· Private foundation
The Charles a Dana Foundation Incorporated
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k36 grants · $125k
- $10k–50k39 grants · $773k
- $50k–250k21 grants · $2.9M
- $250k+7 grants · $5.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES | $2,000,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL (MGH) | $1,000,000 |
| LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO | $750,000 |
| BROWN UNIVERSITY | $354,406 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY | $353,500 |
| AMERICAN BRAIN FOUNDATION | $283,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA | $262,998 |
| SOCIAL GOOD FUND | $235,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $219,270 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY | $186,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE | $180,000 |
| BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE | $150,700 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO | $150,000 |
| USAGAINSTALZHEIMER'S | $150,000 |
| CHICAGO COUNCIL ON SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY | $150,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $216k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 16% of The Charles a Dana Foundation Incorporated’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.
148 repeat relationships: 55 still active in FY2024, 93 since wound down; 40 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.5M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $435k · revenue +95%
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY2× · 2022–2024 · $336k · revenue +26%
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE2× · 2023–2024 · $332k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- THThe Hastings Center Incgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $242k · revenue +37%
- IKINCF Karolinska Institutetone grant, 2020 · $200k
- AAAmerican Association for the Advancement of Scienceone grant, 2021 · $159k
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.
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.
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The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
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.
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
Education, research, medical services and other public services.
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Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
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How this is measured
217 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. 217 of the 404 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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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: The New York Community Trust · Hamilton Family Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Van Beuren Charitable Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Select Equity Group Foundation · The Simons Foundation Inc · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Pinkerton Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Charles a Dana Foundation Incorporated funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Charles a Dana Foundation Incorporated. Bigger dots raise more.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
- Cox Science Center and Aquarium Inc: 6% of income from government
- The Wetlands Institute: 2% of income from government
- Nova Southeastern University Inc: 2% of income from government
- ME2 Orchestra Inc: 1% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College: 1% of income from government
- Concord Antiquarian Society D/B/a Concord Museum: 1% of income from government
- Wheaton Arts & Cultural Center Inc: 1% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc: 0% of income from government
- Washington College: 0% of income from government
- American Repertory Theatre Co Inc: 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
- Williams College: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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