Virginia · Private foundation
Dun Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $470k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 103
- Grants FY2025
- 90
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 30%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,873
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $44,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 74 to 100
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 19
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.0M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 30% of the organizations Dun Foundation 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; $30k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 102 | $463k | 23% |
| FY2024 | 90 | $317k | 30% |
| FY2023 | 93 | $325k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 82 | $300k | 21% |
| FY2021 | 84 | $306k | 30% |
| FY2020 | 100 | $248k | 55% |
| FY2019 | 74 | $245k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Washington International Horse Show | $140,000 | 7 | 2% |
| The National Sporting Library and Museum | $119,206 | 7 | 1% |
| Upperville Colt & Horse Show Inc | $94,350 | 7 | 1% |
| Youth Villages Foundation Inc | $88,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Glenwood Park Trust | $78,260 | 7 | 18% |
| Middleburg Spring Race Association Inc | $59,506 | 6 | 5% |
| Hollywood Schoolhouse Inc | $52,250 | 6 | 0% |
| Bull Run Mountains Conservancy Inc | $50,675 | 7 | 6% |
| Elton John AIDS Foundation Inc | $46,500 | 5 | 0% |
| The Piedmont Environmental Council | $40,400 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 156 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 84 recipients with no EIN on record ($725k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Dun Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
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About Dun Foundation
- How much does Dun Foundation give?
- Dun Foundation reported 103 grants totaling $470,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 74 and 100 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Dun Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (29%), Animals (22%), Environment (17%).
- Who are Dun Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Washington International Horse Show ($140k), The National Sporting Library and Museum ($119k), Upperville Colt & Horse Show Inc ($94k).
- Does Dun Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Dun Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Dun Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Luminescence Foundation Inc, William M Backer Foundation Inc, Wise Foundation.
- Where is Dun Foundation based?
- Dun Foundation is based in VA.
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