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Ron and Dana Dunford Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% 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
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EMPOWER PLAYGROUNDS$50,000
FIGHT FOR THE FORGOTTEN$25,000
VILLAGE BOOK BUILDERS$25,000
UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%FIGHT FOR THE FORGOTTEN: $25k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 11 repeat orgs$68k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
14

Total granted

$1.3M
$43k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+63%

Still filing today

64%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalHuman ServicesEducationHousing & ShelterRecreation & SportsHealthOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • MI
    Mentors International
    5× · 2018–2022 · $530k · revenue +284%
  • VB
    VILLAGE BOOK BUILDERS INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $265k · revenue +87%
  • UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - GREEN BAY FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $100k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • TR
    THE ROAD HOMEgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +48%
  • RF
    RMS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
  • HO
    HOUSE OF HOPE
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Empower African Children

To create transformative and globally connected learning experiences, preparing orphaned and vulnerable children for a lifetime of influence.

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2
Engineers Without Borders- International

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…

International
3
Empowering Lives International

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…

Religion
4
Shelterbox Usa Inc

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.

Human Services
5
Zoe Empowers

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…

International
6
Childrens House International

Children's house international provides ethical adoption services, child focused recruitment, and family support. we support disadvantaged children with humanitarian aid in countries worldwide.

—
7
MedGlobal Inc

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…

Health
8
Orphan Outreach

To glorify the Lord Jesus Christ by ministering to orphans around the world by meeting spiritual, physical, emotional, and educational needs.

International
9
Every Shelter Inc

Every Shelter's mission is to build a localized refugee-aid ecosystem centered around the needs, preferences, and aspirations of refugees.

Education
10
Child Hope International

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.

Arts & Culture
11
Aid for Starving Children

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.

International
12
Lifting Hands International

We provide aid to refugees, both at home and abroad. Simply humanitarian.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Encompass Early Education & Care Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

15 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. 15 of the 26 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
11/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Mentors International: $530,000 · InternationalMentors InternationalEmpower Playgrounds Inc: $175,000 · InternationalEmpower Playgrounds Inc+2 more: $8,250 · InternationalVILLAGE BOOK BUILDERS INC: $265,125 · EducationVILLAGE BOOK BUILDERS INCUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - GREEN BAY FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - GRE…CP CENTER OF NE WISCONSIN: $90,000 · OtherCP CENTER OF N…UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY: $55,000 · OtherUTAH STATE UNI…RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES: $21,000 · OtherRONALD MCDONAL…+10 more: $15,750 · Other+10 moreENCOMPASS EARLY EDUCATION & CARE INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesTHE JUSTIN WREN FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Human ServicesTHE ROAD HOME: $20,000 · Human ServicesUnited States Ski Team Foundation: $51,000 · Recreation & SportsEXCEPTIONAL EQUESTRIANS COMPANY: $5,000 · HealthFREEDOM HOUSE MINISTRIES INC: $2,800 · Housing & ShelterNEW COMMUNITY SHELTER INC: $500 · Housing & Shelter
International$713,250Education$365,125Other$181,750Human Services$95,000Recreation & Sports$51,000Health$5,000Housing & Shelter$3,300

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
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.

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 …Green Bay Packers Fou…Schreiber Foods Found…George Kress Foundati…US Ventureschmidt Fam…Greater Green Bay Com…Elizabeth B and Phili…Mark & Mary Peterson …Byron L Walter Family…De Pere Christian Out…K C Stock Foundation …Little Rapids Corpora…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Ron and Dana Dunford Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ron and Dana Dunford Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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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