Massachusetts · Nonprofit
DANA-FARBER INC
DANA-FARBER INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 152 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,783,227 to it, the largest being EXPECT MIRACLES FOUNDATION ($8,130,138). 61 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
DANA-FARBER INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 16 unclassified nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16 unclassified 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.
- DCU for Kidsshared funders
- The Hera Foundationportfolio match
- Alan & Janis Goldberg Foundation Incportfolio match
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.
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.
0% of DANA-FARBER INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (2% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 28 funders to 36 funders, grant income rose $987k → $2.8M.
3 of 152 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 152 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 INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
35% 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 INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 80% · 2018 78% · 2019 62% · 2020 42% · 2021 36% · 2022 51% · 2023 35% — 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
22% of DANA-FARBER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% 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. 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
85% of DANA-FARBER INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $119k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
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 152 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- DCU for Kidsshared fundersMA · backs 51 organizations that share your funders
- The Hera Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alan & Janis Goldberg Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Robert a & Renee E Belfer Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Shanken Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arms Wide Open Childhood Cancer Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Thomas and Marina Purcell Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sobel Family Supporting Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Yawkey Foundation IIshared funderslocalMA · backs 84 organizations that share your funders · funds 208 organizations near you
- GivenGain Foundation USAshared funderslocalFL · backs 92 organizations that share your funders · funds 281 organizations near you
- Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fundshared funderslocalMA · backs 65 organizations that share your funders · funds 249 organizations near you
- The Hamilton Company Charitable Foundationshared fundersMA · backs 81 organizations that share your funders
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.
Organizations like DANA-FARBER 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Part of a family of 5 related entities
- Binney Street Capital Fund LLC · disregarded
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc · exempt
- The Dana-Farber Trust Inc · exempt
- Friends of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute · exempt
- Dana-Farber Cancer Care Network Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DANA-FARBER 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.
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 INC?
- DANA-FARBER INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 152 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,783,227 to it, the largest being EXPECT MIRACLES FOUNDATION ($8,130,138). 61 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DANA-FARBER INC have?
- IRS filings report 152 organizations giving $23,783,227 in grants to DANA-FARBER INC, 61 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DANA-FARBER INC?
- EXPECT MIRACLES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $8,130,138 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DANA-FARBER 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 152funders 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