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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 FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% 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
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k10 grants · $32k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $71k
$2,318
Median grant
2
States reached
$125k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Jimmy Fund$35,000
St Johns Church$20,858
Children's Hospital$15,184
Individual grant recipient$9,441
Ellie Fund$7,000
Dana Farber Cancer Institute$6,670
Mass General Brigham$2,318
Pan Mass Challenge$2,027
Individual grant recipient$1,051
Leukemia & Lymphoma$1,000
Old Colony YMCA$1,000
Tommy's Place Foundation$1,000
Individual grant recipient$571
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Old Colony YMCA: $3k → 7%Old Colony YMCA: $1k → 7%Old Colony YMCA: $1k → 7%Old Colony YMCA: $1k → 7%Old Colony YMCA: $1k → 7%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.
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$140k · 8 repeat orgs$11k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against -4% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
8

Total granted

$140k
$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
-4%

Still filing today

50%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesEducationOther
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

  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
    2× · 2023–2024 · $49k · revenue +16%
  • ELLIE FUND INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $19k · revenue +159%
  • CH
    Children's Hospital Corporation
    3× · 2022–2024 · $16k · revenue +44%

Funded once

  • MA
    MD Anderson Cancer Center
    one grant, 2020 · $1k
  • NE
    N E Pathology Association
    one grant, 2021 · $1k
  • PH
    Partner Health Care
    one grant, 2020 · $1k
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
Ocean State Cancer Crushers
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2
Dana-Farber Cancer Care Network Inc

The mission of Dana-Farber Cancer Care Network (DFCCN) is to promote and support, directly or indirectly, the interests and purposes of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI).

Health
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
Children's Medical Center Corporation

To operate exclusively for the benefit of The Children's Hospital Corporation and its affiliated organizations in the conduct of their charitable, educational and scientific functions.

Health
5
Dana-Farber Children's Hospital Cancer Care Inc

To oversee, coordinate and support the Pediatric Oncology Programs at Boston Children's Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc.

Health
6
The Miriam Hospital

As a founding hospital in the Brown University Health system, TMH is committed to its mission: Delivering health with care.

Health
7
Targeting Resistance in Cancer Cooperative
Health
8
Saint Mary's Hospital Inc

We, trinity health of new england and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. saint mary's hospital is a member of trinity health of new…

Health
9
Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center

We, trinity health of new england and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. saint francis hospital and medical center is a member of trinity…

Health
10
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc

Tertiary care academic medical center

Health
11
Franciscan Hospital for Children

To create a compassionate and supportive environment where children with complex medical, mental health, and educational needs receive expert, specialized care. Our dedicated team is committed to excellence, innovation, and empowering…

Health
12
Johnson Memorial Hospital Inc

We, trinity health of new england and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. johnson memorial hospital is a member of trinity health of new…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc; the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 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

9 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. 9 of the 21 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $49,322 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute IncChildren's Hospital Corporation: $16,268 · HealthChildren's Hospital Corporation+3 more: $1,280 · HealthST JOHNS CHURCH: $25,858 · OtherST JOHNS CHURCHIndividual grant recipient: $18,470 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMass General Brigham: $3,527 · OtherMass General BrighamPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $2,027 · Other+9 more: $8,432 · Other+9 moreELLIE FUND INC: $19,000 · EducationELLIE FUND INCOLD COLONY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $6,500 · Human ServicesTommy's Place Foundation Inc: $1,000 · Human Services
Health$66,870Other$58,314Education$19,000Human Services$7,500

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $49,322 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetELLIE FUND INC: $19,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $16,268 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOLD COLONY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $6,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $2,027 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTommy's Place Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MERCY HOSPITAL INC: $594 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH SHORE HOSPITAL INC: $436 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds ELLIE FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
  • Who funds OLD COLONY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
  • Who funds Tommy's Place Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE MERCY HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH SHORE HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY 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.

Eastern Bank Foundati…Verizon FoundationThe Bank of America C…Morgan Stanley Global…Network for GoodAmerican Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization We Beat Cancer funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from We Beat Cancer. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Ellie Fund Inc: 15% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • South Shore Hospital Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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 21 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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