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Dinello Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$74k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$38k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$154kReligion$58kEducation$56kHuman Services$20kInternational$15kHousing & Shelter$15kPublic Safety & Disaster$7kCommunity Improvement$6kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k10 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $53k
$1,890
Median grant
8
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CROHN'S COLITIS FOUNDATION$37,760
CMJC$15,000
BRIDGES DEVELOPMENT CENTER$5,400
TRINITY HEALTH OAKLAND$5,000
CLEARLY UNIVERSITY$5,000
Individual grant recipient$1,890
WMU FOUNDATION$1,000
MISSION 25$1,000
JOHN GEORGE HOME$500
MICHIGAN HUMANE SOCIETY$500
THE NATL SHRINE OF RITA$300
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION$200
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 42% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%ZAKA SEARCH AND RESCUE: $5k → 20%OPERATION RECOVERY: $1k → 12%JOHN GEORGE HOME INC: $3k → 13%CHADTOUGH FOUNDATION: $132 → 14%OUR DAUGHTERS INTERNATIONAL: $15k → 8%JOHN GEORGE HOME INC: $1k → 13%JOHN GEORGE HOME: $500 → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
IN
PA
CA
KY
VA
MD
LA
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$233k · 12 repeat orgs$120k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
25

Total granted

$233k
$92k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+45%

Still filing today

67%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k 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
Human ServicesEducationHealthArts & CultureAnimalsPhilanthropyOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • WM
    WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $14k · revenue +135%
  • YR
    YELLOW RIBBON FUND INC
    2× · 2021–2023 · $8k · revenue +10%
  • AD
    ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $6k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • LC
    LUMEN CHRISTI CATHOLIC S
    one grant, 2022 · $20k
  • OD
    Our Daughters Internationalgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +47%
  • CM
    COMPASSIONATE MINISTRIES JACKS
    one grant, 2022 · $12k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Detroit Historical Society

The Detroit Historical Society tells Detroit's stories and why they matter through its exhibits, programs, outreach, and the preservation and dissemination of its artifacts and collections.

Arts & Culture
2
Delta Dental Fund

Delta dental fund's mission is to improve the oral health of the public and to advance dental science and the dental profession through research and education.

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3
Banner Alzheimer's Foundation

Established in 2006, the banner alzheimer's foundation (baf) secures and stewards charitable gifts to advance the mission of banner alzheimer's institute (bai), including groundbreaking research initiatives and pioneering prevention…

Health
4
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
5
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

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6
Jewelers of America Inc

Jewelers of america, the most trusted and influential voice of the jewelry industry, empowers and unites its members through expert guidance and advocacy, driving excellence, integrity, and success in an ever-changing marketplace.

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7
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
8
Hospice of Michigan Inc

Hospice of Michigan, Inc. meets our patients and families where they are with urgency, purpose and compassionate accountability surrounding them with decades of dedicated hospice expertise.

Human Services
9
Digital Harbor Foundation

Democratizing societal and economic well-being through digital equity for everyone, increased diversity in the tech sector, innovative education, and technology for the public good

Education
10
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
11
MRIGlobal

To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.

Science & Tech
12
Leadingage Inc

The mission of leadingage is to be the trusted voice for aging. our 6,000+ members and partners include nonprofit organizations representing the entire field of aging services, 38 state associations, hundreds of businesses, consumer…

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Michigan Humane Society; the most unlike its peers is Flagstar Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 24 of the 43 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
21/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CROHN'S COLITIS FOUNDATION: $136,613 · OtherCROHN'S COLITIS FOUNDATIONLUMEN CHRISTI HIGH SCHOOL: $40,710 · OtherLUMEN CHRISTI HIGH SCHOOLLUMEN CHRISTI CATHOLIC S: $19,679 · OtherLUMEN CHRISTI CATHOLIC SCMJC: $15,000 · OtherCMJCCOMPASSIONATE MINISTRIES JACKS: $12,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $11,484 · OtherTRINITY HEALTH OAKLAND: $10,000 · OtherMICHIGAN CROSSROADS COUNCIL: $10,000 · Other+18 more: $24,317 · Other+18 moreOur Daughters International: $15,000 · Human ServicesIsrael Magen Fund Inc: $5,000 · Human ServicesJOHN GEORGE HOME INC: $4,500 · Human ServicesOPERATION RECOVERY INC: $1,023 · Human Services+1 more: $132 · Human ServicesWESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $13,907 · EducationCLEARY UNIVERSITY: $5,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $1,050 · EducationWESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY HOMER STRYKER MD SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $1,030 · EducationDETROIT BLIGHT BUSTERS INC: $10,000 · Community ImprovementYELLOW RIBBON FUND INC: $8,108 · PhilanthropyFLAGSTAR FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · PhilanthropyALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $6,171 · Health+2 more: $412 · HealthMICHIGAN HUMANE SOCIETY: $758 · AnimalsBella's Buddies Inc: $515 · Animals
Other$279,803Human Services$25,655Education$20,987Community Improvement$10,000Philanthropy$9,108Health$6,583Animals$1,273

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOur Daughters International: $15,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetWESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $13,907 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetYELLOW RIBBON FUND INC: $8,108 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $6,171 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCLEARY UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOHN GEORGE HOME INC: $4,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMATRIX HUMAN SERVICES: $1,854 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $1,050 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY HOMER STRYKER MD SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $1,030 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION RECOVERY INC: $1,023 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOLDIERS' ANGELS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFLAGSTAR FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMICHIGAN HUMANE SOCIETY: $758 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBella's Buddies Inc: $515 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JACKSON FRIENDLY HOME: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRise Economy: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENCORE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER: $375 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $212 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDYSTONIA MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINSIDEOUT LITERARY ARTS PROJECT: $187 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHADTOUGH DEFEAT DIPG FOUNDATION: $132 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Community Foundation …Flagstar Foundation I…Silicon Valley Commun…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Pfizer Foundation…The Bank of America C…Network for GoodNational Philanthropi…Natl Christian Charit…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…
Community Foundation for Southeast MichiganMI16.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Flagstar Foundation Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Dinello Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dinello Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Yellow Ribbon Fund Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to Dinello Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Dinello 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.

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 43 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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