· Private foundation
Dune Foundation a Nj Nonprofit Corporation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $56k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $78k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $57k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RUTGERS UNIVERSITY | $57,447 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT | $15,000 |
| DIOCESE OF METUCHEN | $13,000 |
| NORTH CAROLINA A&T | $10,000 |
| SCRANTON UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND | $10,000 |
| MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| KEAN UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| DREW UNIVERSITY | $8,439 |
| UNIVERSITY OF VIRGIN ISLANDS | $8,194 |
| RAMAPO COLLEGE OF NJ | $7,000 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $6,558 |
| NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY | $5,797 |
| GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| ARCADIA UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 44% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +13% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k 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
- DUDREW UNIVERSITY5× · 2021–2025 · $56k · revenue +26%
- GCGEORGIAN COURT UNIVERSITY7× · 2019–2025 · $32k · revenue +6%
DUKE UNIVERSITY4× · 2022–2025 · $28k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- MUMONMOUTH UNIVERSITY INC5× · 2021–2025 · $10k · revenue +9%
- IUIMMACULATA UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +33%
- DUDREXEL UNIVERSITY2× · 2024–2025 · $3k · revenue +5%
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.
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
Endicott college offers students a vibrant academic environment that remains true to its founding principle of integrating professional and liberal arts with experiential learning. for more information see schedule o.
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…
Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship
Comprehensive institution of higher learning providing undergraduate and graduate student education.
Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…
Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…
As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…
The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…
Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgetown University and the most unlike its peers is Americares Foundation 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 80 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 38 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 DREW UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds RIDER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GEORGIAN COURT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education ↗
- Who funds CALDWELL UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds SETON HALL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ARCADIA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MOUNT SAINT MARY'S UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds IMMACULATA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DREXEL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Fairleigh Dickinson University ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: Verizon Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Dune Foundation a Nj Nonprofit Corporation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology — 12% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 5% of income from government
- Northeastern University — 4% of income from government
- Georgian Court University — 2% of income from government
- Caldwell University Inc — 2% of income from government
- Fairleigh Dickinson University — 1% of income from government
- Rider University — 1% of income from government
- Seton Hall University — 0% of income from government
- Monmouth University Inc — 0% of income from government
- Drew University — 0% of income from government
- Mount Saint Mary's University Inc — 0% 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.