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Dunbar Family Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$139k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
9
Grants FY2025
6
Organizations funded FY2024
33%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$120,000
Organizations funded a year
6 to 16
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$2.2M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Dunbar Family Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationAnimalsHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionReligionOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving9$139k11%
FY20246$78k33%
FY20238$74k50%
FY20228$84k75%
FY20217$60k57%
FY202010$59k50%
FY201916$55k75%
FY201810$37k100%
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$284kRecreation & Sports$103kEducation$80kHousing & Shelter$59kArts & Culture$19kFood & Nutrition$13kReligion$9kAnimals$8kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
WI
IN
OH
PA
CA
NE
KY
TN
NC
SC
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Duneland YMCA Inc$260,00042%
Duneland Education Foundation Inc$76,000531%
Rebuilding Together Duneland Inc$24,500510%
The Cedars Home for Children Foundation$8,93060%
Operation Finally Home$7,50010%
Catsnip Etc$7,50014%
Porterco Conservation Trust Inc$6,0002n/a
Mud Pike Cemetery Association Inc$3,5003n/a
Indiana University Foundation$3,00010%
Neighborlink Porter County$2,50011%
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All grantees of Dunbar Family Charitable Trust by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Duneland YMCA Inc$260,00042%
Duneland Education Foundation Inc$76,000531%
Rebuilding Together Duneland Inc$24,500510%
The Cedars Home for Children Foundation$8,93060%
Operation Finally Home$7,50010%
Catsnip Etc$7,50014%
Porterco Conservation Trust Inc$6,0002n/a
Mud Pike Cemetery Association Inc$3,5003n/a
Indiana University Foundation$3,00010%
Neighborlink Porter County$2,50011%
Lake Murray Presbyterian Church$2,5001n/a
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Pgh$2,50010%
People's City Mission$2,00010%
Art Barn School of Art Inc$1,50010%
Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank$1,25020%
Samaritan's Purse$1,00010%
Institute for Quality Education Inc$1,00010%
Gary Sinise Foundation$1,00020%
Red River Gorge Climbers' Coalition Inc$1,00020%
Milwaukee Rescue Mission$5001n/a
Dunes Foundation Inc$50011%
Semper Fi & America's Fund$25010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($179k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Dunbar Family Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 18 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDuneland YMCA Inc: $260,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetDuneland Education Foundation Inc: $76,000 over 5y, 31% of budgetRebuilding Together Duneland Inc: $24,500 over 5y, 10% of budgetThe Cedars Home for Children Foundation: $8,930 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetOperation Finally Home: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCatsnip Etc: $7,500 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetIndiana University Foundation: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNeighborlink Porter County: $2,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCatholic Charities of the Diocese of Pgh: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPeople's City Mission: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArt Barn School of Art Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGreater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank: $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSamaritan's Purse: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInstitute for Quality Education Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGary Sinise Foundation: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRed River Gorge Climbers' Coalition Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetDunes Foundation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSemper Fi & America's Fund: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 18.

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.

Nisource Charitable FoundationOH17× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Nisource Charitable Foundation · Porter County Community Foundation Inc · John W Anderson Foundation · The Cleveland-Cliffs Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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.

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How do I get to Dunbar Family Charitable Trust?

Find your warmest path to Dunbar Family Charitable Trust 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.

About Dunbar Family Charitable Trust

How much does Dunbar Family Charitable Trust give?
Dunbar Family Charitable Trust reported 9 grants totaling $138,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 16 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Dunbar Family Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (48%), Recreation & Sports (17%), Education (13%).
Who are Dunbar Family Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Duneland YMCA Inc ($260k), Duneland Education Foundation Inc ($76k), Rebuilding Together Duneland Inc ($25k).
Does Dunbar Family Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Dunbar Family Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Dunbar Family Charitable Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Nisource Charitable Foundation, Porter County Community Foundation Inc, John W Anderson Foundation.
Where is Dunbar Family Charitable Trust based?
Dunbar Family Charitable Trust is based in IN.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 47 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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