Michigan · Private foundation
Denso North America Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.4M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 8
- Grants FY2025
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 78%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $200,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 57
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $8.0M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 78% of the organizations Denso North America Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 70% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.3M 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 | 8 | $1.4M | 75% |
| FY2024 | 23 | $3.3M | 78% |
| FY2022 | 1 | $100k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 49 | $1.7M | 53% |
| FY2020 | 57 | $2.7M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $890,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Cal Poly Pomona Philanthropic Foundation | $298,100 | 2 | 1% |
| Michigan State University | $202,500 | 2 | n/a |
| University of Michigan | $200,000 | 1 | 32% |
| Lawrence Technological University | $195,291 | 2 | 0% |
| Kettering University | $157,500 | 2 | 0% |
| United Way of Blount County | $125,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Rochester Institute of Technology | $112,485 | 1 | 0% |
| Trustees of Purdue University | $110,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Foodbank of Southern California | $100,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 37 grantees
Plus 70 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Denso North America Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 29 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · WK Kellogg Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
About Denso North America Foundation
- How much does Denso North America Foundation give?
- Denso North America Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $1,426,100 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 57 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Denso North America Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Science & Tech (34%), Education (23%), Public Safety & Disaster (22%).
- Who are Denso North America Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ($890k), Cal Poly Pomona Philanthropic Foundation ($298k), Michigan State University ($203k).
- Does Denso North America Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 78% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Denso North America Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Denso North America Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Publix Super Markets Charities Inc, WK Kellogg Foundation, Enterprise Holdings Foundation.
- Where is Denso North America Foundation based?
- Denso North America Foundation is based in MI.
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