Missouri · Private foundation
Dennis Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $73k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 10%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $7,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 15
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.4M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 10% of the organizations Dennis Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 10 | $73k | 10% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $69k | 10% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $74k | 27% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $75k | 27% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $86k | 36% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $60k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jewish Family Services Inc | $50,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Virginia Home | $47,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Virginia Home for Boys and Girls | $37,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Sheltering Arms Hospital | $34,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Friends Association for Children | $30,000 | 6 | 0% |
| St Joseph's Villa | $30,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Greater Richmond Scan - Stop Child Abuse Now Inc | $25,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Saint Francis Home Inc | $21,020 | 3 | 0% |
| Health Brigade | $20,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Safe Harbor | $17,500 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 23 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jewish Family Services Inc | $50,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Virginia Home | $47,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Virginia Home for Boys and Girls | $37,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Sheltering Arms Hospital | $34,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Friends Association for Children | $30,000 | 6 | 0% |
| St Joseph's Villa | $30,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Greater Richmond Scan - Stop Child Abuse Now Inc | $25,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Saint Francis Home Inc | $21,020 | 3 | 0% |
| Health Brigade | $20,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Safe Harbor | $17,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Mental Health America of Virginia | $17,436 | 4 | 1% |
| Caritas | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| St James's Children's Center | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Childsavers- Memorial Child Guidance Clinic | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Better Housing Coalition | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Gateway Homes Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| OAR of Richmond Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Gateway Homes Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Central Virginia Legal Aid Society Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Children's Home Society of Virginia | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Circle Center Adult Day Services | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| South Richmond Adult Day Care Center | $3,840 | 1 | 1% |
| Cadence Theatre Company Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($15k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Dennis Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation Inc · Shelton H Short Jr Trust · Herndon Foundation · Annabella R Jenkins Foundation · The Pauley Family Foundation · Richmond Memorial Health Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Robert G Cabell III and Maude Morgan Cabell Foundation · United Way of Greater Richmond & Petersburg · Virginia Nonprofit Housing Coalition · Carmax Foundation · Estes Foundation Co Matthew Breidenbach Pitcairn
How this is measured
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About Dennis Foundation
- How much does Dennis Foundation give?
- Dennis Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $72,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 15 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Dennis Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (44%), Health (30%), Housing & Shelter (8%).
- Who are Dennis Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Jewish Family Services Inc ($50k), The Virginia Home ($48k), Virginia Home for Boys and Girls ($38k).
- Does Dennis Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Dennis Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Dennis Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation Inc, Shelton H Short Jr Trust, Herndon Foundation.
- Where is Dennis Foundation based?
- Dennis Foundation is based in MO.
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