· Private foundation
Cynthia Ann Dunn Charitable Trust
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $92k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LANGE FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| THE NATURE OF WILDWORKS | $17,000 |
| LOS ANGELES SPCA | $15,000 |
| CANINE CRUSADERS | $10,000 |
| PAWS FOR LIFE - K9 RESCUE | $10,000 |
| BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| VOICE FOR THE ANIMAL FOUNDATION | $7,000 |
| COUNTRY ROAD ANIMAL RESCUE | $5,000 |
| WAGS AND WALKS | $5,000 |
| PET ADOPTION FUND | $4,000 |
| AMANDA FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| FORTE ANIMAL RESCUE | $3,000 |
| AMERICAN LAB RESCUE | $3,000 |
| HAND IN PAW | $3,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $182k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
17 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- TNTHE NATURE OF WILDWORKS5× · 2020–2025 · $102k · revenue +64%
BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY6× · 2020–2025 · $46k · revenue +39%- FOFRIENDS OF LA ANIMAL SHELTERS5× · 2020–2024 · $45k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF WILSHIRE THE FIRE DOGone grant, 2020 · $6k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
foster based dog rescue working with shelters to save dogs
Animal care and rescue
Find homes for homeless/abandoned dogs. Provide full vet car and housing while awaiting adoption,
Animal Rescue
An animal rescue/adoption Agency. Rescued animals are from kill shelters or owner surrenders facing hardship then rehabbed/medical completed while in foster care then adopted into loving homes.
Rescue and place homeless animals
Pet rescue
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Lab Rescue Inc and the most unlike its peers is Los Angeles Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 18 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds LANGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE OF WILDWORKS ↗
- Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF LA ANIMAL SHELTERS ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds COUNTRY ROAD ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds PET ADOPTION FUND ↗
- Who funds HAND IN PAW ↗
- Who funds THE AMANDA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LAB RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds PAWS FOR LIFE K9 RESCUE ↗
- Who funds PERFECT PET RESCUE ↗
- Who funds Forte Animal Rescue ↗
- Who funds Wags and Walks ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Mary Jo and Hank Greenberg Animal Welfare Foundation · California Community Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Cynthia Ann Dunn Charitable Trust funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.