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The Denali Foundation

Its FY2019 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$61k
Granted FY2019
7
Grants FY2019
2
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
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What you funded, over time

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

Youth Development$67kRecreation & Sports$31kEnvironment$21kAnimals$3kHuman Services$2kPhilanthropy$605
02FY2019 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2019

  • Under $10k4 grants · $3k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $58k
$1,156
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BUSHY HILL NATURE CENTER$19,617
COMMON GROUND$19,000
Individual grant recipient$19,000
ANGEL CHARITIES$1,156
BURROUGHS COMMUNITY CENTER$886
KIDS IN THE CANYON$722
GREENWAVE$643
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–18, $823) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%PARADOX SPORTS: $823 → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Watertown Land Trust

Preservation of open space in watertown, ct; maintenance of owned and conserved properties and public education of enviromental issues.

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2
Kestrel Land Trust

Kestrel land trust conserves and cares for forests, farms, and riverways in the connecticut river valley of western massachusetts while nurturing an enduring love of the land

Environment
3
North Central Conservation District Inc

To provide leadership and take initiatives for locally led conservation with the goal to protect soil, water and other natural resources of north central connecticut.

Environment
4
Norwalk River Watershed Association Inc

To protect water quality and wildlife habitat in the seven-town Norwalk River Watershed

Environment
5
Massachusetts Outdoor Heritage Foundation Inc Attn Susan Sacco
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6
Save New Canaan Inc

Save New Canaan Inc. (the Corporation) was formed to promote sustainable and appropriate development, as well as to advocate for the protection of open spaces, wetlands and other public trust goods, such as road, water and sewer…

Environment
7
Kestrel Land Trust Inc

Kestrel land trust inc. conserves and cares for forests, farms, and riverways in the connecticut river valley of western massachusetts, while nurturing an enduring love of the land

Environment
8
Squannacook Greenways

Squannacook Greenways' goal is to build, maintain, and promote the Squannacook River Rail Trail (SRRT) as a source of recreation and safe non-motorized transportation. The Squannacook River Rail Trail is a proposed conversion of…

Recreation & Sports
9
Farmington Land Trust

The Farmington Land Trust Inc protects open space in the town of Farmington CT through the acquisition of open space, stewardship of acquired land, education of the public about the importance of open space and advocacy that ensures…

Environment
10
New London Greenwich Rail - Trail

To enhance the New London and Greenwich communities

Recreation & Sports
11
Groundwork Rhode Island

Groundwork rhode island (gwri) is a community-based organization helping build healthier, more resilient, and more equitable urban communities in rhode island by improving the physical environment and creating economic opportunities for…

Environment
12
Manchester Land Conservation Trust Inc

To engage in and otherwise promote the benefit of the general public the preservation and conservation of the natural resources in the greater manchester, connecticut area, including water resources, swamps, woodlands and other spaces, and…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Last Green Valley Inc the Last Green Valley Inc and the most unlike its peers is Angel Charities 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

16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 32 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
11/16
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

COMMON GROUND — $30,584 · OtherCOMMON GROUNDBUSHY HILL NATURE CENTER — $20,705 · OtherBUSHY HILL NATURE CENTERIndividual grant recipient — $19,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientNEW HAVEN PARK AND RECREATION — $4,000 · Other+12 more — $11,203 · Other+12 moreGATHER NEW HAVEN INC (FORMELY NEW HAVEN LAND TRUST INC) — $15,000 · EnvironmentGATHER NEW HAVEN…WOONASQUATUCKET RIVER WATERSHED — $1,250 · EnvironmentWOONASQUATUCKET …SOUTH KINGSTOWN LAND TRUST — $800 · Environment+3 more — $1,005 · Environment+3 moreCT CYCLING ADVANCEMENT PROGRAMINC — $2,211 · Recreation & SportsNEW ENGLAND MOUNTAIN BIKE ASSOCIATION INC — $1,832 · Recreation & SportsBURROUGHS COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $886 · Recreation & SportsA PLACE CALLED HOPE INC — $1,679 · AnimalsSOLAR YOUTH INC — $1,000 · EducationGREENWAVE ORGANIZATION CORP — $643 · EducationPARADOX SPORTS — $823 · Human ServicesUNITED WAY OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC — $605 · PhilanthropyWAKEMAN BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB CORP — $560 · Youth Development
Other$95,492Environment$18,055Recreation & Sports$4,929Animals$1,679Education$1,643Human Services$823Philanthropy$605Youth Development$560

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ your 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
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Pfizer Foundation…PatagoniaorgCitizens Charitable F…National Fish and Wil…The Chicago Community…The Bank of America C…Paypal Charitable Giv…American Online Givin…National Philanthropi…Fidelity Investments …Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…
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

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Denali Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 21%
  • The Last Green Valley Inc the Last Green Valley Inc — 72% of income from government
  • Old Saybrook Land Trust Inc — 56% of income from government
  • United Way of Greater New Haven Inc — 42% of income from government
  • Avalonia Land Conservancy Inc — 21% of income from government
  • Solar Youth Inc — 19% of income from government
  • Wakeman Boys and Girls Club Corp — 11% of income from government
  • Gather New Haven Inc (Formely New Haven Land Trust Inc) — 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 32 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines