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Dun Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k87 grants · $173k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $297k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YOUTH VILLAGES JANIE'S FUND | $44,500 |
| GLENWOOD PARK TRUST | $34,796 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| THE NATIONAL SPORTING LIBRARY | $25,000 |
| WASHINGTON INTERNATIONAL HORSE SHOW | $20,000 |
| ROCKY MOUNTAIN ELK FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| DUCKS UNLIMITED | $20,000 |
| PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL | $17,500 |
| ELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION | $13,000 |
| THE HILL SCHOOL | $11,000 |
| UPPERVILLE COLT & HORSE SHOW | $10,600 |
| BULL RUN MOUNTAIN CONSERVANCY | $10,331 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| NATIONAL BEAGLE CLUB OF AMERICA | $10,000 |
| INSTITUTE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $93k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 95% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
125 repeat relationships — 79 still active in FY2025, 46 since wound down; 23 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k 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
- WIWashington International Horse Show7× · 2019–2025 · $140k · revenue +10%
- TNTHE NATIONAL SPORTING LIBRARY AND MUSEUM7× · 2019–2025 · $119k · revenue +24%
- UCUPPERVILLE COLT & HORSE SHOW INC7× · 2019–2025 · $94k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- RMROCKY MOUNTAIN ELK FOUNDAITONone grant, 2020 · $20k
- FCFULL CIRCLE ALLIANCE INCone grant, 2023 · $6k
- CSCONGRESSIONAL SPORTSMEN'S FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +34%
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.
The american wild horse campaign is the nation's leading conservation organization dedicated to preserving the freedom and habitat of wild horses and burros. through its initiatives in advocacy, conservation, land preservation, and legal…
Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…
To guarantee all americans quality places to hunt and fish.
To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.
To conserve the rural, natural, and cultural heritage of the new river region, protecting farms, forests, open spaces, and historic places.
Preserving and enhancing the habitat of wildlife, such as sandhill cranes, waterfowl, raptors, which habitat expenses are supported by agricultural activities.
The montana wildlife federation is a statewide conservation organization dedicated to protecting wildlife, wildlife habitat, and public access for outdoor recreation.
Cascadia wildlands defends and restores cacasia's wild ecosystems in the forests,in the courts, and in the streets. we envision vast old-growth forests, rivers full of wild salmon, wolves howling in the backcountry, a stable climate, and…
To pass animal protection laws, educate the public, and support humane candidates for office.
Colorado open lands' mission is to preserve the significant open lands and natural heritage of colorado through private and public partnerships, innovative land conservation, and strategic leadership.
Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.
The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee and the most unlike its peers is Citizens for Fauquier County. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
148 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. 148 of the 241 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 Washington International Horse Show ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL SPORTING LIBRARY AND MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds UPPERVILLE COLT & HORSE SHOW INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH VILLAGES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GLENWOOD PARK TRUST ↗
- Who funds MIDDLEBURG SPRING RACE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Hollywood Schoolhouse Inc ↗
- Who funds BULL RUN MOUNTAINS CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds ELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE PIEDMONT ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Mercy Medical Angels ↗
- Who funds MORVEN PARK INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE WILDLIFE CENTER ↗
- Who funds EAGLE VALLEY LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds MOC BEAGLES INC ↗
- Who funds THE HILL SCHOOL CORPORATION OF MIDDLEBURG ↗
- Who funds THE ELIZABETH TAYLOR AIDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA POINT TO POINT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TEMPLE GWATHMEY STEEPLECHASE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL BEAGLE CLUB OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds WINDY HILL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL STEEPLECHASE MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds SHENANDOAH NATIONAL PARK TRUST ↗
- Who funds LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GOOSE CREEK ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds EAGLE RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds THE INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: The Luminescence Foundation Inc · William M Backer Foundation Inc · Wise Foundation · Fauquier Health Foundation Dba the Path Foundation · Awa Family Foundation · MRC Full Circle Foundation · The Van Metre Family Foundation Inc · Northern Piedmont Community Foundation · Frank Mangano Foundation · Monomoy Fund Inc · Msa Family Fund · McGraw 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 Dun Foundation 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.
- Vermont Land Trust Inc — 42% of income from government
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.
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