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Denman Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $80k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SPANISH PEAKS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| 3RD AND GOAL 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 |
| ONE DUBLIN INC | $5,000 |
| GOOD SPORTS INC | $5,000 |
| ITALIAN GREYHOUND RESCUE FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $49k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- PCPAWS CHICAGO6× · 2020–2025 · $52k · revenue +210%
- TVTHE V FOUNDATION3× · 2021–2024 · $30k · revenue +91%
- WWWELCOME WAREHOUSE INC5× · 2021–2025 · $28k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- OSOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue +6%
- GIGASTRO INTESTINAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue -43%
- NONATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR RARE DISORDERS INCone grant, 2020 · $12k · revenue -19%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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…
To support cancer research and public education relating to prevention, earlier diagnosis, better treatments and ultimately, a cure for cancer.
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…
Our mission is to enable and finance the development of life-saving genetic medicines for ultra-rare patient populations previously deemed too rare to treat. to realize this, our unique ecosystems facilitates collaboration between…
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…
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…
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…
Our goal is to sustainably improve animal welfare, provide veterinary care, and improve veterinary education globally. in order to achieve this goal, we work in over 10 countries, across 5 continents, supporting local people and animals,…
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…
Our mission is to rescue abused, sick, abandoned and forgotten animals facing euthanasia and provide a loving and secure transition into our rescue program. most animals are rescued from kill shelters in illinois and surrounding states.
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…
See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Good Sports Inc and the most unlike its peers is Welcome Warehouse Inc. 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.
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.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
31 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 31 of the 33 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SPANISH PEAKS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PAWS CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds THE V FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Beyond Sports Foundation ↗
- Who funds WELCOME WAREHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds 3RD AND GOAL FOUNDATION ATTN BRIAN VEITH ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR ICHTHYOSIS AND RELATED SKIN TYPES INC ↗
- Who funds ITALIAN GREYHOUND RESCUE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GASTRO INTESTINAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR RARE DISORDERS INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL EMPOWERMENT MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD BRIDGES ↗
- Who funds VETERANS AIRLIFT COMMAND ↗
- Who funds SOWHOPE ORG ↗
- Who funds Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago ↗
- Who funds Chicago Run ↗
- Who funds FAITH MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds PILOTS TO THE RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds WRIGHT-WAY RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds THE THIELEN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD SPORTS INC ↗
- Who funds TWIST OUT CANCER ↗
- Who funds PURRFECT CAT RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central Ohio Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ORAL CANCER FOUNDATION HILL ↗
- Who funds NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FOREVER FREEDOM REINS EQUINE RESCUE CORP ↗
- Who funds OHIO WILDLIFE CENTER ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · McKesson Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · AbbVie Foundation · Columbus Foundation · Delaware County Foundation · Cardinal Health Foundation · Imc Chicago Charitable Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Equitable Foundation Inc
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 organization 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.
- Global Empowerment Mission Inc — 0% of income from government
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 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.
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