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Terry and Peggy Dunn Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$746k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182024.

Religion$1.7MEmployment$358kPublic Benefit$100kHealth$93kHuman Services$52kYouth Development$50kHousing & Shelter$25kEducation$18kOther$0
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $70k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $663k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$89k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOCIETY OF OUR LADY OF THE MOST$150,000
SAINT PAUL'S OUTREACH$125,000
SAINT PAUL'S OUTREACH$100,000
SOCIETY OF OUR LADY OF THE MOST$100,000
SOCIETY OF OUR LADY OF THE MOST$70,000
SOCIETY OF OUR LADY OF THE MOST$68,000
HIGH ASPIRATIONS INC$50,000
ST PAUL CENTER$10,000
THE PADRE PIO FOUNDATION OF AMERICA$10,000
KCYM PHILANTHROPIC FUND$10,000
THE PADRE PIO FOUNDATION OF AMERICA$10,000
HYMAN BRAND HEBREW ACADEMY$10,000
CITY ON A HILL$10,000
THE PRAYER COVENANT$10,000
KC COMMON GOOD$8,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $68k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MAKE-A-WISH MISSOURI AND KANSAS: $13k → 11%RECONCILIATION SERVICES: $5k → 15%HIGH ASPIRATIONS INC: $50k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

MN
MA
OH
CT
MO
MD
KS
GA
TX

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.6M · 12 repeat orgs$830k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +74% since the first grant, against +53% for the ones you funded once.

12 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
14

Total granted

$1.6M
$745k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+74%
+53%

Still filing today

58%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesReligionEducationEmploymentHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • KC
    KC COMMON GOOD INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $358k · revenue +191% · 36% of their budget
  • PP
    PADRE PIO FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $35k · revenue +15%
  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST KANSAS INC
    4× · 2019–2022 · $30k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • SP
    ST PAULS OUTREACH INC
    one grant, 2022 · $250k
  • SO
    SOCIETY OF OUR LADY OF THE MOST HOLY TRINITY
    one grant, 2018 · $200k
  • AP
    American Public Square Incgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue +46%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Kansas City Christian School Association

To bring glory to god by providing children with an excellent christ- centered education rooted in the word of god.

2
Catholic Charities of Kansas City - St Joseph Inc

Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us

Human Services
3
Whitefield Academy Association

The mission of whitefield academy is to support parents by providing students with a top-tier academic foundation in a joyful, christ-centered community of classical learning.

Education
4
Avila University

Avila university, a catholic university sponsored by saint joseph educational ministries, a ministerial public juridic person of the catholic church (sjem), is a values-based community of learning providing liberal arts, professional,…

Education
5
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Ks

The misson of the aclu foundation of kansas is to protect and defend the constitutional rights and civil liberties of every individual in kansas regardless of creed, race, religion or other labeling through education, advocacy, and…

Civil Rights
6
Chamber of Commerce of Greater Kansas City

Leading the way to the best kc region by convening innovative leaders, collaborating with like-minded organizations, advocating for positive change, and helping small businesses grow.

7
Cristo Rey Kansas City Sisters of Chari Ty of Leavenworth High School

The organization provides a catholic college preparatory education to culturally diverse students with economic need.

8
Mercy Health

Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…

9
The King's Christian School

The king's christian school is a k-12 prepatory school that equips and strengthens students through education and example, that they might stand firmly upon the word of god and to become effective servant-leaders who impact the world…

10
Cristo Rey Brooklyn High School

Cristo rey brooklyn is a catholic high school partnering with families of all creeds to educate deserving young people from underserved communities to become men and women of faith, purpose, and service. by integrating a rigorous…

11
The Principle Foundation

To promote inspired benevolence in accordance with the teachings of christian science.

12
Kansas City Ballet Association

To inspire and engage through the beauty, power and passion of dance

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities of Northeast Kansas Inc and the most unlike its peers is Benedictine College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%0%<5yr12%9%5–10yr16%23%10–20yr15%14%20–35yr16%18%35–55yr24%36%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr12%38%5–10yr16%18%10–20yr15%3%20–35yr16%7%35–55yr24%34%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/23
the rest of the field
12%
4,544/39,468

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.

04the grantee network

18 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 31 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
13/18
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SOCIETY OF OUR LADY OF THE MOST — $738,000 · OtherSOCIETY OF OUR LADY OF THE MOSTSAINT PAUL'S OUTREACH — $325,000 · OtherSAINT PAUL'S OUTREACHST PAULS OUTREACH INC — $250,000 · OtherST PAULS OUTREACH INCSOCIETY OF OUR LADY OF THE MOST HOLY TRINITY — $200,000 · OtherSOCIETY OF OUR LADY OF THE MOST HOLY TRINITYAmerican Public Square Inc — $100,000 · OtherAmerican Public Square Inc+13 more — $195,750 · Other+13 moreKC COMMON GOOD INC — $358,000 · EmploymentKC COMMON GOOD I…HIGH ASPIRATIONS INCORPORATED — $50,000 · Human ServicesMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MISSOURI AND KANSAS — $13,000 · Human ServicesRECONCILIATION SERVICES — $5,000 · Human ServicesCMT Research Foundation Inc — $50,000 · HealthTHE LILABEAN FOUNDATION INC — $8,750 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc — $7,500 · HealthPADRE PIO FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC — $35,000 · ReligionThe Prayer Covenant Inc — $30,000 · ReligionCOMMUNITY LINC — $25,000 · Housing & ShelterHYMAN BRAND HEBREW ACADEMY — $10,000 · EducationBenedictine College — $1,500 · EducationTHE KANSAS CITY ROYALS FOUNDATION — $1,500 · Philanthropy
Other$1,808,750Employment$358,000Human Services$68,000Health$66,250Religion$65,000Housing & Shelter$25,000Education$11,500Philanthropy$1,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetKC COMMON GOOD INC — $358,000 over 3y, 36% of budgetAmerican Public Square Inc — $100,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetCMT Research Foundation Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHIGH ASPIRATIONS INCORPORATED — $50,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetPADRE PIO FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC — $35,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetThe Prayer Covenant Inc — $30,000 over 3y, 6.1% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST KANSAS INC — $30,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY LINC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MISSOURI AND KANSAS — $13,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKCYM PHILANTHROPIC FUND — $10,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetHYMAN BRAND HEBREW ACADEMY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE LILABEAN FOUNDATION INC — $8,750 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSCHOOL OF LOVE INC — $7,250 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetRECONCILIATION SERVICES — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCITY YEAR INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE KANSAS CITY ROYALS FOUNDATION — $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBenedictine College — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Greater Kansas City Community FoundationMO29.5× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Servant Foundation · Dunn Family Foundation · Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · The Sherman Family Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City · Greater Horizons · Illig Family Foundation Cust Pcm · Hunt Family Foundation · G Kenneth and Ann Baum Philanthropic Fund · R a Long Foundation 600 Plaza West Bldg

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 Terry and Peggy Dunn Family Foundation 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 20%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 11%
  • City Year Inc11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Terry and Peggy Dunn Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Terry and Peggy Dunn Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 31 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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