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Dunham Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $33k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TIOGA COUNTY HOMELESS INITIATIVE | $12,500 |
| ENDLESS MOUNTAIN MUSIC FESTIVAL | $10,000 |
| TIOGA COUNTY HOMELESS INITIATIVE | $10,000 |
| WELLSBORO FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| DEANE CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC | $3,000 |
| WELLSBORO CEMETERY COMPANY | $3,000 |
| WELLSBORO TEEN CENTER INC | $2,520 |
| WELLSBORO GLASS HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION | $2,500 |
| WELLSBORO FOUNDATION | $1,908 |
| WELLSBORO COMMUNITY CONCERT ASSOCIATION | $1,500 |
| TRINITY LUTHERAN SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| THE LEARNING TREE OF WELLSBORO | $1,000 |
| TIOGA CO HOMELESS INITIATIVE | $900 |
| WELLSBORO FOUNDATION | $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 (FY19–24, $79k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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.
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.
13 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- TCTIOGA COUNTY HOMELESS INITIATIVE6× · 2019–2024 · $77k · revenue +21%
- WFWELLSBORO FOUNDATION INC4× · 2021–2024 · $32k · revenue +105%
- EMENDLESS MOUNTAIN MUSIC FESTIVAL INC3× · 2020–2024 · $30k · revenue +152%
Funded once
- WEWELLSBORO ELEMENTARY PTOone grant, 2020 · $16k · revenue -91%
- HTHIS THOUSAND HILLS MINISTRIESone grant, 2022 · $5k
- ACANIMAL CARE SANCTUARYgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +43%
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.
To provide volunteer fire and rescue services to the borough of wellsboro and the townships of charleston, delmar and shippen in tioga county pennsylvania.
Local historical education operation of a museum and provision of education relating to the history of tioga county pennsylvania
Provode food for families in need.
To provide free library services to all residents of the borough of woodstown and the township of pilesgrove
Library services to community
Public display of historical objects and buildings. Park with walking trails.
Provide families with safe, quality child care in an environment that fosters learning and respect
Provide emergency human services
Community theatre
Preserve historical architecture and buildings in the city of wilkes barre pa and offer educational courses in architectural history.
Public Library open free of charge to all members of the community
Promotion of wellsboro area economy
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wellsboro Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Heart of Tioga. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 27 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 TIOGA COUNTY HOMELESS INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds WELLSBORO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ENDLESS MOUNTAIN MUSIC FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds WELLSBORO ELEMENTARY PTO ↗
- Who funds WELLSBORO CEMETERY COMPANY ↗
- Who funds DEANE CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL CARE SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds THE LEARNING TREE OF WELLSBORO ↗
- Who funds HAMILTON GIBSON PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds WELLSBORO SHARED HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds HEART OF TIOGA ↗
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: Ernest L & Mildred Roberts Sweet Foundation · Charles Knox & Margaret C Etner Foundation · Horace B Packer Foundation Inc · Earl W and Ina G Tabor Foundation · David G Patterson Foundation · Deerfield Charitable Trust · Amazonsmile Foundation
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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