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The Leon Algernon Dunn Jr & Pattie McCay Dunn Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$26k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 63% of THE LEON ALGERNON DUNN JR & PATTIE MCCAY DUNN FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$89
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NC WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY$6,000
UNC NASH HEALTH FOUNDATION$6,000
ROCKY MOUNT ACADEMY$5,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE TAR RIVER REGION$3,000
HONOR BRIDGE$1,500
SCOUTING AMERICA$1,250
UNIVERSTIY OF NC AT CHAPEL HILL$1,000
TAR RIVER ORCHESTRA & CHORUS$500
MEALS ON WHEELS$500
THE SALVATION ARMY$500
YMCA OF THE TRIANGLE AREA$500
RIPE FOR REVIVAL$500
NASH COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$100
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 (FY20–25, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%YMCA OF THE TRIANGLE AREA: $500 → 8%YMCA OF THE TRIANGLE AREA: $500 → 8%YMCA OF THE TRIANGLE AREA: $500 → 8%YMCA OF THE TRIANGLE AREA: $500 → 8%YMCA OF THE TRIANGLE AREA: $500 → 8%YMCA OF THE TRIANGLE AREA: $500 → 8%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.

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$119k · 19 repeat orgs$8k to everyone else

19 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
3

Total granted

$119k
$7k

Still filing today

42%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther

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

  • RM
    ROCKY MOUNT ACADEMY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $30k · revenue +80%
  • UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $6k · revenue +0%
  • H
    HONORBRIDGE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $6k · revenue +179%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • MC
    MOREHEAD CAIN SCH FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $1k
  • TJ
    THE JESSE HELMS CENTER
    one grant, 2024 · $500

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
Research Triangle Regional Partnership

The research triangle regional partnership is an association of area economic development agencies dedicated to keeping the research triangle region economically strong by collectively marketing the region's competitive advantages and…

2
Triangle Global Health Consortium Inc

The mission of the north carolina global health alliance is to advance north carolina as an international center for research, training, education, advocacy and business dedicated to improving the health of the world's communities. we…

Health
3
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
4
North Raleigh Christian Academy Inc

Nrca is a community christian school assisting families in providing excellence in academics, fine arts, and athletics while instilling biblical principles in students' lives that they might impact their society for christ.

Education
5
River Mill Academy

Operation of a north carolina public charter school

Education
6
North Carolina Medical Society

To organize members of the medical profession to advance medical science.

7
Greater Raleigh Area Christian Education Inc

Grace christian school is a loving community that spiritually and academically equips, challenges, and inspires students to impact their world for christ.

Education
8
North Carolina High School Athletic Association Inc

The mission of the nchsaa is to provide governance and leadership for interscholastic athletic programs in north carolina that support and enrich the educational experience of students; the administration of the state's interscholastic…

Recreation & Sports
9
Greensboro College

Greensboro College provides a liberal arts education grounded in the traditions of the United Methodist Church and fosters the intellectual, social, and spiritual development of all students while supporting their individual needs.

Education
10
Foundation of the University of North Carolina At Charlotte

The foundation of unc charlotte receives contributions to promote and develop the academic and educational purpose of unc charlotte by providing support for operations, educational programs, and scholarships for the university and its…

11
Erskine College and Theological Seminary

Erskine College exists to glorify God as a Christian academic community where students are equipped to flourish as whole persons for lives of service through the pursuit of undergraduate liberal arts and graduate theological education.

Education
12
New York Medical College

New york medical college (nymc), a member of touro university, is a health sciences college whose purpose is to educate clinical and public health professionals as well as researchers, to conduct biomedical and population-based research…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598) and the most unlike its peers is Tri-County Shrine Club. 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

8 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. 8 of the 24 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NC WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY — $20,000 · OtherNC WESLEYAN UNIVERSITYUNC NASH HEALTH FOUNDATION — $19,000 · OtherUNC NASH HEALTH FOUNDATIONNC WESLEYAN COLLEGE — $6,000 · OtherNC WESLEYAN COLLEGEBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TAR RIVER REGION INC — $6,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TAR RIVER REGION INCBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA-EAST CAROLINA — $5,850 · OtherBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA-EAST CAROLINAUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL — $5,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILLTAR RIVER ORCHESTRA & CHORUS — $3,000 · OtherMEALS ON WHEELS — $3,000 · OtherUNIVERSTIY OF NC AT CHAPEL HILL — $3,000 · OtherHARRISON FAMILY YMCA — $3,000 · Other+8 more — $6,475 · Other+8 moreROCKY MOUNT ACADEMY — $29,533 · EducationROCKY MOUNT ACADEMYUNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $6,000 · EducationUNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INCHONORBRIDGE — $6,000 · HealthThe Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598) — $3,000 · Human ServicesRIPE FOR REVIVAL — $1,500 · Food & NutritionNASH COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $500 · Philanthropy
Other$80,325Education$35,533Health$6,000Human Services$3,000Food & Nutrition$1,500Philanthropy$500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetROCKY MOUNT ACADEMY — $29,533 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetUNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHONORBRIDGE — $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TAR RIVER REGION INC — $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598) — $3,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRIPE FOR REVIVAL — $1,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNASH COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTRI-COUNTY SHRINE CLUB — $450 over 3y, 0.2% 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 ROCKY MOUNT ACADEMY
  • Who funds UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds HONORBRIDGE
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TAR RIVER REGION INC
  • Who funds The Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598)
  • Who funds RIPE FOR REVIVAL
  • Who funds NASH COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds TRI-COUNTY SHRINE CLUB

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.

Boddie Noell Foundation Attn Tax and Risk ManagementNC15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boddie Noell Foundation Attn Tax and Risk Management · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · 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 Leon Algernon Dunn Jr & Pattie McCay Dunn Family 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.

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202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 Leon Algernon Dunn Jr & Pattie McCay Dunn Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Leon Algernon Dunn Jr & Pattie McCay Dunn Family 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 24 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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