Massachusetts · Private foundation
The Dennis 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.
- $88k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2025
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $19,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 20 to 32
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations The Dennis Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 15 | $87k | 40% |
| FY2024 | 23 | $128k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 26 | $126k | 8% |
| FY2022 | 32 | $135k | 44% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $112k | 10% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $103k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Americans for Oxford Inc | $149,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Catalytic Impact Foundation Inc | $57,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Ensaaf | $56,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Disabled American Veterans (DAV) Charitable Service Trust | $55,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Patriot Paws Service Dogs | $27,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Blue Star Families Inc | $27,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Homes for Our Troops Inc | $27,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Casa Myrna Vazquez Inc | $27,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Roxbury Latin School | $25,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation | $25,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 38 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($42k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Dennis 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: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About The Dennis Family Foundation
- How much does The Dennis Family Foundation give?
- The Dennis Family Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $88,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 32 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Dennis Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (28%), Human Services (12%), Public Benefit (11%).
- Who are The Dennis Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Americans for Oxford Inc ($149k), Catalytic Impact Foundation Inc ($57k), Ensaaf ($56k).
- Does The Dennis Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Dennis 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 Dennis Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
- Where is The Dennis Family Foundation based?
- The Dennis Family Foundation is based in MA.
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