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Dunn 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $225k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $628k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC OFFICE OF DEVELOPMENT | $198,247 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF EDUCATION | $175,000 |
| TULANE UNIVERSITY | $95,000 |
| ALACHUA CONSERVATION TRUST | $90,000 |
| BRENTWOOD ACADEMY ANNUAL FUND | $70,000 |
| DENVER MUSEUM OF NATURE AND SCIENCE | $30,000 |
| VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY | $30,000 |
| CREEKSIDE ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION FOR KIDS (CREEK) | $25,000 |
| PROVIDENCE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $25,000 |
| DE TOLEDO HIGH SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| BENTON HALL ACADEMY | $20,000 |
| DENVER BOTANIC GARDENS | $20,000 |
| SHEJUMPS | $15,000 |
| CENTER FOR VISUAL ARTS | $10,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $10,000 |
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 human-services grants (FY19–24, $6k) 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +67% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 13 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, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $375k 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2023 · $2.5M · revenue +18%
Vanderbilt University6× · 2017–2024 · $100k · revenue +74%- ANAudubon Nature Institute Inc2× · 2019–2020 · $10k · revenue +67%
Funded once
- UOUniversity of Michigangraduatedone grant, 2019 · $850k · revenue +140%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS RESEARCH FUNDone grant, 2018 · $20k
- DSDIVINE SAVIOR ACADEMY - SIENNA PTOone grant, 2020 · $10k
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.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.
We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
See schedule ouniversity corporation for atmospheric research (ucar), on behalf of, and in cooperation with its member university members, is engaged in the management of long-term atmospheric and related research and educational…
The mission of lowell observatory is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach…
We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is De Toledo High School and the most unlike its peers is Friends of the Dillon Ranger District. 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 32 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 39 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 UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
- Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds ALACHUA CONSERVATION TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds Colorado Museum of Natural History ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds DENVER BOTANIC GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds DE TOLEDO HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BENTON HALL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SheJumps ↗
- Who funds Friends of the Dillon Ranger District ↗
- Who funds Audubon Nature Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds DECATUR LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HIGH HOPES INC ↗
- Who funds Houston Zoo Inc ↗
- Who funds CITY PARK CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds DENVER TOOL LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF LAS VEGAS INC ↗
- Who funds NEVADA BLIND CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Houston Museum of Natural Science ↗
- Who funds NEVADA CHILDHOOD CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Fort Bend Children's Discovery Center LLC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association 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.
Open a dossier: Union Pacific Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Dunn 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.
- Alachua Conservation Trust Inc — 5% 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.
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