· Private foundation
The Dunham Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $34k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RILEY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $34,000 |
| LETTERS TO ISABEL | $7,500 |
| WHEELER MISSION | $1,000 |
| STEPHEN SILLER TUNNELS TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $560 |
| CHRIST CHURCH OF LOVE | $250 |
| BOYS TOWN | $250 |
| BILLY GRAHAM EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION | $100 |
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 (FY20–25, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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.
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.
6 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 3 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $910 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
- KFKIWANIS FOUNDATION OF INDIANAPOLIS INC4× · 2020–2024 · $23k · revenue +92%
- WMWHEELER MISSION MINISTRIES INC5× · 2020–2025 · $19k · revenue +9%
- FFFather Flanagan's Boys' Home4× · 2021–2025 · $1k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $71k
- CGCENTER GROVE CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $16k
- GTGordon-Conwell Theological Seminary Incone grant, 2023 · $6k · revenue +21%
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.
The mission of lifetime wells international is to improve the quality of life in the developing world by engaging with and empowering local partners to design, install, and maintain safe and reliable drinking water systems.
Halo House's mission is to help save the lives of cancer patients battling leukemia, lymphoma, or myeloma by providing them with low-cost, fully furnished temporary housing while undergoing active cancer treatment at the Texas Medical…
To educate individuals, professionals, and communities with regard to Humanitarian needs in countries throughout the world and provide resources for programs to assist in meeting such needs.
Water For Life, Inc. is a non-profit organization that endeavors to demonstrate Gods love to the people of Haiti through: providing well services including drilling, pump maintenance, and water testing, building irrigation systemes, social…
The mission of Teresian House Nursing Home is to provide care and services to the community in conformance with the theology, philosophy, teachings, and doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church, respecting and building on the mission,…
The bucket ministry is a passionate group of ordinary people from many different churches, countries and walks of life. the mission is sharing the love of god through the gift of clean water.
Changing the way America cares for children and families.
Minister to the spiritual needs of people, primarily through the publication of literature consistent with biblical principles and through grants to other charitable entities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wheeler Mission Ministries Inc and the most unlike its peers is Father Flanagan's Boys' Home. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 14 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 Letters to Isabel ↗
- Who funds KIWANIS FOUNDATION OF INDIANAPOLIS INC ↗
- Who funds WHEELER MISSION MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds WATER FOR LIFE CHARITY ↗
- Who funds Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary Inc ↗
- Who funds Father Flanagan's Boys' Home ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TMP Enterprises 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.
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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 The Dunham 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.
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