A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 47% of DUNBAR FOUNDATION INC ATTN CHRISTOPHER NUNELLEY’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2025 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k26 grants · $100k
$10k–50k12 grants · $200k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.2M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
KENTUCKY HUMANE SOCIETY	$30,000
DENISON UNIVERSITY	$25,000
LOUISVILLE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL	$22,000
HOME OF THE INNOCENTS	$20,000
LOUISVILLE LIBRARY FOUNDATION	$15,000
DENISON UNIVERSITY	$15,000
CATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION	$15,000
TREES LOUISVILLE	$13,500
ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITA	$13,000
WEST END SCHOOL	$11,500
SECOND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH	$10,000
BAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATION	$10,000
21ST CENTURY PARKS	$9,500
WATERFRONT BOTANICAL GARDENS	$8,500
LOUISVILLE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL	$8,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $85k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$2.0M · 43 repeat orgs$86k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.

43 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.0M

$59k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%

+19%

Still filing today

67%

38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureAnimalsRecreation & SportsOther

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

DU
DENISON UNIVERSITY
9× · 2017–2025 · $258k · revenue +39%
LC
LOUISVILLE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL
9× · 2017–2025 · $179k · revenue +97%
KH
KENTUCKY HUMANE SOCIETY - ANIMAL RESCUE
9× · 2017–2025 · $144k · revenue +169%

Funded once

SJ
ST JUDES CHILDRENS HOSPITAL
one grant, 2017 · $14k
BC
BROWN CANCER CENTER
one grant, 2024 · $7k
UH
UOFL HEALTH INC
one grant, 2023 · $7k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

University Family Physicians Inc

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…

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Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health

University Hospital & Clinics Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health

Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

University of Maryland Pediatric Associates Pa

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…

Health

University of Maryland Facultyphysicians Inc

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,…

Health

University of Maryland Physicians Pa

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University of Maryland Dermatologists Pa

Health

Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

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…

Community Improvement

University of Maryland Family Medicine Associates Pa

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Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Home of the Innocents Inc and the most unlike its peers is Paws With Purpose Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%1/41

the rest of the field

14%

728/5,358

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.

04the grantee network

40 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. 40 of the 65 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

39/40

Grantees still filing

29/40

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$1,101,750Education$592,250Animals$174,500Human Services$84,500Health$66,000Recreation & Sports$59,500Environment$51,500

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.

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.

The Community Foundation of Louisville IncKY44.4× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Dunbar Foundation Inc Attn Christopher Nunelley 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.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Dunbar Foundation Inc Attn Christopher Nunelley?

Find your warmest path to Dunbar Foundation Inc Attn Christopher Nunelley through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines