Indiana · Private foundation
Dent Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $9k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 6
- Grants FY2025
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,750
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 10
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $222k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Dent Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 6 | $9k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 7 | $7k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $7k | 17% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $8k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $9k | 11% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $9k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Family Advocates Inc | $8,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Laporte County Habitat for Humanity | $5,750 | 6 | 21% |
| Laporte County Park Foundation | $3,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Samaritan Counseling Center on the Ridge Inc | $3,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Laporte Park Foundation Inc | $2,500 | 4 | 1% |
| Dunebrook Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($26k), not named here.
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: Healthcare Foundation of la Porte Inc · Unity Foundation of la Porte County
How this is measured
About Dent Family Foundation
- How much does Dent Family Foundation give?
- Dent Family Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $9,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 10 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Dent Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (23%), Arts & Culture (18%), Crime & Legal (17%).
- Who are Dent Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Family Advocates Inc ($8k), Laporte County Habitat for Humanity ($6k), Laporte County Park Foundation ($3k).
- Does Dent Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Dent Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Dent Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Healthcare Foundation of la Porte Inc, Unity Foundation of la Porte County.
- Where is Dent Family Foundation based?
- Dent Family Foundation is based in IN.
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