New York · Private foundation
The Dunn Family Foundation
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.
- $330k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2025
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 16%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $106,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 20
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 16% of the organizations The Dunn Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 17 | $329k | 12% |
| FY2024 | 19 | $280k | 16% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $258k | 11% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $304k | 6% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $260k | 18% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $242k | 25% |
| FY2019 | 17 | $271k | 18% |
| FY2018 | 15 | $183k | 13% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mercy University | $677,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Port Chester Carver Center Inc | $240,000 | 9 | 1% |
| The Afya Foundation of America Inc | $225,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Open Door Foundation Inc | $190,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Empire Center for Public Policy Inc | $178,000 | 9 | 2% |
| The Don Bosco Centers | $90,000 | 3 | 2% |
| 5 Steps to Five | $75,000 | 9 | 5% |
| Rye Country Day School | $57,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Manhattan Institute for Policy Research Inc | $45,000 | 7 | 0% |
| The Asia Society | $40,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 33 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($320k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Dunn Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Joe & Sandy Samberg Foundation Inc · The Glickenhaus Foundation · Margaret Cameron and James M Glickenhaus Foundation · Chess Foundation · John and Cheryl Hunt Charitable Foundation · The Carroll & Percy Klingenstein Foundation Inc C/O Lipsky Goodkin & Co · Nicholas & Christina Raho Foundationinc · Judy & Warren Tenney Foundation · John and Jennifer Eckerson Family Foundation C/O Citrin Cooperman · William & Lynda Steere Foundation · Weissman Family Foundation Inc · Synchrony Foundation
How this is measured
About The Dunn Family Foundation
- How much does The Dunn Family Foundation give?
- The Dunn Family Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $330,100 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 20 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Dunn Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (33%), Human Services (31%), International (12%).
- Who are The Dunn Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Mercy University ($678k), Port Chester Carver Center Inc ($240k), The Afya Foundation of America Inc ($225k).
- Does The Dunn Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Dunn Family Foundation 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 The Dunn Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Joe & Sandy Samberg Foundation Inc, The Glickenhaus Foundation, Margaret Cameron and James M Glickenhaus Foundation.
- Where is The Dunn Family Foundation based?
- The Dunn Family Foundation is based in NY.
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