· Private foundation
Dunn Family Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $71k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JOHN PAUL II CATHOLIC GRADE SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| ST ANN CATHOLIC CHURCH | $10,000 |
| GREATER KANSAS CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CHURCH OF THE NATIVITY | $9,000 |
| NATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| THE LILABEAN FOUNDATION INC | $5,500 |
| UPPER ROOM INC | $5,000 |
| ST JOSEPH HOUSING INITIATIVE | $5,000 |
| NATIONAL PARKINSON FOUNDATION HEARTLAND | $5,000 |
| FIRE FOUNDATION OF NORTHEAST IOWA | $5,000 |
| THE AIDAN PROJECT | $5,000 |
| MATTHEW 19 14 INC DBA EMBRACE | $3,500 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION INC | $2,500 |
| FLOURISH FURNISHINGS INC | $2,500 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST KANSAS INC | $2,500 |
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 (FY21–25, $76k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 83% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 11% of Dunn Family 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 +17% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
- TATHE AIDAN PROJECT5× · 2021–2025 · $29k · revenue +76%
- URUPPER ROOM KC2× · 2022–2023 · $15k · revenue +21%
- TLTHE LILABEAN FOUNDATION INC3× · 2023–2025 · $14k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- CICHWC INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +116%
- AOARCHDIOCESE OF KANSAS CITYone grant, 2023 · $10k
- KCKansas City Hospice Incone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
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 Welcome House is a non-profit, sober living, recovery program (incorporated in 1971) with the sole purpose of educating and rehabilitating the adult male alcoholic/ addict and the expressed mission of returning the individual to…
The organization provides hospice care services within the archdiocese of kansas city in kansas as well as the greater metropolitan areas of kansas city, kansas and kansas city, missouri.
The gabriel project is a ministry of the pro-life office in the archdiocese of kansas city in kansas, and the respect life office in the diocese of kansas city-st. joseph, missouri. the organization provides assistance to pregnant women in…
Catholic charities alleviates poverty & builds strong families through numerous programs: homeless shelter, domestic violence shelter, adult day services program, food pantry, counseling.
House of Hope Kansas City is unique, because we work with teens and their parents to find solutions and ultimately, restoration of healthy family relationships. We serve families in crisis with our program for residents to experience the…
We inspire thinkers from different disciplines to combine their efforts for a common purpose: healthcare innovation.(continued on schedule o)from bioinformatics to cancer research and beyond, we stimulate collaboration and help bring…
Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope to realize our vision of a world where everyone has a decent place to live. habitat for humanity of kansas city…
ReHope empowers and elevates survivors of human trafficking and sexual exploitation through its faith-based, trauma-informed residence and recovery programs.
The mission of kc care health center is to promote health and wellness by providing quality care, access, research and education to the underserved and all people in our community.
Hope family care center's mission is to honor god by establishing and operating a health clinic that provides compassionate, high-quality, whole-person care to individuals and families in east kansas city who have had the hardest time…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities of Northeast Kansas Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sacred Transition Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
46 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. 46 of the 69 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 Greater Kansas City Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds CHWC INC ↗
- Who funds THE AIDAN PROJECT ↗
- Who funds UPPER ROOM KC ↗
- Who funds THE LILABEAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KANBE'S MARKETS ↗
- Who funds National Kidney Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST KANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGING THE GAP INC ↗
- Who funds Kansas City Hospice Inc ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MISSOURI AND KANSAS ↗
- Who funds St Joseph Housing Initiative ↗
- Who funds Benedictine College ↗
- Who funds UPLIFT ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds OLIVIA BLOOMFIELD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HAPPYBOTTOMS ↗
- Who funds SLEEPYHEAD BEDS ↗
- Who funds HONORING OUR WOUNDED MILITARY INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF KANSAS CITY - ST JOSEPH INC ↗
- Who funds FIRE FOUNDATION OF NORTHEAST IOWA ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds VITAE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALEXANDRAS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds RESTART INC ↗
- Who funds Hope Faith Ministries 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: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · The Dehaemers Family Charitable Trust · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Health Forward Foundation · Greater Horizons · Hallmark Corporate Foundation · Servant Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · R a Long Foundation 600 Plaza West Bldg
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.
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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