· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $68k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| QUILT ALLIANCE | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION | $27,500 |
| NATIONAL QUILT MUSEUM | $20,000 |
| NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $10,000 |
| VA QUILT MUSEUM | $6,000 |
| UNION GOSPEL MISSION DALLAS | $5,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $5,000 |
| QUILTING HALL OF FAME | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 89% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against -66% for those funded once.
23 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TNThe National Quilt Museum Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $111k · revenue +74%
- NTNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK5× · 2020–2025 · $80k · revenue +35%
- TBTHE BOLLES SCHOOL5× · 2020–2024 · $25k · revenue +51%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $5k
- PVPARKINSON VOICE PROJECT INCone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -66%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.
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 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.
Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
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.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
How this is measured
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds The National Quilt Museum Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- 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 NORTH TEXAS PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC ↗
- Who funds THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds PARKINSON VOICE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Dallas Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds WILKINSON CENTER ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Mark and Ruth Ann Dunn Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mark and Ruth Ann Dunn Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 5% of income from government
How this is measured
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