Arizona · Private foundation
Dame Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $250k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 25
- Grants FY2025
- 28
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 36%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $4,824
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $34,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 28
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 12
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 36% of the organizations Dame Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 25 | $250k | 28% |
| FY2024 | 28 | $239k | 36% |
| FY2023 | 24 | $175k | 54% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $206k | 63% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $83k | 85% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $56k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ghana Make a Difference | $168,350 | 6 | 6% |
| Brigham Young University | $90,799 | 6 | n/a |
| Womens Microfinance Initiative | $89,125 | 5 | 8% |
| Academy for Creating Enterprise | $85,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Catherine Creek Christian Youth Camp Inc | $75,000 | 3 | 19% |
| Wells Bring Hope | $52,125 | 3 | 4% |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| All Hands and Hearts Smart Response Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The University of Tampa Incorporated | $15,824 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 34 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($255k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Dame Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Dame Family Foundation
- How much does Dame Family Foundation give?
- Dame Family Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $250,049 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 28 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Dame Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (36%), International (30%), Philanthropy (9%).
- Who are Dame Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Ghana Make a Difference ($168k), Brigham Young University ($91k), Womens Microfinance Initiative ($89k).
- Does Dame Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Dame Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Dame Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund, National Philanthropic Trust, The Pfizer Foundation Inc.
- Where is Dame Family Foundation based?
- Dame Family Foundation is based in AZ.
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