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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
5
States reached
$484k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% 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
02FY2018 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2018

  • Under $10k7 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $250k
  • $250k+1 grant · $484k
$3,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NAPLES CHILDREN & EDUCATION FOUNDATION$484,089
BARNABAS FOUNDATION$200,000
FELLOWSHIP FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS$50,000
CAMP QUALITY MICHIGAN$30,000
RETA$3,200
FLINT CRISIS PREGNANCY SERVICES$3,000
PREGNANCY CARE CENTER OF NILES$2,150
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH$1,600
CHIPPEWA HILLS BAPTIST CHURCH$400
PEKIN BIBLE CHURCH$400
HERITAGE BAPTIST CHURCH$400
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–17, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LIFE RESOURCES OF NORTHERN MICHIGAN: $2k → 13%SPA WOMEN'S MINISTRY HOMES: $2k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
IN
NJ
CA
CO
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

13%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$275k · 8 repeat orgs$1.9M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +129% since the first grant, against +60% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
22

Total granted

$275k
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+129%
+60%

Still filing today

50%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2018, 15% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $487k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18
HealthHuman ServicesReligionEducationArts & CultureHousing & ShelterOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • FF
    FELLOWSHIP FOR PERFORMING ARTS INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $200k · revenue +129%
  • CQ
    CAMP QUALITY USA INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $60k · revenue +35%
  • PR
    Pregnancy Resource Center of Flint
    2× · 2017–2018 · $6k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • DC
    DUTTON CHRISTIAN SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $825k · revenue +129%
  • LI
    LIFE INTERNATIONALgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $150k · revenue +71%
  • PR
    Pregnancy Resource Centergraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $120k · revenue +70%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Life Choices Care Center

To provide support for pregnant women

Health
2
Life Choices Crisis Pregnancy Supp

Non-profit medical clinic educating and equipping individuals to make empowered decisions, providing pregnancy confirmation, and offering programs of prevention, intervention, and restoration.

Health
3
Pregnancy Care Center

The Pregnancy Care Center is a Christian organization to promote the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and to boldly endorse the sacredness of all human life, by providing comprehensive, practical services as enduring alternatives to abortion.

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4
Life Choice Care Center Inc

To provide physical and emotional support to women and their families facing unplanned pregnancies through a christ centered and biblically based approach.

Human Services
5
Pregnancy Resource Medical Center

To prevent abortion by offering mothers and their families information and services that will empower them to choose life for their child and sexual intergity for themselves.

—
6
Cleveland Pregnancy Center

Providing Biblical, life-affirming resources and services to those affected by unplanned pregnancy.

Health
7
Life Choice Crisis Pregnancy Center Inc

Pregnancy resource center (prc) exists to prevent abortions and provide eternal truth through evidence based medical services and the gospel of jesus christ.

Health
8
Life Matters Worldwide

Life Matters Worldwide encourages, equips and strengthens pregnancy care workers so they can continue to provide life-affirming services.

Civil Rights
9
LifeTalk Resource Center

To be a beacon of light for life by providing pregnancy testing,counseling and care to women and men facing an unplanned pregnancy, as well as parenting classes and prevention programs.

Health
10
Lifecare Pregnancy Resources Inc

Sharing the gospel message and upholding the sanctity of human life by demonstrating the love of Christ to men and women facing unplanned pregnancies by providing spiritual, physical, and emotional support.

Human Services
11
Pregnancy Support Center of Carroll County Inc

To provide pregnancy support, medical information, pregnancy testing, limited obstetrical ultrasound, and parenting instruction for individuals confronted with an unexpected pregnancy. Our care for women is given, all to the Glory of God!

Human Services
12
A Community Pregnancy Center Inc

To provide free pregnancy tests, ultrasounds, parenting classes and material resources to our community.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pregnancy Resource Center; the most unlike its peers is Bridge Street House of Prayer. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 33 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/18
Grantees still filing
16/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DUTTON CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $825,000 · EducationDUTTON CHRISTIAN SCHOOLBarnabas Foundation: $600,000 · ReligionBarnabas FoundationBridge Street House of Prayer: $50,000 · ReligionBridge Street House of Pray…+1 more: $5,000 · ReligionNAPLES CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC: $484,089 · PhilanthropyNAPLES CHILDREN FOUN…Pregnancy Resource Center: $120,000 · OtherPregnancy Resour…A21: $100,000 · OtherA21CAMP QUALITY USA INC: $60,000 · OtherCAMP QUALITY USA…MEL TROTTER MINISTRIES: $35,000 · OtherMEL TROTTER MINI…FOCUS ON THE FAMILY: $25,000 · OtherFOCUS ON THE FAM…WING SHADOW MINISTRIES: $25,000 · OtherWING SHADOW MINI…+17 more: $27,650 · Other+17 moreFELLOWSHIP FOR PERFORMING ARTS INC: $200,000 · Arts & CultureLIFE INTERNATIONAL: $150,000 · HealthPregnancy Resource Center of Flint: $5,850 · Health+1 more: $4,700 · HealthDAVID'S HOUSE MINISTRIES: $25,000 · Housing & Shelter
Education$825,000Religion$655,000Philanthropy$484,089Other$392,650Arts & Culture$200,000Health$160,550Housing & Shelter$25,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDUTTON CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $825,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetBarnabas Foundation: $600,000 over 2y, 0.5% 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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

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 B…Weingartz Family Foun…Buist FoundationChristian Community F…Barnabas FoundationNatl Christian Charit…Renaissance Charitabl…Raymond James Charita…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Dayenu Foundation Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dayenu Foundation Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    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.

    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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