How much did Denman Family Foundation grant in FY2025?

Education$100kAnimals$89kCommunity Improvement$70kHealth$67kHuman Services$49kHousing & Shelter$31kPhilanthropy$12kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kYouth Development$5kOther$105k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

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2020

—

2021

—

2022

rescue

2023

childrensrescuechicago

2024

research

2025

rescue

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k4 grants · $20k
$10k–50k5 grants · $80k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$492k

Total assets

Largest grants

3RD AND GOAL FOUNDATION$20,000
SPANISH PEAKS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$20,000
CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA$20,000
GLOBAL EMPOWERMENT MISSION INC$10,000
PAWS CHICAGO$10,000
PILOTS TO THE RESCUE INC$5,000
GOOD SPORTS INC$5,000
ITALIAN GREYHOUND RESCUE FOUNDATION INC$5,000
ONE DUBLIN INC$5,000

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $49k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$316k · 14 repeat orgs$222k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +136% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.

14 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$316k

$182k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+136%

+33%

Still filing today

86%

88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

AnimalsHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterEducationOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

SP
SPANISH PEAKS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
6× · 2020–2025 · $70k · revenue +709%
PC
PAWS CHICAGO
6× · 2020–2025 · $52k · revenue +163%
TV
THE V FOUNDATION
3× · 2021–2024 · $30k · revenue +56%

Funded once

TO
THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue +33%
GR
GASTRO-INTESTINAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION INCgraduated
one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue +209%
NO
NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR RARE DISORDERS INC
one grant, 2020 · $12k · revenue +5%

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

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

The Wunderglo Foundation

The wunderglo foundation will not rest until there is a cure for colon cancer. the foundation strives to save lives and support cancer warriors everywhere by raising funds for colon cancer research, promoting awareness about prevention and…

Health

Chicago Canine Rescue Foundation

Chicago canine rescue foundation finds permanent homes for homeless dogs in our community with a specific emphasis on assisting the most vulnerable animals, who without our help, would have no other options. while in our care, they are…

Animals

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

University of Chicago Cancer Research Foundation

The mission shall be to provide fundraising, advocacy and advisory support for cancer research at the comprehensive cancer center at the university of chicago.

Health

National Foundation for Rescued Animals

To provide a safe and secure environment for animals in need of rescue or rehabilitation while conserving endangered and threatened species. our slogan is "saving animals one by one."

Animals

Race for the Rescues

Race for the rescues is a unique, 501(c)3 non-profit, no-kill organization dedicated to eliminating animal suffering and euthanasia. our mission is to unite animal welfare organizations to fight pet overpopulation and save as many animal…

Unclassified

Lets Win Pancreatic Cancer Foundation

Let's win pancreatic cancer foundation is a web-based platform that enables doctors, scientists and patients to share fast-breaking information on potentially life-saving pancreatic cancer treatments & clinical trials.

Health

Tirr Foundation

TIRR provides funding for collaborative neurotrauma research and patient rehabilitation.

Health

Donor Network West

To save and improve lives through organ and tissue donation for transplantation.

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Cancer Research and Life Foundation

The organization supports development of novel and compassionate therapies for the poor, the needy, the hopeless and the forgotten stricken with the deadly disease of cancer.

Health

Global Wildlife Foundation

Funding innovative veterinary research and supporting organizations dedicated to preserving and protecting wildlife for future generations.

Animals

Frankie's Friends Inc

Find cures and save pets with life-threatening but treatable conditions.

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Jude Children's Research Hospital and the most unlike its peers is Twist Out Cancer. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 22 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/30

the rest of the field

11%

206,164/1,819,535

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

30 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

29/30

Grantees still filing

23/30

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$131,500Education$100,000Animals$89,000Community Improvement$70,000Health$66,500Human Services$49,000Housing & Shelter$31,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

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

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Jpmorgan Chase FoundationNY17.3× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · McKesson Foundation Inc · Columbus Foundation · Imc Chicago Charitable Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · AbbVie Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Verizon Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Enterprise Holdings Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation Denman Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: WELCOME WAREHOUSE INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~19 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 5 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 432108808 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on WELCOME WAREHOUSE INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 19 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 5% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Denman Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Denman Family Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

Denman Family Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

30 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Denman Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph

Denman Family Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

30 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Denman Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph