Kentucky · Private foundation
Dunbar Foundation Inc
Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $320k
- Granted FY2026(still arriving)
- 42
- Grants FY2026
- 36
- Organizations funded FY2025
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2025
- Median grant, FY2026
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2026
- $29,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 36
- FY2019 to FY2025
- States reached, FY2026
- 8
- Total assets, FY2026
- $2.3M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2025, 11% of the organizations Dunbar Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026still arriving | 39 | $315k | 8% |
| FY2025 | 36 | $300k | 11% |
| FY2024 | 33 | $280k | 15% |
| FY2023 | 27 | $259k | 19% |
| FY2022 | 25 | $249k | 12% |
| FY2021 | 26 | $224k | 12% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $219k | 14% |
| FY2019 | 27 | $194k | 7% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Denison University | $292,000 | 10 | 0% |
| Louisville Collegiate School | $210,500 | 10 | 0% |
| Kentucky Humane Society - Animal Rescue | $172,500 | 10 | 0% |
| Catholic Education Foundation Inc | $81,500 | 9 | 0% |
| 21st Century Parks Inc | $69,000 | 10 | 0% |
| Treeslouisville Inc | $62,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Waterfront Botanical Gardens Inc | $61,000 | 5 | 0% |
| West End School Inc | $58,500 | 10 | 0% |
| The Home of the Innocents Inc | $38,750 | 4 | 0% |
| The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia | $38,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 41 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($992k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Dunbar Foundation Inc 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 Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · Cralle Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · The Gheens Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · Snowy Owl Foundation Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · V V Cooke Foundation Corporation · Baird Foundation Inc · Wood & Marie Hannah Foundation · Kosair Charities Committee Inc
How this is measured
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About Dunbar Foundation Inc
- How much does Dunbar Foundation Inc give?
- Dunbar Foundation Inc reported 42 grants totaling $320,000 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 36 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2025.
- What does Dunbar Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2026, its largest causes are Education (39%), Health (29%), Animals (10%).
- Who are Dunbar Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2026: Denison University ($292k), Louisville Collegiate School ($211k), Kentucky Humane Society - Animal Rescue ($173k).
- Does Dunbar Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2025, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Dunbar Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Dunbar Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc, Cralle Foundation Inc, The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc.
- Where is Dunbar Foundation Inc based?
- Dunbar Foundation Inc is based in KY.
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