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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.

$8.7M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
26
Grants FY2024
21
Organizations funded FY2023
24%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$250,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$1,025,000
Organizations funded a year
12 to 21
FY2021 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
8
Total assets, FY2024
$132M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 24% of the organizations Dune Road Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23
Human ServicesFood & NutritionEducationCommunity ImprovementRecreation & SportsInternationalOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving26$8.7M35%
FY202321$7.5M24%
FY202219$6.1M63%
FY202112$4.6Mn/a
91% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Education$6.0MFood & Nutrition$4.8MHuman Services$4.6MInternational$3.1MHealth$3.1MReligion$966kCrime & Legal$551kPhilanthropy$275kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
NY
CT
CA
VA
MD
DC
MS
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$3,100,00040%
New York University$2,025,00020%
Children's National$2,000,00021%
Harlem Children's Zone Inc$1,750,00041%
Graham Windham$1,540,00031%
Food Bank for New York City$1,380,00030%
God's Love We Deliver Inc$1,380,00031%
City Harvest Inc$1,380,00030%
Bard College$1,250,00040%
St Marys Health Wagon Inc$1,025,00044%
Show all 24 grantees
All grantees of Dune Road Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$3,100,00040%
New York University$2,025,00020%
Children's National$2,000,00021%
Harlem Children's Zone Inc$1,750,00041%
Graham Windham$1,540,00031%
Food Bank for New York City$1,380,00030%
God's Love We Deliver Inc$1,380,00031%
City Harvest Inc$1,380,00030%
Bard College$1,250,00040%
St Marys Health Wagon Inc$1,025,00044%
Georgetown University$1,000,00010%
Citymeals-On-Wheels$660,00031%
Freedom Reads Inc$550,50037%
School of Hope Foundation$400,000120%
Roads to Success Inc$100,00031%
Church of St Ignatius Loyola$100,0001n/a
Community Solutions International Inc$50,00010%
Chess-In-The-Schools Inc$50,00021%
Razom Inc$50,00010%
Springboard to Opportunities$25,00010%
Hamptons Community Outreach Inc$25,00011%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$25,00010%
American Association of Caregiving Youth Inc$25,00011%
Jesuit Refugee Service USA$25,0001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($7.0M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Dune Road Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $3,100,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNew York University: $2,025,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's National: $2,000,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetHarlem Children's Zone Inc: $1,750,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetGraham Windham: $1,540,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetFood Bank for New York City: $1,380,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetGod's Love We Deliver Inc: $1,380,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetCity Harvest Inc: $1,380,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBard College: $1,250,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSt Marys Health Wagon Inc: $1,025,000 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetGeorgetown University: $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCitymeals-On-Wheels: $660,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetFreedom Reads Inc: $550,500 over 3y, 6.9% of budgetSchool of Hope Foundation: $400,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetRoads to Success Inc: $100,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetCommunity Solutions International Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChess-In-The-Schools Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetRazom Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSpringboard to Opportunities: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHamptons Community Outreach Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Association of Caregiving Youth Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 22.

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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.

The Ford FoundationNY14.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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How do I get to Dune Road Foundation Inc?

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

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Dune Road Foundation Inc

How much does Dune Road Foundation Inc give?
Dune Road Foundation Inc reported 26 grants totaling $8,730,566 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 21 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
What does Dune Road Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (22%), Food & Nutrition (18%), Human Services (17%).
Who are Dune Road Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($3.1M), New York University ($2.0M), Children's National ($2.0M).
Does Dune Road Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Dune Road Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Dune Road Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Ford Foundation, National Philanthropic Trust, Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
Where is Dune Road Foundation Inc based?
Dune Road Foundation Inc is based in NY.

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 40 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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