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The Cancer Prevention and Treatment Fund has been designated as one of America’s best charities because we are audited every year and keep our fundraising and administrative costs extremely low – less than 3%! That means that your donation is spent on programs to help adults and children, not on mailings, advertisements, or fancy events.

To read about how your support can make a difference, please read the following: Making a Measurable Difference 2023-2024.

Watch actress Elisabeth Rohm support our cause! Check out our videos below to learn more:

We can’t be bought by companies who want us to praise their medical products. We accept NO funding from drug companies or other sources that could influence our work and compromise our integrity. That’s why so many people turn to us when they need help.

If you contribute to United Way, please write in our organization’s name.

You can make a donation in honor of a friend or family member who is a cancer survivor, or in memory of someone who lost their fight against cancer. Just click here and include the names of anyone you’d like to honor. If you’d like to honor someone for the holidays or any special occasion, just tell us and include their address if you’d like us to send a card to let them know.

We Appreciate Your Help!

We hope you will add the Cancer Prevention and Treatment Fund to your list of favorite charities. Your tax-free donation will enable us to do more to help people across the country reduce their chances of getting cancer and get safer, more effective treatments when they have cancer. Contributions can be made by check or online.

Want to learn more about us? All our financial information is available on www.guidestar.org. We’re not listed in Charity Navigator as Cancer Prevention and Treatment Fund, but as the largest program of the National Center for Health Research, we’ve received a rating of 100 out of a possible 100 on Charity Navigator’s Encompass Rating System (https://www.charitynavigator.org/ein/522169212). And, you can learn more about us by reading our annual report. The Tax ID for the Cancer Prevention and Treatment Fund) Is 52-2169212 and are recognized as a charity by the IRS.

We also have a top ranking from GreatNonprofits.com.

Levels of Giving

Donations of any size are welcome. Your support makes a difference!  And we have 3 Donor Circles that you might want to consider:

Your generous donation of $125 or more will enroll you in our Circle of Friends.

Contributions of $250 or more will enroll you in our Leadership Circle.

Donations of $1,000 or more will enroll you in the President’s Circle.

And, here are some examples of how you might want to designate your donations – but if you have other ideas, just let us know:

• $5,000 can be a “Legacy” gift to pay for a one-semester Fellowship named in honor of someone whose legacy you’d like us to continue. For example, you can honor a loved one who died from cancer with a Fellowship named after him or her that helps improve treatment for cancer patients.
• $2,500 can improve the medical treatment of children and adults with cancer.
• $1,000 can help us keep cancer-causing products out of our homes and communities.
• $125 – $250 will help us fight for effective and affordable cancer treatments and keep dangerous cancer-causing drugs off the market.
• $50 – $125 can support our Online Health Hotline, providing individual assistance to anyone with medical and prevention questions for at least one day.

Making a donation through our secure server is fast and easy, , and when we receive your donation, we will send you an acknowledgement in the mail for tax purposes. If you’d like the donation to honor someone, we can send an acknowledgement to that person as well!

Click one of the buttons at right to make a donation using your credit card, or send a check to the address below. Thank you for your support.

Or, to make a donation by check, please make your check payable to the Cancer Prevention and Treatment Fund and send to:

Cancer Prevention and Treatment Fund
1001 Connecticut Ave. NW, Suite 1100
Washington, DC 20036

Please note:

• We use a nonprofit service to process our credit card transactions.
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