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Dune Road Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $21
- $10k–50k7 grants · $175k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
- $250k+16 grants · $8.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEW YORK UNIVERSITY | $1,025,000 |
| MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERS USA | $1,000,000 |
| CITY HARVEST INC | $700,000 |
| FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY | $700,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $700,000 |
| GODS LOVE WE DELIVER | $700,000 |
| CRISTO REY NY HIGH SCHOOL | $530,000 |
| UNDER 21 COVENANT HOUSE | $500,000 |
| GRAHAM WINDHAM | $500,000 |
| CITYMEALS ON WHEELS | $400,000 |
| SCHOOL OF HOPE FOUNDATION | $400,000 |
| FREEDOM READS | $250,500 |
| BARD COLLEGE | $250,000 |
| COMMONWEALTH RETREAT CENTER | $250,000 |
| HARLEM CHILDRENS ZONE | $250,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $4.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
19 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $650k 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
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC4× · 2021–2024 · $3.1M · revenue +20%- NYNew York University2× · 2023–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +11%
- CNCHILDREN'S NATIONAL2× · 2021–2023 · $2.0M · revenue +5%
Funded once
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $1.0M · revenue +34%- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $250k
- COCHURCH OF ST IGNATIUS LOYOLAone grant, 2022 · $100k
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.
The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…
Prepare elementary & middle school students for success in high school, college & life.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
New york institute of technology (nyit) offers various degree programs, including undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees, in more than 50 fields of study, including architecture and design; arts and sciences; (continued on…
We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
To provide a safe, affordable and comprehensive program of high-quality early childhood education, parental and family support, as well as academic enrichment and recreational programs.
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
The mission of the family health centers at nyu langone is to improve the overall health of the communities it serves by delivering high quality, culturally-competent primary car, and related services within community-based settings.
Nysci's mission is to nurture generations of passionate learners, critical thinkers, and active citizens through design make play - an approach to learning and engagement that is deeply rooted in research on stem learning and guides the…
Jobsfirstnyc's mission is to create and advance solutions that break down barriers and transform the systems supporting young adults and their communities in the pursuit of economic opportunities.
Children's aid helps children in poverty to succeed and thrive. we do this by providing comprehensive supports to children and their families in targeted, high-needs new york city neighborhoods. (continued on schedule o)continuation of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Roads to Success Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bard College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 40 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 MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S NATIONAL ↗
- Who funds HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC ↗
- Who funds GRAHAM WINDHAM ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY ↗
- Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds GOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC ↗
- Who funds BARD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ST MARYS HEALTH WAGON INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM READS INC ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL OF HOPE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROADS TO SUCCESS INC ↗
- Who funds CHESS-IN-THE-SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds RAZOM INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds SPRINGBOARD TO OPPORTUNITIES ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF CAREGIVING YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds HAMPTONS COMMUNITY OUTREACH 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: The Ford Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Road Foundation Inc 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.
- Freedom Reads Inc — 12% 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.
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