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The Dunn Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Dunn Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$85k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Environment$266kPhilanthropy$40kCivil Rights$29kEducation$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $68k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WEST VIRGINIA RIVERS COALITION$15,000
WV CITIZEN ACTION EDUCATION FUND$13,000
FRIENDS OF BLACKWATER$10,000
PARKERSBURG AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$10,000
ENERGY EFFICIENT WEST VIRGINIA$10,000
WEST VIRGINIA FREE$10,000
WV ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL$7,000
COAL RIVER MOUNTAIN WATCH$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE ALLEGHENIES: $10k → 16%SOLAR UNITED NEIGHBORS: $8k → 14%FRIENDS OF BLACKWATER: $18k → 16%WV CITIZENS ACTION EDUCATION FUND: $20k → 18%MOV CLIMATE ACTION: $9k → 19%MARSHALL UNIVERSITY: $3k → 19%COAL RIVER MOUNTAIN WATCH: $5k → 20%ANGIE ROSSER: $5k → 24%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE ALLEGHENIES: $10k → 16%SOLAR UNITED NEIGHBORS: $8k → 14%FRIENDS OF BLACKWATER: $10k → 16%WV CITIZEN ACTION EDUCATION FUND: $13k → 18%MOV CLIMATE ACTION: $8k → 19%THE MARSHALL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC FOR THE ENERGY EDUCATION CENTER: $7k → 19%COAL RIVER MOUNTAIN WATCH: $3k → 20%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE ALLEGHENIES: $9k → 16%SOLAR UNITED NEIGHBORS: $8k → 14%FRIENDS OF BLACKWATER: $8k → 16%WV CITIZEN ACTION EDUCATION FUND: $13k → 18%THE MARSHALL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC FOR THE ENERGY EDUCATION CENTER: $3k → 19%COAL RIVER MOUNTAIN WATCH: $2k → 20%FRIENDS OF BLACKWATER: $5k → 16%ENERGY EFFICIENT WEST VIRGINIA: $10k → 18%COAL RIVER MOUNTAIN WATCH: $2k → 20%FRIENDS OF BLACKWATER: $4k → 16%ENERGY EFFICIENT WEST VIRGINIA: $8k → 18%COAL RIVER MOUNTAIN WATCH: $2k → 20%WV CITIZEN ACTION EDUCATION FUND: $8k → 18%WEST VIRGINIA RIVERS COALITION: $15k → 18%WEST VIRGINIA RIVERS COALITION: $15k → 18%WEST VIRGINIA RIVERS COALITION: $13k → 18%WEST VIRGINIA RIVERS COALITION: $13k → 18%WEST VIRGINIA RIVERS COALITION: $13k → 18%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$304k · 11 repeat orgs$43k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +201% since the first grant, against -25% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
6

Total granted

$304k
$21k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+201%
-25%

Still filing today

82%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentEducationPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • WV
    WEST VIRGINIA RIVERS COALITION INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $69k · revenue +252%
  • WV
    WEST VIRGINIA CITIZEN ACTION EDUCATION FUND
    4× · 2020–2024 · $54k · revenue +76%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF BLACKWATER INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $45k · revenue +223%

Funded once

  • WV
    WEST VIRGINA CENTER FOR CLIMATE CHANGE
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • MU
    MARSHALL UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2020 · $3k
  • OR
    OHIO RIVER VALLEY ENVIRONMENTAL COALITION
    one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue -100%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
West Virginia Rural Water Association Inc

The organization provides training and technical assistance to water and wastewater utility providers throughout the State of West Virginia through a variety of programs.

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2
West Virginia Land Stewardship Corporation

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.

Community Improvement
3
West Virginia Association of Conservation Districts Inc

Promotes the conservation of natural resources

Environment
4
Wild Virginia Incorporated

Protecting and connecting virginia's wild places.

Environment
5
Virginia Water Environment Association Inc

The Association was organized for the purpose of providing its members with an opportunity to broaden their experiences and knowledge on water quality issues.

Environment
6
Appalachian Voices

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.

Environment
7
Virginias United Land Trusts

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…

Environment
8
West Virginia State University Research & Development Corporation

To foster, support, and assist in any research and economic development activities consistent with the educational objectives and mission of west virginia state university.

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9
Wv Alliance for Sustainable Families

WVASF coordinates research, education, advocacy, and coalition building on issues related to asset building and economic stability.

Human Services
10
West Virginia Rural Health Association Inc

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,…

Health
11
West Virginia Chamber of Commerce

The west virginia chamber of commerce provides opportunities for broad based prosperity throughout west virginia.

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12
Westmoreland Land Trust

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.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is West Virginia Rivers Coalition Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
8/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WEST VIRGINIA RIVERS COALITION INC: $69,000 · EnvironmentWEST VIRGINIA RIVERS COALITION INCFRIENDS OF BLACKWATER INC: $45,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF BLACKWATER INCSolar United Neighbors Inc: $24,000 · EnvironmentSolar United Neighbors IncENERGY EFFICIENT WEST VIRGINIA: $18,000 · EnvironmentENERGY EFFICIENT WEST VIRGINIACOAL RIVER MOUNTAIN WATCH INC: $14,000 · EnvironmentCOAL RIVER MOUNTAIN WATCH INC+1 more: $2,000 · EnvironmentWEST VIRGINIA FREE INCORPORATED: $29,000 · OtherWEST VIRGINIA FREE INCORPORATEDIndividual grant recipient: $17,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $16,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPARKERSBURG AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherPARKERSBURG AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDA…WEST VIRGINA CENTER FOR CLIMATE CHANGE: $10,000 · OtherWEST VIRGINA CENTER FOR CLIMATE C…West Virginia Highlands Conservancy Inc: $8,000 · OtherWest Virginia Highlands Conservan…WV ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL: $7,000 · OtherWV ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCILIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · Other+3 more: $8,000 · Other+3 moreWEST VIRGINIA CITIZEN ACTION EDUCATION FUND: $54,000 · EducationWEST VIRGINIA CITIZ…MARSHALL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $10,000 · EducationMARSHALL UNIVERSITY…COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER JOHNSTOWN: $29,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY…PHILANTHROPY WEST VIRGINIA INC: $1,000 · Philanthropy
Environment$172,000Other$110,000Education$64,000Philanthropy$30,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWEST VIRGINIA RIVERS COALITION INC: $69,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA CITIZEN ACTION EDUCATION FUND: $54,000 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF BLACKWATER INC: $45,000 over 5y, 8.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER JOHNSTOWN: $29,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA FREE INCORPORATED: $29,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetSolar United Neighbors Inc: $24,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetENERGY EFFICIENT WEST VIRGINIA: $18,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetCOAL RIVER MOUNTAIN WATCH INC: $14,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetMARSHALL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWest Virginia Highlands Conservancy Inc: $8,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetOHIO RIVER VALLEY ENVIRONMENTAL COALITION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE WEST VIRGINIA LAND TRUST INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPHILANTHROPY WEST VIRGINIA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Appalachian Stewardsh…Rockefeller Philanthr…Tides FoundationNonprofit Partners IncThe Greater Kanawha V…PatagoniaorgFidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Appalachian Stewardship FoundationWV20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Dunn Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Dunn Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Dunn Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Dunn Foundation Inc 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 21 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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