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Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases.

$7.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
30
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$1.7M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Health$19MPublic Benefit$8.4MEnvironment$1.1MHousing & Shelter$521kRecreation & Sports$290kFood & Nutrition$250kCommunity Improvement$199kYouth Development$162kOther$0
02FY2024 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 30 grants below total $4,157,931 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $7,580,997 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $3,423,066 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $234k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $811k
  • $250k+2 grants · $3.1M
$12,500
Median grant
8
States reached
$5.3B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CITY OF BOSTON$1,651,544
HARVARD UNIVERSITY$1,433,691
Alternative for Community and Environment with MPHA$200,000
FamilyAid Boston$181,362
BOSTON ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION$130,000
Green Roots$100,000
Project Bread$99,834
FRIENDS OF DANA FARBER$50,000
LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY INC$50,000
PROSTATE HEALTH EDUCATION NETWORK INC$30,000
TEAM MAUREEN$30,000
ONCOLOGY NURSING FOUNDATION$21,000
ROXBURY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$15,000
THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION$15,000
ELLIE FUND INC$12,500
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–23, $152k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 83% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%THE LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $6k → 6%Latino Health Insurance Program: $20k → 8%Roxbury Tenants of Harvard: $10k → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC: $15k → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS: $15k → 16%Brookview House Inc: $50k → 16%Union Capital Boston: $20k → 16%UNION CAPITAL BOSTON INC: $10k → 16%RIAN IMMIGRANT CENTER INC: $6k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

NH
MN
IL
NY
MA
PA
CA
VA
DE
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$19M · 39 repeat orgs$725k to everyone else

39 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
22

Total granted

$19M
$632k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+64%

Still filing today

92%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $93k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEducationYouth DevelopmentEmploymentOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • WS
    Whittier Street Health Center Committee Inc
    7× · 2017–2023 · $764k · revenue +25%
  • AF
    ALTERNATIVES FOR COMMUNITY AND ENVIRONMENT INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $600k · revenue +69%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $400k · revenue +81%

Funded once

  • TB
    The Broad Institute Incgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $300k · revenue +89%
  • BH
    BROOKVIEW HOUSE INC
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -9%
  • AB
    ALLSTON BRIGHTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +83%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
2
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
3
Neighborhealth Corporation

Neighborhealth's mission is to promote and sustain healthy communities, families, and individuals by providing accessible, person-centered, and compassionate, high-quality health care services to all who live and work in our service area,…

Health
4
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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5
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

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6
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.

Health
7
Mass General Brigham Health Plan Inc

Mass general brigham health plan's mission is to promote the health and wellness of our members, and to help ensure equitable, affordbale health care for the diverse communities we serve.

Health
8
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
9
Commonwealth Cancer Consortium Inc

Break through cancer is a foundation dedicated to supporting translational research in the most difficult to treat cancers. our partner organizations are among the top cancer research centers and together, represent some of the most…

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10
Massachusetts Biomedical Initiatives Inc

Massachusetts biomedical initiatives, inc. ("mbi or the organization") is a private non-profit corporation focusing on building up central massachusetts as a global biomanufacturing hub. our mission of being a partner for fostering…

Science & Tech
11
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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12
Commonwealth Care Alliance Inc

Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Health Care for All Inc and the most unlike its peers is Prostate Health Education Network Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEnvironmental Conservation …Youth Sports ProgramsCancer Support ServicesFood Banks and PantriesAffordable Housing Developm…Community College Foundatio…Senior Support ServicesYouth Development ServicesCommunity FoundationsYouth Development CentersUnited Way AffiliatesImmigrant Worker SupportHealth Access Advocacy and …
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%2%<5yr14%2%5–10yr20%24%10–20yr19%32%20–35yr14%27%35–55yr14%14%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%33%10–20yr19%8%20–35yr14%5%35–55yr14%54%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/71
the rest of the field
11%
4,714/42,287

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

67 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 67 of the 71 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
67/67
Grantees still filing
51/67
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CITY OF BOSTON — $8,341,002 · OtherCITY OF BOSTONMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED — $5,422,901 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED+30 more — $1,518,062 · Other+30 morePresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $10,778,985 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard College+5 more — $122,000 · EducationWhittier Street Health Center Committee Inc — $764,216 · HealthWhittier …FRIENDS OF DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE — $400,000 · HealthFRIENDS O…The Broad Institute Inc — $300,000 · HealthThe Broad…BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $300,000 · HealthBLOOD CAN…Prostate Health Education Network Inc — $240,000 · HealthProstate …CHARLES RIVER COMMUNITY HEALTH INC — $89,129 · Health+16 more — $402,930 · Health+16 moreALTERNATIVES FOR COMMUNITY AND ENVIRONMENT INC — $599,996 · Community ImprovementALLSTON BRIGHTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $50,000 · Community ImprovementGREENROOTS INC — $500,000 · EnvironmentSwim Across America Inc — $65,000 · PhilanthropyENHANCE ASIAN COMMUNITY ON HEALTH INC — $60,000 · PhilanthropyUnited Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc — $43,500 · PhilanthropyRoxbury Community College Foundation Inc — $30,000 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CORPORATE DIRECTORS NEW ENGLAND CHAPTER INC — $25,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $6,000 · PhilanthropyPROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC — $199,780 · Food & NutritionTHE URBAN FOOD INITIATIVE INC — $20,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$15,281,965Education$10,900,985Health$2,496,275Community Improvement$649,996Environment$500,000Philanthropy$229,500Food & Nutrition$219,780

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $10,778,985 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetWhittier Street Health Center Committee Inc — $764,216 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetALTERNATIVES FOR COMMUNITY AND ENVIRONMENT INC — $599,996 over 3y, 8.3% of budgetGREENROOTS INC — $500,000 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE — $400,000 over 8y, 8.7% of budgetFAMILYAID BOSTON INC — $381,362 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetThe Broad Institute Inc — $300,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $300,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOSTON ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION — $280,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetProstate Health Education Network Inc — $240,000 over 8y, 3.6% of budgetPROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC — $199,780 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSOCIEDAD LATINA INC — $119,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetMADISON PARK DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $112,750 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCHARLES RIVER COMMUNITY HEALTH INC — $89,129 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $85,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $83,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetINQUILINOS BORICUAS EN ACCION INC — $70,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSwim Across America Inc — $65,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFenway High School Fund CO Fenway High School — $60,000 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetENHANCE ASIAN COMMUNITY ON HEALTH INC — $60,000 over 2y, 30% of budgetTEAM MAUREEN INC — $57,930 over 3y, 73% of budgetBOSTON PRIVATE INDUSTRY COUNCIL INC THE — $57,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBROOKVIEW HOUSE INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc — $50,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORECTAL CANCER ALLIANCE — $50,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetALLSTON BRIGHTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $50,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetUnited Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc — $43,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS LEAGUE OF COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC — $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNION CAPITAL INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY SERVINGS INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRoxbury Community College Foundation Inc — $30,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetHEALTH CARE FOR ALL INC — $26,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetEDWARD M KENNEDY INSTITUTE FOR THE UNITED STATES SENATE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CORPORATE DIRECTORS NEW ENGLAND CHAPTER INC — $25,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetCAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetELLIE FUND INC — $22,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBIOMEDICAL SCIENCE CAREERS PROGRAM INC — $22,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S ONCOLOGY SERVICES OF MASSACHUSETTS INC — $21,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetONCOLOGY NURSING FOUNDATION — $21,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE LATINO HEALTH INSURANCE PROGRAM INC — $20,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetTHE URBAN FOOD INITIATIVE INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetJOE ANDRUZZI FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDIMOCK COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEHI INC — $18,250 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetRESEARCHAMERICA — $17,200 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCONEXION INC — $11,500 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Mass General Brigham …Boston Foundation IncEastern Bank Foundati…Children's Hospital C…Liberty Mutual Founda…United Way Of Massach…Point32health Foundat…Boston Charitable Tru…Health Resources in A…Barr FoundationBushrod H Campbell & …Cummings Foundation G…
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group ReturnMA44.2× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return · Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Children's Hospital Corporation · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Point32health Foundation Inc · Boston Charitable Trust Fund City of Boston Trust Office · Health Resources in Action Inc · Barr Foundation · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc)

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 170%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Brookview House Inc — 34% of income from government
  • Health Care for All Inc — 29% of income from government
  • United Way of Massachusetts Bay Inc — 23% of income from government
  • Charles River Community Health Inc — 20% of income from government
  • Enhance Asian Community On Health Inc — 19% of income from government
  • The Broad Institute Inc — 19% of income from government
  • Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers Inc — 15% of income from government
  • Ellie Fund Inc — 15% of income from government
  • Force-Facing Our Risk of Cancer Empowered Inc — 15% of income from government
  • Sociedad Latina Inc — 15% of income from government
  • Community Servings Inc — 12% of income from government
  • 2LIFE Communities Inc — 8% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
  • The Center for Teen Empowerment Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Familyaid Boston Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Inquilinos Boricuas En Accion Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Madison Park Development Corporation — 1% of income from government
  • Camp Harbor View Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Greenroots Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Asian Women for Health Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
17get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 71 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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