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The Daniels Family Foundation at a glance

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The Daniels 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.

$297k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$120k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$414kEnvironment$397kHealth$146kArts & Culture$56kAnimals$25kPublic Safety & Disaster$11kCommunity Improvement$9kFood & Nutrition$500Other$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $152k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $120k
$10,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$20M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BRIGHTS CREEK CONSERVANCY$120,000
CORAL RESTORATION FOUNDATION$30,000
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYVANIA$30,000
MOORE COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN$26,000
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS$26,000
GEISINGER HEALTH FOUNDATION$10,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION$10,000
NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION$10,000
THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA$10,000
THE BUCK HILL CONSERVATION FOUNDATION$6,000
WOODFORD CEDAR RUN WILDLIFE$5,000
DESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN$5,000
TROUT UNLIMITED$3,000
THE BARRETT TOWNSHIP VOLUNTEER FIRE$3,000
WILD SALMON CENTER$3,000
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 (FY18–18, $100) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $100 → 14%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

WA
NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
CA
VA
MD
AZ
AR
DC
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$917k · 13 repeat orgs$142k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
10

Total granted

$917k
$82k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+9%

Still filing today

69%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentHealthArts & CultureAnimalsHuman ServicesEducationOther
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

  • MC
    MOORE COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN
    6× · 2020–2025 · $233k · revenue +68%
  • BC
    BRIGHT'S CREEK CONSERVANCY INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $180k · revenue +174% · 32% of their budget
  • TC
    THE CORAL RESTORATION FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2021–2025 · $134k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • VM
    VETERANS MEMORIAL MUSEUMgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue +37%
  • CV
    CHEHALIS VETERANS MEMORIAL MUSEUM
    one grant, 2024 · $26k
  • ST
    SEA TURTLE INC
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue -9%
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
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
2
Denver Zoological Foundation

Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.

Animals
3
Hawk Mountain Sanctuary Association

Hawk mountain sanctuary association's mission is to conserve birds of prey worldwide by providing leadership in raptor conservation science and education, and by maintaining hawk mountain sanctuary as a model observation, research, and…

Animals
4
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
5
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Inc

We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…

Environment
6
The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia

The mission is "to understand the natural world and inspire everyone to care for it." the academy implements its mission through understanding the diversity of life; developing and applying science to protect the environment; and informing…

Science & Tech
7
Archbold Expeditions Inc

Archbold expeditions, inc.'s mission is to build and share the scientific knowledge needed to protect the life, lands, and waters of the heart of florida and beyond.

Unclassified
8
Ocean Conservancy

Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.

Environment
9
Swan Valley Connections

Maintain the swan valley's unique natural resources and ensure that a vibrant human community can sustain itself through stewardship, education, economic viability, and conservation on public and private lands.

Environment
10
The Peregrine Fund Inc

To change the future for nature and humanity by conserving birds of prey worldwide.

—
11
The Conservancy of Southwest Florida

We are a grassroots organization focused on the critical environmental issues of sw florida. we accomplish this through a myriad of efforts by the teams in our programmatic departments: science, policy, education and wildlife…

—
12
The Wildlife Society

The wildlife society's mission is to inspire, empower, and enable wildlife professionals to sustain wildlife populations and habitats through science-based management and conservation.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Park Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Moore College of Art and Design. 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

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 28 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)
20/20
Grantees still filing
12/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BRIGHT'S CREEK CONSERVANCY INC: $180,000 · EnvironmentBRIGHT'S CREEK CONSERVANCY INCTHE CORAL RESTORATION FOUNDATION INC: $133,500 · EnvironmentTHE CORAL RESTORATION FOUNDATION INCThe Buck Hill Conservation Foundation: $30,700 · EnvironmentThe Buck Hill Conservation Foundation+2 more: $10,000 · EnvironmentUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS: $151,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSET…UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYVANIA: $30,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF PENNSYVANIACHEHALIS VETERANS MEMORIAL MUSEUM: $26,000 · OtherCHEHALIS VETERANS MEMORIA…NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherBARRETT TOWNSHIP: $9,000 · OtherTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF: $8,500 · Other+4 more: $1,450 · OtherMOORE COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN: $232,500 · EducationMOORE COLLEGE OF ART AND…PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $110,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENT…THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $17,000 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S…GEISINGER HEALTH: $10,000 · HealthGEISINGER HEAL…VETERANS MEMORIAL MUSEUM: $30,000 · Arts & CultureSEA TURTLE INC: $20,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $100 · Arts & CultureTROUT UNLIMITED INC: $20,000 · AnimalsWILD SALMON CENTER: $13,000 · AnimalsWOODFORD CEDAR RUN WILDLIFE REFUGE: $5,000 · AnimalsBARRETT TOWNSHIP VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY: $11,000 · Public Safety & DisasterAARP FOUNDATION: $100 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $100 · Human Services
Environment$354,200Other$235,950Education$232,500Health$137,000Arts & Culture$50,100Animals$38,000Public Safety & Disaster$11,000Human Services$200

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 budgetMOORE COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN: $232,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetBRIGHT'S CREEK CONSERVANCY INC: $180,000 over 5y, 32% of budgetTHE CORAL RESTORATION FOUNDATION INC: $133,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $110,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Buck Hill Conservation Foundation: $30,700 over 7y, 9.9% of budgetVETERANS MEMORIAL MUSEUM: $30,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetTROUT UNLIMITED INC: $20,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSEA TURTLE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $17,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWILD SALMON CENTER: $13,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBARRETT TOWNSHIP VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY: $11,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOODFORD CEDAR RUN WILDLIFE REFUGE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDESERT BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOLEBURY SCHOOL: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAARP FOUNDATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARIZONA-SONORA DESERT MUSEUM: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $100 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.

Vanguard Charitable E…American Endowment Fo…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA9.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 49%
  • Wild Salmon Center: 49% of income from government
  • The Coral Restoration Foundation Inc: 16% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 28 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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The endowment market
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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