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.

Cynthia Ann Dunn Charitable Trust

Cynthia Ann Dunn Charitable Trust at a glance

· 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.

$130k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$30k

Largest

01What it funds

0196% 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

02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k9 grants · $38k
$10k–50k6 grants · $92k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.7M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
LANGE FOUNDATION	$30,000
THE NATURE OF WILDWORKS	$17,000
LOS ANGELES SPCA	$15,000
PAWS FOR LIFE - K9 RESCUE	$10,000
BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY	$10,000
CANINE CRUSADERS	$10,000
VOICE FOR THE ANIMAL FOUNDATION	$7,000
WAGS AND WALKS	$5,000
COUNTRY ROAD ANIMAL RESCUE	$5,000
AMANDA FOUNDATION	$4,000
Individual grant recipient	$4,000
PET ADOPTION FUND	$4,000
AMERICAN LAB RESCUE	$3,000
HAND IN PAW	$3,000
FORTE ANIMAL RESCUE	$3,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$690k · 17 repeat orgs$6k to everyone else

17 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$690k

$6k

Still filing today

76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

AnimalsHuman ServicesEnvironmentOther

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.

Backed again, and grew

TN
THE NATURE OF WILDWORKS
5× · 2020–2025 · $102k · revenue +64%
BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY
6× · 2020–2025 · $46k · revenue +39%
PA
PET ADOPTION FUND
6× · 2020–2025 · $24k · revenue +62%

Funded once

FO
FRIENDS OF WILSHIRE THE FIRE DOG
one grant, 2020 · $6k

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Paws and Claws Animal Shelter

Animals

Shelters and Shelves Rescue Inc

foster based dog rescue working with shelters to save dogs

Animals

The Adoptable Dog

Animals

J-Lo's Animal Rescue & Sanctuary in

Animal care and rescue

Animals

Donna's Love Pet Rescue

Animals

Raskels Rescue

Animals

Pets Without Partners

Find homes for homeless/abandoned dogs. Provide full vet car and housing while awaiting adoption,

Animals

Love & Paws Rescue Inc

Animal Rescue

Animals

Animal Rescue and Adoption Agency Inc

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.

Animals

California Animal Rescue Inc

Rescue and place homeless animals

Animals

Boardwalk Pet Rescue

Pet rescue

Animals

Jl Animal Rescue Inc

Animals

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Lab Rescue Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

13/14

Grantees still filing

4/14

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Animals$291,724Human Services$181,760Other$120,508Environment$102,070

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Cynthia Ann Dunn Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cynthia Ann Dunn Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

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The endowment market

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The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

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