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EXPECT MIRACLES FOUNDATION

EXPECT MIRACLES FOUNDATION (Massachusetts) receives grants from 60 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,284,188 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($373,425). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$3.5M
Funders on record
60
Grants received
$2.3M
Net assets
$469k
32/60 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 11%
01What it does

What Expect Miracles Foundation does

Mission

Expect Miracles Foundation rallies the financial services industry and byeond to invest in life-saving cancer research while advancing the financial and emotional health of people impacted by cancer. We are a 501(c)(3) public charity.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Dana-farber cancer institute: Expect Miracles Foundation is a major supporter of the heart of dana-farber cancer institute's revolutionary research and development model, the robert and rene belfer center for applied cancer science. The belfer center addresses key challenges in cancer treatments by leveraging dfci discoveries and applying them to drug discovery and development. The belfer center is focused on identifying strategies to overcome resistance to existing treatments. Using a collaborative research approach that brings together resources from academia and the biomedical industry. The belfer center is leading the way in translating today's science into tomorrow's targeted therapies more quickly than ever, bringing new hope to cancer patients.

    $900,000 spentof which $900,000 as grants
    52% of program spending

  2. Memorial sloan kettering cancer center: Expect Miracles Foundation supports the groundbreaking research at memorial sloan kettering cancer center's center for experimental therapeutics, a critical research collaborative with the mission of hastening the time it takes to get new, more effective and less toxic therapies to cancer patients. Specifically, we support the revolutionary work of the heller lab, led by daniel heller, phd, which is focused on utilizing nanomedicine to solve the paradox of metastatic cancer, which accounts for 90% of cancer deaths.

    $300,000 spentof which $300,000 as grants
    17% of program spending

  3. Samfund grants - cancer isn't free, especially if you're a young adult just starting out your life. That is why we are proud to provide financial assistance to young adult cancer survivors to help with everyday living expenses, like rent, groceries, and medical bills. Our samfund grants act as a lifeline for young adults who are extremely vulnerable to the financial toxicity caused by a cancer diagnosis.

    $269,185 spentof which $269,185 as grants
    15% of program spending

  4. Other cancer research organizations

    $276,305 spent
    16% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2021 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,745,490.

02The 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 ($1.5M) Expenses 100 ($1.6M) Net assets 100 ($493k)2018 Revenue 141 ($2.1M) Expenses 124 ($2.0M) Net assets 131 ($646k)2019 Revenue 186 ($2.8M) Expenses 173 ($2.7M) Net assets 143 ($707k)2020 Revenue 177 ($2.6M) Expenses 174 ($2.7M) Net assets 125 ($617k)2021 Revenue 204 ($3.0M) Expenses 164 ($2.6M) Net assets 226 ($1.1M)2022 Revenue 231 ($3.4M) Expenses 234 ($3.7M) Net assets 156 ($769k)2023 Revenue 213 ($3.2M) Expenses 221 ($3.5M) Net assets 109 ($536k)2024 Revenue 238 ($3.5M) Expenses 234 ($3.7M) Net assets 95 ($469k)
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Revenue (238)Expenses (234)Net assets (95)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $1.1M to $1.7M (+52%).

$1.1M
$1.3M
$941k
$879k
$1.3M
$1.5M
$1.1M
$1.7M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

116% of EXPECT MIRACLES FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,053 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$86k
’17
$153k
’18
$52k
’19
−$104k
’20
$446k
’21
−$242k
’22
−$302k
’23
−$130k
’24
0.3
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Chief executive

Frank Heavey

Executive director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed2935383841333735
Joined·+11+3+7+8+6+6+13
No longer listed·507514215
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 23 funders, grant income rose $76k → $338k.

Funder
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total
GivenGain Foundation USAunclassified
$257k
funders
6
4
11
18
23
19
23
26
12
1

17 of 60 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 68% 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: $11k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest NICSA Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money EXPECT MIRACLES FOUNDATION raised.

From the IRS filings of EXPECT MIRACLES FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 60 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

EXPECT MIRACLES FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 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 EXPECT MIRACLES FOUNDATION.

16%
largest funder
48%
top three
~10
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 69% · 2018 60% · 2019 18% · 2020 26% · 2021 18% · 2022 18% · 2023 21% — 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

44% of EXPECT MIRACLES FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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

68% of EXPECT MIRACLES FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $729k that is directly attributable, 85% of it comes from funders outside Massachusetts, across 16 states.

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

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Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 states is 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

EXPECT MIRACLES FOUNDATION has grown faster than half of the 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−4% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.3mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)13% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like EXPECT MIRACLES FOUNDATION

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

In Massachusetts

Family Reach Foundation82%Advanced Medical Research Foundation Incd/B/A Nile Albright Research Fdn80%Hopewell Inc80%Commonwealth Cares Fund Inc80%One Can Help Inc79%Hope Strengthens Foundation79%Aid for Cancer Research79%Essex County Community Foundation Inc79%

Nationally

The Emmanuel Cancer Foundation Inc84%Cancer Bridges83%The Institute for Children With Cancer and Blood Disorders Inc83%Assistance in Healthcare83%Miracles for Kids Inc83%The Skin Cancer Foundation Inc82%Connecticut Cancer Foundation Inc82%Family Reach Foundation82%
05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

64% of spending goes to programs.

Program 64%Management 13%Fundraising 23%

Governance

33
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

95%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 4 states

NY
MA
NJ
CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for EXPECT MIRACLES FOUNDATION: 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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Questions and answers

Who funds EXPECT MIRACLES FOUNDATION?
EXPECT MIRACLES FOUNDATION (Massachusetts) receives grants from 60 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,284,188 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($373,425). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does EXPECT MIRACLES FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 60 organizations giving $2,284,188 in grants to EXPECT MIRACLES FOUNDATION, 32 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of EXPECT MIRACLES FOUNDATION?
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $373,425 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like EXPECT MIRACLES FOUNDATION 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 60 funders 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 October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing