Michigan · Private foundation
Marvin and Betty Danto 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.
- $3.0M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 65
- Grants FY2025
- 60
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 8%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $385,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 46 to 63
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 8% of the organizations Marvin and Betty Danto Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k 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 | 62 | $2.6M | 8% |
| FY2024 | 60 | $3.1M | 8% |
| FY2023 | 63 | $3.1M | 8% |
| FY2022 | 59 | $3.8M | 12% |
| FY2021 | 57 | $3.2M | 26% |
| FY2020 | 46 | $3.2M | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Michigan | $2,325,000 | 6 | 78% |
| American Friends of Magen David Adom | $1,790,000 | 6 | 1% |
| The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc | $1,726,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Kids Kicking Cancer Inc | $1,320,000 | 6 | 16% |
| Detroit Symphony Orchestra Inc | $1,188,000 | 6 | 1% |
| The Detroit Institute of Arts | $963,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Interlochen Center for the Arts | $860,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Jewish Family Service | $662,500 | 6 | 1% |
| Friendship Circle | $625,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Friends of the Israel Defense Forces | $517,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 63 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Marvin and Betty Danto Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 56 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: The Andrea and Lawrence Wolfe Family Foundation · Edward C and Linda Dresner Levy Foundation · United Jewish Foundation · George M and Jo Elyn Nyman Charitable Trust · Marjorie and Maxwell Jospey Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · The Eugene Applebaum Family Foundation · DTE Energy Foundation · The Gilbert Family Foundation · The Kresge Foundation · Jonathan and Beth Lowe Family Foundation · Robt & Gail Katz Family Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Marvin and Betty Danto Family Foundation with peer funders
About Marvin and Betty Danto Family Foundation
- How much does Marvin and Betty Danto Family Foundation give?
- Marvin and Betty Danto Family Foundation reported 65 grants totaling $3,028,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 46 and 63 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Marvin and Betty Danto Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (23%), International (21%), Arts & Culture (17%).
- Who are Marvin and Betty Danto Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: University of Michigan ($2.3M), American Friends of Magen David Adom ($1.8M), The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ($1.7M).
- Does Marvin and Betty Danto Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Marvin and Betty Danto 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 Marvin and Betty Danto Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Andrea and Lawrence Wolfe Family Foundation, Edward C and Linda Dresner Levy Foundation, United Jewish Foundation.
- Where is Marvin and Betty Danto Family Foundation based?
- Marvin and Betty Danto Family Foundation is based in MI.
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