· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EMPOWER PLAYGROUNDS | $50,000 |
| FIGHT FOR THE FORGOTTEN | $25,000 |
| VILLAGE BOOK BUILDERS | $25,000 |
| UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
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 (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 52% of your 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.
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.
11 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- MIMentors International5× · 2018–2022 · $530k · revenue +284%
- VBVILLAGE BOOK BUILDERS INC5× · 2021–2025 · $265k · revenue +87%
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - GREEN BAY FOUNDATION INC2× · 2021–2022 · $100k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- TRTHE ROAD HOMEgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +48%
- HOHOUSE OF HOPEone grant, 2024 · $5k
- RFRMS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $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.
To create transformative and globally connected learning experiences, preparing orphaned and vulnerable children for a lifetime of influence.
EWB International seeks to promote collaboration of the global EWB movement. Together we work towards a sustainable world, where engineering enables long-term positive social and economic development, for the benefit of people and the…
Empowering Lives International (ELI) ignites world changers. We equip families and orphans to crush poverty, embrace Christ, and share their transformation with others through their God-honoring income, their deepening relationship with…
The mission of shelterbox usa is to deliver humanitarian relief in the form of equipment and materials that bring shelter, warmth & dignity to people made homeless by natural or other disasters worldwide.
Zoe Empowers is a global network of local organizations throughout Africa and India providing a replicable and scalable framework whereby youth led or resourced families are provided the training, resources, and community support to become…
Children's house international provides ethical adoption services, child focused recruitment, and family support. we support disadvantaged children with humanitarian aid in countries worldwide.
MedGlobal is a humanitarian non-governmental organization working to serve vulnerable communities around the world by providing innovative, free, and sustainable healthcare. Our health services support refugees, displaced persons, and…
To glorify the Lord Jesus Christ by ministering to orphans around the world by meeting spiritual, physical, emotional, and educational needs.
Every Shelter's mission is to build a localized refugee-aid ecosystem centered around the needs, preferences, and aspirations of refugees.
We minister to orphans and widows in their distress by transitioning children from orphanages into loving families. We do this through Christ- centered care, training and social work.
Aid For Starving Children provides assistance around the world to children and their families by providing food, shelter, clean water, financial assistance, education, and emergency relief to victims of famine, natural disasters, and war.
We provide aid to refugees, both at home and abroad. Simply humanitarian.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Encompass Early Education & Care Inc and the most unlike its peers is Village Book Builders Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 26 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 Mentors International ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE BOOK BUILDERS INC ↗
- Who funds Empower Playgrounds Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - GREEN BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds United States Ski Team Foundation ↗
- Who funds ENCOMPASS EARLY EDUCATION & CARE INC ↗
- Who funds THE ROAD HOME ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR HUMANITARIAN OUTREACH AND INTERCULTURAL EXCHANGE ↗
- Who funds EXCEPTIONAL EQUESTRIANS COMPANY ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM HOUSE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN HERITAGE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW COMMUNITY SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds MISSION GUIDES INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
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: 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
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 Ron and Dana Dunford Family 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.