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Dune Foundation a Nj Nonprofit Corporation at a glance

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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.

$192k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$57k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$1.1MReligion$62kScience & Tech$6kHealth$1kInternational$1kFood & Nutrition$500
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $56k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $78k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $57k
$8,439
Median grant
8
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY$57,447
UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT$15,000
DIOCESE OF METUCHEN$13,000
KEAN UNIVERSITY$10,000
NORTH CAROLINA A&T$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND$10,000
SCRANTON UNIVERSITY$10,000
MONTCLAIR STATE 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
STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$5,000
SETON HALL UNIVERSITY$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 44% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 8%SCRANTON UNIVERSITY: $10k → 13%TEMPLE UNIVERSITY: $10k → 22%NY UNIVERSITY: $10k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT: $15k → 11%NORTH CAROLINA A&T: $10k → 16%DREW UNIVERSITY: $15k → 4%ST MATHIAS SCHOOL: $15k → 5%MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY: $10k → 6%RAMAPO COLLEGE OF NJ: $12k → 7%RUTGERS UNIVERSITY: $79k → 8%KEAN UNIVERSITY: $10k → 10%RIDER UNIVERSITY: $17k → 11%GEORGIAN COURT UNIVERSITY: $10k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND: $15k → 11%SCRANTON UNIVERSITY: $10k → 13%NY UNIVERSITY: $10k → 17%NORTH CAROLINA A&T: $10k → 16%DREW UNIVERSITY: $12k → 4%ST MATHIAS CHURCH-TECH SUPPORT TOBUNDENT MASS: $10k → 5%RAMAPO COLLEGE OF NJ: $12k → 7%RUTGERS UNIVERSITY: $65k → 8%KEAN UNIVERSITY: $10k → 10%RIDER UNIVERSITY: $14k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND: $10k → 11%NORTH CAROLINA A&T: $10k → 16%DREW UNIVERSITY: $10k → 4%RAMAPO COLLEGE OF NJ: $11k → 7%RUTGERS UNIVERSITY: $64k → 8%KEAN UNIVERSITY: $10k → 10%RIDER UNIVERSITY: $10k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND: $10k → 11%NORTH CAROLINA A&T: $10k → 16%RAMAPO COLLEGE OF NJ: $10k → 7%RUTGERS UNIVERSITY: $57k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND: $10k → 11%RUTGERS UNIVERSITY: $51k → 8%COLLEGE OF NJ: $12k → 11%NJ INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $11k → 16%RUTGERS UNIVERSITY: $21k → 8%COLLEGE OF NJ: $10k → 11%RUTGERS UNIVERSITY: $20k → 8%COLLEGE OF NJ: $10k → 11%DIOCESE OF METUCHEN: $13k → 8%DIOCESE OF METUCHEN: $13k → 8%MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY: $13k → 16%DIOCESE OF METUCHEN: $12k → 8%DIOCESE OF METUCHEN: $12k → 8%DIOCESE OF METUCHEN: $12k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
IA
PA
NJ
CT
VA
MD
NC
DC
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 25 repeat orgs$62k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +13% since the first grant, against +9% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
6

Total granted

$1.1M
$23k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+9%

Still filing today

44%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationInternationalOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • DU
    DREW UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2021–2025 · $56k · revenue +26%
  • GC
    GEORGIAN COURT UNIVERSITY
    7× · 2019–2025 · $32k · revenue +6%
  • DUKE UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2022–2025 · $28k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • MU
    MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $10k · revenue +9%
  • IU
    IMMACULATA UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +33%
  • DU
    DREXEL UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2024–2025 · $3k · revenue +5%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Western New England University

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…

Education
2
Endicott College

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.

Education
3
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
4
Wake Forest University

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…

Education
5
Dickinson College

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

Education
6
Seton Hill University

Comprehensive institution of higher learning providing undergraduate and graduate student education.

Education
7
Bentley University

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…

Education
8
Lewis & Clark College

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…

Education
9
The Catholic University of America

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…

Education
10
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

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…

Education
11
St Marys University of Minnesota

Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.

Education
12
New York University

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.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgetown University; 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.
04the grantee network

20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
14/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RUTGERS UNIVERSITY: $357,417 · OtherRUTGERS UNIVERSITYRAMAPO COLLEGE OF NJ: $68,000 · OtherRAMAPO COLLEGE OF NJDIOCESE OF METUCHEN: $62,000 · OtherDIOCESE OF METUCHENUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND: $50,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MARYLANDCOLLEGE OF NJ: $47,000 · OtherCOLLEGE OF NJNORTH CAROLINA A&T: $40,000 · OtherNY UNIVERSITY: $38,250 · OtherMONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY: $35,000 · OtherST MATHIAS SCHOOL: $31,500 · OtherKEAN UNIVERSITY: $30,000 · Other+9 more: $118,886 · Other+9 moreDREW UNIVERSITY: $55,890 · EducationDREW UNIVERSITYRIDER UNIVERSITY: $45,500 · EducationRIDER UNIVERSITYGEORGIAN COURT UNIVERSITY: $32,100 · EducationGEORGIAN COURT UNIVERSITYDUKE UNIVERSITY: $27,558 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $22,797 · EducationNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITYGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $22,500 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITYCornell University: $20,000 · EducationCornell UniversityTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $20,000 · EducationTemple University - Of The Co…CALDWELL UNIVERSITY INC: $12,000 · Education+9 more: $51,800 · Education+9 moreAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · International
Other$878,053Education$310,145International$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDREW UNIVERSITY: $55,890 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRIDER UNIVERSITY: $45,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGIAN COURT UNIVERSITY: $32,100 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $27,558 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $22,797 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $22,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University: $20,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCALDWELL UNIVERSITY INC: $12,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMONMOUTH UNIVERSITY INC: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLINCOLN UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $5,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSETON HALL UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARCADIA UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNT SAINT MARY'S UNIVERSITY INC: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetIMMACULATA UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY: $3,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFairleigh Dickinson University: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 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 ↗

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.

Verizon FoundationThe Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Verizon FoundationNJ12.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Verizon Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Dune Foundation a Nj Nonprofit Corporation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dune Foundation a Nj Nonprofit Corporation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 38 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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