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Dunham Family Foundation
Its FY2023 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 FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MEALS ON WHEELS | $5,000 |
| PLAY HOUSE SQUARE | $4,000 |
| POLAND ALL SPORTS BOOSTER | $500 |
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 (FY20–20, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 26% of Dunham Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 80% of the giving stays in OH; read by stated purpose it is 75% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +56% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2023, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 5% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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
- PTPOLAND TOUCHDOWN CLUB INC3× · 2019–2021 · $3k · revenue +42%
- OTON TARGET OUTFITTERS2× · 2017–2018 · $2k · revenue +172%
- PAPOLAND ALL SPORTS BOOSTER CLUB2× · 2019–2023 · $750 · revenue +56%
Funded once
- W4WAGS 4 KIDSone grant, 2022 · $4k
- MUMALONE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue -7%
- BWBAGS WITH A BLESSING INCone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue -32%
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.
Poland Boys Basketball Club supporting boys' basketball grades 7-12 in Poland Schools.
Access Sports provides young athletes with disabilities opportunities to participate in team sports. There were 100 athletes who participated in the sports. The sports included soccer, basketball, track and baseball.
To provide opportunities and exposure by competing at the highest levels in high school baseball. our aim is to help players further their athletic careers, while preparing them to make an immediate impact at the next level. we strive to…
Awards to benefit boys/girls high school soccer players in ohio
Provide athletic camps for children with disabilities
Ohio warriors athletics provides the opportunity for youth travel sports teams. we will help develop our youth as student-athletes as well as productive members of society. we will promote positive qualities on the field and in the…
To provide FREE high quality sports programs, positive experiences and leadership opportunities to underserved communities - specifically children with disabilities and kids struggling with a lack of financial resources.
To provide adaptive sport opportunities to children youth and adults with lower limb disabilities to participate in competitive sporting events. All opportunities are provided to families with little to no cost. Our program promotes…
Sports activity for youth of palmer twsp, northampton cnty, pa. teams for various ages of boys/girls. teams not limited to baseball, basketball, cheering, field hockey, football, lacrosse, soccer, softball
Providing sports to youth in the community.
To create opportunities for people with disabilities.
The booster club has been formed to promote the general welfare of all athletes of banks trail middle school (btms), to provide assistance to the administration, athletic coordinator, and coaching staff, and to facilitate excellence in the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Adaptive Sports Program of Ohio and the most unlike its peers is Bags With a Blessing Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 16 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 MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds POLAND TOUCHDOWN CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds ON TARGET OUTFITTERS ↗
- Who funds MALONE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BAGS WITH A BLESSING INC ↗
- Who funds POLAND ALL SPORTS BOOSTER CLUB ↗
- Who funds ADAPTIVE SPORTS PROGRAM OF OHIO ↗
- Who funds LIMITLESS DANCE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds SPIKES BASEBALL & FASTPITCH 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.
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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 Dunham Family Foundation 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.
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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