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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 FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$1.8M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Human Services$17MInternational$6.4MHealth$5.0MEducation$2.9MEnvironment$1.3MFood & Nutrition$977kPublic Safety & Disaster$795kPhilanthropy$674kOther$0
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k9 grants · $220k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $707k
  • $250k+2 grants · $2.8M
$50,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$58M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YourCause LLC$1,817,000
The Childrens Inn at NIH Inc$1,000,000
YourCause LLC$116,420
American National Red Cross$100,000
Emergency Assistance Foundation Inc$100,000
YourCause LLC$97,170
YourCause LLC$79,580
YourCause LLC$59,702
YourCause LLC$53,924
The Trevor Project$50,000
Boys and Girls Club of America$50,000
YourCause LLC$32,020
YourCause LLC$29,119
YourCause LLC$27,693
The Breast Cancer Research Fund$25,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $4.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 84% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Give Foundation Inc: $651k → 8%Sewa International: $307k → 16%Miriams Kitchen: $50k → 14%Emergency Assistance Foundation Inc: $200k → 11%Emergency Assistance Foundation Inc: $1.0M → 14%American National Red Cross: $100k → 10%Miriams Kitchen: $15k → 14%Emergency Assistance Foundation Inc: $150k → 11%Emergency Assistance Foundation: $25k → 14%American National Red Cross: $100k → 10%Miriam's Kitchen: $15k → 14%Emergency Assistance Foundation Inc: $100k → 11%The Fishing School Inc: $50k → 14%Emergency Assistance Foundation Inc: $100k → 11%Emergency Assistance Foundation Inc: $100k → 11%Girls Who Code Inc: $250k → 17%Girls Who Code: $20k → 17%The Fishing School: $10k → 14%America National Red Cross: $500k → 14%Friends of the World Food Program Inc: $250k → 14%American Red Cross: $90k → 14%American Red Cross: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

WA
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
IN
OH
PA
CT
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
TN
NC
SC
DC
AL
GA
TX
FL

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$29M · 35 repeat orgs$9.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +12% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.

35 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
92

Total granted

$29M
$9.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+7%

Still filing today

86%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthInternationalHuman ServicesCivil RightsEnvironmentOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • CI
    CHILDREN'S INN AT NIH INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +59%
  • Save The Children Federation Inc
    3× · 2020–2023 · $1.8M · revenue +14%
  • UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF
    3× · 2020–2022 · $880k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • GF
    GIVE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $651k · revenue -102%
  • James Whitcomb Riley Memorial Association
    one grant, 2022 · $350k · revenue +6%
  • DIRECT RELIEF
    one grant, 2020 · $328k · revenue +20%

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

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
2
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
3
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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4
Activate Global Inc

Activate empowers scientists to reinvent the world by bringing their research to market. activate partners with u.s. based funders, research institutions, and other pillars of the hard technology community to help entrepreneurial…

Environment
5
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
6
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
7
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
8
Aacsb International - the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business

Aacsb international provides quality assurance of business school programs, the latest in business education intelligence, thought leadership, and learning and development services.

Education
9
Internet Society Foundation

At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…

International
10
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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11
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
12
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Girls Who Code Inc and the most unlike its peers is Education for Hope. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyImmigrant Worker SupportFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…School Parent OrganizationsWomen & Girls Leadership De…Lgbtq+ Community SupportPolicy Research and AdvocacyIndependent K-12 SchoolsHealth Access Advocacy and …Food Banks and PantriesCancer Support ServicesEnvironmental Conservation …Community Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%15%10–20yr16%35%20–35yr13%24%35–55yr16%22%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%16%10–20yr16%29%20–35yr13%22%35–55yr16%32%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/93
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,472

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

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

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 89 of the 129 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
89/89
Grantees still filing
51/89
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

YourCause LLC — $15,023,251 · OtherYourCause LLC+72 more — $6,187,755 · Other+72 moreSave The Children Federation Inc — $1,777,712 · InternationalSave The Children…GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC — $1,086,178 · InternationalGLOBALGIVING FOUN…International Rescue Committee INC — $950,000 · InternationalInternational Res…UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $880,200 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUN…DIRECT RELIEF — $328,250 · InternationalDIRECT RELIEFUNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC — $316,000 · InternationalUNITED NATIONS FO…WATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL — $255,000 · InternationalGIVE Foundation — $250,000 · International+2 more — $35,000 · InternationalEMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC — $1,675,000 · Human ServicesEMERGENCY AS…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $795,000 · Human ServicesAmerican Nat…GIVE FOUNDATION INC — $651,400 · Human ServicesGIVE FOUNDAT…Sewa International Inc — $307,000 · Human ServicesSewa Interna…GIRLS WHO CODE INC — $270,000 · Human ServicesGIRLS WHO CO…FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC — $250,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF T…+3 more — $240,000 · Human Services+3 moreCHILDREN'S INN AT NIH INC — $2,000,000 · HealthCHILDREN'…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $250,000 · HealthST JUDE C…RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL SAN DIEGO — $150,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital Corporation — $146,140 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $132,500 · HealthBREAST CARE FOR WASHINGTON — $105,000 · Health+6 more — $322,500 · Health+6 moreUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC — $420,000 · EducationASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER AMERICAN SCHOLARSHIP FUND — $250,000 · EducationCODEORG — $250,000 · EducationTNTP INC — $250,000 · EducationSUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS INC — $250,000 · EducationACHIEVEMENT REWARDS FOR COLLEGE SCIENTISTS FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 · EducationPATIENT ADVOCATE FOUNDATION — $100,000 · EducationTHE NEA FOUNDATION FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF EDUCATION — $100,000 · EducationTHE POSSE FOUNDATION INC — $80,000 · Education+7 more — $119,223 · EducationOCEAN CONSERVANCY — $275,000 · EnvironmentNATIONAL RECREATION AND PARK ASSOCIATION — $260,000 · EnvironmentCLOSED LOOP FOUNDATION INC — $250,000 · EnvironmentTHE RECYCLING PARTNERSHIP INC — $250,000 · EnvironmentEARTH DAY NETWORK INC — $153,200 · EnvironmentNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING FOUNDATION INC — $150,000 · EnvironmentFeeding America — $535,500 · Food & NutritionREFED INC — $100,000 · Food & NutritionGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC — $66,500 · Food & Nutrition
Other$21,211,006International$5,878,340Human Services$4,188,400Health$3,106,140Education$1,919,223Environment$1,338,200Food & Nutrition$702,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCHILDREN'S INN AT NIH INC — $2,000,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc — $1,777,712 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC — $1,675,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC — $1,086,178 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $950,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $880,200 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $795,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGIVE FOUNDATION INC — $651,400 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFeeding America — $535,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCITY YEAR INC — $450,545 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC — $420,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $365,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetJames Whitcomb Riley Memorial Association — $350,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF — $328,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC — $316,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSewa International Inc — $307,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA — $300,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOCEAN CONSERVANCY — $275,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGIRLS WHO CODE INC — $270,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetNATIONAL RECREATION AND PARK ASSOCIATION — $260,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $255,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL — $255,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER AMERICAN SCHOLARSHIP FUND — $250,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCODEORG — $250,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTNTP INC — $250,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC — $250,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCLOSED LOOP FOUNDATION INC — $250,000 over 1y, 63% of budgetTHE RECYCLING PARTNERSHIP INC — $250,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS INC — $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJACKIE ROBINSON FOUNDATION INC — $250,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $242,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGLOUCESTER MARINE GENOMICS INSTITUTE INCORPORATED — $199,970 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetWOLF TRAP FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS — $165,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetEARTH DAY NETWORK INC — $153,200 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetRADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL SAN DIEGO — $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY INC — $150,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING FOUNDATION INC — $150,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation — $146,140 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $132,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIETY OF WOMEN ENGINEERS — $130,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetBREAST CARE FOR WASHINGTON — $105,000 over 2y, 10.0% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES INTERNATIONAL INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetREFED INC — $100,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCATALYST INC — $100,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetACHIEVEMENT REWARDS FOR COLLEGE SCIENTISTS FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetLGBT TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE — $100,000 over 1y, 8.9% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

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

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Blackbaud Giving …Wal-Mart FoundationSilicon Valley Commun…The Pfizer Foundation…The Yelp FoundationFord PhilanthropyAllegis Group Foundat…Texas Instruments Fou…American Express Foun…Sempra FoundationGe Aerospace Foundati…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…
The Blackbaud Giving FundSC18.7× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Danaher Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Goodwill Industries International Inc — 35% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
  • Gloucester Marine Genomics Institute Incorporated — 16% of income from government
  • City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
  • Children's Inn at Nih Inc — 10% of income from government
  • Seeding Labs a Non-Profit Corporation — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
12report 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

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Danaher Foundation?

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.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 129 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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