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Dunn-French 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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k89 grants · $232k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $160k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF ALABAMA | $40,000 |
| FRIENDS OF BIRMINGHAM BOTANICAL GARDENS | $30,000 |
| MOUNTAIN BROOK BAPTIST CHURCH | $20,000 |
| UAB MEDICINE ENTERPRISE | $15,000 |
| GRACE HOUSE | $15,000 |
| SKYLINE FDN | $10,000 |
| ST MARY'S ON THE HIGHLANDS | $10,000 |
| MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CHURCH OF NATIVITY | $10,000 |
| CHILDREN'S OF ALABAMA | $9,000 |
| AUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| CHILDREN'S HARBOR | $7,500 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $5,000 |
| ONE PLACE METRO AL FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER | $5,000 |
| YWCA | $5,000 |
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, $90k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 84% 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.
147 repeat relationships — 80 still active in FY2025, 67 since wound down; 18 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $63k 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
- HDHIGHLANDS DAY SCHOOL FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2025 · $109k · revenue +21%
- TBTHE BIRMINGHAM BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC4× · 2018–2025 · $90k · revenue +44%
- TCThe Children's Hospital of Alabama9× · 2017–2025 · $53k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- BSBIRMINGHAM SOUTHERN FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $10k
- CUCHRISTIAN UNION PRINCETONone grant, 2017 · $6k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM - SCHOOL OF ENGINEERINGone grant, 2017 · $5k
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 work in partnership with families and organizations to ensure that all alabama children (birth to five) get everything they need to develop to their fullest potential.
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 Organization is a nonprofit community defender providing legal assistance through court appointment to children and other indigent persons.
To promote the preservation and continued development of commercial banking in alabama.
To help find a cure for breast cancer by funding promising breast cancer research in alabama and to raise community awareness and funding for that research.
The Alabama A&M University Foundation was established to receive, hold, invest, manage, use, and administer property of all kinds, whether given absolutely or in trust, for the benefit of Alabama A&M University and its educational,…
Our mission is to speak for the well-being of Alabama's children through research, public awareness, and advocacy.
Alabama Rivers Alliance is a statewide network of groups working to protect and restore all of Alabama's water resources through building partnerships, empowering citizens, and advocating for sound water policy and its enforcement.
To provide quality healthcare and related services to all communities, including the underserved and homeless persons, regardless of language, culture, or financial barriers
The university foundation is organized to assist and aid the board of trustees of the university of alabama in fulfilling its educational, research, and public service programs and activities.
Encourage and enhance advocacy and family support services on behalf of individuals suffering from mental illness.
The alabama alliance netowrk works to strengthen and enhance alabama's civic society through research, education, and grantmaking
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Foundation of Mississippi and the most unlike its peers is James Whites Fort. 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 37 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
100 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. 100 of the 232 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 HIGHLANDS DAY SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BIRMINGHAM BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds The Children's Hospital of Alabama ↗
- Who funds THE ALTAMONT SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WOODLAWN UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HARBOR INC ↗
- Who funds SKYLINE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LAKESHORE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE SCHOOLS OF ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds LINLY HEFLIN UNIT INC ↗
- Who funds Quarterbacking Children's Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds Darlington School Inc ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR LEAGUE OF BIRMINGHAM INC ↗
- Who funds STAIR OF BIRMINGHAM ↗
- Who funds Birmingham Zoo Inc ↗
- Who funds Mississippi State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds BIRMINGHAM SWIM LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds Cahaba River Society Inc ↗
- Who funds I3 ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE RESTORATION ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds MCWANE SCIENCE CENTER ↗
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 · Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · Protective Life Foundation · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Altecstyslinger Foundation · Robert R Meyer Foundation · Mike and Gillian Goodrich Foundation · The Hugh Kaul Foundation · The Hackney Foundation · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · The Joseph S Bruno Charitable 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-French 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.
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