Texas · Private foundation
John S Dunn Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $5.1M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 45
- Grants FY2024
- 43
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $2,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 43 to 49
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $82M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 14% of the organizations John S Dunn Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 41% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.1M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 43 | $5.1M | 9% |
| FY2023 | 43 | $5.1M | 14% |
| FY2022 | 45 | $6.8M | 4% |
| FY2021 | 49 | $5.0M | 27% |
| FY2020 | 47 | $5.1M | 40% |
| FY2019 | 45 | $4.8M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Methodist Hospital Foundation | $2,218,189 | 5 | 1% |
| William Marsh Rice University | $1,800,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Communities in Schools of Houston Inc | $1,100,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Texas Children's Hospital | $925,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Houston Christian University | $900,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Memorial Hermann Foundation | $832,800 | 4 | 2% |
| The Center for Hearing and Speech | $577,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Children's Assessment Center Foundation | $560,000 | 5 | 1% |
| The Council on Recovery | $550,000 | 6 | 1% |
| TIRR Foundation | $500,000 | 5 | 8% |
Show all 69 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($13M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
John S Dunn Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 64 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Vivian L Smith Foundation · The William Stamps Farish Fund · The Brown Foundation Inc · The Elkins Foundation · MD Anderson Foundation · The John M O'Quinn Foundation · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · Strake Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation
How this is measured
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About John S Dunn Foundation
- How much does John S Dunn Foundation give?
- John S Dunn Foundation reported 45 grants totaling $5,107,452 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 43 and 49 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does John S Dunn Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (74%), Education (18%), Crime & Legal (3%).
- Who are John S Dunn Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: The Methodist Hospital Foundation ($2.2M), William Marsh Rice University ($1.8M), Communities in Schools of Houston Inc ($1.1M).
- Does John S Dunn Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does John S Dunn Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as John S Dunn Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation, Greater Houston Community Foundation, Vivian L Smith Foundation.
- Where is John S Dunn Foundation based?
- John S Dunn Foundation is based in TX.
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