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.
Latest News
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...
Continuing a Decade-Long Support for Quality Health and Education in Nigeria
The TY Danjuma Foundation has in the last 10 years given over 3 billion naira in grants to promote quality health care and education across states in Nigeria. In 2020, the Foundation has...
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,...
TY Danjuma Foundation Disburse Grants to Fund Health and Education Projects
The TY Danjuma Foundation has awarded the sum of One Hundred and Ninety-Seven Million Naira in grants to fund 24 projects in Health and Education across Nigeria. Gima Forje, the Acting Chief...
TY Danjuma Foundation to Unveil Projects for 2019 Grants Year
The TY Danjuma Foundation is set to unveil its grantees and projects that will be implemented across States in Nigeria in the 2019 grant cycle on February 6, 2019. On this day, the Foundation will...
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