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Ron and Dana Dunford Family Foundation Inc

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.

$105k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
4
Grants FY2025
8
Organizations funded FY2024
50%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 9
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$1.2M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Ron and Dana Dunford Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 50% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterRecreation & SportsHealthArts & CultureOther
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
FY2025still arriving4$105k25%
FY20248$131k50%
FY20234$117k25%
FY20228$236k25%
FY20219$273k56%
FY20205$173k60%
FY20199$139k56%
FY20185$241kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

International$713kEducation$420kHuman Services$166kRecreation & Sports$56kCivil Rights$25kHousing & Shelter$23kHealth$2kYouth Development$1kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 18 grantees
All grantees of Ron and Dana Dunford Family Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Mentors International$530,000512%
Village Book Builders Inc$265,125522%
Empower Playgrounds Inc$175,000511%
University of Wisconsin - Green Bay Foundation Inc$100,00021%
Utah State University$55,0002n/a
United States Ski Team Foundation$51,00040%
Encompass Early Education & Care Inc$50,00030%
The Justin Wren Foundation$25,0001n/a
The Road Home$20,00010%
Center for Humanitarian Outreach and Intercultural Exchange$8,00020%
Exceptional Equestrians Company$5,00010%
Freedom House Ministries Inc$2,80010%
African Heritage Inc$1,00010%
Ryan M Schaller Foundation Inc$1,0001n/a
Green Bay Community Church Inc$5001n/a
New Community Shelter Inc$50010%
International Rescue Committee INC$25010%
Mission Guides International Inc$2501n/a

Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($124k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ron and Dana Dunford Family Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMentors International: $530,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetVillage Book Builders Inc: $265,125 over 5y, 22% of budgetEmpower Playgrounds Inc: $175,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetUniversity of Wisconsin - Green Bay Foundation Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetUnited States Ski Team Foundation: $51,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetEncompass Early Education & Care Inc: $50,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetThe Road Home: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCenter for Humanitarian Outreach and Intercultural Exchange: $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetExceptional Equestrians Company: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFreedom House Ministries Inc: $2,800 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAfrican Heritage Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNew Community Shelter Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $250 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 13.

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.

John and Engrid Meng IncWI17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: John and Engrid Meng Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Schreiber Foods Foundation Inc · George Kress Foundation Inc · US Ventureschmidt Family Foundation · Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · Elizabeth B and Philip J Hendrickson Foundation Ltd · Mark & Mary Peterson Family Foundation Inc · Byron L Walter Family Trust Xxxxx0002 · De Pere Christian Outreach · K C Stock Foundation Inc · Little Rapids Corporation - Egan Family Foundation Inc

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 Ron and Dana Dunford Family Foundation Inc

How much does Ron and Dana Dunford Family Foundation Inc give?
Ron and Dana Dunford Family Foundation Inc reported 4 grants totaling $105,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 9 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Ron and Dana Dunford Family Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (50%), Education (30%), Human Services (12%).
Who are Ron and Dana Dunford Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Mentors International ($530k), Village Book Builders Inc ($265k), Empower Playgrounds Inc ($175k).
Does Ron and Dana Dunford Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Ron and Dana Dunford Family 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 Ron and Dana Dunford Family Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include John and Engrid Meng Inc, Green Bay Packers Foundation, Schreiber Foods Foundation Inc.
Where is Ron and Dana Dunford Family Foundation Inc based?
Ron and Dana Dunford Family Foundation Inc is based in UT.

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 26 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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