· Private foundation
Dunagan Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $89k
- $250k+1 grant · $286k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIDELITY CHARITABLE DONOR ADVISED FUNDS | $286,400 |
| LOOKING GLASS THEATRE | $20,000 |
| SHATTERED GLOBE THEATRE | $20,000 |
| STEPPENWOLF THEATRE | $15,000 |
| PLAY FOR PINK | $14,360 |
| REMY BUMPO THEATRE COMPANY | $10,000 |
| SILENT SPRING INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| MAYO CLINIC | $9,940 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATIONSCHOOL OF ART & DESIGN | $7,000 |
| GULLIVER PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| ANGELS OF LIGHT | $3,250 |
| INNISFREE GARDEN | $2,500 |
| HORSE RESCUE REHAB AND RETIREMENT FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| THE WORTHY AND FRAN JOHNSON TRUST | $1,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $85k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 43% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +46% since the first grant, against +39% for the ones you funded once.
57 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 45 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- SSSILENT SPRING INSTITUTE INC7× · 2018–2024 · $220k · revenue +142%
- SGShattered Globe Theatre6× · 2018–2024 · $145k · revenue +104%
- PFPLAY FOR PINK INC7× · 2018–2024 · $107k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- TITHE ISLAND SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $100k
- LPLINCOLN PARK CONSERVANCYone grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue -44%
- UWUNITED WAY OF ST LOUISone grant, 2022 · $20k
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.
Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
The chicago theatre group is committed to producing both classic and contemporary works giving full voice to a wide range of artists and visions. by dedicating itself to three guiding principles - quality, equity, and community - the…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
We believe in the life-changing, transformational, revelatory power of great art and opera. Lyric Opera of Chicago exists to provide a broad, deep, and relevant cultural service to the Chicago region and the nation, and to advance the…
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
The mission of denver botanic gardens is to connect people with plants, especially plants from the rocky mountain region and similar regions around the world, providing delight and enlightenment to everyone.
The american theatre guild is dedicated to providing the experience of live theatre to foster passion, inspire creativity and empower youth within our communities.
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Missouri Botanical Garden Board of Trustees and the most unlike its peers is Opport-Unity. 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 41 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
68 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. 68 of the 105 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
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 SILENT SPRING INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Shattered Globe Theatre ↗
- Who funds PLAY FOR PINK INC ↗
- Who funds STEPPENWOLF THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds DUTCHESS LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Remy Bumppo Theatre Company ↗
- Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF AUSTIN & TRAVIS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds University of Illinois Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ↗
- Who funds CAPITOL BROADCASTING ASSOCIATION INC ↗
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- Who funds OPPORT-UNITY ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN PARK CONSERVANCY ↗
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- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR BARNES-JEWISH HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds HOPE HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds Hays County Food Bank ↗
- Who funds SAN MARCOS PERFORMING ARTS ASSN INC ↗
- Who funds San Marcos Art League ↗
- Who funds THE SAFE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Friends of the San Marcos Public Library ↗
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: St David's Foundation · The Burdine Johnson Foundation · Austin Community Foundation Inc · Trio Foundation of St Louis · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Hathaway Family Foundation · Jordan Mary R & Ettie a Charitable · Ibm International Foundation · United Way for Greater Austin · Regional Cultural and Performing Arts Development Commission · Edward Jones 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 Dunagan Foundation Inc 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.
- Silent Spring Institute Inc — 12% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Wesleyan University — 1% of income from government
- Documentary Educational Resources Inc — 1% of income from government
- Choate Rosemary Hall Foundation Incorporated — 0% of income from government
- Gulliver Preparatory School Inc — 0% 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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