Texas · Private foundation
Mark and Ruth Ann Dunn 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.
- $136k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 9
- Grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 7%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 18
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 7% of the organizations Mark and Ruth Ann Dunn Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
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
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 9 | $136k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $201k | 7% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $158k | 13% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $139k | 13% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $139k | 22% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $182k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The National Quilt Museum Inc | $111,000 | 6 | 3% |
| University of Nebraska Foundation | $87,500 | 4 | 0% |
| North Texas Food Bank | $80,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Studio Art Quilt Assoc Inc | $45,000 | 2 | 3% |
| The Bolles School | $25,000 | 5 | 0% |
| American Quilt Study Group | $16,000 | 5 | 3% |
| St Mark's School of Texas | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Ugm of Dallas | $9,000 | 4 | n/a |
| North Texas Public Broadcasting Inc | $5,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Shriners' Hospital for Children | $5,000 | 3 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The National Quilt Museum Inc | $111,000 | 6 | 3% |
| University of Nebraska Foundation | $87,500 | 4 | 0% |
| North Texas Food Bank | $80,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Studio Art Quilt Assoc Inc | $45,000 | 2 | 3% |
| The Bolles School | $25,000 | 5 | 0% |
| American Quilt Study Group | $16,000 | 5 | 3% |
| St Mark's School of Texas | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Ugm of Dallas | $9,000 | 4 | n/a |
| North Texas Public Broadcasting Inc | $5,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Shriners' Hospital for Children | $5,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Parkinson Voice Project Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Dallas Museum of Art | $4,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Wilkinson Center | $3,000 | 2 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($549k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Mark and Ruth Ann Dunn Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Mark and Ruth Ann Dunn Foundation
- How much does Mark and Ruth Ann Dunn Foundation give?
- Mark and Ruth Ann Dunn Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $135,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 18 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Mark and Ruth Ann Dunn Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Civil Rights (34%), Arts & Culture (28%), Education (12%).
- Who are Mark and Ruth Ann Dunn Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The National Quilt Museum Inc ($111k), University of Nebraska Foundation ($88k), North Texas Food Bank ($80k).
- Does Mark and Ruth Ann Dunn Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Mark and Ruth Ann Dunn Foundation 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 Mark and Ruth Ann Dunn Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund, National Philanthropic Trust, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
- Where is Mark and Ruth Ann Dunn Foundation based?
- Mark and Ruth Ann Dunn Foundation is based in TX.
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