Delaware · Private foundation
The Dunn Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $10.0M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 66
- Grants FY2024
- 60
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $2,500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 43 to 60
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 19
- Total assets, FY2024
- $93M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 17% of the organizations The Dunn Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $625k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 63 | $9.8M | 14% |
| FY2023 | 60 | $10.0M | 17% |
| FY2022 | 58 | $8.7M | 22% |
| FY2021 | 43 | $6.2M | 14% |
| FY2020 | 45 | $4.4M | 18% |
| FY2019 | 53 | $5.4M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative Partnership Institute | $5,250,000 | 3 | 13% |
| Turning Point USA Inc | $5,106,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Foundation for Government Accountability Inc | $2,950,000 | 6 | 7% |
| Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression Inc | $2,615,000 | 6 | 4% |
| The Commonwealth Foundation for Public Policy Alternatives | $2,225,000 | 6 | 7% |
| Prager University Foundation | $1,415,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Americans for Fair Treatment Inc | $1,375,000 | 3 | 19% |
| Freedomworks Foundation Inc | $1,280,000 | 5 | 6% |
| Students for Liberty Inc | $1,225,000 | 6 | 5% |
| The Fairness Center Inc | $1,200,000 | 5 | 9% |
Show all 94 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Dunn Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 90 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Donors Trust Inc · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · Sarah Scaife Foundation Incorporated · Triad Foundation Inc · The Searle Freedom Trust · Adolph Coors Foundation · Charles Koch Foundation · Charles Koch Institute · The Beach Foundation · The Chase Foundation of Virginia · The Armstrong Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Dunn Foundation
- How much does The Dunn Foundation give?
- The Dunn Foundation reported 66 grants totaling $9,998,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 43 and 60 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does The Dunn Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Benefit (47%), Civil Rights (17%), Education (10%).
- Who are The Dunn Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Conservative Partnership Institute ($5.3M), Turning Point USA Inc ($5.1M), Foundation for Government Accountability Inc ($3.0M).
- Does The Dunn Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Dunn 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 Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donors Trust Inc, Bradley Impact Fund Inc, The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Dunn Foundation based?
- The Dunn Foundation is based in DE.
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