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Dayenu Foundation Trust

Its FY2018 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$775k
Granted FY2018
11
Grants FY2018
10
Organizations funded FY2018
20%
First-time grantees FY2018
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Median grant, FY2018
$3,000
Largest grant, FY2018
$484,089
Organizations funded a year
10 to 30
FY2017 to FY2018
States reached, FY2018
5
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2018, 20% of the organizations Dayenu Foundation Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 85% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY201810$575k20%
FY201730$1.6Mn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2018.

Education$825kReligion$690kPhilanthropy$484kHealth$310kArts & Culture$200kRecreation & Sports$60kHuman Services$37kHousing & Shelter$35kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
IN
NJ
CA
CO
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2018, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Dutton Christian School$825,000116%
Naples Children Foundation Inc$484,08912%
Fellowship for Performing Arts Inc$200,00023%
Life International$150,00019%
Pregnancy Resource Center$120,0001n/a
Camp Quality USA Inc$60,0002n/a
Bridge Street House of Prayer$50,000110%
Mel Trotter Ministries$35,00010%
Focus on the Family$25,0001n/a
David's House Ministries$25,00011%
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All grantees of Dayenu Foundation Trust by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Dutton Christian School$825,000116%
Naples Children Foundation Inc$484,08912%
Fellowship for Performing Arts Inc$200,00023%
Life International$150,00019%
Pregnancy Resource Center$120,0001n/a
Camp Quality USA Inc$60,0002n/a
Bridge Street House of Prayer$50,000110%
Mel Trotter Ministries$35,00010%
Focus on the Family$25,0001n/a
David's House Ministries$25,00011%
Pregnancy Resource Center of Flint$5,85022%
The Tracy Hanson Initiative$5,0001n/a
Lifeplan$4,70021%
Reta Inc$3,20011%
Spa Inc$2,2501n/a
Life Resources of Northern Michigan Inc$2,25011%
Life Choices Resource Center Inc$1,8501n/a
Beginnings Care for Life Center$1,5001n/a
Lockwood Community Church$1,2501n/a
Heritage Baptist Church$8002n/a
Pekin Bible Church$8002n/a
Genesis Community Church$4001n/a
Ada Bible Church$4001n/a

Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($138k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Dayenu Foundation Trust supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDutton Christian School: $825,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetNaples Children Foundation Inc: $484,089 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetFellowship for Performing Arts Inc: $200,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetLife International: $150,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetBridge Street House of Prayer: $50,000 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetMel Trotter Ministries: $35,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDavid's House Ministries: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPregnancy Resource Center of Flint: $5,850 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetLifeplan: $4,700 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetReta Inc: $3,200 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLife Resources of Northern Michigan Inc: $2,250 over 1y, 0.5% 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 11.

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.

Jonathan & Mary Kay Borisch Family FoundationMI24.3× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jonathan & Mary Kay Borisch Family Foundation · Weingartz Family Foundation · Buist Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Barnabas Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust

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 Dayenu Foundation Trust?

Find your warmest path to Dayenu Foundation Trust 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 Dayenu Foundation Trust

How much does Dayenu Foundation Trust give?
Dayenu Foundation Trust reported 11 grants totaling $775,239 in its FY2018 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 30 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2018.
What does Dayenu Foundation Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2018, its largest causes are Education (30%), Religion (25%), Philanthropy (18%).
Who are Dayenu Foundation Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2018: Dutton Christian School ($825k), Naples Children Foundation Inc ($484k), Fellowship for Performing Arts Inc ($200k).
Does Dayenu Foundation Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2018, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Dayenu Foundation Trust 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 Dayenu Foundation Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jonathan & Mary Kay Borisch Family Foundation, Weingartz Family Foundation, Buist Foundation.
Where is Dayenu Foundation Trust based?
Dayenu Foundation Trust is based in MI.

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 33 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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