Washington, D.C. · Private foundation
Danaher 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.
- $3.7M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 20
- Grants FY2025
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,817,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 75
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $58M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations Danaher Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M 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 | 8 | $3.7M | 0% |
| FY2024 | 8 | $8.4M | 25% |
| FY2023 | 24 | $7.9M | 54% |
| FY2022 | 75 | $13M | 73% |
| FY2021 | 32 | $3.0M | 50% |
| FY2020 | 41 | $2.5M | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Children's Inn at Nih Inc | $2,000,000 | 2 | 6% |
| Save The Children Federation Inc | $1,777,712 | 3 | 0% |
| Emergency Assistance Foundation Inc | $1,675,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Globalgiving Foundation Inc | $1,086,178 | 3 | 1% |
| International Rescue Committee INC | $950,000 | 2 | 0% |
| United States Fund for Unicef | $880,200 | 3 | 0% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $795,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Give Foundation Inc | $651,400 | 1 | 1% |
| Feeding America | $535,500 | 2 | 0% |
| City Year Inc | $450,545 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 91 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 36 recipients with no EIN on record ($17M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Danaher Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 85 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Wal-Mart Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Yelp Foundation · Ford Philanthropy · Allegis Group Foundation Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · American Express Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation
How this is measured
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Find your warmest path to Danaher Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
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About Danaher Foundation
- How much does Danaher Foundation give?
- Danaher Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $3,743,751 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 75 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Danaher Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (45%), International (17%), Health (13%).
- Who are Danaher Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Children's Inn at Nih Inc ($2.0M), Save The Children Federation Inc ($1.8M), Emergency Assistance Foundation Inc ($1.7M).
- Does Danaher Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Danaher 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 Danaher Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Blackbaud Giving Fund, Wal-Mart Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
- Where is Danaher Foundation based?
- Danaher Foundation is based in DC.
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