How much does Denike Family Foundation give?

Denike Family Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $68,090 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 33 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Denike Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (18%), Health (16%), Housing & Shelter (12%).

Who are Denike Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Covenant House ($51k), World Central Kitchen Inc ($27k), Golf4her Foundation Inc ($22k).

Does Denike Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Denike Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Denike Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of New Jersey, Chubb Charitable Foundation, Charities Aid Foundation America.

Where is Denike Family Foundation based?

Denike Family Foundation is based in NJ.

Denike Family Foundation

Denike Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Denike Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$68k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$24k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Youth Development$74kHealth$66kHousing & Shelter$51kReligion$51kInternational$41kRecreation & Sports$32kPublic Safety & Disaster$28kPhilanthropy$20kOther$0

02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k16 grants · $33k
$10k–50k2 grants · $36k

$1,060

Median grant

States reached

$1.4M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
THE FIRST TEE	$24,000
COVENANT HOUSE	$11,530
CUSP FOUNDATION INC	$5,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN	$5,000
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH AT NEW PROVIDENCE	$5,000
ST BALDRICKS FOUNDATION	$2,500
EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY	$2,500
RIP MEDICAL DEBT	$2,500
SPUR	$1,060
METAVIVOR RESEARCH AND SUPPORT	$1,000
COMMUNITY FOOD BANK	$1,000
LIFEBOX FOUNDATION INC	$1,000
FOLDS OF HONOR	$1,000
HOSPITAL ALBERT SCHWEITZER	$1,000
MARKET STREET MISSION	$1,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $74k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$365k · 33 repeat orgs$46k to everyone else

33 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$365k

$42k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%

+28%

Still filing today

70%

62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthHuman ServicesInternationalRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyEducationOther

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

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COVENANT HOUSE
9× · 2017–2025 · $51k · revenue +34%
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
6× · 2020–2025 · $27k · revenue +21%
LF
Lifebox Foundation Inc
9× · 2017–2025 · $12k · revenue +500%

Funded once

OH
OUR HOUSE INCgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +35%
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2021 · $5k
WD
We Defygraduated
one grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +207%

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.

The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

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Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health

Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation

The samuel waxman cancer research foundation (the "foundation") funds innovative research to bring faster cures to patients. in addition to supporting ongoing collaborative research in specific cancers, our scientists are investigating the…

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Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

To cure cf and provide all people with cf the opportunity to lead long, fulfilling lives by funding research and drug development, partnering with the cf community, and advancing high-quality, specialized care.

Health

The Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation Inc

The multiple myeloma research foundation (mmrf) is the largest nonprofit in the world solely focused on accelerating acurefor multiple myeloma patient. we drive the development and delivery of next-generation therapies, leverage data to…

Health

Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health

City of Hope

City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION

Health

New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health

Global Down Syndrome Foundation

To significantly improve the lives of people with down syndrome through research, medical care, education and advocacy. an important part of this mission is to support the global affiliate organizations that we helped establish and…

Health

Foundation for Sarcoidosis Research

The foundation for sarcoidosis research (fsr) is the leading international organization dedicated to finding a cure for sarcoidosis and improving care for sarcoidosis patients through research, education, and support. since its…

Philanthropy

The V Foundation

We fund game-changing research and all-star scientists to accelerate victory over cancer and save lives.

Health

Commonwealth Cancer Consortium Inc

Break through cancer is a foundation dedicated to supporting translational research in the most difficult to treat cancers. our partner organizations are among the top cancer research centers and together, represent some of the most…

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Baldrick's Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Anne Ohare Mccormick Memorial Fund Inc. 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

50 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 50 of the 73 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

49/50

Grantees still filing

35/50

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$180,414Human Services$81,594Philanthropy$47,643International$43,375Recreation & Sports$25,464Health$24,706Food & Nutrition$8,247

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

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.

Community Foundation of New JerseyNJ15.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of New Jersey · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Network for Good

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 Denike Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Denike Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

12get no government money at all

15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home