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Massachusetts · Nonprofit
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc (Massachusetts) is funded by 1707 grantmakers whose IRS filings report $1,321,514,730 in grants to it, the largest being Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc ($450,000,000). 940 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,388 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,388 health nonprofits over $100M, FY2024
Revenue, expenses and net assets — each indexed to 100 at its first filing year, so you read the trajectory, not the magnitude. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
The funding model — what share of revenue comes from contributions, programs, investments and other sources — and whether it's shifting.
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).
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
$5.4M from 98 funders in 2025, up from $80M and 335 in 2017.
128 of 1707 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 1707 funders by total. Association, not causation.
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 34% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 64% · 2018 42% · 2019 42% · 2020 9% · 2021 36% · 2022 29% · 2023 32% · 2024 39% · 2025 31% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
36% of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% give in more than one year at all.
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.
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc is locally rooted: 56% of its grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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 1707 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.
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.0B on record — $1.6B federal, $389.6M state.
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.
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.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
92% of spending goes to programs.
84%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Operates in 23 states
Part of a family of 11 related entities
Every figure is read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML — this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 1707funders 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. view filing