Michigan · Private foundation
Dana Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $271k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 55
- Grants FY2025
- 70
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 30%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 35 to 81
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $371k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 30% of the organizations Dana Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k 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 | 53 | $270k | 25% |
| FY2024 | 70 | $345k | 30% |
| FY2023 | 81 | $382k | 52% |
| FY2022 | 51 | $402k | 63% |
| FY2021 | 35 | $193k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 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, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Way of Greater Toledo | $500,000 | 5 | 1% |
| The Toledo Museum of Art | $110,144 | 4 | 0% |
| The Toledo Zoological Society | $89,421 | 3 | 0% |
| Lott Industries Inc | $40,000 | 4 | 0% |
| American Heart Association Inc | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Good Grief of Northwest Ohio Inc | $22,500 | 3 | 4% |
| Courageous Community Services Inc | $20,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Junior Achievement of Northwestern Ohio | $20,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Connecting Kids to Meals Inc | $20,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Mobile Meals of Toledo Inc | $20,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 90 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 53 recipients with no EIN on record ($311k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Dana Charitable 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: Toledo Community Foundation Inc · The O-I Charities Foundation · The Andersons Fund Supporting Organization · John Henry Eldred Jr Foundation · United Way of Greater Toledo · Robert C and Susan M Savage Family Foundation · Toledo Classic Inc · Bon Secours Mercy Health Foundation · Walter E Terhune Memorial Fund · George Isaac Foundation · Promedica Health System Inc · Elsie and Harry Baumker Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Dana Charitable Foundation
- How much does Dana Charitable Foundation give?
- Dana Charitable Foundation reported 55 grants totaling $270,710 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 35 and 81 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Dana Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (33%), Arts & Culture (15%), Health (14%).
- Who are Dana Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: United Way of Greater Toledo ($500k), The Toledo Museum of Art ($110k), The Toledo Zoological Society ($89k).
- Does Dana Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Dana Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Dana Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Toledo Community Foundation Inc, The O-I Charities Foundation, The Andersons Fund Supporting Organization.
- Where is Dana Charitable Foundation based?
- Dana Charitable Foundation is based in MI.
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