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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 FY2025still arriving
47
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$7k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$113kReligion$94kEducation$92kArts & Culture$57kInternational$57kHuman Services$49kEnvironment$40kCivil Rights$13kOther$0
02FY2025 · 47 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
8
States reached
$526k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
IPC$7,000
GLOBAL NETWORK FOUNDATION$6,000
FAIRHOPE EDUCATION ENRICHMENT FOUNDATION$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
HOPE COMMUNITY FUND$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
BAYKEEPER$2,000
BATEMAN HORNE CENTER OF EXCELLENCE$2,000
SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER$2,000
SOUTH AL LAND TRUST (WEEKS BAY)$2,000
PARKER INSTITUTE FOR CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY$1,500
ACLU - IN MEMORY OF DONNA JASIE$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CHARITY WATER: $1k → 4%CHARITY WATER: $2k → 17%CHARITY WATER: $2k → 17%CHARITY WATER: $1k → 17%CHARITY WATER: $1k → 17%FAMILY PROMISE OF BALDWIN COUNTY: $500 → 19%CHARITY WATER: $500 → 17%CHARITY WATER: $500 → 17%YMCA OF GREATER BIRMINGHAM: $500 → 16%FIRST LIGHT: $250 → 16%FIRST LIGHT: $250 → 16%FIRST LIGHT: $250 → 16%FIRST LIGHT: $250 → 16%FIRST LIGHT: $250 → 16%FIRST LIGHT: $250 → 16%FIRST LIGHT: $250 → 16%FIRST LIGHT: $250 → 16%FIRST LIGHT: $150 → 16%YMCA OF GREATER BIRMINGHAM: $100 → 16%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

NY
CA
UT
CO
VA
TN
NC
DC
AL
GA
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$544k · 66 repeat orgs$22k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +12% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

66
10

Total granted

$544k
$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+12%

Still filing today

61%
30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthEducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • FE
    FAIRHOPE EDUCATIONAL ENRICHMENT FOUNDATION
    8× · 2018–2025 · $61k · revenue +25%
  • GN
    Global Network Foundation Inc
    8× · 2017–2025 · $56k · revenue +559%
  • CC
    CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2018–2025 · $36k · revenue +15%

Funded once

  • F
    FEEP
    one grant, 2017 · $1k
  • A
    ACLU
    one grant, 2024 · $1k
  • DP
    DUKE PRATT SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING
    one grant, 2024 · $900
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
Uab Educational Foundation

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.

Education
2
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
4
American Association for the Advancement of Science

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,…

Science & Tech
5
The Water Research Foundation

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…

Environment
6
Society for Neuroscience

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…

Health
7
International Biomedical Research Alliance

Our mission is to invest in and accelerate the development of the most promising future leaders in biomedical research with global impact.

Health
8
Breakthrough Energy Foundation

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.

Public Benefit
9
Arizona Community Foundation

To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.

Philanthropy
10
Nashville Public Radio

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.

Arts & Culture
11
Center for International Environmental Law Inc

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…

International
12
Fajr Scientific

To provide multi-specialty surgical care, humanitarian aid and educational support to people in low- and middle-income countries.

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Stair of Birmingham; 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.
04the grantee network

45 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

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)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/45
Grantees still filing
33/45
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

INDEPENDENT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF BIRMINGHAM: $87,030 · OtherINDEPENDENT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF BIRMINGHAMGlobal Network Foundation Inc: $56,000 · OtherGlobal Network Foundation IncIPC SOCIAL SERVICES: $39,500 · OtherIPC SOCIAL SERVICESSOLVE ME CFS INITIATIVE INC: $19,600 · OtherSOLVE ME CFS INITIATIVE INCHOPE COMMUNITY FUND: $11,000 · Other+55 more: $112,950 · Other+55 moreFAIRHOPE EDUCATIONAL ENRICHMENT FOUNDATION: $61,000 · Arts & CultureFAIRHOPE EDUCATIONAL …THE STATE OF ALABAMA BALLET INC: $35,000 · Arts & CultureTHE STATE OF ALABAMA …MCWANE SCIENCE CENTER: $6,500 · Arts & CultureMCWANE SCIENCE CENTER+4 more: $6,225 · Arts & Culture+4 moreCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $35,600 · HealthCROHN'S & COLITI…THE ZACHARY & ELIZABETH M FISHER CENTER FOR ALZHEIMER'S RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $17,250 · HealthTHE ZACHARY & EL…LAKESHORE FOUNDATION: $9,000 · HealthLAKESHORE FOUNDA…OPEN MEDICINE FOUNDATION: $6,350 · HealthOPEN MEDICINE FO…BATEMAN HORNE CENTER OF EXCELLENCE: $5,900 · HealthBATEMAN HORNE CE…PARKER INSTITUTE FOR CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY: $3,500 · HealthCANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $2,950 · HealthFOUNDATIONS EARLY LEARNING AND FAMILY CENTER INC: $8,000 · EducationPRESCHOOL PARTNERS: $5,950 · EducationJEFFERSON COUNTY LIBRARY COOPERATIVE INC: $1,850 · EducationSTAIR OF BIRMINGHAM: $1,500 · EducationMountain Brook City Schools Foundation: $850 · Education+2 more: $750 · EducationALABAMA COASTAL FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 · EnvironmentSouth Alabama Land Trust Inc: $3,000 · EnvironmentALABAMA ENVIRNOMENTAL COUNCIL INC: $2,000 · EnvironmentCHARITY GLOBAL INC: $7,900 · Human ServicesFIRST LIGHT INC: $2,150 · Human ServicesTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BIRMINGHAM INC: $600 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMISE OF BALDWIN COUNTY: $500 · Human ServicesYellowhammer Fund: $11,000 · Civil Rights
Other$326,080Arts & Culture$108,725Health$80,550Education$18,900Environment$12,500Human Services$11,150Civil Rights$11,000

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 budgetFAIRHOPE EDUCATIONAL ENRICHMENT FOUNDATION: $61,000 over 8y, 4.8% of budgetGlobal Network Foundation Inc: $56,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $35,600 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE STATE OF ALABAMA BALLET INC: $35,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetSOLVE ME CFS INITIATIVE INC: $19,600 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE ZACHARY & ELIZABETH M FISHER CENTER FOR ALZHEIMER'S RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $17,250 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetYellowhammer Fund: $11,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetLAKESHORE FOUNDATION: $9,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATIONS EARLY LEARNING AND FAMILY CENTER INC: $8,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetCHARITY GLOBAL INC: $7,900 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetALABAMA COASTAL FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $7,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMCWANE SCIENCE CENTER: $6,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetOPEN MEDICINE FOUNDATION: $6,350 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPRESCHOOL PARTNERS: $5,950 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetBATEMAN HORNE CENTER OF EXCELLENCE: $5,900 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetX PRIZE FOUNDATION INC: $4,450 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPARKER INSTITUTE FOR CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBirmingham Zoo Inc: $3,400 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSouth Alabama Land Trust Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $2,950 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST GRADUATE: $2,950 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFIRST LIGHT INC: $2,150 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetALABAMA ENVIRNOMENTAL COUNCIL INC: $2,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $1,900 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetJEFFERSON COUNTY LIBRARY COOPERATIVE INC: $1,850 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSPACE ONE ELEVEN INC: $1,825 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSTAIR OF BIRMINGHAM: $1,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBIRMINGHAM LANDMARKS INC: $1,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF JEMISON PARK: $1,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE PLANETARY SOCIETY: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSHAKESPEARE-SAN FRANCISCO: $1,450 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSan Francisco Art and Film Program: $1,450 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION INC: $1,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCahaba River Society Inc: $1,200 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO ROTARY FOUNDATION: $950 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC: $950 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDOWNTOWN JIMMIE HALE MISSION: $900 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMountain Brook City Schools Foundation: $850 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BIRMINGHAM INC: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RALEIGH SCHOOL INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF BALDWIN COUNTY: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRocky Mountain Institute: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY WORLDWIDE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MOUNTAIN BROOK LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • 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 CANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds FIRST GRADUATE ↗
  • Who funds FIRST LIGHT INC ↗
  • Who funds ALABAMA ENVIRNOMENTAL COUNCIL INC ↗

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.

The Daniel Foundation…The Community Foundat…Mike and Gillian Good…Protective Life Found…Stephens FoundationRobert R Meyer Founda…Dunn-French FoundationThe Joseph S Bruno Ch…Susan Mott Webb Chari…Alabama Power Foundat…Hill Crest Foundation…The Hugh Kaul Foundat…
The Daniel Foundation of AlabamaAL41.2× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.

    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 89 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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