Nonprofit · EIN 59-2624901
STOP CHILDRENS CANCER INC
Tax-exempt · GAINESVILLE, FL 32606
Financials
| Year ended | Form | Revenue | Expenses | Net income | Total assets | Liabilities | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 31, 2025 | 990 | $756,225 | $555,653 | $200,572 | $2,201,322 | $1,631 | $2,199,691 |
| December 31, 2024 | 990 | $517,447 | $321,931 | $195,516 | $1,922,828 | $2,055 | $1,920,773 |
| December 31, 2023 | 990 | $630,251 | $497,029 | $133,222 | $1,738,879 | $1,541 | $1,737,338 |
Financial details: 990 for the year ended December 31, 2025
Revenue
- Contributions, gifts and grants
- $559,456
- Program service revenue
- $0
- Investment income
- $97,502
- Net gain from sales of assets
- $10,273
- Net income from fundraising events
- $99,267
- Other revenue
- $99,267
Expenses
- Grants and similar amounts paid
- $430,000
- Other salaries and wages
- $75,761
- Salaries, compensation and benefits (total)
- $81,566
- Professional fundraising fees
- $0
- Accounting fees
- $2,857
- Occupancy
- $2,919
- Depreciation
- $5,604
- Program services (functional)
- $517,959
- Management and general (functional)
- $31,413
- Fundraising (functional)
- $6,281
Balance sheet and other
- Total assets, start of year
- $1,922,828
- Total assets, end of year
- $2,201,322
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $1,631
- Net assets, end of year
- $2,199,691
- Land, buildings and equipment
- $86,891
- Publicly traded securities
- $1,569,695
- Net assets without donor restrictions
- $2,199,691
- Gross receipts
- $1,144,772
- Employees
- 2
- Volunteers
- 203
- Year formed
- 1981
- State of legal domicile
- FL
From the e-filed returns the IRS publishes as XML (latest three processing years; amended returns replace the original). PDF copies at the IRS.
Officers, directors and key employees
As listed on the 990 for the year ended December 31, 2025, highest compensation first.
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| LARRY HARTFIELD | PRESIDENT Trustee or director, Officer | 1 | $0 |
| JIM BRANDENBURG | VICE PRESIDENT Trustee or director, Officer | 1 | $0 |
| JAMES QUESENBERRY | VICE PRESIDENT Trustee or director, Officer | 1 | $0 |
| LYNN BENNETT | SECRETARY Trustee or director, Officer | 1 | $0 |
| CINDY SMYDER | TREASURER Trustee or director, Officer | 1 | $0 |
| JAMES ROBERTSON | IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| PHYLLIS BAUCOM | BOARD MEMBER Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| JIM CARNES | BOARD MEMBER Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| BECKY DE MARIE | BOARD MEMBER Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| PAT DOOLEY | BOARD MEMBER Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| BETH FLAITZ | BOARD MEMBER Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| CAROLYNE R FREEMAN | BOARD MEMBER Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| HOWARD FREEMAN | BOARD MEMBER Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| LAUREL FREEMAN | BOARD MEMBER Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| JAY HUTTO | BOARD MEMBER Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
2 more people on this return
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| MARC SPIWAK | BOARD MEMBER Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| MARY ANNE WESTPHAL | BOARD MEMBER Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
990 for the year ended December 31, 2024: 19 people
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| PHYLLIS BAUCOM | SECRETARY Trustee or director, Officer | 1 | $0 |
| LYNN BENNETT | BOARD MEMBER Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| JIM BRANDENBURG | VICE PRESIDENT Trustee or director, Officer | 1 | $0 |
| BECKY DE MARIE | BOARD MEMBER Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| PAT DOOLEY | BOARD MEMBER Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| BETH FLAITZ | BOARD MEMBER Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| CAROLYNE R FREEMAN | BOARD MEMBER Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| HOWARD FREEMAN | BOARD MEMBER Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| LAUREL FREEMAN | BOARD MEMBER Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| JAY HUTTO | BOARD MEMBER Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| MAC MCCARTY | BOARD MEMBER Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| STORM ROBERTS | BOARD MEMBER Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| JAMES ROBERTSON | PRESIDENT Trustee or director, Officer | 1 | $0 |
| CINDY SMYDER | TREASURER Trustee or director, Officer | 1 | $0 |
| MARY ANNE WESTPHAL | BOARD MEMBER Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| LARRY HARTFIELD | VICE PRESIDENT Trustee or director, Officer | 1 | $0 |
| JIM CARNES | BOARD MEMBER Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| MARC SPIWAK | BOARD MEMBER Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| JAMES QUESENBERRY | BOARD MEMBER Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
990 for the year ended December 31, 2023: 19 people
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| PHYLLIS BAUCOM | SECRETARY Trustee or director, Officer | 1 | $0 |
| LYNN BENNETT | BOARD MEMBER Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| JIM BRANDENBURG | VICE PRESIDENT Trustee or director, Officer | 1 | $0 |
| BECKY DE MARIE | BOARD MEMBER Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| PAT DOOLEY | BOARD MEMBER Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| BETH FLAITZ | BOARD MEMBER Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| CAROLYNE R FREEMAN | BOARD MEMBER Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| HOWARD FREEMAN | BOARD MEMBER Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| LAUREL FREEMAN | BOARD MEMBER Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| JAY HUTTO | BOARD MEMBER Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| MAC MCCARTY | BOARD MEMBER Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| STORM ROBERTS | BOARD MEMBER Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| JAMES ROBERTSON | PRESIDENT Trustee or director, Officer | 1 | $0 |
| CINDY SMYDER | TREASURER Trustee or director, Officer | 1 | $0 |
| MARY ANNE WESTPHAL | BOARD MEMBER Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| LARRY HARTFIELD | VICE PRESIDENT Trustee or director, Officer | 1 | $0 |
| JIM CARNES | BOARD MEMBER Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| MARC SPIWAK | BOARD MEMBER Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
| JAMES QUESENBERRY | BOARD MEMBER Trustee or director | 1 | $0 |
Address and contacts
- Address (IRS master file)
- 2622 NW 43RD ST STE B3, GAINESVILLE, FL 32606-7428
- Principal officer (990 for 2025)
- LARRY HARTFIELD, 2622 NW 43RD STREET SUITE B3, GAINESVILLE, FL 32606
- Signed the 990
- LARRY HARTFIELD, PRESIDENT
- Phone
- (352) 377-2622
- Website
- WWW.STOPCHILDRENSCANCER.ORG
- Return prepared by
- CRI ADVISORS LLC
Mission
THE MISSION OF STOP CHILDREN'S CANCER IS THE PREVENTION, CONTROL AND CURE OF CHILDHOOD CANCERS. FUNDS ARE RAISED ANNUALLY AND AWARDED TO SELECTED RESEARCH AGENCIES.
Program accomplishments
- SINCE ITS INCEPTION IN 1981, STOP CHILDREN'S CANCER HAS RAISED OVER $7 MILLION, INCLUDING THE BONNIE'S LEGACY ENDOWMENT FUND, WHICH HAS APPROXIMATELY $1 MILLION IN PERPETUITY. IN ADDITION, AS A RESULT OF THESE DONATIONS, WELL IN EXCESS OF $20 MILLION IN NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE/NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH (NIH) GRANTS AND OTHER AWARDS HAVE BEEN RECEIVED. STOP CHILDREN'S CANCER / BONNIE R. FREEMAN CLINICAL TRIAL FUND:THIS FUND CONTINUES TO SUPPORT THE PROGRAM INFRASTRUCTURE, INCLUDING THE DIRECTOR'S POSITION, WHO HAS LED OUR EFFORTS TO GROW PEDIATRIC CANCER TRIALS. OVER THE 15 YEARS THAT THIS FUND HAS BEEN IN PLACE, MORE THAN 1,500 CLINICAL TRIALS HAVE BEEN CONDUCTED. STOP CHILDREN'S CANCER / KIMBERLY H. FLAITZ RESEARCH GRANT:THIS FUND HAS BEEN FOCUSED ON SUPPORTING RESEARCH ON EWING'S SARCOMA. THE TEAM, LED BY DR. ELIAS SAYOUR, HAS DEVELOPED FUSION-TARGETED MRNA VACCINE CONSTRUCTS THAT CAN NOW BE USED TO ADAPT FOR EWS-FL1 TARGETED INTERVENTION IN EWING'S SARCOMA. THE TEAM IS CONTINUING TO DEVELOP VACCINES TARGETING A SPECIFIC MUTATION FOUND IN EWING'S SARCOMA BUT NOT IN NORMAL CELLS, WITH THE HOPE OF OPENING A TRIAL WITHIN THE NEXT 4 YEARS. LYRICS FOR LIFE / STOP CHILDREN'S CANCER JEFFREY A. BLOCK RESEARCH GRANT:THIS FUNDING SUPPORTED DR. PAUL CASTILLO, WHO IS WORKING ON DEVELOPING NOVEL IMMUNOTHERAPIES TO TREAT REFRACTORY CANCERS, ESPECIALLY T-CELL LEUKEMIAS AND T-CELL LYMPHOMAS. GIVEN THE STRIKING RESULTS OF A COMBINATIONAL APPROACH USING CAR T CELLS AND RNA NANOPARTICLE-BASED VACCINES, HE CONTINUES TO USE THIS APPROACH, WHICH WAS REPORTED IN 2021. HE HAS SHOWN PROMISING DATA USING THIS IMMUNOTHERAPEUTIC COMBINATIONAL APPROACH FOR ACUTE MYELOID LEUKEMIA, METASTATIC OSTEOSARCOMA, AND METASTATIC MELANOMA. THE PROMISE OF THIS APPROACH IS THAT IT RETAINS ANTICANCER EFFICACY ACROSS A WIDE RANGE OF CANCERS.Expenses $517,959 · grants $430,000
What it must file and when
IRS records say it files Form 990 or 990-EZ. Based on its last return; a smaller organization may file the 990-N. Its accounting year ends in December, so each return is due on the 15th day of the 5th month after that.
| Tax year | Year ended | Due | IRS public records |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | December 31, 2025 | May 15, 2026 | 990 on file |
| 2024 | December 31, 2024 | May 15, 2025 | 990 on file |
| 2023 | December 31, 2023 | May 15, 2024 | 990 on file |
IRS record
- EIN
- 59-2624901
- Tax-exempt status
- 501(c)(3): Charitable, religious, educational or scientific organization
- Foundation status
- Publicly supported organization (170(b)(1)(A)(vi))
- Donations deductible (Pub 78)
- Public charity, 50% deduction limit
- Exempt since
- 1986
- Accounting year ends
- December
- Files
- Form 990 or 990-EZ
- Assets (IRS master file)
- $2,201,322
- Income (IRS master file)
- $1,144,772
Filing history
| Form | Year ended | Revenue | Expenses | Assets | Return |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 990 | December 2025 | $756,225 | $555,653 | $2,201,322 | XML |
| 990 | December 2024 | $517,447 | $321,931 | $1,922,828 | IRS |
| 990 | December 2023 | $630,251 | $497,029 | $1,738,879 | XML |
| 990 | December 2022 | $483,724 | $365,205 | $1,445,769 | IRS |
| 990 | December 2021 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990 | December 2020 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990 | December 2018 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990 | December 2017 | – | – | – | IRS |
990-N: the IRS bulk file holds only the latest e-Postcard per organization; earlier years come from archived copies of that file since 2020 and can have gaps (the IRS e-Postcard search lists every one). 990, 990-EZ, 990-PF, 990-T: every e-filed return in the IRS e-file index since 2019; XML for the latest three processing years, amounts from the IRS Statistics of Income extracts before that. PDF copies and determination letters at the IRS (search EIN 59-2624901).
Questions about STOP CHILDRENS CANCER INC
- What is the EIN of STOP CHILDRENS CANCER INC?
- The employer identification number (EIN) of STOP CHILDRENS CANCER INC is 59-2624901.
- Is STOP CHILDRENS CANCER INC tax-exempt?
- Yes. The IRS lists it as tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) since 1986.
- Are donations to STOP CHILDRENS CANCER INC tax-deductible?
- Yes. It is listed in IRS Publication 78 (Public charity, 50% deduction limit).
- Which annual return does STOP CHILDRENS CANCER INC file?
- Form 990 or 990-EZ. Based on its last return; a smaller organization may file the 990-N.
- When is the next return of STOP CHILDRENS CANCER INC due?
- The return for tax year 2026 (the year ending December 31, 2026) is due May 17, 2027. Form 8868 extends it by six months; the 990-N cannot be extended.
- When did STOP CHILDRENS CANCER INC last file with the IRS?
- The latest return in the IRS public files is the 990 for the year ended December 2025.
- Who is the principal officer of STOP CHILDRENS CANCER INC?
- The 990 for the year ended December 31, 2025 names LARRY HARTFIELD.
- Who are the officers and directors of STOP CHILDRENS CANCER INC?
- The 990 for the year ended December 31, 2025 lists 17 people; 0 received compensation from the organization.
- How much revenue does STOP CHILDRENS CANCER INC have?
- On its 990 for the year ended December 31, 2025 it reported revenue of $756,225, expenses of $555,653 and total assets of $2,201,322 at year end.
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