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The Dansko Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Dansko Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$28k
Granted FY2024still arriving
24
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2024.

Human Services$103kYouth Development$99kHealth$89kHousing & Shelter$43kEducation$36kAnimals$26kFood & Nutrition$20kEmployment$18kOther$0
02FY2024 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$393
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN RED CROSS$6,125
NEW LONDON COUNSELING CENTER$4,000
BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA$3,625
AVON GROVE EDUCATION FOUNDATION$3,000
PAWS FOR LIFE$3,000
YMCA OF GREATER BRANDYWINE$2,419
ST JUDE'S CHILDREN HOSPITAL$1,405
OXFORD NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES$956
Individual grant recipient$642
OXFORD MUSIC BOOSTERS$564
STROUD RESEARCH CENTER$403
MARC VETTORI OXFORD NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES FOOD PANTRY$393
BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA TROOP 87$289
WREATHS ACROSS AMERICA$239
SPECIAL OLYMPICS$146
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 (FY17–24, $124k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 11% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS-TRI COUNTY CHAPTER: $9k → 11%SONSHINE CHILDREN'S CENTER: $266 → 29%FEDERATION EARLY LEARNING SERVICES: $4k → 22%AMERICAN RED CROSS-TRI COUNTY CHAPTER: $500 → 11%WILMINGTON SENIOR CENTER INC: $298 → 10%SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY DAY CARE ASSOCIATION: $900 → 6%SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY DAY CARE ASSOCIATION: $500 → 6%PAWS FOR PEOPLE: $700 → 10%YMCA OF GREATER BRANDYWINE: $6k → 6%YMCA OF GREATER BRANDYWINE: $2k → 6%CANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE: $1k → 6%CANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE: $273 → 6%OPERATION WARM: $1k → 6%OPERATION WARM: $840 → 6%YMCA OF GREATER BRANDYWINE: $8k → 6%YMCA OF GREATER BRANDYWINE: $4k → 6%YMCA OF GREATER BRANDYWINE: $3k → 6%WEST GROVE AREA DAY CARE CENTER INC: $270 → 6%KENNETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVICE: $7k → 6%YOUNG MOMS: $5k → 6%YOUNG MOMS: $5k → 6%KENETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVICE: $5k → 6%YOUNGMOMS: $5k → 6%YOUNGMOMS: $3k → 6%FAMILY PROMISE OF SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY: $3k → 6%FAMILY PROMISE OF SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY: $3k → 6%GOOD NEIGHBORS INC: $3k → 6%KENNETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVICE: $3k → 6%LA COMUNIDAD HISPANA: $2k → 6%FAMILY PROMISE OF SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY: $2k → 6%LA COMUNIDAD HISPANA INC: $2k → 6%GOOD NEIGHBORS INC: $2k → 6%GOOD NEIGHBORS INC: $1k → 6%LA COMUNIDAD HISPANA INC: $1k → 6%YOUNGMOMS: $1k → 6%KENNETT AREA SENIOR CENTER: $1k → 6%MEALS ON WHEELS OF CHESTER COUNTY: $3k → 6%MEALS ON WHEELS OF CHESTER COUNTY: $2k → 6%MEALS ON WHEELS OF CHESTER COUNTY INC: $1k → 6%OXFORD AREA NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES CENTER: $6k → 6%OXFORD AREA NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES CENTER INC: $5k → 6%OXFORD AREA SENIOR CENTER: $2k → 6%WINGS FOR SUCCESS: $3k → 6%WINGS FOR SUCCESS INC: $2k → 6%WINGS FOR SUCCESS: $2k → 6%MOM'S HOUSE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $1k → 6%HANDI-CRAFTERS INC: $1k → 6%HANDI-CRAFTERS: $700 → 6%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

ME
IL
NY
MA
PA
CA
CO
KY
VA
MD
DE
TN
NC
DC
TX
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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$377k · 66 repeat orgs$122k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

66 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2024, 50 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

66
82

Total granted

$377k
$117k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+17%

Still filing today

79%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesAnimalsHealthEducationFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • YO
    YMCA OF GREATER BRANDYWINE
    5× · 2017–2024 · $24k · revenue +4%
  • Y
    YOUNGMOMS
    5× · 2017–2023 · $19k · revenue +102%
  • KA
    KENNETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVICE
    4× · 2019–2023 · $15k · revenue +230%

Funded once

  • OW
    OXFORD WRESTLING ALLIANCE
    one grant, 2022 · $17k
  • OA
    OXFORD AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT OHS BASEBALL
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • TT
    TWO TEN FOOTWEAR FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -19%
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
Philadelphia Animal Welfare Society

Dedicated to saving philadelphias homeless and at-risk pets through rescue, adoption, and provision of veterinary care and other pet owner support services.

Animals
2
Humane Pennsylvania Foundation

To encourage and motivate the making of gifts and donations by deed, will, or otherwise, for the advancement, promotion, extension, and maintenance of the various causes and objectives fostered by the humane pennsylvania.

Animals
3
Cumberland Valley Animal Shelter Inc

Provide shelter for homeless animals and prevent animal cruelty

Animals
4
Lycoming County Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

Full-service animal shelter, animal care, adoptive services, humane investigaation services and humane education.

Animals
5
Wayne County Humane Society

Finding committed, permanent homes for companion animals in our community; measurably reducing companion animal overpopulation; educating and promoting humane values.

Animals
6
Children's Aid Society of Mercer County

To provide information, counseling, and such services as may be appropriate to families or others in raising and nuturing children.

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7
Central Pennsylvania Humane Society

To prevent animal neglect and cruelty through education and enforcement while providing a safe haven and finding forever homes for those in need.

Animals
8
Pennsylvania Veterinary Foundation

The mission of animal care pa is to help caring people help animals by bridging the gap through our animal welfare initiatives that feed, care and educate.

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9
Keystone Hospice

Providing comprehensive home-based and facility based hospice care to children and adults with life limiting and life threatening illnesses in southeastern pennsylvania. in addition, keystone hospice provides residential care through…

Human Services
10
Berks Community Health Center

Berks community health center provides exceptional family-centered primary and preventive healthcare for all residents of berks county, regardless of economic status.

Health
11
Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…

Food & Nutrition
12
Montco Anti-Hunger Network

By leading coordinated action, montco anti-hunger network strengthens the food security safety net system in montgomery county, pa, working to end hunger in montgomery county.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Philadelphia Delaware and Susquehanna Valley; the most unlike its peers is Sonshine Children Center Inc. 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

99 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 99 of the 157 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
31
Early backer (in before they grew)
94/99
Grantees still filing
76/99
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OXFORD WRESTLING ALLIANCE: $16,500 · OtherOXFORD WRESTLING ALLIANCEOXFORD NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES: $15,411 · OtherOXFORD NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICESNEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES: $13,547 · OtherNEIGHBORHOOD SERVICESOXFORD AREA SCHOOL DISTRICT OHS BASEBALL: $10,100 · OtherGARAGE AND COMMUNITY YOUTH CENTER: $9,818 · OtherBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA CHESTER COUNTY COUNCIL: $7,475 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER DELAWARE INC: $6,914 · OtherSTROUD WATER RESEARCH CENTER: $8,511 · Other+89 more: $114,702 · Other+89 moreYMCA OF GREATER BRANDYWINE: $23,649 · Human ServicesYMCA OF GREATER BRANDYWINEYOUNGMOMS: $19,087 · Human ServicesYOUNGMOMSKENNETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVICE: $14,800 · Human ServicesKENNETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVI…OXFORD AREA NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES CENTER INC: $10,625 · Human ServicesOXFORD AREA NEIGHBORHOOD SER…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $9,288 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross …FAMILY PROMISE OF SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY: $7,300 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMISE OF SOUTHERN C…MEALS ON WHEELS OF CHESTER COUNTY: $6,425 · Human ServicesWings for Success Inc: $6,050 · Human ServicesGOOD NEIGHBORS INC: $5,300 · Human ServicesLCH Health and Community Services: $4,500 · Human Services+13 more: $17,559 · Human Services+13 moreCHESTER COUNTY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $50,000 · HealthCHESTER COUNTY …NEW LONDON COUNSELING CENTER: $7,200 · HealthNEW LONDON COUN…CAMP DREAMCATCHER: $5,014 · HealthCAMP DREAMCATCH…BENEVOLENT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $3,082 · Health+6 more: $4,428 · Health+6 moreTHE GARAGE COMMUNITY & YOUTH CENTER: $13,149 · EducationTHE GARAGE …CHESTER COUNTY FUTURES INC: $9,597 · EducationCHESTER COU…AVON GROVE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $6,800 · EducationAVON GROVE …KENNETT EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $5,625 · EducationKENNETT EDU…MIGHTY WRITERS: $4,700 · EducationMIGHTY WRIT…Oxford Educational Foundation: $3,250 · EducationOxford Educ…THE ALLIANCE FOR HEALTH EQUITY: $3,095 · EducationTHE ALLIANC…KENNETT AFTER-SCHOOL ASSOCIATION: $3,000 · EducationKENNETT AFT…+2 more: $1,047 · EducationTRI-STATE BIRD RESCUE AND RESEARCH INC: $7,710 · AnimalsHOUSE OF HOPE ANIMAL RESCUE INC: $4,552 · AnimalsBRANDYWINE VALLEY SPCA: $3,570 · AnimalsPAWS FOR LIFE INC: $3,000 · AnimalsGREENMORE FARM ANIMAL RESCUE INC: $1,615 · AnimalsANGELS RETREAT: $1,000 · AnimalsCOMPANIMALS PET RESCUE INC: $819 · Animals+5 more: $406 · AnimalsCHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK: $11,468 · Food & NutritionPENNSYLVANIA HOME OF THE SPARROW: $5,400 · Food & NutritionWEST CHESTER FOOD CUPBOARD: $1,200 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $100 · Food & NutritionTWO TEN FOOTWEAR FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Community Improvement
Other$202,978Human Services$124,583Health$69,724Education$50,263Animals$22,672Food & Nutrition$18,168Community Improvement$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHESTER COUNTY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetYMCA OF GREATER BRANDYWINE: $23,649 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNGMOMS: $19,087 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetKENNETT AREA COMMUNITY SERVICE: $14,800 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE GARAGE COMMUNITY & YOUTH CENTER: $13,149 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetCHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK: $11,468 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetOXFORD AREA NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES CENTER INC: $10,625 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTWO TEN FOOTWEAR FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHESTER COUNTY FUTURES INC: $9,597 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $9,288 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSTROUD WATER RESEARCH CENTER: $8,511 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTRI-STATE BIRD RESCUE AND RESEARCH INC: $7,710 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA CHESTER COUNTY COUNCIL: $7,475 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF SOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY: $7,300 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetNEW LONDON COUNSELING CENTER: $7,200 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER DELAWARE INC: $6,914 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetAVON GROVE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $6,800 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF CHESTER COUNTY: $6,425 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetWings for Success Inc: $6,050 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetOXFORD MAINSTREET INC: $5,788 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetKENNETT EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $5,625 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA HOME OF THE SPARROW: $5,400 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGOOD NEIGHBORS INC: $5,300 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCAMP DREAMCATCHER: $5,014 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetMIGHTY WRITERS: $4,700 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF CHESTER COUNTY: $4,641 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHOUSE OF HOPE ANIMAL RESCUE INC: $4,552 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetLCH Health and Community Services: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC: $4,282 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE YOUTH MINISTRIES INC: $3,700 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHousing Partnership of Chester County Inc: $3,650 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFEDERATION DAY CARE SERVICES D/B/A FEDERATION EARLY LEARNING SERVICES: $3,589 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRANDYWINE VALLEY SPCA: $3,570 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOxford Educational Foundation: $3,250 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetTHE ALLIANCE FOR HEALTH EQUITY: $3,095 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBENEVOLENT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $3,082 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKENNETT AFTER-SCHOOL ASSOCIATION: $3,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetPAWS FOR LIFE INC: $3,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetSOUTHERN LANCASTER COUNTY COMMUNITY FAIR ASSOCIATION: $2,842 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetOperation Warm Inc: $2,190 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOXFORD SENIOR CENTER INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHANDI-CRAFTERS INC: $1,700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREENMORE FARM ANIMAL RESCUE INC: $1,615 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF PHILADELPHIA DELAWARE AND SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,455 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN CHESTER COUNTY DAY CARE ASSOCIATION: $1,400 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMOM'S HOUSE INC OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $1,350 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWEST CHESTER FOOD CUPBOARD: $1,200 over 1y, 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.

Chester County Commun…United Way of Chester…The Oxford Area Found…Cabot-Kjellerup Found…United Way of Souther…Wsfs Cares FoundationConnelly FoundationW W Smith Charitable …The Philadelphia Foun…The Gordon Charter Fo…Chester County Food B…Agilent Technologies …
Chester County Community FoundationPA80.8× affinity38 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Chester County Community Foundation · United Way of Chester County Inc · The Oxford Area Foundation · Cabot-Kjellerup Foundation · United Way of Southern Chester County · Wsfs Cares Foundation · Connelly Foundation · W W Smith Charitable Trust · The Philadelphia Foundation · The Gordon Charter Foundation · Chester County Food Bank · Agilent Technologies 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 Dansko Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Dansko Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Reach Riverside Development Corp: 100% of income from government
  • Tri-State Bird Rescue and Research Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
28report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Dansko Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Dansko Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 157 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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