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Dunn Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$111k
Granted FY2025still arriving
24
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Religion$226kHealth$157kHousing & Shelter$122kPhilanthropy$115kHuman Services$83kEducation$62kFood & Nutrition$15kArts & Culture$12kOther$0
02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k21 grants · $71k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
$3,500
Median grant
6
States reached
$646k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
THE AIDAN PROJECT$5,000
FIRE FOUNDATION OF NORTHEAST IOWA$5,000
ST JOSEPH HOUSING INITIATIVE$5,000
NATIONAL PARKINSON FOUNDATION HEARTLAND$5,000
MATTHEW 19 14 INC DBA EMBRACE$3,500
NOTRE DAME DE SION SCHOOLS OF$2,500
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION INC$2,500
MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MISSOURI INC$2,500
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HONORING OUR WOUNDED MILITARY: $5k → 11%MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MISSOURI INC: $3k → 11%MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MISSOURI INC: $3k → 11%THE AIDAN PROJECT: $7k → 15%MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MISSOURI INC: $3k → 11%THE AIDAN PROJECT: $5k → 15%THE AIDAN PROJECT: $5k → 15%THE AIDAN PROJECT: $5k → 15%NATIVITY HOUSE KC INC: $500 → 16%THE AIDAN PROJECT: $5k → 15%THE AIDAN PROJECT: $2k → 15%KANSAS CITY HOSPICE: $10k → 15%HAPPYBOTTOMS: $5k → 15%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF KANSAS CITY-ST JOSPEH INC: $5k → 15%SLEEPY HEAD BEDS: $3k → 15%SLEEPY HEAD BEDS: $3k → 15%UPLIFT ORGANIZATION INC: $5k → 15%HOPE FAITH MINISTRIES INC: $3k → 15%RECONCILIATION SERVICES: $1k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
NY
IA
OH
CA
MO
MD
KS
TN
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 11% of Dunn Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Dunn Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$465k · 27 repeat orgs$243k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against +16% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
34

Total granted

$465k
$208k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+16%

Still filing today

63%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TA
    THE AIDAN PROJECT
    5× · 2021–2025 · $29k · revenue +76%
  • UR
    UPPER ROOM KC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $15k · revenue +21%
  • TL
    THE LILABEAN FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $14k · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • CI
    CHWC INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +116%
  • AO
    ARCHDIOCESE OF KANSAS CITY
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • UR
    UPPER ROOM
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
North Central Kansas Housing Opportunities Inc
Community Improvement
2
Welcome House Inc

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…

Health
3
Catholic Community Hospice of Northeast Kansas Inc

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.

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4
Gabriel Project Kansas City

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…

Human Services
5
Kansas Recovery Network
Health
6
Catholic Charities Inc

Catholic charities alleviates poverty & builds strong families through numerous programs: homeless shelter, domestic violence shelter, adult day services program, food pantry, counseling.

Human Services
7
Freedom House Ministries

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…

Education
8
Bionexus Kc

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…

Science & Tech
9
Habitat for Humanity of Kansas City

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…

Housing & Shelter
10
Restoration House of Greater Kansas City

ReHope empowers and elevates survivors of human trafficking and sexual exploitation through its faith-based, trauma-informed residence and recovery programs.

Housing & Shelter
11
Kansas City Care Clinic

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.

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12
Hope Family Care Center Llc

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…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities of Northeast Kansas Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

46 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/46
Grantees still filing
29/46
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST PAULS OUTREACH INC: $158,500 · OtherST PAULS OUTREACH INCMATTHEW 19 14 INC DBA EMBRACE: $50,500 · OtherMATTHEW 19 14 INC DBA EMBRACENATIONAL PARKINSON FOUNDATION HEARTLAND: $42,500 · OtherNATIONAL PARKINSON FOUNDATION HEARTLANDSt Ann Catholic Church: $22,500 · OtherJOHN PAUL II CATHOLIC GRADE SCHOOL: $20,000 · OtherChurch of the Nativity: $16,500 · Other+35 more: $140,750 · Other+35 moreGreater Kansas City Community Foundation: $110,000 · PhilanthropyGreater Kansas C…OLIVIA BLOOMFIELD FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $2,000 · PhilanthropyCHWC INC: $100,000 · Housing & ShelterCHWC INCSt Joseph Housing Initiative: $6,000 · Housing & ShelterSt Joseph Housi…+1 more: $2,500 · Housing & ShelterTHE AIDAN PROJECT: $29,000 · Human ServicesTHE AIDAN …Kansas City Hospice Inc: $10,000 · Human ServicesKansas Cit…MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MISSOURI AND KANSAS: $7,500 · Human ServicesMAKE-A-WIS…HAPPYBOTTOMS: $5,000 · Human ServicesHAPPYBOTTO…HONORING OUR WOUNDED MILITARY INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesHONORING O…UPLIFT ORGANIZATION INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesUPLIFT ORG…CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF KANSAS CITY - ST JOSEPH INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC C…SLEEPYHEAD BEDS: $5,000 · Human ServicesSLEEPYHEAD…+3 more: $4,000 · Human ServicesTHE LILABEAN FOUNDATION INC: $13,500 · HealthNational Kidney Foundation Inc: $11,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $3,750 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $2,500 · HealthALEXANDRAS HOUSE: $2,500 · HealthAdvice and Aid Pregnancy Centers Inc: $1,500 · Health+2 more: $1,750 · HealthUPPER ROOM KC: $15,000 · Recreation & SportsKANBE'S MARKETS: $11,500 · Food & NutritionHARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK: $2,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$451,250Philanthropy$117,000Housing & Shelter$108,500Human Services$75,500Health$36,500Recreation & Sports$15,000Food & Nutrition$13,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGreater Kansas City Community Foundation: $110,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHWC INC: $100,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetTHE AIDAN PROJECT: $29,000 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetUPPER ROOM KC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE LILABEAN FOUNDATION INC: $13,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetKANBE'S MARKETS: $11,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNational Kidney Foundation Inc: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST KANSAS INC: $10,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBRIDGING THE GAP INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetKansas City Hospice Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MISSOURI AND KANSAS: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSt Joseph Housing Initiative: $6,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetOLIVIA BLOOMFIELD FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHAPPYBOTTOMS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHONORING OUR WOUNDED MILITARY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetBenedictine College: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUPLIFT ORGANIZATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF KANSAS CITY - ST JOSEPH INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSLEEPYHEAD BEDS: $5,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $3,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVITAE FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFLOURISH FURNISHINGS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF LAKESIDE NATURE CENTER INCORPORATED: $2,500 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetHope Faith Ministries Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSCHOOL OF LOVE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetRESTART INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALEXANDRAS HOUSE: $2,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetHARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOLY TRINITY CATHOLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMO HIVES KC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetKANSAS CITY PET PROJECT: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAdvice and Aid Pregnancy Centers Inc: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKANSAS CITY REPERTORY THEATRE INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Whole Person Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMENS EMPLOYMENT NETWORK: $1,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST PAUL CENTER FOR BIBLICAL THEOLOGY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRECONCILIATION SERVICES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOMEBOY INDUSTRIES: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEL CENTRO INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNativity House KC Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Greater Kansas City C…United Way of Greater…The Dehaemers Family …Oppenstein Brothers F…Commerce Bancshares F…Health Forward Founda…Greater HorizonsHallmark Corporate Fo…Servant FoundationThe Sunderland Founda…Ewing Marion Kauffman…R a Long Foundation 6…
Greater Kansas City Community FoundationMO55.2× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Dunn Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dunn Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Dunn Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Dunn Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 69 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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