Alabama · Private foundation
Dunn Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $67k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 47
- Grants FY2025
- 52
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 10%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $7,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 26 to 52
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $526k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 10% of the organizations Dunn Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 46 | $66k | 24% |
| FY2024 | 52 | $105k | 10% |
| FY2023 | 33 | $51k | 6% |
| FY2022 | 52 | $78k | 19% |
| FY2021 | 41 | $75k | 22% |
| FY2020 | 37 | $73k | 11% |
| FY2019 | 34 | $50k | 32% |
| FY2018 | 26 | $35k | 19% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fairhope Educational Enrichment Foundation | $61,000 | 8 | 5% |
| Global Network Foundation Inc | $56,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Crohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc | $35,600 | 7 | 0% |
| The State of Alabama Ballet Inc | $35,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Solve Me Cfs Initiative Inc | $19,600 | 4 | 0% |
| The Zachary & Elizabeth M Fisher Center for Alzheimer's Research Foundation | $17,250 | 5 | 0% |
| Yellowhammer Fund | $11,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Lakeshore Foundation | $9,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Foundations Early Learning and Family Center Inc | $8,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Charity Global Inc | $7,900 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 44 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 43 recipients with no EIN on record ($220k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Dunn Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Mike and Gillian Goodrich Foundation · Protective Life Foundation · Stephens Foundation · Robert R Meyer Foundation · Dunn-French Foundation · The Joseph S Bruno Charitable Foundation · Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · The Hugh Kaul Foundation
How this is measured
About Dunn Foundation
- How much does Dunn Foundation give?
- Dunn Foundation reported 47 grants totaling $66,550 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 26 and 52 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Dunn Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (20%), Religion (17%), Education (16%).
- Who are Dunn Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Fairhope Educational Enrichment Foundation ($61k), Global Network Foundation Inc ($56k), Crohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc ($36k).
- Does Dunn Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Dunn 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 Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Daniel Foundation of Alabama, The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham, Mike and Gillian Goodrich Foundation.
- Where is Dunn Foundation based?
- Dunn Foundation is based in AL.
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