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Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2020 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,485,434,900 to it, the largest being Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc ($450,000,000). 1129 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$3.5B
Revenue FY2024
2,020
Funders on record
$1.5B
Grants received
$3.9B
Net assets
1129/2020 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 9%

Against its field

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,075 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin3% · above the median
Months of reserve0.3mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)13% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,075 health nonprofits over $100M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.5B) Expenses 100 ($1.5B) Net assets 100 ($1.5B)2018 Revenue 117 ($1.8B) Expenses 110 ($1.7B) Net assets 115 ($1.8B)2019 Revenue 133 ($2.0B) Expenses 123 ($1.9B) Net assets 127 ($1.9B)2020 Revenue 134 ($2.0B) Expenses 129 ($2.0B) Net assets 141 ($2.2B)2021 Revenue 162 ($2.4B) Expenses 146 ($2.2B) Net assets 192 ($2.9B)2022 Revenue 179 ($2.7B) Expenses 167 ($2.6B) Net assets 183 ($2.8B)2023 Revenue 227 ($3.4B) Expenses 196 ($3.0B) Net assets 219 ($3.4B)2024 Revenue 232 ($3.5B) Expenses 220 ($3.4B) Net assets 255 ($3.9B)
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Revenue (232)Expenses (220)Net assets (255)Peer revenue range

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 9% · 2018 8% · 2019 8% · 2020 9% · 2021 9% · 2022 7% · 2023 6% · 2024 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

22% of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (1% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,195 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$33M
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$74M
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$102M
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$36M
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$192M
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$110M
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$385M
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$113M
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02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 527 funders to 798 funders, grant income rose $121M → $218M.

Funder
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$13M
The V Foundationunclassified
$9.2M
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85 of 2020 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)21% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $71M from 92 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Jewish Communal Fund); $12M from one payer (an institutional transfer, not a grant programme, largest Crimson Lion Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc raised.

From the IRS filings of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 2020 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left

80% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc.

30%
largest funder
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top three
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effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 41% · 2019 42% · 2020 10% · 2021 36% · 2022 29% · 2023 33%diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

40% of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

53% of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.

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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $310M arriving through sponsors registered in 29 statesis excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 2020 funders put you well-backed among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.1B on record — $1.8B federal, $389.6M state.

Federal$1.8B
grants $1.8Bcontracts $607k
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Top agencies
  • Department of Health and Human Services$1.6B
  • Department of Defense$149.7M
  • Department of Energy$3.2M
  • National Science Foundation$2.1M
  • Department of Veterans Affairs$534k
State$389.6M
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By state
  • MA$389.6M
  • FL$773

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Massachusetts

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

92% of spending goes to programs.

Program 92%Management 7%Fundraising 2%

Governance

65
board members
98%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

84%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 23 states

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Part of a family of 11 related entities

  • Dana-Farber Global Oncology LLC · disregarded
  • Binney Street Capital Fund LLC · disregarded
  • Dana-Farber National Workforce LLC · disregarded
  • Dana-Farber Inc · exempt
  • The Dana-Farber Trust Inc · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc?
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2020 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,485,434,900 to it, the largest being Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc ($450,000,000). 1129 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc have?
IRS filings report 2020 organizations giving $1,485,434,900 in grants to Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc, 1129 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc?
Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc is the largest funder on record, with $450,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 2020funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing