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The Dancu Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Dancu 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.

$250k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$246k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Philanthropy$962kRecreation & Sports$494kReligion$173kPublic Safety & Disaster$94kFood & Nutrition$75kEducation$67kHuman Services$43kEnvironment$23kOther$0
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $246k
$245,525
Median grant
1
States reached
$8.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BIG SKY COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION$245,525
SPANISH PEAKS FOUNDATION$4,619
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–21, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%FERST READERS: $3k → 11%FERST READERS: $3k → 11%MEALS ON WHEELS - ATLANTA: $3k → 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.
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 100% of The Dancu Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 73% of the giving stays in GA; by stated purpose, 0%.

The Dancu Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 14 repeat orgs$151k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
19

Total granted

$1.8M
$151k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+27%

Still filing today

57%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentEducationHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterInternationalAnimalsOther
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

  • TC
    THE CHEROKEE EMPLOYEE SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $30k · revenue +264%
  • NP
    NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION
    2× · 2021–2022 · $8k · revenue +74%
  • FR
    FERST READERS INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $5k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • AC
    ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $69k · revenue +50%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $40k
  • CW
    CALVARY WOMEN'S SERVICES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +29%
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
Acfb Support Organization Inc

Acfb support organization, inc., is operated exclusively for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, or to carry out the purposes and/or activities of atlanta community food bank, inc., a georgia nonprofit corporation.

Food & Nutrition
2
The South Fork Conservancy Incorporated

The mission of the South Fork Conservancy is to restore and preserve habitat along the tributaries of Peachtree Creek. We give the community access to these healthy, restored greenspaces by designing, building and maintaining nature trails.

Environment
3
Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce Inc

The corporation is a voluntary association of individuals and organizations the purposes of which are to upgrade and advance the atlanta metropolitan area in population, commerce and finance; to effect civic and social improvements; to…

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4
Atlanta Fire Rescue Foundation

To elevate and support atlanta's growing fire and emergency response ecosystem by providing the funding, resources, and development necessary to enhance the personal and professional lives of atlanta firefighters.

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5
Community Farmers Markets Inc

To develop a local food infrastructure for long term sustainability and meaningful community impact and grow a diverse local food culture by maintaining an authentic space for all people to share community, fair food, and healthy…

Food & Nutrition
6
Food & Water Watch

Food & water watch conducts extensive research and public education to ensure the food and water we consume is safe, accessible and sustainably produced. so we can all enjoy and trust in what we eat and drink, we help people take charge of…

Food & Nutrition
7
Acfb Charitable Investments Inc

Acfb charitable investments, inc., is operated exclusively for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, or to carry out the purposes and/or activities of atlanta community food bank, inc., a georgia nonprofit corporation.

Food & Nutrition
8
Amazon Conservation Association

Amazon conservation unites science, people, and innovation to protect the amazon - the greatest wild forest on earth. as guardians of the most iconic forest on the planet, we bring together the power of the latest science and technology…

Environment
9
Eastern National

Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.

Recreation & Sports
10
The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc

Atlanta is #1 for income inequality in the nation. as such, the needs in our community are pressing and we need to move with the urgency of now to address those needs. the community foundation has unequivocally embraced equity as our #1…

Philanthropy
11
Florida Wildlife Corridor Foundation Inc

To champion a collaborative campaign to permanently connect, protect and restore the Florida Wildlife Corridor, a statewide network of lands and waters that supports wildlife and people. We combine conservation science with compelling…

Environment
12
African Parks Foundation of America

To engage the united states and its citizens in the work of african parks and to promote access to american experience and expertise in the african parks actiities by 1) raising funds for specific projects, activities, training, equipment…

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Community Food Bank Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Haven Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

19 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. 19 of the 33 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/19
Grantees still filing
12/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DONOR ADVISED FUND: $961,935 · OtherDONOR ADVISED FUNDCATHEDRAL OF ST PHILIPS: $172,500 · OtherCATHEDRAL OF ST PHILIPSCITY OF REFUGE - ATLANTA: $87,500 · OtherCITY OF REFUGE - ATLANTA+18 more: $139,691 · Other+18 moreBIG SKY COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION: $491,050 · EnvironmentBIG SKY COMMUNITY ORGANIZATI…+2 more: $10,000 · EnvironmentATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC: $68,500 · Food & NutritionTHE CHEROKEE EMPLOYEE SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · EducationATLANTA-FULTON PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 · EducationFERST READERS INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesMeals on Wheels Atlanta Inc: $2,500 · Human ServicesCALVARY WOMEN'S SERVICES INC: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE HAVEN INC: $1,500 · Housing & ShelterRAINFOREST TRUST: $5,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $1,500 · International
Other$1,361,626Environment$501,050Food & Nutrition$68,500Education$36,000Human Services$7,500Housing & Shelter$6,500International$6,500

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 budgetBIG SKY COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION: $491,050 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC: $68,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHEROKEE EMPLOYEE SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 4y, 6.1% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetATLANTA-FULTON PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetATLANTA POLICE FOUNDATION INC: $5,072 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFERST READERS INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCALVARY WOMEN'S SERVICES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRAINFOREST TRUST: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE URBAN FOREST: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHATTAHOOCHEE RIVERKEEPER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetChastain Park Conservancy Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMeals on Wheels Atlanta Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATO INSTITUTE: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HAVEN INC: $1,500 over 1y, 28% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFixGeorgiaPets Inc: $550 over 2y, 0.1% 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.

The Community Foundat…Community Foundation …National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…Network for GoodNatl Christian Charit…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …
The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta IncGA16.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Community Foundation of the Chattahoochee Valley Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 The Dancu Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Dancu Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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.

    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 33 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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