of childhood cancer by bringing awareness to childhood cancer and by funding the development of treatments, primarily in the United States, that are more effective and less toxic than traditional childhood cancer therapies. The Organization envisions a world where children do not die of cancer and do not suffer from dangerous side effects of their treatments. The Organization's funding is primarily through direct donor contributions and fundraising events.

  • Curing Kids Cancer was founded in 2005 by Grainne and Clay Owen after they lost one of their twin sons, Killian, to leukemia at nine years old. Since its founding, Curing Kids Cancer has raised more than $36 million to advance pediatric cancer research. In 2025, the organization provided $2.1 million in funding to 14 pediatric cancer research projects across the United States. Curing Kids Cancer focuses its funding on innovative, cutting-edge research with the potential to lead to more effective and less toxic treatments for children with cancer. Funding priorities are strategically directed toward rapidly developing areas of pediatric cancer research, helping researchers accelerate promising discoveries and translate them into improved treatment options for children. Curing Kids Cancers commitment to long-term impact includes significant multi-year investments in pediatric cancer research. Current initiatives include the CONNECT x CKC International Brain Tumor Consortium Endowment, endowed research positions at Emory University, and Killians Hope for a United South Carolina, supporting collaboration between Prisma Health and the University of South Carolina. These investments provide sustained funding to accelerate research and develop more effective, less toxic treatments for children with cancer.

    Expenses $2,675,144 · Grants $2,100,017

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Grainne M Owen

    President

    Total calculated
    $138,000
    From this org
    $138,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Clayton K Owen

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Stephanie Ellenberg

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Brian McCue

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Caleb Tucker

    Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    8

  • Kevin Krueger

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Sue Gardner-Frankiewicz

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Hillary Lang

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Glen Anderson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    15

  • Carol Gwin

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Wayne Herring

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Peter Licari

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Pierce Owen

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Teddy Brown

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Brandon Gettleman

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Mike Matulis

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Jenna Brown

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Amanda Grover

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $3,240,800
    Expenses
    $3,017,723
    Contributions
    $3,498,104
    Grants paid
    $2,100,017
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,871,187
    Expenses
    $2,878,092
    Contributions
    $3,068,919
    Grants paid
    $1,957,917
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $3,264,927
    Expenses
    $3,253,296
    Contributions
    $3,461,052
    Grants paid
    $2,511,680

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

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,604,076
    Expenses
    $2,246,740
    Assets (EOY)
    $654,540

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,078,467
    Expenses
    $2,124,736
    Assets (EOY)
    $372,943

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,328,359
    Expenses
    $2,300,476
    Assets (EOY)
    $340,715

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,070,840
    Expenses
    $2,083,516
    Assets (EOY)
    $318,677

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,176,680
    Expenses
    $2,108,612
    Assets (EOY)
    $330,948

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,519,637
    Expenses
    $1,443,596
    Assets (EOY)
    $277,440

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,330,011
    Expenses
    $1,478,255
    Assets (EOY)
    $184,894

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,305,122
    Expenses
    $1,356,348
    Assets (EOY)
    $329,318

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.

Grants made

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

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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 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.