OUR IMPACT
$41.5 Million
Awarded in Grants
Over 340 Projects
Implemented
Across 36 States
and the FCT
More than 10 Million
People reached
GRANTMAKING
Annual Grants
The Foundation supports initiatives across Nigeria by inviting NGOs to apply for funding to implement projects within its focus areas of Health and Education. Interventions under this grant can be implemented in any state in Nigeria.
Discretionary Grants
The Grant is administered all year-round to facilitate rapid response to people facing humanitarian emergencies in Nigeria and for interventions determined to be within the Foundation’s focus areas.
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COVID-19: Sustaining Access to Maternal & Child Health Services in Edo State
As part of efforts to promote and sustain access to quality and affordable health care services in Nigeria over the last ten years, the TY Danjuma Foundation has funded projects aimed at upgrading...
COVID-19: TY Danjuma Foundation Donates Relief Items to Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Wassa Resettlement, Abuja, FCT
The TY Danjuma Foundation, a private, independent philanthropic grant-making organisation established in 2009 by Lt. Gen. Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma (RTD), GCON – to improve the quality of life of...
Improving Quality Education through Community Engagement and Partnership
The TY Danjuma Foundation has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Dako LEA Primary School Community Based Management Committee and Gwagwalada Local Education Authority. The tripartite...
TY Danjuma Foundation commissions a community based emergency health transport in Niger State
A maternal, neonatal and child health project implementation by RaiSe Foundation with funding from the TY Danjuma Foundation has reached a milestone with the commissioning of the community based...
TY Danjuma Foundation Trains Over 100 NGOs in Nigeria
On Friday, March 22, 2019, the TY Danjuma Foundation, Nigeria’s first indigenous grantmaking Foundation, organised a one-day capacity building training for Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) in...
Providing Water for Health #World Water Day
Water is life. But dirty and contaminated water breeds death. The knowledge of the correlation between clean water and good health is probably many centuries old. In all honesty now, it is basic...
OBITUARY – Prof. Jean Frances Herskovits Corry (May 1935 – February 2019)
It is with regret and profound sadness that the TY Danjuma Foundation announces the death of one of its founding trustees – Prof. Jean Herskovits Corry who passed on February 5, 2019 in New York,...
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