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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 FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$106k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
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 FY2017–2025.

Education$758kHuman Services$718kInternational$268kHealth$251kPublic Benefit$178kSocial Science$45kScience & Tech$42kArts & Culture$41kOther$0
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $70k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $241k
$1,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$3.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MERCY UNIVERSITY$106,000
AFYA FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC$75,000
DON BOSCO COMMUNITY CENTER OF PORT CHESTER INC$60,000
PORT CHESTER CARVER CENTER INC$25,000
OPEN DOOR CARE NETWORK FOUNDATION INC$25,000
EMPIRE CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY INC$10,000
THE ASIA SOCIETY$10,000
5 STEPS TO FIVE INC$5,000
SHRINE CHURCH OF SAINT ANTHONY OF PADUA$5,000
NOBLE AND GREENOUGH SCHOOL$1,000
SMILE TRAIN INC$1,000
MAYO CLINIC$1,000
THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART$1,000
FRIENDS OF RYE TOWN PARK INC$1,000
SPRYE$1,000
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 (FY17–25, $655k) 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%DON BOSCO COMMUNITY CENTER OF PORT CHESTER: $40k → 15%DON BOSCO COMMUNITY CENTER OF PORT CHESTER: $30k → 15%DON BOSCO COMMUNITY CENTER OF PORT CHESTER: $20k → 15%PORT CHESTER CARVER CENTER INC: $40k → 9%PORT CHESTER CARVER CENTER INC: $30k → 9%PORT CHESTER CARVER CENTER INC: $30k → 9%PORT CHESTER CARVER CENTER INC: $25k → 9%PORT CHESTER CARVER CENTER INC: $25k → 9%PORT CHESTER CARVER CENTER INC: $25k → 9%PORT CHESTER CARVER CENTER INC: $25k → 9%PORT CHESTER CARVER CENTER INC: $20k → 9%PORT CHESTER CARVER CENTER INC: $20k → 9%AFYA FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $75k → 9%AFYA FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $50k → 9%AFYA FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $50k → 9%AFYA FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $50k → 9%5 STEPS TO FIVE INC: $10k → 9%5 STEPS TO FIVE INC: $10k → 9%5 STEPS TO FIVE INC: $10k → 9%5 STEPS TO FIVE INC: $10k → 9%SPRYE: $10k → 9%5 STEPS TO FIVE INC: $10k → 9%5 STEPS TO FIVE INC: $10k → 9%SPRYE: $8k → 9%5 STEPS TO FIVE INC: $5k → 9%5 STEPS TO FIVE INC: $5k → 9%5 STEPS TO FIVE INC: $5k → 9%SPRYE: $1k → 9%SPRYE: $1k → 9%SPRYE: $1k → 9%SPRYE: $1k → 9%SPRYE: $1k → 9%SPRYE: $1k → 9%SPRYE: $1k → 9%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.

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.2M · 23 repeat orgs$69k to everyone else

23 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
13

Total granted

$2.2M
$39k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+35%

Still filing today

91%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CulturePublic BenefitPhilanthropyOther

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

  • MU
    MERCY UNIVERSITY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $678k · revenue +28%
  • PC
    PORT CHESTER CARVER CENTER INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $240k · revenue +94%
  • OD
    OPEN DOOR FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $190k · revenue +197%

Funded once

  • TE
    TWO EAST SIXTY-SECOND STREET FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -87%
  • YM
    YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF RYE NEW YORKgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +49%
  • TR
    THE RYE ARTS CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +29%

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
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
2
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
3
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
4
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
5
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
8
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rye Country Day School and the most unlike its peers is One World United and Virtuous Inc. 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 50 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%0%<5yr14%3%5–10yr21%16%10–20yr21%19%20–35yr13%16%35–55yr14%47%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr14%4%5–10yr21%14%10–20yr21%12%20–35yr13%10%35–55yr14%60%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 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/36
the rest of the field
11%
2,814/26,718

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

36 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. 36 of the 41 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/36
Grantees still filing
26/36
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MERCY UNIVERSITY — $677,500 · EducationMERCY UNIVERSITYRYE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL — $57,000 · EducationRYE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOLPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $42,100 · Education+5 more — $19,600 · EducationPORT CHESTER CARVER CENTER INC — $240,000 · Human ServicesPORT CHESTER CARVER CENTER INCTHE AFYA FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC — $225,000 · Human ServicesTHE AFYA FOUNDATION OF AMERICA …THE DON BOSCO CENTERS — $90,000 · Human ServicesTHE DON BOSCO CENTERS5 Steps to Five — $75,000 · Human Services5 Steps to FiveSPRYE INC — $24,500 · Human ServicesDON BOSCO COMMUNITY CENTER OF PORT CHESTER INC — $283,000 · OtherDON BOSCO COMMUNIT…OPEN DOOR CARE NETWORK FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 · OtherOPEN DOOR CARE NET…+17 more — $72,000 · Other+17 moreEMPIRE CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY INC — $178,000 · Public BenefitEMPIRE CEN…MANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC — $45,000 · Public BenefitMANHATTAN …OPEN DOOR FOUNDATION INC — $190,000 · PhilanthropyOPEN DOOR…THE ASIA SOCIETY — $40,000 · InternationalMYRIAD USA INC — $3,000 · InternationalMetropolitan Opera Association Inc — $12,000 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $11,000 · Arts & CultureTWO EAST SIXTY-SECOND STREET FOUNDATION — $5,000 · Arts & CultureTHE RYE ARTS CENTER INC — $5,000 · Arts & Culture
Education$796,200Human Services$654,500Other$380,000Public Benefit$223,000Philanthropy$190,000International$43,000Arts & Culture$33,000

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 budgetMERCY UNIVERSITY — $677,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetPORT CHESTER CARVER CENTER INC — $240,000 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetTHE AFYA FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC — $225,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetOPEN DOOR FOUNDATION INC — $190,000 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetEMPIRE CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY INC — $178,000 over 9y, 1.8% of budgetTHE DON BOSCO CENTERS — $90,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budget5 Steps to Five — $75,000 over 9y, 5.4% of budgetRYE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL — $57,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC — $45,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $42,100 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ASIA SOCIETY — $40,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSPRYE INC — $24,500 over 9y, 5.1% of budgetMetropolitan Opera Association Inc — $12,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $11,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNOBLE AND GREENOUGH SCHOOL — $9,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC — $9,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetThe Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc — $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC — $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RYE HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $7,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC — $7,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTWO EAST SIXTY-SECOND STREET FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF RYE NEW YORK — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetONE WORLD UNITED AND VIRTUOUS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF RYE TOWN PARK INC — $5,000 over 5y, 6.2% of budgetRYE FREE READING ROOM — $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWhite Plains Hospital Medical Center — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPURCHASE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $3,600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMYRIAD USA INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEL EDUCATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF WETHERSFIELD INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPORT CHESTER-RYE-RYE BROOK EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNYU LANGONE HEALTH SYSTEM — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE APAWAMIS FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 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.

The Joe & Sandy Sambe…The Glickenhaus Found…Margaret Cameron and …Chess FoundationJohn and Cheryl Hunt …The Carroll & Percy K…Nicholas & Christina …Judy & Warren Tenney …John and Jennifer Eck…William & Lynda Steer…Weissman Family Found…Synchrony Foundation
The Joe & Sandy Samberg Foundation IncNY24.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

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 41 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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