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.

Dun Foundation

Dun Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Dun Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$470k

Granted FY2025still arriving

103

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$45k

Largest

01What it funds

0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Recreation & Sports$653kAnimals$484kEnvironment$374kHealth$111kEducation$108kYouth Development$88kArts & Culture$71kPhilanthropy$38kOther$0

02FY2025 · 103 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k87 grants · $173k
$10k–50k16 grants · $297k

$1,873

Median grant

States reached

$2.0M

Total assets

Largest grants
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
NATIONAL STEEPLECHASE MUSEUM	$10,000
NATIONAL BEAGLE CLUB OF AMERICA	$10,000
Individual grant recipient	$10,000

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 (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 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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.0M · 125 repeat orgs$184k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +18% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

125

Total granted

$2.0M

$138k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%

+18%

Still filing today

68%

54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentAnimalsRecreation & SportsHealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesOther

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

WI
Washington International Horse Show
7× · 2019–2025 · $140k · revenue +10%
TN
THE NATIONAL SPORTING LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
7× · 2019–2025 · $119k · revenue +24%
UC
UPPERVILLE COLT & HORSE SHOW INC
7× · 2019–2025 · $94k · revenue +43%

Funded once

RM
ROCKY MOUNTAIN ELK FOUNDAITON
one grant, 2020 · $20k
FC
FULL CIRCLE ALLIANCE INC
one grant, 2023 · $6k
CS
CONGRESSIONAL SPORTSMEN'S FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +34%

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.

American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign

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…

Animals

American Humane Association

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…

Animals

Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership Inc

To guarantee all americans quality places to hunt and fish.

Animals

Animal Wellness Action

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.

Human Services

New River Land Trust

To conserve the rural, natural, and cultural heritage of the new river region, protecting farms, forests, open spaces, and historic places.

Environment

Conservation Farms & Ranches

Preserving and enhancing the habitat of wildlife, such as sandhill cranes, waterfowl, raptors, which habitat expenses are supported by agricultural activities.

Housing & Shelter

Montana Wildlife Federation

The montana wildlife federation is a statewide conservation organization dedicated to protecting wildlife, wildlife habitat, and public access for outdoor recreation.

Animals

Cascadia Wildlands

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…

Environment

Humane World Action Fund

To pass animal protection laws, educate the public, and support humane candidates for office.

Animals

Colorado Open Lands

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.

Environment

Animal Outlook Inc

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.

Animals

Wildlands Trust Inc

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…

Environment

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee; 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.

04the grantee network

148 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. 148 of the 241 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)

148/148

Grantees still filing

98/148

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,079,054Recreation & Sports$359,961Environment$256,929Education$219,056Human Services$131,100Health$98,500Animals$66,948

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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.

The Luminescence Foundation IncVA53.3× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Dun Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dun Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

12get no government money at all

23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Dun Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Dun Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

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The endowment market

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The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home