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The Dunn Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$38k
Granted FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
0192% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Religion$114kPhilanthropy$113kArts & Culture$53kEnvironment$39kFood & Nutrition$39kHealth$36kEducation$27kHousing & Shelter$17kOther$0
02FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k16 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$2,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$370k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED WAY OF THE COASTAL EMPIRE$10,000
SAVANNAH TREE FOUNDATION$4,000
COASTAL EMPIRE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$3,000
DOT & JOHN MOONEY FOUNDATION$3,000
ONE HUNDRED MILES$3,000
ST JOSEPHCANDLER FOUNDATION$2,500
CATHEDRAL OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST$2,500
SD GUNNER FUND$2,500
HUMANE SOCIETY OF GREATER SAVANNAH$2,000
ST THOMAS EPISCOPAL CHURCH$1,000
SECOND HARVEST$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
PISGAH LEGAL SERVICES$500
BETHESDA ACADEMY$500
COASTAL HERITAGE SOCEITY$500
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 (FY18–24, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%SD GUNNER FUND: $5k → 8%SD GUNNER FUND: $3k → 8%SD GUNNER FUND: $3k → 8%SD GUNNER FUND: $3k → 8%EMPLOYABILITY: $12k → 16%HOSPICE SAVANNAH INC: $500 → 16%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

IL
PA
NJ
CT
VA
TN
NC
SC
GA
FL

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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$387k · 43 repeat orgs$97k to everyone else

43 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

43
26

Total granted

$387k
$93k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+38%

Still filing today

53%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesArts & CultureAnimalsYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF THE COASTAL EMPIRE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $84k · revenue +10%
  • ST
    SAVANNAH TREE FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $32k · revenue +165%
  • TM
    TELFAIR MUSEUM OF ART INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $15k · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • SM
    ST MICHAELS CHURCH
    one grant, 2018 · $50k
  • EI
    EMPLOYABILITY INC
    one grant, 2018 · $12k · revenue -43%
  • CD
    CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF SAVANNAH
    one grant, 2018 · $6k

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
Chapel Hill-Chauncy Hall School

We engage a diverse community of learners in a collaborative educational experience, preparing them for college success and a lifetime of meaningful engagement with the broader world.

2
South Shore Charter School

The mission of south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…

Education
3
Unc Health Foundation Inc

At unc health foundation, we inspire philanthropic support for unc health and unc school of medicine that transforms healthcare and provides hope to the people of north carolina and communities around the world.

Education
4
Charlotte Country Day School

Through excellence in education, charlotte country day school develops the potential of each student by fostering intellectual curiosity, principled character, ethical leadership and a responsibility to serve. the key values and…

Education
5
Savannah College of Art and DesignInc

Scad prepares talented students for creative professions through engaged teaching and learning in a positively oriented university environment.

Education
6
Hampden-Sydney College

Since 1775, the mission of Hampden-Sydney College has been to form good men and good citizens in an atmosphere of sound learning.

Education
7
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
8
University of the South

The College of Arts and Sciences is committed to the development of the whole person through a liberal arts education of the highest quality. The School of Theology educates women and men to serve the broad whole of the Episcopal Church in…

Education
9
Barton College

Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…

Education
10
South Carolina Humanities Council Inc

The mission of south carolina humanities council, inc. is to enrich the cultural and intellectual lives of south carolinians. the organization seeks to increase public understanding of and support for the humanities by telling the human…

Arts & Culture
11
Spartanburg Day School

The mission of the spartanburg day school is to provide a superior educational experience, in a community of trust, that prepares students for a life well lived. spartanburg day school is dually accredited by southern association of…

12
Greenville College

Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of the Coastal Empire and the most unlike its peers is The Sd Gunner Fund Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyAnimal Rescue & Shelter Ser…School Parent Support Organ…Community Development Organ…Service Club FoundationsPerforming Arts Organizatio…Professional Trade Associat…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 50 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number28%3%<5yr17%3%5–10yr20%14%10–20yr14%17%20–35yr9%23%35–55yr13%40%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value28%1%<5yr17%0%5–10yr20%11%10–20yr14%3%20–35yr9%28%35–55yr13%56%55yr+

The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 19% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/42
the rest of the field
19%
10,947/58,259

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

39 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. 39 of the 73 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)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/39
Grantees still filing
30/39
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ST MICHAELS CHURCH — $50,000 · OtherST MICHAELS CHURCHTHE TRUSTEES GARDEN CLUB SAVANNAH — $37,500 · OtherTHE TRUSTEES GARDEN CLUB SAVANNAHSAVANNAH TREE FOUNDATION INC — $31,500 · OtherSAVANNAH TREE FOUNDATION INCHISTORIC SAVANNAH FOUNDATION INC — $25,500 · OtherHISTORIC SAVANNAH FOUNDATION INCDOT AND JOHN MOONEY FOUNDATION — $25,000 · OtherDOT AND JOHN MOONEY FOUNDATIONCATHEDRAL OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST — $24,600 · OtherCATHEDRAL OF ST JOHN THE BAPTISTST JOSEPHCANDLER FOUNDATION — $12,500 · Other+43 more — $115,057 · Other+43 moreUNITED WAY OF THE COASTAL EMPIRE — $84,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF THE COAST…THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC — $22,500 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATIO…+2 more — $750 · PhilanthropyThe SD Gunner Fund Inc — $12,500 · Human ServicesEMPLOYABILITY INC — $12,000 · Human Services+1 more — $500 · Human ServicesBoys & Girls Club of The Plateau Inc — $8,000 · EducationBulloch Academy Inc — $3,500 · EducationTHE HILL SCHOOL — $2,000 · EducationSWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE — $2,000 · EducationLive Oak Public Libraries — $2,000 · EducationBLUE RIDGE SCHOOL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INCORPORATED — $1,300 · EducationCHATHAM HALL — $1,000 · EducationSUFFIELD ACADEMY — $1,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL — $1,000 · Education+1 more — $500 · EducationTELFAIR MUSEUM OF ART INC — $15,000 · Arts & CultureCASHIERS HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $1,500 · Arts & CultureTHE HUMANE SOCIETY FOR GREATER SAVANNAH — $7,500 · AnimalsCASHIERS HIGHLANDS HUMANE SOCIETY — $1,000 · AnimalsHOSPICE SAVANNAH FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $1,000 · Health
Other$321,657Philanthropy$107,250Human Services$25,000Education$22,300Arts & Culture$16,500Animals$8,500Health$6,000

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 budgetUNITED WAY OF THE COASTAL EMPIRE — $84,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetSAVANNAH TREE FOUNDATION INC — $31,500 over 8y, 4.6% of budgetHISTORIC SAVANNAH FOUNDATION INC — $25,500 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC — $22,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTELFAIR MUSEUM OF ART INC — $15,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe SD Gunner Fund Inc — $12,500 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetEMPLOYABILITY INC — $12,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCoastal Empire Habitat For Humanity — $9,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of The Plateau Inc — $8,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY FOR GREATER SAVANNAH — $7,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetHOSPICE SAVANNAH FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BREVARD TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY INC — $4,742 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBulloch Academy Inc — $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNION MISSION INC — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COASTAL HERITAGE SOCIETY INC — $3,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOne Hundred Miles Inc — $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPISGAH LEGAL SERVICES — $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HILL SCHOOL — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGeorgia Historical Society — $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCASHIERS HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $1,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBLUE RIDGE SCHOOL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INCORPORATED — $1,300 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN BAR FOUNDATION — $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBLUE RIDGE PARKWAY FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHATHAM HALL — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUFFIELD ACADEMY — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROYCE LEARNING CENTER — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST INC — $1,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCASHIERS HIGHLANDS HUMANE SOCIETY — $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $725 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOSPICE SAVANNAH INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF BULLOCH COUNTY INC — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEAST LAKE FOUNDATIONINC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOASTAL GEORGIA COUNCIL INC — $100 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.

  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE COASTAL EMPIRE
  • Who funds SAVANNAH TREE FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds HISTORIC SAVANNAH FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC
  • Who funds TELFAIR MUSEUM OF ART INC
  • Who funds The SD Gunner Fund Inc
  • Who funds EMPLOYABILITY INC
  • Who funds Coastal Empire Habitat For Humanity
  • Who funds Boys & Girls Club of The Plateau Inc
  • Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY FOR GREATER SAVANNAH
  • Who funds HOSPICE SAVANNAH FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BREVARD TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY INC
  • Who funds Bulloch Academy Inc
  • Who funds UNION MISSION INC
  • Who funds THE COASTAL HERITAGE SOCIETY INC
  • Who funds One Hundred Miles Inc
  • Who funds PISGAH LEGAL SERVICES
  • Who funds THE HILL SCHOOL
  • Who funds SWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE
  • Who funds Live Oak Public Libraries

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 Savannah Community Foundation IncGA38.6× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Savannah Community Foundation Inc · Colonial Foundation Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Bradley Foundation Inc · John G Kennedy Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · John and Emma Derst Foundation Inc · Mary Lane Morrison Foundation Inc · George E Crouch 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 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%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    10report 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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Dunn Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Dunn 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 73 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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