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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.

$8.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
34
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$1.7M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$19MPublic Benefit$8.4MEnvironment$1.1MHousing & Shelter$521kRecreation & Sports$290kFood & Nutrition$250kCommunity Improvement$199kYouth Development$162kOther$0
02FY2025 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 34 grants below total $4,395,981, the rows itemized in this filing. The $8,197,302 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $3,801,321 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k20 grants · $288k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $894k
  • $250k+2 grants · $3.2M
$15,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$6.0B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CITY OF BOSTON$1,692,833
HARVARD UNIVERSITY$1,493,414
ALTERNATIVES FOR COMMUNITY$199,998
FamilyAid Boston$184,236
BOSTON ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION$160,000
Project Bread$100,000
GREENROOTS INC$100,000
HEALTH EQUITY COMPACT INC$50,000
Conference Of Boston Teaching Hospitals$50,000
FRIENDS OF DANA FARBER$50,000
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$30,000
BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC$25,000
ALLSTON BRIGHTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT$21,000
WHITTIER STREET HEALTH CENTER$20,000
THE DINNER GROUP INC$20,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $172k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 85% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%THE LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $6k → 6%Latino Health Insurance Program: $20k → 8%Roxbury Tenants of Harvard: $10k → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS: $15k → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC: $15k → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS: $10k → 16%Brookview House Inc: $50k → 16%Union Capital Boston: $20k → 16%UNION CAPITAL BOSTON INC: $10k → 16%RIAN IMMIGRANT CENTER INC: $6k → 16%UNION CAPITAL BOSTON INC: $10k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
MN
IL
NY
MA
PA
CA
VA
DE
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$22M · 43 repeat orgs$837k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.

43 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

43
27

Total granted

$22M
$647k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+22%

Still filing today

91%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $190k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEducationYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • AF
    ALTERNATIVES FOR COMMUNITY AND ENVIRONMENT INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $800k · revenue +69%
  • WS
    Whittier Street Health Center Committee Inc
    8× · 2017–2025 · $784k · revenue +25%
  • FB
    FAMILYAID BOSTON INC
    3× · 2022–2025 · $566k · revenue +98%

Funded once

  • TB
    The Broad Institute Incgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $300k · revenue +89%
  • BH
    BROOKVIEW HOUSE INC
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -4%
  • NA
    NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CORPORATE DIRECTORS NEW ENGLAND CHAPTER INC
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -1%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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
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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3
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
4
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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5
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
6
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

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7
Targeting Resistance in Cancer Cooperative
Health
8
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
9
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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10
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
11
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
12
Boston Medical Center Corporation

Boston medical center's mission is to provide consistently excellent and accessible health services to all in need of care regardless of status and ability to pay.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Health Care for All Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

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

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 76 of the 81 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
76/76
Grantees still filing
54/76
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CITY OF BOSTON: $10,033,835 · OtherCITY OF BOSTONMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $5,422,901 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED+35 more: $2,009,298 · Other+35 morePresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $12,272,399 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard College+5 more: $132,000 · EducationWhittier Street Health Center Committee Inc: $784,216 · HealthFRIENDS OF DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $450,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $325,000 · HealthThe Broad Institute Inc: $300,000 · HealthProstate Health Education Network Inc: $240,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $113,000 · Health+20 more: $521,559 · HealthALTERNATIVES FOR COMMUNITY AND ENVIRONMENT INC: $799,994 · Community ImprovementALLSTON BRIGHTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $71,000 · Community ImprovementTHE CONFERENCE OF BOSTON TEACHING HOSPITALS INC: $50,000 · Community ImprovementGREENROOTS INC: $600,000 · EnvironmentPROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC: $299,780 · Food & NutritionTHE URBAN FOOD INITIATIVE INC: $20,000 · Food & NutritionSwim 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 · Philanthropy
Other$17,466,034Education$12,404,399Health$2,733,775Community Improvement$920,994Environment$600,000Food & Nutrition$319,780Philanthropy$229,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $12,272,399 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetALTERNATIVES FOR COMMUNITY AND ENVIRONMENT INC: $799,994 over 4y, 8.3% of budgetWhittier Street Health Center Committee Inc: $784,216 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetGREENROOTS INC: $600,000 over 4y, 4.1% of budgetFAMILYAID BOSTON INC: $565,598 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $450,000 over 9y, 8.7% of budgetTHE BOSTON ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION: $440,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $325,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe Broad Institute Inc: $300,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC: $299,780 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetProstate Health Education Network Inc: $240,000 over 8y, 3.6% of budgetSOCIEDAD LATINA INC: $124,500 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $113,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMADISON PARK DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $112,750 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCHARLES RIVER COMMUNITY HEALTH INC: $89,129 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetALLSTON BRIGHTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $71,000 over 2y, 1.3% 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 budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $60,000 over 5y, 0.0% 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 budgetMASSACHUSETTS LEAGUE OF COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC: $50,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CONFERENCE OF BOSTON TEACHING HOSPITALS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetCOLORECTAL CANCER ALLIANCE: $50,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetUnited Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc: $43,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY SERVINGS INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNION CAPITAL INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetJOE ANDRUZZI FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetHEALTH CARE FOR ALL INC: $38,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetRoxbury Community College Foundation Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetRESEARCHAMERICA: $27,200 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CORPORATE DIRECTORS NEW ENGLAND CHAPTER INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetEDWARD M KENNEDY INSTITUTE FOR THE UNITED STATES SENATE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBIOMEDICAL SCIENCE CAREERS PROGRAM INC: $22,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetELLIE FUND INC: $22,500 over 2y, 0.5% 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 URBAN FOOD INITIATIVE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LATINO HEALTH INSURANCE PROGRAM INC: $20,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetDIMOCK COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEHI INC: $18,250 over 2y, 0.8% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

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.

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)

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 170%5%19%42%75%funder's 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
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 81 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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