2014-2015 ANNUAL REPORT

MISSION & VISION

The Vs. Cancer Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to saving kids’ lives by empowering athletes and communities to fund lifesaving childhood cancer efforts.

LETTER FROM THE FOUNDER & CEO

“Diego! Diego!”

It’s not often you hear a group of college athletes, usually on the receiving end of traditional chants, all yelling the name of an eight-year-old. This was different though, as Diego happened to be an eight-year-old who became the adopted fandom of Duke University Baseball, who had just completed their third year of raising thousands of dollars for

the Vs. Cancer Foundation and for kids just like Diego.

Where we stand now, in our third year of Vs. Cancer actively battling cancer, is where I also stand proud: our progression of impact is no longer just a ‘feel good story’ of thousands of athletes and communities rallying around helping every aspect of childhood cancer; rather, it is now a story of legitimate impact. Diego, who was diagnosed with kidney cancer in 2013, was treated at one of the 58 children’s hospitals Vs. Cancer has helped since our inception. Diego was on the receiving end of the funds that the Duke Baseball community raised, and proudly, he walked away as a cancer survivor.

While the team shouted Diego’s name, the same scene was happening at literally hundreds of ball parks, lacrosse fields, stadiums and campuses nationwide. Started by athletes and made for athletes, Vs. Cancer is proving that we can and will help create more stories just like Diego’s. We CAN and WILL beat childhood cancer.

To that, we will continue chasing this dream that no child has to hear the words of a diagnosis and fear the outcome, all the while acknowledging that truly, if you are reading this, YOU make this dream actually happen.

Cheers to making more dreams come true, for Diego and the 40,616 other children that have a better chance to beat cancer because of you and Vs. Cancer.

Chase JonesFounder & CEO, Vs. Cancer Foundation

LOCAL HOSPITAL PROGRAMSAlbany Medical CenterAll Children’s Hospital

Alliance for KidsBrenner Children’s HospitalChildren’s Cancer Network

Children’s Healthcare of AtlantaChildren’s Hospital at Montefiore

Children’s Hospital at OU Medical CenterChildren’s Hospital King’s Daughters

Children’s Hospital of AlabamaChildren’s Hospital of Atlanta

Children’s Hospital of PhiladelphiaChildren’s Hospital of Pittsburg

Children’s Hospital of West VirginiaChildren’s Medical Center

Children’s Medical Center Umass MemorialChildren’s National Medical Center

Childrens Hospital of IllinoisCincinnati Children’s HospitalColorado Children’s HospitalDana-Farber Cancer CenterDayton Childrens’ Hospital

Dell Children’s HospitalDuke Children’s Hospital

East Tennessee Children’s HospitalFriends of Kids with Cancer

GHS Children’s HospitalGolisano Children’s HospitalHasbro Chidren’s Hospital

Hershey-Penn State Children’s HospitalHugs for Harper FoundationKentucky Children’s Hospital

Lehigh Valley Children’s HospitalLevine Children’s HospitalLLS - Maryland Chapter

Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital

HOW WE HELP: THE HALF & HALF MODEL

2014 EXPENSE RATIOS

MANAGEMENT/GENERAL4.54%

CHILDHOOD CANCER EFFORTS 84.29%

FUNDRAISING11.17%

For the year ended December 31st, 2014 Total Support & Revenue $944,704 EXPENSES:Childhood Cancer EffortsFundraising Management & General Total Expenses Net Assets Beginning of Year $24,927 Net Assets End of Year $72,050

STATEMENT OF ACTIVITIES

$756,574 $100,263 $40,744 $897,581

OUR REACH IN 2014-2015

LOCAL HOSPITAL PROGRAMS NATIONAL RESEARCH

28 STATES

63 HOSPITALS

40,617 CHILDREN IMPACTED

RAINBOW BABIES & CHILDREN’S HOSPITALHow best to use the body’s own immune system to fight aggressive and metastatic cancers

CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL OF ALABAMATargeting Pediatric Medulloblastoma with Engineered Herpes Simplex Virus

LINEBERGER COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTERUnderstanding how genetic change in tumor cells changes the way that DNA is organized in the cell nucleus in a fundamental way, eventually giving the ability to develop novel therapeutics to target these processes.

FRED HUTCHISON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER Project Violet: Tumor Paint BLZ-100, initiate a trial in pediatric patients

VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTERNanotube-mediated siRNA delivery system in the treatment of neuroblastoma

SEATTLE CHILDREN’S HOSPITALEffects of pediatric brain tumors on Natural Killer cell function

MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA Targeting Dihydroceramide Desaturase in Neuroblastoma

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER New Synergistic drug combinations for the treatment of T-ALL

STANFORD UNIVERSITY Functional analysis of the H3.3-K27M mutation in glioma-derived iPS cells

CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL BOSTONThe role of ATRX and H3.3 mutations in pediatric glioblastoma

THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAMTargeting Pediatric Medulloblastoma with Engineered Herpes Simplex Virus

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS M.D. ANDERSON CANCER CENTERPre-clinical and Clinical Investigations of REST in Medulloblastoma

ANN & ROBERT H. LURIE CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO Investigating New Therapeutic Targets for Malignant Rhabdoid Tumors

BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE, PEDIATRIC RESEARCH FELLOW, V FOUNDATION Dissecting and Targeting the WNT Pathway in Metastatic Osteosarcoma

CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIAPediatric Brain Tumor Tissue Consortium

CHILDREN’S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA/AFLAC CANCER CENTERInternational Germinoma Tumor Collaboration

V FOUNDATION, PEDIATRIC HEMOTOLOGY/ONCOLOGY FELLOWSHIP COLLABORATION

Albany Medical CenterAll Children’s Hospital

Alliance for KidsBrenner Children’s HospitalChildren’s Cancer Network

Children’s Healthcare of AtlantaChildren’s Hospital at Montefiore

Children’s Hospital at OU Medical CenterChildren’s Hospital King’s Daughters

Children’s Hospital of AlabamaChildren’s Hospital of Atlanta

Children’s Hospital of PhiladelphiaChildren’s Hospital of Pittsburg

Children’s Hospital of West VirginiaChildren’s Medical Center

Children’s Medical Center Umass MemorialChildren’s National Medical Center

Childrens Hospital of IllinoisCincinnati Children’s HospitalColorado Children’s HospitalDana-Farber Cancer CenterDayton Childrens’ Hospital

Dell Children’s HospitalDuke Children’s Hospital

East Tennessee Children’s HospitalFriends of Kids with Cancer

GHS Children’s HospitalGolisano Children’s HospitalHasbro Chidren’s Hospital

Hershey-Penn State Children’s HospitalHugs for Harper FoundationKentucky Children’s Hospital

Lehigh Valley Children’s HospitalLevine Children’s HospitalLLS - Maryland Chapter

Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital

Luna CaresMayo Clinic Cancer Center

MD Anderson Cancer CenterMe Fine Foundation

Midwest Children’s Brain Tumor CenterMission Children’s Hospital

Morgan Stanley Children’s HospitalMorristown Medical Center

MU Children’s HospitalNationwide Children’s Hospital

NC Children’s PromiseNemours: Children’s Health System

Ochsner Children’s HospitalOmaha Children’s Hospital

Palm Beach Children’sRady Children’s HospitalRiley Children’s Hospital

Scott and White Children’s HospitalSeattle Children’s Hospital

St. Jude’s Children’s HospitalSt. Louis Children’s Hospital

St. Peter’s Children’s HospitalStaten Island University Hospital

Sutter Children’s CenterTampa General Hospital

The Brooklyn Hospital CenterThe V Foundation

UAB Cancer CenterUCLA-Mattell Children’s HospitalUNC Lineberger Cancer Center

Vidant HealthWomen and Children’s Hospital University

of MissouriWVU Children’s Hospital

Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital

HOW WE HELP: THE HALF & HALF MODEL

50%Half of fundraising efforts support LOCAL pediatric oncology programs 50%

Half of fundraising efforts fund national cancer research efforts

CHILDHOOD CANCER EFFORTS 84.29%

FUNDRAISING11.17%

For the year ended December 31st, 2014 Total Support & Revenue $944,704 EXPENSES:Childhood Cancer EffortsFundraising Management & General Total Expenses Net Assets Beginning of Year $24,927 Net Assets End of Year $72,050

STATEMENT OF ACTIVITIES

YOUTH LEAGUE ATHLETICS

1. West Raleigh Baseball: $52,7422. North Wake Baseball, $20,0003. Carolina Blue Sox Baseball: $7,131

HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETICS

1. Harvard-Westlake School: $18,4562. Northern Guilford High School: $10,5543. Woodinville High School: $8,259

COLLEGE ATHLETICS

1. Elon University Baseball: $30,3892. University of Oklahoma Baseball: $28,0003. Furman University Baseball: $25,2854. Yale University Lacrosse: $22,8235. Colgate University Lacrosse: $20,475

TOP FUNDRAISING TEAMS

WHY CHILDHOOD CANCER?

175,

000 c

hildren are diagnosed with cancer every year world

wide.

sparing no ethic group, gender, socioeconomic class or

geographical area

CHILDHOOD CANCER OCCURS RANDOMLY

23

of childhood cancer survivors experience long-term issues stemming from their original treatment

$ YEARLY, LESS THAN 5% OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT’S CANCER RESEARCH FUNDING IS DEDICATED TO CHILDHOOD CANCER

childhood cancer is the leading cause of death by disease in

children & adolescents

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