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Danielson Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k34 grants · $112k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $223k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SHAWNIGAN USA FUND | $42,500 |
| BARNARD COLLEGE | $20,000 |
| LIBERTY HILL FOUNDATION - CASSANDRA FUND | $15,000 |
| HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH | $15,000 |
| SANTA CATALINA SCHOOL - THE IDEA ENDOWMENT | $15,000 |
| RAINBOW RAILROAD | $15,000 |
| MYRIAD USA INC | $13,600 |
| SANTA CATALINA SCHOOL | $13,500 |
| MUSEO REINA SOFIA FOUNDATION (USA) INC | $12,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $11,400 |
| FOUR WINDS INC | $10,000 |
| WELLESLEY COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| OUTRIGHT ACTION INTERNATIONAL | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $49k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 21% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +11% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
54 repeat relationships — 42 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- SUSHAWNIGAN USA FUND5× · 2021–2025 · $179k · revenue +1%
- SCSANTA CATALINA SCHOOL5× · 2021–2025 · $116k · revenue +66%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC5× · 2021–2025 · $65k · revenue +20%
Funded once
Northwestern Universityone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +4%- AHARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +26%
- TJTHE J PAUL GETTY TRUSTone grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue -17%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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.
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
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.
Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Myriad Usa Inc and the most unlike its peers is Santa Barbara Master Chorale. 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.
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 37 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
49 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. 49 of the 69 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds SHAWNIGAN USA FUND ↗
- Who funds SANTA CATALINA SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds OUTRIGHT INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds BARNARD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FOUR WINDS ↗
- Who funds Wellesley College ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds RAINBOW RAILROAD USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE ASTRAEA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GALAPAGOS CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds SUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEO REINA SOFIA FOUNDATION (USA) INC ↗
- Who funds GULLIVER PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CENTER FOR LGBTQ RIGHTS FKA NATIONAL CENTER FOR LESBIAN RIGHTS ↗
- Who funds Word of Honor Fund ↗
- Who funds WOODSIDE SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds MYRIAD USA INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE OF THE WOOD RIVER VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds THE DAWN REDWOODS CHARITABLE TRUST ↗
- Who funds IMMATERIAL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds SAWTOOTH BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
- Who funds ARTISTS SPACE INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Miami Foundation Inc · Boswell Family Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Otis Booth Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Orange County Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Boston Foundation Inc · American Endowment 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 Danielson 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.
- Wellesley College — 1% of income from government
- Gulliver Preparatory School Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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