· Private foundation
The Damien 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k16 grants · $62k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $21k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DENVER POLICE OFFICER'S FOUNDATION | $20,729 |
| COMMUNITY NEEDS AGENCY CHILLICOTHE | $9,000 |
| CHILLICOTHE PUBLIC LIBRARY | $7,000 |
| ST JUDE CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $7,000 |
| FRIENDSHIP PLACE | $5,000 |
| CATHOLIC DIOCES OF PEORIA | $5,000 |
| OUR LADY OF VICTORY SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| OUR LADY OF VICTORY CATHOLIC CHURCH | $4,000 |
| STANDING UP TO POTS | $3,365 |
| CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION | $3,364 |
| 2ND HAND RANCH | $2,729 |
| THE LORD'S DINER-CATHOLIC DIOCESE | $2,000 |
| DIOCESE OF WICHITA | $2,000 |
| GUADALUPE CLINIC INC | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–21, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +72% since the first grant, against +58% for those funded once.
38 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- DPDENVER POLICE BLUE HAT FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $163k · revenue +86%
- CNCommunity Needs of Chillicothe Illinois Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $63k · revenue +134%
- FPFriendship Place8× · 2017–2024 · $24k · revenue +104%
Funded once
- SEST EDWARDS CATHOLIC CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $6k
- PHPEORIA HUMANE SOCIETYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +138%
- DCDREAM CENTER OF PEORIA NFPgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +58%
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.
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.
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Nourishing hope provides food, mental health support, and social services to help all our neighbors thrive.
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The greater chicago food depository is the nonprofit food bank serving cook county. our mission - is to end hunger. we believe food is a basic human right. to achieve our mission, we work in partnership with a network of community-based…
To save lives & relieve suffering through health interventions & related activities that strengthen communities affected by conflict, natural disasters & disease outbreaks.
To improve and protect the health and welfare of the community in accordance with our mission, the mission of rockford health physicians is "exceptional health care services with a passion for making lives better." the foundation of this…
The organization's mission is to build partnerships to enhance compassionate care globally. we are dedicated to improving access to hospice and palliative care worldwide.
Provide affordable, high-quality health services and remove inequities to improve the lives of all.
How this is measured
20 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. 20 of the 47 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds DENVER POLICE BLUE HAT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Community Needs of Chillicothe Illinois Inc ↗
- Who funds Friendship Place ↗
- Who funds Guadalupe Clinic Inc ↗
- Who funds GREATER PEORIA HONOR FLIGHT ↗
- Who funds STANDING UP TO POTS INC ↗
- Who funds A R K Humane Society Ltd ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HEART OF ILLINOIS HARVEST ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL ROCKFORD COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds ROOM TO READ ↗
- Who funds PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds THE SHAKESPEARE THEATRE ↗
- Who funds FOR LOVE OF CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds PEORIA HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds DREAM CENTER OF PEORIA NFP ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
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: American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Damien Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Damien Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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