· Private foundation
Mark and Ruth Ann Dunn 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $90k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| QUILT ALLIANCE | $75,000 |
| STUDIO ART QUILT ASSOCIATES | $30,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| NATIONAL QUILT MUSEUM | $20,000 |
| NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF QUILTS | $10,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $8,000 |
| ST MARKS SCHOOL OF TEXAS | $5,000 |
| TOYS FOR TOTS | $5,000 |
| BOLLES SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| VA QUILT MUSEUM | $4,000 |
| AMERICAN QUILT STUDY GROUP | $3,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $3,000 |
| QUILTING HALL OF FAME | $2,000 |
| DALLAS MUSEUM OF ART | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 88% of your 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against -66% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- TNThe National Quilt Museum Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $91k · revenue +74%
- NTNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK4× · 2020–2024 · $70k · revenue +35%
- TBTHE BOLLES SCHOOL5× · 2020–2024 · $25k · revenue +51%
Funded once
- PVPARKINSON VOICE PROJECT INCone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -66%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $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.
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
The mission of the national academy of design is to promote the fine arts in america through exhibition and education.
National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The witte museum inspires people to shape the future of texas through transformative and relevant experiences in nature, science and culture.
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The national press photographers association is dedicated to the advancement of visual journalism, its creation, practice, training, editing and distribution, in all news media and works to promote its role as a vital public service.
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
The n.e. quilt museum uses quilts and the stories of quiltmaking to inspire and educate quilters and the general public. the museum presents, preserves, and studies american quiltmaking, both past and present.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Mark's School of Texas and the most unlike its peers is American Quilt Study Group. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 25 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
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 The National Quilt Museum Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STUDIO ART QUILT ASSOC INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOLLES SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN QUILT STUDY GROUP ↗
- Who funds ST MARK'S SCHOOL OF TEXAS ↗
- Who funds PARKINSON VOICE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC ↗
- Who funds THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Dallas Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds WILKINSON 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: Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Mark and Ruth Ann Dunn 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 5% of income from government
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.