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The Denali Foundation

Its FY2019 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$61k
Granted FY2019
7
Grants FY2019
7
Organizations funded FY2019
71%
First-time grantees FY2019
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Median grant, FY2019
$1,156
Largest grant, FY2019
$19,617
Organizations funded a year
7 to 27
FY2018 to FY2019
States reached, FY2019
2
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2019, 71% of the organizations The Denali Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 37% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20197$61k71%
FY201827$63kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2019.

Youth Development$67kRecreation & Sports$31kEnvironment$21kAnimals$3kHuman Services$2kPhilanthropy$605

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2019, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 17 grantees

Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($93k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Denali Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGather New Haven Inc (Formely New Haven Land Trust Inc): $15,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetNew England Mountain Bike Association Inc: $1,832 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWoonasquatucket River Watershed: $1,250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAngel Charities Inc: $1,156 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSolar Youth Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBurroughs Community Center Inc: $886 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetParadox Sports: $823 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGreenwave Organization Corp: $643 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Last Green Valley Inc the Last Green Valley Inc: $405 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOld Saybrook Land Trust Inc: $310 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetAvalonia Land Conservancy Inc: $290 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.

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 Pfizer Foundation IncNY18.7× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Patagoniaorg · Citizens Charitable Foundation · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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.

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About The Denali Foundation

How much does The Denali Foundation give?
The Denali Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $61,024 in its FY2019 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 27 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2019.
What does The Denali Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2019, its largest causes are Youth Development (54%), Recreation & Sports (25%), Environment (17%).
Who are The Denali Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2019: Gather New Haven Inc (Formely New Haven Land Trust Inc) ($15k), Ct Cycling Advancement Programinc ($2k), New England Mountain Bike Association Inc ($2k).
Does The Denali Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2019, 71% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Denali Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Denali Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Pfizer Foundation Inc, Patagoniaorg, Citizens Charitable Foundation.
Where is The Denali Foundation based?
The Denali Foundation is based in CT.

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 32 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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