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The Dunn Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k16 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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 (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.
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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- UWUNITED WAY OF THE COASTAL EMPIRE8× · 2017–2024 · $84k · revenue +10%
- STSAVANNAH TREE FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $32k · revenue +165%
- TMTELFAIR MUSEUM OF ART INC5× · 2017–2021 · $15k · revenue +50%
Funded once
- SMST MICHAELS CHURCHone grant, 2018 · $50k
- EIEMPLOYABILITY INCone grant, 2018 · $12k · revenue -43%
- CDCATHOLIC DIOCESE OF SAVANNAHone grant, 2018 · $6k
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.
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.
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…
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.
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…
Scad prepares talented students for creative professions through engaged teaching and learning in a positively oriented university environment.
Since 1775, the mission of Hampden-Sydney College has been to form good men and good citizens in an atmosphere of sound learning.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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.
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 field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 19% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
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 2017–2025, 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.
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 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.
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.
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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