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Dannenberg-Meyer Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$24k
Granted FY2021
9
Grants FY2021
9
Organizations funded FY2021
44%
First-time grantees FY2021
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89% of Dannenberg-Meyer Foundation’s FY2022 grant dollars went to National Philanthropic Trust, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2022 names 7 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year Dannenberg-Meyer Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $24k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

11
’17
12
’18
15
’19
4
’20
5
’21
7
’22

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2021
$150
Largest grant, FY2021
$20,600
Organizations funded a year
8 to 22
FY2017 to FY2021
States reached, FY2021
6
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 44% of the organizations Dannenberg-Meyer Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $415 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21
Arts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesInternationalPublic BenefitOther
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
FY20219$24k44%
FY20208$15k63%
FY201922$36k59%
FY201816$22k69%
FY201720$34kn/a
94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Philanthropy$219kArts & Culture$107kReligion$12kHuman Services$11kEducation$5kInternational$4kCivil Rights$2kHealth$2kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
CA
VA
NC
DC
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 29 grantees

Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($29k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Dannenberg-Meyer Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPalm Beach Dramaworks Inc: $79,400 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetAdolph & Rose Levis Jewish Community Center Inc: $7,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFlorida Atlantic University Foundation Inc: $4,975 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDelray Beach Playhouse Inc: $4,200 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $4,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCamp Kesem National: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommittee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America Inc: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Jewish Committee: $2,050 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArt Alliance for Contemporary Glass: $1,650 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetAmerican Friends of Magen David Adom: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChicago Shakespeare Theater: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBroward Performing Arts Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGeorgetown University: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChicago Architecture Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChai Lifeline Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorton Museum of Art Inc: $395 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSouth Florida Pbs Inc: $250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLynn University Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Art Institute of Chicago: $190 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoca Raton Museum of Art: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Morikami Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGumbo Limbo Coastal Stewards Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Legion: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetConsumer Reports Inc: $40 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $25 over 1y, 0.0% 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 26.

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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.

Raymond James Charitable Endowment FundFL10.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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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About Dannenberg-Meyer Foundation

How much does Dannenberg-Meyer Foundation give?
Dannenberg-Meyer Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $24,171 in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 22 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2021.
What does Dannenberg-Meyer Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2022, its largest causes are Philanthropy (59%), Arts & Culture (29%), Religion (3%).
Who are Dannenberg-Meyer Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2022: Palm Beach Dramaworks Inc ($79k), Emanuel Congregation ($9k), Adolph & Rose Levis Jewish Community Center Inc ($7k).
Does Dannenberg-Meyer Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Dannenberg-Meyer 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 Dannenberg-Meyer Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is Dannenberg-Meyer Foundation based?
Dannenberg-Meyer Foundation is based in IL.

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 59 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2023) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2021, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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