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Dankberg 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.

$48k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2025
1
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$47,736
Largest grant, FY2025
$47,736
Organizations funded a year
1 to 28
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$4.1M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Dankberg Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationEnvironmentFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving1$48k100%
FY20241$90k0%
FY20231$110k0%
FY20222$190k0%
FY20213$157k33%
FY202023$254k4%
FY201924$305k13%
FY201828$151k29%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$1.4MHealth$85kPhilanthropy$36kInternational$22kEnvironment$22kFood & Nutrition$18kHuman Services$15kScience & Tech$11kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WI
NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
CA
KY
MD
HI
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($27k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Dankberg Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWilliam Marsh Rice University: $1,273,097 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCalifornia State University San Marcos Foundation: $100,803 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetPhoenix Houses of Texas Inc: $47,736 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetPediatric Cancer Research Foundation: $25,010 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSan Diego State University Foundation Sdsu Research Foundation: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $12,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMaui Food Bank Inc: $12,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMaui United Way: $11,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetThe Union of Concerned Scientists Inc: $11,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNature and Culture International: $9,071 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Resource Center: $9,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetInterfaith Community Services Inc: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFull-Circle Learning Inc: $4,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetJacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Fund for Unicef: $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOxfam-America Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNatural Resources Defense Council Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Foundation Fighting Blindness Inc: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCharity Navigator: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMama's Kitchen: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of California Irvine Foundation: $1,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAlzheimer's Orange County: $1,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNorth County Health Project Inc: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War: $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital of Wisconsin Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Veterans Foundation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetProject Talk Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 28.

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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.

Rancho Santa Fe FoundationCA15.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Sempra Foundation · Paul and Magdalena Ecke Poinsettia Foundation · Leichtag Foundation · The San Diego Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to Dankberg Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Dankberg Family 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.

About Dankberg Family Foundation

How much does Dankberg Family Foundation give?
Dankberg Family Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $47,736 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 28 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Dankberg Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (86%), Health (5%), Philanthropy (2%).
Who are Dankberg Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: William Marsh Rice University ($1.3M), California State University San Marcos Foundation ($101k), Phoenix Houses of Texas Inc ($48k).
Does Dankberg Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Dankberg 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 Dankberg Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Rancho Santa Fe Foundation, Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego, Sempra Foundation.
Where is Dankberg Family Foundation based?
Dankberg Family Foundation is based in CA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 44 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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