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Dunwoody Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$482k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20212024.

Health$398kEducation$312kHuman Services$151kMembership Benefit$100kInternational$78kEnvironment$52kReligion$36kPublic Safety & Disaster$30kOther$0
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $1k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $131k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $350k
$25,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$8.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MD ANDERSON$100,000
PRESERVE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$100,000
LUTHER THOMAS KOLB SCHOLARSHIP$50,000
INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORP$50,000
GLENWOOD CEMETERY$50,000
HERMANN PARK CONSERVANCY$30,000
TEAM RUBICON$25,000
ST FRANCIS EPISCOPAL SCHOOL$25,000
GLOBAL MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE ALLIANCE$10,500
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL$10,000
NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION$10,000
PX PROJECT$10,000
SAINT LUKE UNITED METHODIST$10,000
PESTALOZZI$1,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–23, $154k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%ASPEN AID: $3k → 6%CONNECT COMMUNITY: $51k → 16%CONNECT COMMUNITY: $50k → 16%CONNECT COMMUNITY: $50k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$801k · 10 repeat orgs$298k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
5

Total granted

$801k
$33k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+27%

Still filing today

50%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $266k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationEnvironmentPublic Safety & DisasterHealthArts & CultureOther

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

  • MC
    My Connect Community
    3× · 2021–2023 · $151k · revenue +454%
  • TE
    TEXAS EDUCATION WORKS
    2× · 2021–2023 · $60k · revenue +26%
  • NS
    Neighborhood Schools Inc
    2× · 2021–2022 · $52k · revenue +189%

Funded once

  • TW
    THE WAHINE PROJECT
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -10%
  • MG
    MASS GENERAL HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • SS
    SHEPHERD SCHOOL OF MUSIC
    one grant, 2021 · $5k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Presbyterian School

Family, School, and Church united in the education and support of each child - this is the founding premise upon which Presbyterian School nurtures and challenges its students. The school provides an educational program of the highest…

Education
2
Build Galveston

Build Galveston is a nonprofit community development corporation focused on developing attainable workforce housing for Galveston's first responders, teachers, healthcare and hospitality workers.

Community Improvement
3
Houston Botanic Garden

To enrich life through discovery, education, and the conservation of plants and the natural environment.

Environment
4
Harbor School

Inspiring young scholars to contribute their wisdom, compassion, and personal best in the classroom, the community and the world.

Education
5
Trees for Houston

Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.

6
Redwood Cooperative School

Education Preschool Through Eight Grade

Education
7
Westside Neighborhood School

Wns is committed to creating a deeply caring community of lifelong learners that nurtures students from diverse backgrounds to reach their full potential, develop cultural competency, and inspire the world with their curiosity, innovation,…

Education
8
Yachtaid Global

YachtAid Global Mission:Provide unified humanitarian aid, conservation, and disaster response leadership through logistics management and consultationCoordinate the acquisition and delivery of humanitarian aid to coastal communities in…

International
9
Coastal Prairie Conservancy

The Coastal Prairie Conservancy (CPC) works to sustain a resilient Texas by preserving coastal prairies, wetlands, farms, and ranches to benefit people and wildlife forever. Continued on Schedule OCPC conserves land, restores and enhances…

Environment
10
The Royal School System

The mission of Royal Public Schools is to spark students' natural curiosity and love of learning while providing the knowledge and skills they need to lead successful and fulfilling lives.

Education
11
Veritas Christian Acadamy of Houston

Veritas is an independent Christian school in the classical tradition that prepares students for lives of service and learning through academic excellence character development biblical literacy and intentional engagement opportunities.

Education
12
Woodrow Wilson High School Community Foundation Inc

The Woodrow Wilson High School Community Foundation is dedicated to nurturing and improving the public education community of East Dallas, not only enhancing Dallas Independent School Districts Woodrow Wilson High but also its eight lower…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Navy Seal Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Aspenaid 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

11 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 24 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
4/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER — $267,000 · OtherMD ANDERSON CANCER CENTERGLENWOOD CEMETERY INC — $100,000 · OtherGLENWOOD CEMETERY INCMD ANDERSON — $100,000 · OtherMD ANDERSONLUTHER THOMAS KOLB SCHOLARSHIP — $50,000 · OtherLUTHER THOMAS KOLB SCHOLARSHIPST FRANCIS EPISCOPAL SCHOOL — $50,000 · OtherST FRANCIS EPISCOPAL SCHOOLINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORP — $50,000 · OtherINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPSAINT LUKE UNITED METHODIST — $35,500 · OtherNAVY SEAL WARRIOR TABLE — $30,000 · Other+6 more — $44,000 · Other+6 morePRESERVE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $100,000 · EducationPRESERVE COMMUNITY F…TEXAS EDUCATION WORKS — $60,000 · EducationTEXAS EDUCATION WORK…Neighborhood Schools Inc — $52,250 · EducationNeighborhood Schools…My Connect Community — $151,000 · Human ServicesMy Connect Com…+1 more — $2,500 · Human ServicesHermann Park Conservancy — $51,667 · EnvironmentTEAM RUBICON INC — $25,000 · Public Safety & DisasterGlobal Medical Knowledge Alliance Inc — $10,500 · HealthTHE WAHINE PROJECT — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$726,500Education$212,250Human Services$153,500Environment$51,667Public Safety & Disaster$25,000Health$10,500Youth Development$10,000Arts & Culture$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMy Connect Community — $151,000 over 3y, 6.1% of budgetPRESERVE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetGLENWOOD CEMETERY INC — $100,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTEXAS EDUCATION WORKS — $60,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetNeighborhood Schools Inc — $52,250 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetHermann Park Conservancy — $51,667 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTEAM RUBICON INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGlobal Medical Knowledge Alliance Inc — $10,500 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetTHE WAHINE PROJECT — $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASPENAID INC — $2,500 over 1y, 4.1% of budget
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 My Connect Community
  • Who funds PRESERVE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds GLENWOOD CEMETERY INC
  • Who funds TEXAS EDUCATION WORKS
  • Who funds Neighborhood Schools Inc
  • Who funds Hermann Park Conservancy
  • Who funds TEAM RUBICON INC
  • Who funds Global Medical Knowledge Alliance Inc
  • Who funds THE WAHINE PROJECT
  • Who funds NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds ASPENAID 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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA4.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Dunwoody Charitable 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Dunwoody Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Dunwoody Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 24 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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