· Private foundation
Dunbar Foundation Inc
Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2026
- Under $10k30 grants · $116k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $204k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KENTUCKY HUMANE SOCIETY | $29,000 |
| LOUISVILLE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL | $27,000 |
| DENISON UNIVERSITY | $24,000 |
| LOUISVILLE LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| HOME OF THE INNOCENTS | $17,000 |
| CATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| BAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| TREES LOUISVILLE | $12,500 |
| 21ST CENTURY PARKS | $12,500 |
| SECOND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $12,000 |
| DENISON UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| WEST END SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| WATERFRONT BOTANICAL GARDENS | $9,500 |
| BELMONT UNIVERSITY | $8,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITA | $8,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–26, $120k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 86% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.
47 repeat relationships: 36 still active in FY2026, 11 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (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 FY2026, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- DUDENISON UNIVERSITY10× · 2017–2026 · $292k · revenue +39%
- LCLOUISVILLE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL10× · 2017–2026 · $211k · revenue +97%
- KHKENTUCKY HUMANE SOCIETY - ANIMAL RESCUE10× · 2017–2026 · $173k · revenue +169%
Funded once
- SJST JUDES CHILDRENS HOSPITALone grant, 2017 · $14k
- BCBROWN CANCER CENTERone grant, 2024 · $7k
- UHUOFL HEALTH INCone grant, 2023 · $7k
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.
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.
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…
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
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…
To improve the quality of life for all kentuckians through research, education and advocacy on important policy issues facing the commonwealth.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland, school of medicine, administrative support services are provided to the physician practices of the university of maryland, including but not limited to information technology,…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
How this is measured
42 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 42 of the 68 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds DENISON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LOUISVILLE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY HUMANE SOCIETY - ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds 21ST CENTURY PARKS INC ↗
- Who funds TREESLOUISVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds WATERFRONT BOTANICAL GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds West End School Inc ↗
- Who funds THE HOME OF THE INNOCENTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds FLIGHT CLUB 502 ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF METRO ANIMAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF THE RIVER REGION ↗
- Who funds THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF OLDHAM COUNTY ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE KENTUCKY SCIENCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPARUS INC HOSPARUS HEALTH ↗
- Who funds THE HEALING PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds Belmont University ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds APPLE PATCH COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY & CHILDREN'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds PAWS WITH PURPOSE INC ↗
- Who funds METRO UNITED WAY INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Dunbar Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dunbar Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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