Massachusetts · Private foundation
The Dau Family 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.
- $90k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 27
- Grants FY2024
- 29
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 29
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 12
- Total assets, FY2024
- $1.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 14% of the organizations The Dau Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 33% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 26 | $89k | 12% |
| FY2023 | 29 | $163k | 14% |
| FY2022 | 27 | $110k | 11% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $142k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 29 | $105k | 14% |
| FY2019 | 28 | $119k | 11% |
| FY2018 | 29 | $124k | 24% |
| FY2017 | 25 | $128k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Frick Collection | $141,935 | 8 | 0% |
| The Pierpont Morgan Library | $82,100 | 8 | 0% |
| Piping Rock Scholarship Fund Inc | $75,000 | 2 | 9% |
| Ocean Exploration Trust Inc | $67,647 | 1 | 1% |
| Green Vale School | $36,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Pilobolus Inc | $35,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory | $32,500 | 6 | 0% |
| New York City Center Inc | $31,380 | 7 | 0% |
| Miss Porter's School Inc | $30,500 | 7 | 0% |
| New York Yacht Club Foundation | $23,750 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 49 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($161k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Dau Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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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.
Open a dossier: The New York Community Trust · Hugh and Patricia Okane Foundation Co Hugh Okane · Ainslie Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Leland Deane Family Foundation · The Pamela Howard Family Foundation Inc · Rk Mellon Family Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
About The Dau Family Foundation
- How much does The Dau Family Foundation give?
- The Dau Family Foundation reported 27 grants totaling $89,750 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 29 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Dau Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (41%), Education (23%), Religion (14%).
- Who are The Dau Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Frick Collection ($142k), The Pierpont Morgan Library ($82k), Piping Rock Scholarship Fund Inc ($75k).
- Does The Dau Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Dau Family Foundation 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 Dau Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The New York Community Trust, Hugh and Patricia Okane Foundation Co Hugh Okane, Ainslie Foundation.
- Where is The Dau Family Foundation based?
- The Dau Family Foundation is based in MA.
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