· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| IPC | $7,000 |
| GLOBAL NETWORK FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| HOPE COMMUNITY FUND | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| FAIRHOPE EDUCATION ENRICHMENT FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| FISHER CENTER FOR ALZHEIMER'S RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $3,500 |
| CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION | $3,500 |
| SOLVE MECFS INITIATIVE | $3,500 |
| OPEN MEDICINE FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| BATEMAN HORNE CENTER OF EXCELLENCE | $2,000 |
| SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER | $2,000 |
| BAYKEEPER | $2,000 |
| SOUTH AL LAND TRUST (WEEKS BAY) | $2,000 |
| PARKER INSTITUTE FOR CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY | $1,500 |
| CHARITY WATER | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% 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 +34% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
66 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 11 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, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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
- FEFAIRHOPE EDUCATIONAL ENRICHMENT FOUNDATION8× · 2018–2025 · $61k · revenue +25%
- GNGlobal Network Foundation Inc8× · 2017–2025 · $56k · revenue +356%
- CCCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC7× · 2018–2025 · $36k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- FFEEPone grant, 2017 · $1k
- AACLUone grant, 2024 · $1k
- DPDUKE PRATT SCHOOL OF ENGINEERINGone grant, 2024 · $900
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.
To support the university of alabama at birmingham in its scientific and educational mission, including managing and disbursing funds, acquiring real property, and providing operational flexibility.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
Sfn's mission is to: 1. advance the understanding of the brain and the nervous system by bringing together scientists of all segments of neuroscience, by facilitating the integration of research directed at all levels of biological…
Our mission is to invest in and accelerate the development of the most promising future leaders in biomedical research with global impact.
Working with our world-class network of innovators, business and industry leaders, and policy experts, we accelerate the innovation of climate technologies at every stage - from discovery to development to deployment.
To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.
Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.
To investigate, research, write, publish, present conferences and teach with respect to global, regional, transboundary, and comparative environmental issues and to make the findings from such activities available to the general public; to…
To provide multi-specialty surgical care, humanitarian aid and educational support to people in low- and middle-income countries.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Stair of Birmingham and the most unlike its peers is Charity Global 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 33 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
45 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. 45 of the 89 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 FAIRHOPE EDUCATIONAL ENRICHMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Global Network Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE STATE OF ALABAMA BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds SOLVE ME CFS INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds THE ZACHARY & ELIZABETH M FISHER CENTER FOR ALZHEIMER'S RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Yellowhammer Fund ↗
- Who funds LAKESHORE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATIONS EARLY LEARNING AND FAMILY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHARITY GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA COASTAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds MCWANE SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds OPEN MEDICINE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PRESCHOOL PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds BATEMAN HORNE CENTER OF EXCELLENCE ↗
- Who funds X PRIZE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PARKER INSTITUTE FOR CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY ↗
- Who funds Birmingham Zoo Inc ↗
- Who funds South Alabama Land Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds FIRST GRADUATE ↗
- Who funds CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST LIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA ENVIRNOMENTAL COUNCIL 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: 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
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 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.