· Private foundation
Dunard Fund USA Ltd
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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $7k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $95k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $625k
- $250k+11 grants · $64M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COLBURN SCHOOL | $52,500,000 |
| MYRIAD USA | $2,760,000 |
| THE KING'S FOUNDATION AMERICA INC | $2,600,000 |
| CHAPEL & YORK FOUNDATION INC | $1,750,400 |
| LOS ANGELES OPERA | $1,300,000 |
| THE CROWN PRINCE FREDRICK FUND | $1,000,000 |
| THE AMERICAN IRELAND FUND | $835,000 |
| METROPOLITAN OPERA | $650,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DUBLIN FUND | $500,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LES ARTS FLORRISANTS | $250,000 |
| THE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC | $250,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC | $184,600 |
| CATO INSTITUTE | $110,000 |
| THE J PAUL GETTY TRUST | $100,000 |
| DANCE DOWNTOWN LA INC | $100,000 |
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 (FY24–24, $2.6M) 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 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 +47% since the first grant, against +42% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 5 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.8M 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
- TCTHE COLBURN SCHOOL8× · 2017–2024 · $123M · revenue +90% · 40% of their budget
- LALOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION7× · 2017–2023 · $8.9M · revenue +14%
- TCTHE CROWN PRINCE FREDERIK FUND INC2× · 2019–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +114% · 87% of their budget
Funded once
PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue +10%- AFAmer Friends of the Edinburgh Intl Festivalone grant, 2017 · $423k
- FOFRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INCone grant, 2018 · $250k · revenue -12%
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.
To serve the public by producing world-class opera that preserves, promotes and advances the art form while embodying the diversity, spirit and artistic sensibility unique to los angeles. we envision an engaged and enlightened community in…
We believe opera is a uniquely compelling, entertaining and emotionally thrilling art form. our mission is to bring together growing audiences to experience opera's transformative power.
The cleveland institute of music's mission is to empower the world's most talented classical music students to fulfill their dreams and potential.
To present the highest-quality performances of great music, bringing national and international distinction to the orchestra and its community; to delight and educate audiences of all ages and backgrounds, and enhance the cultural vitality…
The hammer museum at ucla believes in the promise of art and ideas to illuminate our lives and build a more just world.
Chicago opera theater expands the tradition of opera as a living art form by engaging lovers of music and storytelling through innovative experiences, predominantly of new and rarely performed works.
The minnesota orchestra mission is to enrich, inspire and serve our community as an enduring symphony orchestra internationally recognized for its artistic excellence.
New york city opera was famously dubbed "the people's opera" by mayor fiorello laguardia at its founding in 1943. more than 80 years later, city opera continues its historic mission to inspire audiences with innovative and theatrically…
Mission: the mission of san diego opera is to deliver exceptional performances and exciting, accessible programs to diverse audiences, focusing on community partnerships, and the transformative and expressive power of the human voice. as…
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Philharmonic Symphony Society of Ny Inc and the most unlike its peers is The J Paul Getty Trust. 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 45 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
47 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. 47 of the 57 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 THE COLBURN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Marlboro School of Music Inc ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MYRIAD USA INC ↗
- Who funds University Of Dublin Fund ↗
- Who funds THE KING'S FOUNDATION AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN IRELAND FUND (DBA THE IRELAND FUNDS AMERICA/THE IRELAND FUNDS) ↗
- Who funds CHAPEL & YORK US FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CROWN PRINCE FREDERIK FUND INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS AMERICAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC ↗
- Who funds DANCE DOWNTOWN LA INC LA DANCE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE LONDON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds THE J PAUL GETTY TRUST ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LES ARTS FLORISSANTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE MAESTRO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds CATO INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds ALVIN AILEY DANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO CHANTICLEER INC ↗
- Who funds VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM AMERICAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL USA INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds Mary Miss - City as Living Laboratory ↗
- Who funds MUSIC INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds Friends Of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields ↗
- Who funds OJAI FESTIVALS LTD ↗
- Who funds The New School ↗
- Who funds THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds Segerstrom Center for the Arts ↗
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: Ann & Gordon Getty Foundation · The Negaunee Foundation · Colburn Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · California Community Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Dunard Fund USA Ltd 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.
- Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc — 11% 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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