Massachusetts · Private foundation
The Dana Home Foundation Inc
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.
- $322k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 23
- Grants FY2025
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 15%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $6,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 21
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.8M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 15% of the organizations The Dana Home Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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 | 23 | $322k | 22% |
| FY2024 | 20 | $302k | 15% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $273k | 29% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $303k | 35% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $232k | 29% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $206k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 18 | $216k | 33% |
| FY2018 | 17 | $224k | 29% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minuteman Senior Services Inc | $485,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Cooperative Elder Services Inc | $127,600 | 8 | 1% |
| Boston Area Gleaners Inc | $79,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Daoyin Health Society | $51,560 | 5 | 100% |
| Food Link Inc | $47,200 | 4 | 1% |
| Lexington Historical Society | $41,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Arc Massachusetts Inc | $36,967 | 4 | 1% |
| Lexington Symphony Inc | $33,650 | 5 | 3% |
| The Nature Connection Inc | $33,400 | 6 | 3% |
| Youville Place Inc | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 24 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 31 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Dana Home Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 20 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.
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How this is measured
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About The Dana Home Foundation Inc
- How much does The Dana Home Foundation Inc give?
- The Dana Home Foundation Inc reported 23 grants totaling $321,602 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 21 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Dana Home Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (35%), Health (23%), Housing & Shelter (11%).
- Who are The Dana Home Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Minuteman Senior Services Inc ($485k), Cooperative Elder Services Inc ($128k), Boston Area Gleaners Inc ($79k).
- Does The Dana Home Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Dana Home Foundation Inc 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 The Dana Home Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc, Eastern Bank Foundation.
- Where is The Dana Home Foundation Inc based?
- The Dana Home Foundation Inc is based in MA.
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