· Private foundation
Dunn Foundation co Cynthia Behrens
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Tunnels to Towers Foundation | $1,500 |
| Wounded Warriors | $1,500 |
| Animal Hope Inc | $1,250 |
| Texas Coalition for Animal Protecti | $1,250 |
| Fort Worth Abandoned Animal Allianc | $1,250 |
| Operation Kindness | $1,250 |
| BOSIA | $1,200 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–17, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 4 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, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CACENTRAL ASIA INSTITUTE5× · 2017–2023 · $9k · revenue -39%
- WWWounded Warriors6× · 2020–2025 · $8k
- IGIndividual grant recipient3× · 2021–2023 · $5k
Funded once
- MUManhattan Universityone grant, 2017 · $7k · revenue +2%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue +99%- CLCOLUMBIA LEGAL SERVICESone grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue -78%
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.
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.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.
We conduct fundamental infectious disease research to generate critical new knowledge about pathogens and their interactions with see schedule o for continuationhumans to enable the discovery and development of novel interventions,…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Ahip is the national trade association representing the health insurance industry. ahip's members provide health care coverage, services and solutions to more than 200 million americans. we are committed to market-based solutions and…
Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.
The primary mission of the humane society is to end animal cruelty, neglect and overpopulation in south carolina.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…
Spcala is dedicated to the prevention of cruelty to animals through education, law enforcement, intervention and advocacy.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 25 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 CENTRAL ASIA INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Manhattan University ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR PAWS ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION KINDNESS ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY OF ALABAMA ↗
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: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Dunn Foundation co Cynthia Behrens funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dunn Foundation co Cynthia Behrens. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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