Oregon · Private foundation
The Denovo Initiative
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.
- $911k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2024
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $35,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $125,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 14
- FY2022 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 10
- Total assets, FY2024
- $19M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations The Denovo Initiative funded were first-time grantees, receiving 43% of its grant dollars.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 21 | $911k | 57% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $605k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $568k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 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, FY2022 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Women Make Movies Inc | $253,049 | 3 | 1% |
| International Documentary Foundation Inc | $212,324 | 2 | 1% |
| Incite Productions Inc | $200,500 | 3 | n/a |
| The Film Collaborative Inc | $179,740 | 3 | 1% |
| The Center for Independent Documentary Inc | $134,212 | 3 | 1% |
| Cinema Tropical Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 32% |
| Points North Institute | $100,000 | 2 | 3% |
| C Me Grow Inc | $90,000 | 3 | 20% |
| Sundance Institute | $85,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Link Global | $75,000 | 2 | 1% |
Show all 28 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($231k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Denovo Initiative supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 26 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Catapult Film Fund · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Chicken & Egg Films Inc · Perspective Media Initiatives Inc · The Ford Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Cinereach Ltd · Inmaat Foundation · Academy Foundation · The Oregon Community Foundation · California Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc
How this is measured
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Find your warmest path to The Denovo Initiative 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.
About The Denovo Initiative
- How much does The Denovo Initiative give?
- The Denovo Initiative reported 21 grants totaling $911,393 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 14 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2023.
- What does The Denovo Initiative fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (92%), Health (4%), International (4%).
- Who are The Denovo Initiative's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2022 to FY2024: Women Make Movies Inc ($253k), International Documentary Foundation Inc ($212k), Incite Productions Inc ($201k).
- Does The Denovo Initiative fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Denovo Initiative 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 Denovo Initiative?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Catapult Film Fund, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Chicken & Egg Films Inc.
- Where is The Denovo Initiative based?
- The Denovo Initiative is based in OR.
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