· Private foundation
Robert & Polly Dunn Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k32 grants · $118k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $319k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $375k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PATH TO HOPE INC | $130,000 |
| KAREN'S KIDS | $95,000 |
| SEND RELIEF | $80,000 |
| DIGITAL LOVE INC | $70,000 |
| SHADY DALE RODEO | $40,000 |
| GOLD STAR TEEN ADVENTURES | $35,000 |
| CHRIST CENTRAL MINISTRIES | $25,000 |
| SAFEPATH CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER | $25,000 |
| WATOTO TRUST INC | $25,000 |
| APOGEE STRONG FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| ATLANTA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $20,000 |
| REACH | $19,000 |
| CALVARY CHILDRENS HOME | $15,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NC | $15,000 |
| MACON TRACS INC | $14,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 51% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
45 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 14 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $162k 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
- KKKARENS KIDS4× · 2020–2024 · $715k · revenue +3% · 87% of their budget
- SCSafePath Children's Advocacy Center Inc4× · 2020–2024 · $100k · revenue +30%
- GSGOLD STAR TEEN ADVENTURES3× · 2020–2024 · $81k · revenue +126%
Funded once
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSEgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue +40%
- PAPrince Avenue Christian School Incgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $21k · revenue +49%
- HDHANCOCK DAY SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $15k
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.
Our mission is to create thriving communities by helping nonprofits succeed. our work revolves around four primary areas of focus.1. we are a hub for social innovation 2. we are a capacity accelerator for organizations and their people3.…
Georgia Court Appointed Special Advocates, Inc. (the Organization) is a nonprofit organization which strengthens and supports court-sanctioned, affiliate CASA programs that empower community volunteers who advocate for abused or neglected…
Covenant Care Services, Inc. is a non-profit faith-based adoption agency serving birthmothers and adoptive families in the state of Georgia. The Organization counsels women experiencing unplanned pregancy and educates them about the option…
Our commitment is to provide the individual support, meaningful training and employment services to people to remove barriers and close skill gaps so that individuals build brighter futures.
In Tulsa County there are several agencies that address prevention and treatment of child abuse, but the Child Advocacy Network (CAN) is the ONLY nonprofit that provides intervention services for children and their nonoffending…
Kidspeace, founded in 1882, is a healthcare nonprofit that is dedicated to providing hope, help, and healing to children, adults, and those who love them.continued on schedule o.with 40 offices and facilities across seven states, this…
Our new mission is: advocates for children is an organization of dedicated, skilled professionals and compassionate volunteers committed to the well-being of children, youth and families. through comprehensive advocacy and unwavering…
Girls on the Run Georgia empowers girls with vital social-emotional skills to help them succeed in school, at home, and within friendships. Our programs, Girls on the Run (3rd-5th grade) and Heart & Sole (6th-8th grade) are taught by…
Georgia alliance for breast cancer mission is to engage with georgia's breast cancer community to increase access to care and reduce disparities in cancer outcomes.
Creative community services (ccs) improves the quality of life for children teens and adults with developmental disabilities and mental health needs, and their families, by providing direct services and community-based support throughout…
To promote, assist and support the development, growth & continuation of children's advocacy centers in the state of Georgia.
The organization offers social services as a compassionate outreach to abused, neglected and dependent children and families in need. the organization strives to positively impact the lives of children, families and all those who receive…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Center for Children & Young Adults and the most unlike its peers is Apogee Strong Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 19% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
56 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. 56 of the 82 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.
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- Who funds CALVARY CHILDREN'S HOME ↗
- Who funds GOLD STAR TEEN ADVENTURES ↗
- Who funds SHADY DALE RODEO INC ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds CHRIS 180 INC ↗
- Who funds MOVING IN THE SPIRIT INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Restoration Network ↗
- Who funds NOBIS WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds Create Your Dreams Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR CHILDREN & YOUNG ADULTS ↗
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- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds EAGLE RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds TEAM RUBICON INC ↗
- Who funds KAYLEE'S CLOSET INC ↗
- Who funds Prince Avenue Christian School Inc ↗
- Who funds Apogee Strong Foundation ↗
- Who funds CULTURE LINK INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOYCE L ANSLEY SCHOOL INC ↗
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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: The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · The Imlay Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for Northeast Georgia · Jewish Federation of Greater Atlanta Inc · THDF II Inc DBA The Home Depot Foundation & Homer Fund · The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation · The Sartain Lanier Family Foundation Inc · Tull Charitable Foundation Inc · Tw Marian W Ottley Atlanta Main · United Way of Greater Atlanta Inc · The Virginia & Charles Brewer Family 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 Robert & Polly Dunn Foundation Inc 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.
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