· Private foundation
The Thoracic Foundation
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 $10k2 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $460k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Migrant Clinician Network | $50,000 |
| Dana Farber Cancer Institute | $35,000 |
| Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids | $35,000 |
| Dana Farber Cancer Institute | $35,000 |
| Children's Hospital 300 Longwood Ave Boston MA 02215 | $35,000 |
| Compassion & Choices | $35,000 |
| Children's Hospital 300 Longwood Ave Boston MA 02215 | $30,000 |
| Southcoast Hospital 101 Page Street New Bedford MA 02740 | $30,000 |
| Children's Wisconsin Foundation | $25,000 |
| Health Resources in Action | $25,000 |
| University of California Berkeley | $25,000 |
| Vital CXNS | $25,000 |
| Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids | $25,000 |
| Boston Community Pediatrics | $25,000 |
| Asthma & Allergy Foundation of America | $25,000 |
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 (FY24–24, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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 7% of The Thoracic Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 56% of the giving stays in MA; by stated purpose, 48%.
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 +55% since the first grant, against +47% for those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 6 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $108k 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 · $370k · revenue +95%- CFCAMPAIGN FOR TOBACCO-FREE KIDS5× · 2020–2024 · $295k · revenue +553%
- MCMIGRANT CLINICIANS NETWORK INC5× · 2020–2024 · $222k · revenue +55%
Funded once
- CHCambridge Health Allianceone grant, 2021 · $35k
- ISIchahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai 1428 Madison Avenue New York NYone grant, 2020 · $35k
- TSTHE SPORTSMEN'S TENNIS & ENRICHMENT CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $35k · revenue +27%
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.
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.
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
Patient care, teaching, research and serving the community.
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
University health is an academic health center providing accessible, state-of-the-art quality healthcare to our community regardless of the ability to pay.
Pediatric healthcare, education & research
Beth israel lahey health primary care (bilhpc) is a network of community based physicians affiliated with the beth israel lahey health (bilh) network and serving the patients and communities served by the lahey clinic hospital (lahey…
To provide the highest quality specialty medical care to patients with diabetes and diabetes related conditions and to search for a cure.
The lahey clinic foundation, inc. (lcf) serves as the sole member and supports the lahey clinic (lc) and lahey clinic hospital d/b/a lahey hospital & medical center (lhmc), enabling lhmc and lc to provide superior health care leading to…
Lahey clinic (lc) provides the highest quality interdisciplinary and coordinated patient care leading to the best possible outcomes and experiences for every patient, advancing medicine through research and educating tomorrow's health care…
Centering on a concept and continuum of care that embraces the health, well-being and dignity of each patient, regardless of their ability to pay, northeast hospital corporation (nhc) has four facilities, beverly hospital, addison gilbert…
How this is measured
16 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. 16 of the 29 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
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.
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds CAMPAIGN FOR TOBACCO-FREE KIDS ↗
- Who funds MIGRANT CLINICIANS NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds COMPASSION & CHOICES ↗
- Who funds ASTHMA & ALLERGY FOUNDATION OF AMERICA NEW ENGLAND CHAPTER INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON COMMUNITY PEDIATRICS INC ↗
- Who funds Franciscan Hospital for Children ↗
- Who funds THE TOWER FOUNDATION OF SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE SPORTSMEN'S TENNIS & ENRICHMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTH RESOURCES IN ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds ACTION ON SMOKING AND HEALTH ↗
- Who funds VITAL CXNS INC ↗
- Who funds BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LAMOILLE FAMILY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds IOWA CITY FREE MEDICAL CLINIC ↗
- Who funds NEWTON SAN JUAN DEL SUR SISTER CITY PROJECT INC ↗
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: Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Thoracic Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Thoracic Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Health Resources in Action Inc: 39% of income from government
- Lamoille Family Center Inc: 36% of income from government
- Boston Community Pediatrics Inc: 10% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc: 6% of income from government
- Franciscan Hospital for Children: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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