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Dunham Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$10k
Granted FY2023
3
Grants FY2023
2
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Recreation & Sports$14kArts & Culture$5kFood & Nutrition$5kAnimals$4kEducation$2kHuman Services$2kCommunity Improvement$2kReligion$50
02FY2023 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$4,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$120k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MEALS ON WHEELS$5,000
PLAY HOUSE SQUARE$4,000
POLAND ALL SPORTS BOOSTER$500
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BAGS WITH A BLESSING: $2k → 13%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.
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 26% of Dunham Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 80% of the giving stays in OH; by stated purpose, 75%.

Dunham Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 9.9% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

41%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$14k · 5 repeat orgs$19k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +56% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
9

Total granted

$14k
$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
0%

Still filing today

60%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 5% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
Recreation & SportsEducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesOther
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

  • PT
    POLAND TOUCHDOWN CLUB INC
    3× · 2019–2021 · $3k · revenue +42%
  • OT
    ON TARGET OUTFITTERS
    2× · 2017–2018 · $2k · revenue +172%
  • PA
    POLAND ALL SPORTS BOOSTER CLUB
    2× · 2019–2023 · $750 · revenue +56%

Funded once

  • W4
    WAGS 4 KIDS
    one grant, 2022 · $4k
  • MU
    MALONE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue -7%
  • BW
    BAGS WITH A BLESSING INC
    one grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue -24%
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
Poland Boys Basketball Club

Poland Boys Basketball Club supporting boys' basketball grades 7-12 in Poland Schools.

Recreation & Sports
2
Access Sports

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.

Youth Development
3
Rockets 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…

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4
Ohio Scholastic Soccer Coaches Association

Awards to benefit boys/girls high school soccer players in ohio

Youth Development
5
Boundless Athletics Inc

Provide athletic camps for children with disabilities

Youth Development
6
Ohio Warriors Athletics

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…

—
7
Open Door Sports Events

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.

Religion
8
Mississippi Youth Wheelchair League

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…

Recreation & Sports
9
Palmer Township Athletic Association

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

Education
10
Launch Baseball Inc

Providing sports to youth in the community.

Recreation & Sports
11
Adapted Sports Unlimited

To create opportunities for people with disabilities.

Recreation & Sports
12
Banks Trail Middle School Athletic Booster Club

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Adaptive Sports Program of Ohio; 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.
05the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 16 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $5,000 · OtherMEALS ON WHEELS INCPOLAND HIGH SCHOOL HOMERUN CLUB: $4,500 · OtherPOLAND HIGH SCHOOL HOMERUN CLUBPLAY HOUSE SQUARE: $4,000 · OtherPLAY HOUSE SQUAREWAGS 4 KIDS: $4,000 · OtherWAGS 4 KIDSIndividual grant recipient: $3,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $1,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+3 more: $800 · OtherPOLAND TOUCHDOWN CLUB INC: $3,250 · Recreation & SportsPOLAND TOUCHDOWN CL…ON TARGET OUTFITTERS: $2,000 · Recreation & SportsON TARGET OUTFITTER…ADAPTIVE SPORTS PROGRAM OF OHIO: $500 · Recreation & SportsADAPTIVE SPORTS PRO…MALONE UNIVERSITY: $1,662 · EducationPOLAND ALL SPORTS BOOSTER CLUB: $750 · EducationBAGS WITH A BLESSING INC: $1,500 · Human ServicesLIMITLESS DANCE COMPANY INC: $500 · Arts & Culture
Other$22,800Recreation & Sports$5,750Education$2,412Human Services$1,500Arts & Culture$500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMEALS ON WHEELS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPOLAND TOUCHDOWN CLUB INC: $3,250 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetON TARGET OUTFITTERS: $2,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMALONE UNIVERSITY: $1,662 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPOLAND ALL SPORTS BOOSTER CLUB: $750 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetADAPTIVE SPORTS PROGRAM OF OHIO: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSPIKES BASEBALL & FASTPITCH INC: $250 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

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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 Dunham Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dunham Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Dunham Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Dunham Family Foundation 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.

    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 16 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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