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Daignault Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Daignault Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$18k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$44kCivil Rights$20kCrime & Legal$14kEducation$14kArts & Culture$10kEnvironment$5kFood & Nutrition$3kAnimals$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k14 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$500
Median grant
5
States reached
$213k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MOORE CT FOR THE PREV OF CHILD SEX$10,000
BROOKS SCHOOL$1,000
NAT INST FOR THE STUDY PREV SEXUAL$1,000
THE LOCKER PROJECT$1,000
HOLISTIC LIFE FOUNDATION INC$750
THE COMPOUND INC$750
CENTER FOR HOPE$500
MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE$500
OLDFIELDS SCHOOL$500
Individual grant recipient$500
RETIRED RACEHORSE PROJECT$350
QUISSETT HARBOR PRESERVATION TRUST$250
CHURCH OF THE MESSIAH$200
FAIRORG$200
MID ATLANTIC HORSE RESCUE$150
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 94% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%CHURCH OF THE MESSIAH: $500 → 8%BROOKS SCHOOL: $2k → 10%QUISSETT HARBOR PRESERVATION TRUST: $1k → 11%CANTER PA: $500 → 9%HOSPITALITY ASSISTANCE RESPONSE OF PA: $500 → 12%VOLUNTEER LAWYERS FOR THE ARTS: $1k → 17%MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE: $500 → 9%OLDFIELDS SCHOOL: $500 → 11%HOLISTIC LIFE FOUNDATION: $1k → 19%BROOKS SCHOOL: $2k → 10%CHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK: $500 → 6%CANTER PA: $500 → 9%VOLUNTEER LAWYERS FOR THE ARTS: $1k → 17%MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE: $500 → 9%OLDFIELDS SCHOOL: $500 → 11%HOLISTIC LIFE FOUNDATION INC: $750 → 19%BROOKS SCHOOL: $2k → 10%CANTER PA: $500 → 9%B4U-ACT: $500 → 12%VOLUNTEER LAWYERS FOR THE ARTS: $1k → 17%HOLISTIC LIFE FOUNDATION INC: $750 → 19%BROOKS SCHOOL: $2k → 10%CANTER PA: $500 → 9%B4U-ACT: $500 → 12%MOORE CT FOR THE PREV OF CHILD SEX: $10k → 19%BROOKS SCHOOL: $2k → 10%CANTER PA: $500 → 9%REMA HORT FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%MOORE CT FOR THE PREV OF CHILD SEX: $10k → 19%BROOKS SCHOOL: $2k → 10%JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH (MOORE CTR): $8k → 19%BROOKS SCHOOL: $1k → 10%JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH (MOORE CTR): $8k → 19%JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH (MOORE CTR): $8k → 19%JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH (MOORE CTR): $5k → 19%JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH (MOORE CTR): $5k → 19%JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH (MOORE CTR): $5k → 19%BALTIMORE CHILD ABUSE CTR: $2k → 19%BALTIMORE CHILD ABUSE CTR: $2k → 19%THE COMPOUND INC: $2k → 19%THE COMPOUND INC: $1k → 19%BALTIMORE CHILD ABUSE CTR: $1k → 19%BALTIMORE CHILD ABUSE CTR: $1k → 19%BALTIMORE CHILD ABUSE CTR: $1k → 19%CENTER FOR HOPE: $1k → 19%THE COMPOUND INC: $750 → 19%THE COMPOUND INC: $750 → 19%EUBIE BLAKE NATIONAL JAZZ: $4k → 19%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$116k · 22 repeat orgs$7k to everyone else

22 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
6

Total granted

$116k
$7k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+189%

Still filing today

55%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureFood & NutritionEnvironmentAnimalsYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • BS
    BROOKS SCHOOL
    7× · 2017–2024 · $10k · revenue +25%
  • VL
    VOLUNTEER LAWYERS FOR THE ARTS INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $3k · revenue +86%
  • HL
    HOLISTIC LIFE FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2020–2024 · $3k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • EB
    EUBIE BLAKE NATIONAL JAZZ
    one grant, 2023 · $4k
  • RH
    REMA HORT FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $1k
  • GW
    GREENMOUNT WEST COMMUNITY CENTER
    one grant, 2020 · $500
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
2
The Quebec-Labrador Foundation Inc

The program mission of the quebec-labrador foundation u.s. is defined by a regional component (new england and eastern canada), and an international component, which ties our regional model to a global conservation network. qlf's program…

Philanthropy
3
Conservation Law Foundation Inc

Conservation law foundation, inc. (clf) protects new england's environment for the benefit of all people and future generations. we use the law, science, and markets to create solutions that preserve and restore our natural resources,…

Environment
4
Archbold Expeditions Inc

Archbold expeditions, inc.'s mission is to build and share the scientific knowledge needed to protect the life, lands, and waters of the heart of florida and beyond.

Unclassified
5
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
6
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
7
Phillips Exeter Academy

Unite goodness and knowledge and inspire youth from every quarter to lead purposeful lives. [text in quotations is taken from the academy's deed of gift, drafted in 1781] knowledge and goodness "above all, it is expected that the attention…

Education
8
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
9
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
10
The Architectural League of New York

The architectural league of new york supports critically transformative work in the allied fields that shape the built environment. as a vital, independent forum, the league stimulates thinking, debate, and action on today's (continued on…

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11
Lloyd Center for the Environment Inc

The mission of the center is to instill a life-long respect and affection for nature in all people through research and education; to advance a scientific and public understanding of our coastal ecosystems and the need to protect them; and…

Environment
12
The Nature Institute
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for Hope Inc; the most unlike its peers is Quissett Harbor Preservation Trust Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 28 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
8/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH (MOORE CTR): $37,500 · OtherJOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH (MOORE CTR)MOORE CT FOR THE PREV OF CHILD SEX: $20,000 · OtherMOORE CT FOR THE PREV OF CHILD SEXBALTIMORE CHILD ABUSE CTR: $7,000 · OtherBALTIMORE CHILD ABUSE CTRNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY AND PREVENTION OF SEXUAL TRAUMA: $6,250 · OtherNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY AND PREVENTION OF SEXUAL TRAUMAEUBIE BLAKE NATIONAL JAZZ: $3,900 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $3,750 · Other+8 more: $9,550 · Other+8 moreBROOKS SCHOOL: $10,000 · EducationBROOKS SCHOO…OLDFIELDS SCHOOL INC: $2,200 · EducationOLDFIELDS SC…President and Fellows of Middlebury College: $1,400 · EducationPresident an…+1 more: $350 · EducationTHE COMPOUND INC: $4,500 · Arts & CultureVOLUNTEER LAWYERS FOR THE ARTS INC: $3,000 · Arts & CultureLocker Project: $2,000 · Food & NutritionCHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK: $1,100 · Food & NutritionRETIRED RACEHORSE PROJECT LTD: $2,250 · AnimalsMIDATLANTIC HORSE RESCUE INC: $550 · AnimalsQUISSETT HARBOR PRESERVATION TRUST INC: $2,250 · EnvironmentCOALITION FOR RAINFOREST NATIONS SECRETARIAT: $500 · EnvironmentHOLISTIC LIFE FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 · Youth DevelopmentCENTER FOR HOPE INC: $2,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$87,950Education$13,950Arts & Culture$7,500Food & Nutrition$3,100Animals$2,800Environment$2,750Youth Development$2,500Crime & Legal$2,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBROOKS SCHOOL: $10,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMPOUND INC: $4,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetVOLUNTEER LAWYERS FOR THE ARTS INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHOLISTIC LIFE FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRETIRED RACEHORSE PROJECT LTD: $2,250 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetQUISSETT HARBOR PRESERVATION TRUST INC: $2,250 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetOLDFIELDS SCHOOL INC: $2,200 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetLocker Project: $2,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR HOPE INC: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College: $1,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK: $1,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMIDATLANTIC HORSE RESCUE INC: $550 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOALITION FOR RAINFOREST NATIONS SECRETARIAT: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ALLIANCE FOR HEALTH EQUITY: $350 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds BROOKS SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds THE COMPOUND INC ↗
  • Who funds VOLUNTEER LAWYERS FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds HOLISTIC LIFE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds RETIRED RACEHORSE PROJECT LTD ↗
  • Who funds QUISSETT HARBOR PRESERVATION TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds OLDFIELDS SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds Locker Project ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR HOPE INC ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Middlebury College ↗
  • Who funds CHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds MIDATLANTIC HORSE RESCUE INC ↗
  • Who funds COALITION FOR RAINFOREST NATIONS SECRETARIAT ↗
  • Who funds THE ALLIANCE FOR HEALTH EQUITY ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Pfizer Foundation…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
The Pfizer Foundation IncNY9.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Daignault Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Daignault Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Center for Hope Inc: 1% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Middlebury College: 1% of income from government
  • Holistic Life Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 28 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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