Denike Family Foundation
Berkeley Heights, NJ · EIN 46-7466938. Reported 54 grants totalling $164,834 to 31 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Does this foundation accept applications?
Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Denike Family Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $2,500. Half of everything it gave fell between $1,000 and $5,000; the smallest was $250 and the largest $11,706. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The First Tee | Kenilworth, NJ | $24,559 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| GOLF4HER Foundation | Denville, NJ | $21,650 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Presbyterian Church at New Providence | New Providence, NJ | $20,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Covenant House | New York, NY | $18,598 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Cusp Foundation Inc | Brentwood, TN | $15,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| World Central Kitchen | Washington, DC | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Lifebox Foundation Inc | Boston, MA | $7,075 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| St Baldricks Foundation | Monrovia, CA | $6,362 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Special Friends Foundation Inc | Drexel Hill, PA | $5,700 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Sandy Hook Promise Foundation | Newtown, CT | $5,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Care | Atlanta, GA | $3,625 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Brooke Healey Foundation | New Providence, NJ | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Doctors Without Borders | New York, NY | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Our House Foundation Inc | Murray Hill, NJ | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Sunflower of Peace | Belmont, MA | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| City Harvest | Brooklyn, NY | $2,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Community Food Bank | Hillside, NJ | $2,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Hospital Albert Schweitzer | Pittsburgh, PA | $2,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Market Street Mission | Morristown, NJ | $2,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| National September 11 Memorial & Museum | New York, NY | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| NPR Network | Baltimore, MD | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Partners in Health | Boston, MA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Rebuilding Warriors | Norco, CA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Special Olympics | Washington, DC | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Bowery Mission | New York, NY | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Door | New York, NY | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Michael J Fox Foundation | New York, NY | $515 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Spur | Lincroft, NJ | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Connor G Foundation | Flemington, NJ | $250 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Metropolitian YMCA of the Oranges | Washington, DC | $250 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Rutgers University Foundation | New Brunswick, NJ | $250 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
15 of 31 (48%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.
Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 60%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
- The First Tee
Educational programs for youths. - Covenant House
Provide care and vital services to homeless, abandoned, abused and exploited kids. - Special Friends Foundation Inc
Serve families and individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. - Brooke Healey Foundation
Research for pediatric cancers - Our House Foundation Inc
Community based residences, employment services and recreational programs. - Doctors Without Borders
Provides emergency medical care for people affected by earthquakes.
What kind of organizations it funds
By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 28 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 5 | $18,796 | $2,575 |
| 2022 | 9 | $33,575 | $2,625 |
| 2023 | 26 | $60,910 | $1,000 |
| 2024 | 14 | $51,553 | $3,526 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Where its money goes
Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 47% of this one's giving went to organizations in New Jersey. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $2,500. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in New Jersey.
- Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
- Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Denike Family Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 25 Old Cannon Road, Berkeley Heights, NJ, 07922. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.
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