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Marilyn W Dugan Foundation Inc

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$30k
Granted FY2023
46
Grants FY2023
46
Organizations funded FY2023
41%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$200
Largest grant, FY2023
$6,000
Organizations funded a year
17 to 46
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
19
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 41% of the organizations Marilyn W Dugan Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 32% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthInternationalHuman ServicesAnimalsEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202346$30k41%
FY202218$9k6%
FY202119$6k11%
FY202017$6k24%
FY201921$7k19%
FY201825$8k32%
FY201732$8kn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Religion$60kHuman Services$4kHealth$3kHousing & Shelter$2kInternational$2kEducation$760Public Safety & Disaster$450Animals$250Other$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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WI
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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$2,32520%
Covenant House$2,15060%
Family & Children's Agency Inc$1,10050%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$1,02570%
Catholic Charities of Fairfield County Inc$80020%
Operation Smile Inc$51040%
Macedonia Church Inc$5001n/a
Franciscan Friars of Mary Immaculate Inc$4903n/a
Province of St Joseph of the Capuchin Order$4157n/a
St Josephs Indian School$4105n/a
Show all 31 grantees
All grantees of Marilyn W Dugan Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$2,32520%
Covenant House$2,15060%
Family & Children's Agency Inc$1,10050%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$1,02570%
Catholic Charities of Fairfield County Inc$80020%
Operation Smile Inc$51040%
Macedonia Church Inc$5001n/a
Franciscan Friars of Mary Immaculate Inc$4903n/a
Province of St Joseph of the Capuchin Order$4157n/a
St Josephs Indian School$4105n/a
Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc$31020%
Order of Carmelites North American Province of St Elias$3053n/a
National Wildlife Federation$25010%
Woodcock Nature Center Inc$20010%
St Mary of the Lake Seminary$2001n/a
Mercy Ships International$20010%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$20010%
Smile Train Inc$17520%
Easter Seals Inc$11530%
Fathers of St Edmund Southern Missions Inc$1002n/a
Bridgeport Rescue Mission Inc$10010%
Red Cloud Indian School$901n/a
Soaring Eagle$9030%
Southwest Indian Foundation$801n/a
Father Flanagan's Boys' Home$7020%
Seraphic Mass Association Inc$551n/a
Save The Children Federation Inc$5010%
The Shriners' Hospital for Children$5010%
Sacred Heart University Incorporated$5010%
Society of the Little Flower$301n/a
American Heart Association Inc$2510%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 39 recipients with no EIN on record ($61k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Marilyn W Dugan Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $2,325 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCovenant House: $2,150 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFamily & Children's Agency Inc: $1,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $1,025 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCatholic Charities of Fairfield County Inc: $800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOperation Smile Inc: $510 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc: $310 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNational Wildlife Federation: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWoodcock Nature Center Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Ships International: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSmile Train Inc: $175 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEaster Seals Inc: $115 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBridgeport Rescue Mission Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSoaring Eagle: $90 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $70 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Shriners' Hospital for Children: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSacred Heart University Incorporated: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 20.

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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.

B & R Charitable Foundation IncTN17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: B & R Charitable Foundation Inc · Alexander and Linda Milley Foundation · The Salem Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Marilyn W Dugan Foundation Inc

How much does Marilyn W Dugan Foundation Inc give?
Marilyn W Dugan Foundation Inc reported 46 grants totaling $29,529 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 46 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Marilyn W Dugan Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Religion (82%), Human Services (5%), Health (4%).
Who are Marilyn W Dugan Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc ($2k), Covenant House ($2k), Family & Children's Agency Inc ($1k).
Does Marilyn W Dugan Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 41% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Marilyn W Dugan Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Marilyn W Dugan Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include B & R Charitable Foundation Inc, Alexander and Linda Milley Foundation, The Salem Foundation.
Where is Marilyn W Dugan Foundation Inc based?
Marilyn W Dugan Foundation Inc is based in CT.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 70 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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