Massachusetts · 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.
- $2.7M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 176
- Grants FY2024
- 175
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 31%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $90,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 72 to 175
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 29
- Total assets, FY2024
- $40M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 31% of the organizations Dunn Family Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $451k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 172 | $2.6M | 24% |
| FY2023 | 175 | $2.8M | 31% |
| FY2022 | 138 | $2.4M | 25% |
| FY2021 | 143 | $2.6M | 27% |
| FY2020 | 134 | $1.8M | 48% |
| FY2019 | 94 | $1.7M | 50% |
| FY2018 | 84 | $1.5M | 54% |
| FY2017 | 72 | $1.1M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Outright International | $695,000 | 5 | 7% |
| President and Fellows of Middlebury College | $570,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Girls Educational and Mentoring Services Inc | $450,000 | 3 | 7% |
| Por Cristo Inc | $420,000 | 6 | 46% |
| Thousand Currents | $345,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Mariposa DR Foundation | $340,000 | 8 | 7% |
| Notre Dame Mission Volunteer Corporation | $305,500 | 6 | 1% |
| Brownsville Think Tank Matters Inc | $300,000 | 3 | 57% |
| The Freedom Fund | $275,000 | 4 | 1% |
| MedGlobal Inc | $275,000 | 5 | 1% |
Show all 216 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 181 recipients with no EIN on record ($6.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Dunn Family Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 197 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
About Dunn Family Charitable Foundation
- How much does Dunn Family Charitable Foundation give?
- Dunn Family Charitable Foundation reported 176 grants totaling $2,749,964 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 72 and 175 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Dunn Family Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (35%), Civil Rights (11%), Environment (9%).
- Who are Dunn Family Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Outright International ($695k), President and Fellows of Middlebury College ($570k), Girls Educational and Mentoring Services Inc ($450k).
- Does Dunn Family Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Dunn Family Charitable Foundation 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 Dunn Family Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, Conrad N Hilton Foundation, Rsf Social Finance Inc.
- Where is Dunn Family Charitable Foundation based?
- Dunn Family Charitable Foundation is based in MA.
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