· Private foundation
Dunn Family Charitable Foundation
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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k87 grants · $289k
- $10k–50k70 grants · $1.3M
- $50k–250k19 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THOUSAND CURRENTS | $90,000 |
| GLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND INC | $75,000 |
| THE DAILY SOURCE LTD | $70,000 |
| MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE | $70,000 |
| OUTRIGHT ACTION INTERNATIONAL | $65,000 |
| FREEDOM UNITED | $60,000 |
| GROUNDSWELL INTERNATIONAL INC | $60,000 |
| MEDGLOBAL INC | $60,000 |
| GLOBAL IMPACT | $60,000 |
| THE SOCIAL CHANGE NEST - RAWA | $57,000 |
| GRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL INC | $55,000 |
| SOCIAL CHANGE INITIATIVE | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| BACKWARD SOCIETY EDUCATION (BASE) | $50,000 |
| UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST SERVICE COMMITTEE - UUSC | $50,000 |
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 US giving — 87% of grant dollars ($15M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 13% that went abroad ($2.3M) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% 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
Beyond the US — 13% of all-years giving ($2.3M)
23 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of Dunn Family Charitable 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.
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 +40% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
204 repeat relationships — 130 still active in FY2024, 74 since wound down; 42 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $539k 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
- OIOUTRIGHT INTERNATIONAL5× · 2018–2024 · $695k · revenue +608%
- PAPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College7× · 2018–2024 · $570k · revenue +47%
GIRLS EDUCATIONAL AND MENTORING SERVICES INC3× · 2017–2019 · $450k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- LFLAHEY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $500k
- DSDF SOCIAL JUSTICE FUNDone grant, 2021 · $250k
- SESOLAR ELECTRIC LIGHT FUNDone grant, 2019 · $106k · revenue -24%
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.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
To lead and coordinate the global initiative to address and prevent criminalization, violence, and impunity against indigenous peoples towards strengthening their collectives, solidarity, and actions.
Our mission is to create a fair and inclusive economy where underserved people have quality financial choices and opportunities to improve their economic well-being. we find and help build innovative companies with the potential to reach…
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
Nuru is a global collective that enables inclusive and sustainable prosperity by identifying communities at the stability tipping point, strengthening rural livelihoods and market systems, and fostering stabilizing connections that repair…
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
For over 60 years, counterpart international has partnered with communities worldwide to turn local ideas into lasting solutions, connecting local vision with global opportunity. (continued on schedule o)we believe people closest to the…
Namati, inc. (namati) is dedicated to putting the law in people's hands. we strive to build a just world, in which every one of us can take part in the decisions and demand accountability from the institutions that affect our lives.…
To offer the dignity of fair employment to people living in impoverished communities, who become transformational agents of global forest restoration.
The global impact investing network, inc. is dedicated to increasing the scale and effectiveness of impact investing to solve systemic problems facing people and the planet. impact investments are investments made into companies,…
To investigate, research, write, publish, present conferences and teach with respect to global, regional, transboundary, and comparative environmental issues and to make the findings from such activities available to the general public; to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Free the Slaves and the most unlike its peers is New England Circle D/B/a Global Citizens Circle. 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 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
211 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 211 of the 405 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
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- Who funds THOUSAND CURRENTS ↗
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- Who funds THE FREEDOM FUND ↗
- Who funds MedGlobal Inc ↗
- Who funds GRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds Global Impact ↗
- Who funds Groundswell International Inc ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds FREE THE SLAVES ↗
- Who funds NEWFOUND LAKE REGION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HUMANITY RISES INC ↗
- Who funds MCE SOCIAL CAPITAL ↗
- Who funds Unitarian Universalist Service Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds HOUR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds CHOOSE LOVE INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC ↗
- Who funds URGENT ACTION FUND FOR FEMINIST ACTIVISM ↗
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- Who funds HOPE BORDER INSTITUTE ↗
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- Who funds STREET BUSINESS SCHOOL ↗
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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: Boston Foundation Inc · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · Rsf Social Finance Inc · Impactassetsinc · Fwdus Education Fund Inc · Hispanics in Philanthropy · Choose Love Inc · The Shapiro Foundation · Foundation to Promote Open Society · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc
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 Dunn Family Charitable 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Notre Dame Mission Volunteer Corporation — 100% of income from government
- LOVE146 Inc — 49% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- College for Social Innovation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Mercy Center Corporation — 21% of income from government
- Saint Francis House Inc — 18% of income from government
- Doc Wayne Inc — 15% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Associated Catholic Charities Inc — 10% of income from government
- Root Capital Inc — 9% of income from government
- Open Table Inc — 7% of income from government
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc — 6% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
- Regis College — 2% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
- Lexington Historical Society — 1% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College — 1% of income from government
- Endicott College — 1% of income from government
- Hope Community Center Inc — 0% of income from government
- Trinity College — 0% of income from government
- Animal Rescue League of Boston — 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Boston Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Oxfam-America Inc — 0% 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.