How much does We Beat Cancer give?

We Beat Cancer reported 13 grants totaling $103,120 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 9 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.

What does We Beat Cancer fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (76%), Religion (17%), Human Services (6%).

Who are We Beat Cancer's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ($49k), St Johns Church ($26k), Ellie Fund Inc ($19k).

Does We Beat Cancer fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does We Beat Cancer accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as We Beat Cancer?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Eastern Bank Foundation, Verizon Foundation, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc.

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Massachusetts · Private foundation

We Beat Cancer

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$103k
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 13
Grants FY2024: 9
Organizations funded FY2023: 44%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $2,318
Largest grant, FY2024: $35,000
Organizations funded a year: 4 to 9; FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 2
Total assets, FY2024: $125k
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 44% of the organizations We Beat Cancer funded were first-time grantees, receiving 78% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 22% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	12	$103k	42%
FY2023	9	$28k	44%
FY2022	6	$3k	83%
FY2021	5	$9k	60%
FY2020	4	$8k	n/a

95% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$115kReligion$26kHuman Services$9kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc	$49,322	2	0%
St Johns Church	$25,858	2	n/a
Ellie Fund Inc	$19,000	4	0%
Children's Hospital Corporation	$16,268	3	0%
Old Colony Young Men's Christian Association Inc	$6,500	5	0%
Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc	$2,027	1	0%
Tommy's Place Foundation Inc	$1,000	1	0%
The Mercy Hospital Inc	$594	1	0%
South Shore Hospital Inc	$436	1	0%
American Cancer Society Inc	$250	1	0%

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($30k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget We Beat Cancer supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 9.

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.

Eastern Bank FoundationMA13.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · Verizon Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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About We Beat Cancer

How much does We Beat Cancer give?: We Beat Cancer reported 13 grants totaling $103,120 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 9 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does We Beat Cancer fund?: By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (76%), Religion (17%), Human Services (6%).
Who are We Beat Cancer's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ($49k), St Johns Church ($26k), Ellie Fund Inc ($19k).
Does We Beat Cancer fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does We Beat Cancer accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as We Beat Cancer?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Eastern Bank Foundation, Verizon Foundation, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc.
Where is We Beat Cancer based?: We Beat Cancer is based in MA.