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Breast Cancer Alliance Inc

Greenwich, CT · EIN 06-1453500. Reported 99 grants totalling $5,423,611 to 51 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

51organizations funded
$50,000median reported grant
$5,423,611granted, 2021-2024
50%of grantees funded again the next year
7%of dollars to its largest recipient

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For Breast Cancer Alliance Inc, the IRS classifies it under health care rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE E99Z) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 51 distinct organizations, with 7% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
  3. How much its list changes. 50% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $50,000. Half of what it reported fell between $25,000 and $75,000; the smallest was $6,856 and the largest $137,500. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
1 grant
$10,000 - $25,000
21 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
15 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
48 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
14 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Rutgers Cancer Institute of NjNew Brunswick, NJ$362,500442024
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer CenterNew York, NY$350,000442024
Yale UniversityNew Haven, CT$325,000442024
Washington UniversitySt Louis, MO$315,625432024
Dana-Farber Cancer InstituteBoston, MA$303,125442024
President and Fellows of Harvard CollegeCambridge, MA$225,000332023
Rockefeller UniversityNew York, NY$190,625222024
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount SinaiNew York, NY$187,500222023
University of California San FranciscoSan Francisco, CA$187,500222024
Roswell Park Alliance FoundationBuffalo, NY$175,000332023
Weill Medical College of Cornell UniversityNew York, NY$175,000332024
Continuum Health Partners IncNew York, NY$153,125222024
Trustees of the University of PennsylvaniaPhiladelphia, PA$152,010222022
University of Notre Dame Du LacNotre Dame, IN$150,000222022
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior UniversityStanford, CA$125,000112023
Trustees of Columbia UniversityNew York, NY$125,000222023
University of California Santa BarbaraSanta Barbara, CA$125,000222022
University of Massachusetts Chan Medical SchoolWorcesester, MA$125,000112023
Greenwich HospitalGreenwich, CT$100,000332024
H Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute Foundation IncTampa, FL$100,000112023
Mayo ClinicRochester, MN$100,000112023
SUNY StonebrookStonybrook, NY$100,000222022
Vanderbilt UniversityNashville, TN$100,000222022
Norma F Pfriem Breast Care CenterBridgeport, CT$85,000332024
University of RochesterRochester, NY$84,636112022
White Plains Medical CenterWhite Plains, NY$75,000332024
Stamford Health Medical Group IncStamford, CT$68,000222022
The Brigham and Women's Hospital IncBoston, MA$65,364222022
Baylor College of MedicineHouston, TX$62,500112021
Dr Laura Spring MDBoston, MA$62,500112021
Hospital of Central Connecticut at New Britain General and Bradley MeNew Britain, CT$51,000332024
City of HopeDuarte, CA$50,000112021
Cold Spring Harbor LaboratoryCold Spg Hbr, NY$50,000112022
Mass General Brigham IncorporatedSomerville, MA$50,000112022
Rector & Visitors of the University of VirginiaCharlottesvle, VA$50,000112024
University of Kansas Medical CenterKansas City, KS$50,000112022
Hartford Healthcare Medical Group Specialists PllcWethersfield, CT$40,000222022
Norwalk Hospital Foundation IncNorwalk, CT$40,000222022
University of MiamiCoral Gables, FL$36,495112021
Hartford HospitalHartford, CT$35,000112024
Danbury Hospital & New Milford Hospital Foundation IncDanbury, CT$30,000222022
Open Door Family Medical Center IncOssining, NY$30,000222022
The Griffin HospitalDerby, CT$28,000222022
Middlesex HospitalMiddletown, CT$26,250222022
Stamford Health IncStamford, CT$25,000112024
St Vincents Medical CenterSaint Louis, MO$20,000222024
Danbury HospitalDanbury, CT$15,000112024
Norwalk HospitalNorwalk, CT$15,000112024
Cancer Support Community Greater Ny & Ct IncWhite Plains, NY$10,000112021
Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center Foundation IncHartford, CT$10,000112021
Albert Einstein College of MedicineBronx, NY$6,856112022

31 of 51 (61%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 38 of 51 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Health Care
19 orgs
Education
14 orgs
Medical Research
1 org
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
1 org
Diseases & Disorders
1 org
Science & Technology
1 org
Mental Health
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202131$1,495,000$50,000
202232$1,430,611$50,000
202317$1,600,000$100,000
202419$898,000$50,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

32% of its giving went to organizations in New York. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.

New York
$1.7M
Connecticut
$893K
Massachusetts
$831K
California
$488K
New Jersey
$362K
Missouri
$336K
Pennsylvania
$152K
Indiana
$150K

Down to the city

New York, NY
$1.2M
Boston, MA
$431K
New Brunswick, NJ
$362K
New Haven, CT
$325K
St Louis, MO
$316K
Cambridge, MA
$225K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc17 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund15 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program15 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc14 shared recipientsMorgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc14 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust13 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $50,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in New York.
  4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Breast Cancer Alliance Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 48 Maple Avenue, Greenwich, CT, 06830.

EIN 06-1453500 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next.

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