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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.

$130k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
15
Grants FY2025
15
Organizations funded FY2024
13%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$30,000
Organizations funded a year
12 to 15
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$1.7M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Cynthia Ann Dunn Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24
AnimalsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving15$130k0%
FY202415$98k13%
FY202315$117k7%
FY202214$121k14%
FY202112$115k0%
FY202013$116kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Animals$683kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Lange Foundation$181,76061%
The Nature of Wildworks$102,070511%
Canine Crusaders$59,8086n/a
Best Friends Animal Society$46,00060%
Friends of la Animal Shelters$45,06258%
Los Angeles Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals$32,00040%
Country Road Animal Rescue$29,00069%
Pet Adoption Fund$24,00060%
Hand in Paw$23,5006n/a
The Amanda Foundation$23,50060%
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All grantees of Cynthia Ann Dunn Charitable Trust by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Lange Foundation$181,76061%
The Nature of Wildworks$102,070511%
Canine Crusaders$59,8086n/a
Best Friends Animal Society$46,00060%
Friends of la Animal Shelters$45,06258%
Los Angeles Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals$32,00040%
Country Road Animal Rescue$29,00069%
Pet Adoption Fund$24,00060%
Hand in Paw$23,5006n/a
The Amanda Foundation$23,50060%
American Lab Rescue Inc$20,98262%
Paws for Life K9 Rescue$15,00020%
Perfect Pet Rescue$12,50043%
Forte Animal Rescue$11,00043%
Wags and Walks$9,18020%
Friends of Wilshire the Fire Dog$6,0001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($55k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Cynthia Ann Dunn Charitable Trust supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLange Foundation: $181,760 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetThe Nature of Wildworks: $102,070 over 5y, 11% of budgetBest Friends Animal Society: $46,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of la Animal Shelters: $45,062 over 5y, 7.9% of budgetLos Angeles Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $32,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCountry Road Animal Rescue: $29,000 over 6y, 8.6% of budgetPet Adoption Fund: $24,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetThe Amanda Foundation: $23,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican Lab Rescue Inc: $20,982 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetPaws for Life K9 Rescue: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPerfect Pet Rescue: $12,500 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetForte Animal Rescue: $11,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetWags and Walks: $9,180 over 2y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 13.

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.

Mary Jo and Hank Greenberg Animal Welfare FoundationCA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Cynthia Ann Dunn Charitable Trust

How much does Cynthia Ann Dunn Charitable Trust give?
Cynthia Ann Dunn Charitable Trust reported 15 grants totaling $130,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 15 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Cynthia Ann Dunn Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (98%).
Who are Cynthia Ann Dunn Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Lange Foundation ($182k), The Nature of Wildworks ($102k), Canine Crusaders ($60k).
Does Cynthia Ann Dunn Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Cynthia Ann Dunn Charitable Trust 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 Cynthia Ann Dunn Charitable Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Mary Jo and Hank Greenberg Animal Welfare Foundation, California Community Foundation, Paypal Charitable Giving Fund.
Where is Cynthia Ann Dunn Charitable Trust based?
Cynthia Ann Dunn Charitable Trust is based in OH.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 18 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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