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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.

$100k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
9
Grants FY2025
12
Organizations funded FY2024
17%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$20,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 14
FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
6
Total assets, FY2025
$455k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Denman Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 35% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthAnimalsHuman ServicesPhilanthropyHousing & 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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving8$80k50%
FY202412$60k17%
FY202313$50k46%
FY202214$50k36%
FY202110$67k50%
FY20209$60k100%
FY20191$100kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Health$120kEducation$115kAnimals$91kHuman Services$79kCommunity Improvement$70kRecreation & Sports$35kInternational$15kYouth Development$10kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
CT
CA
KY
MD
TN
NC
DC
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($35k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Denman Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOhio State University Foundation: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPaws Chicago: $52,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThe V Foundation: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBeyond Sports Foundation: $29,500 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetWelcome Warehouse Inc: $27,500 over 5y, 4.9% of budget3rd and Goal Foundation Attn Brian Veith: $26,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetFoundation for Ichthyosis and Related Skin Types Inc: $21,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetItalian Greyhound Rescue Foundation Inc: $21,000 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetGastro Intestinal Research Foundation Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNational Organization for Rare Disorders Inc: $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNeighborhood Bridges: $8,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetVeterans Airlift Command: $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSowhope Org: $5,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTwist Out Cancer: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetPurrfect Cat Rescue Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetChicago Run: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWright-Way Rescue Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Thielen Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFaith Mission Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGood Sports Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of Central Ohio Inc: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNational Park Foundation: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOral Cancer Foundation Hill: $2,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetNorthwestern University Settlement Association: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOhio Wildlife Center: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 27.

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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.

Jpmorgan Chase FoundationNY18.7× affinity13 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 · 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

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 Denman Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Denman Family Foundation 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 Denman Family Foundation

How much does Denman Family Foundation give?
Denman Family Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $100,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 14 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does Denman Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (22%), Education (21%), Animals (17%).
Who are Denman Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Ohio State University Foundation ($100k), Paws Chicago ($52k), The V Foundation ($30k).
Does Denman Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Denman Family Foundation 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 Denman Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jpmorgan Chase Foundation, McKesson Foundation Inc, Charities Aid Foundation America.
Where is Denman Family Foundation based?
Denman Family Foundation is based in DE.

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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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