· Private foundation
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 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.
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 |
| MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CHURCH OF NATIVITY | $10,000 |
| SKYLINE FDN | $10,000 |
| ST MARY'S ON THE HIGHLANDS | $10,000 |
| CHILDREN'S OF ALABAMA | $9,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HARBOR | $7,500 |
| AUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| ALTAMONT SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| HOPE IMAGING | $5,000 |
| QUARTERBACKING CHILDREN'S HEALTH FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $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 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 +46% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.
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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HDHIGHLANDS DAY SCHOOL FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2025 · $109k · revenue +21%
- TBTHE BIRMINGHAM BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC4× · 2018–2025 · $90k · revenue +54%
- 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
- FOFRIENDS OF JEMISON PARKone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -81%
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.
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
How this is measured
100 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. 100 of the 232 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 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 MCWANE SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE RESTORATION ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds I3 ACADEMY ↗
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 · 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Dunn-French Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dunn-French Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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