Massachusetts · Public charity
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. We train new generations of clinicians and scientists, disseminate innovative patient therapies and scientific…
- $8.2M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 34
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 29
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 31%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $4.4M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,692,833
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 29
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.0B
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 31% of the organizations Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $93k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 33 | $2.9M | 30% |
| FY2024 | 29 | $2.7M | 31% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $2.6M | 17% |
| FY2022 | 29 | $3.0M | 45% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $1.9M | 15% |
| FY2020 | 29 | $1.5M | 59% |
| FY2019 | 13 | $1.4M | 38% |
| FY2018 | 15 | $6.1M | 47% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| City of Boston | $10,033,835 | 7 | n/a |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | $5,422,901 | 2 | n/a |
| Alternatives for Community and Environment Inc | $799,994 | 4 | 8% |
| Whittier Street Health Center Committee Inc | $784,216 | 8 | 1% |
| Greenroots Inc | $600,000 | 4 | 4% |
| Familyaid Boston Inc | $565,598 | 3 | 1% |
| Friends of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute | $450,000 | 9 | 9% |
| The Boston Athletic Association | $440,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Blood Cancer United Inc | $325,000 | 8 | 0% |
| The Broad Institute Inc | $300,000 | 1 | 0% |
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Where it is load-bearing
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 70 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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)
How this is measured
About Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
- How much does Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc give?
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc reported 34 itemized grants totaling $4,395,981, out of $8,197,302 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 29 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (63%), Public Benefit (28%), Environment (4%).
- Who are Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: City of Boston ($10M), Mass General Brigham Incorporated ($5.4M), Alternatives for Community and Environment Inc ($800k).
- Does Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return, Boston Foundation Inc, Eastern Bank Foundation.
- Where is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc based?
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc is based in MA.
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