· Private foundation
The Dunn Foundation Inc
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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $68k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WEST VIRGINIA RIVERS COALITION | $15,000 |
| WV CITIZEN ACTION EDUCATION FUND | $13,000 |
| PARKERSBURG AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| WEST VIRGINIA FREE | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF BLACKWATER | $10,000 |
| ENERGY EFFICIENT WEST VIRGINIA | $10,000 |
| WV ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL | $7,000 |
| COAL RIVER MOUNTAIN WATCH | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +201% since the first grant, against -25% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 3 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, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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
- WVWEST VIRGINIA RIVERS COALITION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $69k · revenue +252%
- WVWEST VIRGINIA CITIZEN ACTION EDUCATION FUND4× · 2020–2024 · $54k · revenue +76%
- FOFRIENDS OF BLACKWATER INC5× · 2020–2024 · $45k · revenue +223%
Funded once
- WVWEST VIRGINA CENTER FOR CLIMATE CHANGEone grant, 2021 · $10k
- OROHIO RIVER VALLEY ENVIRONMENTAL COALITIONone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue -100%
- MUMARSHALL UNIVERSITYone grant, 2020 · $3k
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.
The organization provides training and technical assistance to water and wastewater utility providers throughout the State of West Virginia through a variety of programs.
To promote sustainable economic development by facilitating reuse of commercial, industrial, and mining sites and providing long-term management of key risks from legacy environmental concerns.
Promotes the conservation of natural resources
Protecting and connecting virginia's wild places.
The Association was organized for the purpose of providing its members with an opportunity to broaden their experiences and knowledge on water quality issues.
Appalachian voices brings people together to protect the land, air, and water of central and southern appalachia and advance a just transition to a generative and equitable clean energy economy.
Virginias United Land Trusts was founded to promote conservation statewide and to coordinate conservation planning and green infrastructure. The Organization offers training and educational programs, like our annual Virginia Land…
To foster, support, and assist in any research and economic development activities consistent with the educational objectives and mission of west virginia state university.
WVASF coordinates research, education, advocacy, and coalition building on issues related to asset building and economic stability.
The west virginia rural health association (wvrha) advocates for empowering all west virginians to advance their quality of life, their well-being, and their access to excellence in rural health care. our mission is to unite people,…
The west virginia chamber of commerce provides opportunities for broad based prosperity throughout west virginia.
To conserve and steward lands and waters of Westmoreland County that harbor ecological, cultural or recreational qualities to offer a healthier and more sustainable future for all.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is West Virginia Rivers Coalition Inc and the most unlike its peers is Marshall University Foundation Incorporated. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 21 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 WEST VIRGINIA RIVERS COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA CITIZEN ACTION EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BLACKWATER INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER JOHNSTOWN ↗
- Who funds WEST VIRGINIA FREE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Solar United Neighbors Inc ↗
- Who funds ENERGY EFFICIENT WEST VIRGINIA ↗
- Who funds COAL RIVER MOUNTAIN WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds MARSHALL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds West Virginia Highlands Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds OHIO RIVER VALLEY ENVIRONMENTAL COALITION ↗
- Who funds THE WEST VIRGINIA LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds PHILANTHROPY WEST VIRGINIA INC ↗
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: Appalachian Stewardship Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Tides Foundation · Nonprofit Partners Inc · The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation · Patagoniaorg · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Inc 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.