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The Lowell S & Betty L Dunn Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Lowell S & Betty L Dunn Family Foundation Inc

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.

$2.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
48
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$7.5MHuman Services$2.6MAnimals$1.2MHousing & Shelter$1.1MPublic Safety & Disaster$606kEducation$455kReligion$175kRecreation & Sports$170kOther$0
02FY2024 · 48 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k22 grants · $465k
  • $50k–250k16 grants · $1.2M
  • $250k+2 grants · $600k
$25,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$109M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UM DIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE$300,000
ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL$300,000
NEIGHBORS 4 NEIGHBORS$125,000
THE MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$100,000
NOA (NO ONE ALONE)$100,000
MIAMI RESCUE MISSION$100,000
HONOR FLIGHT SOUTH FLORIDA INC$100,000
FRIENDSHIP EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION$100,000
BILLIE JEAN KING FOUNDATION$80,000
BAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATION$75,000
BOYS TOWN$75,000
AIR FORCE ENLISTED VILLAGE$75,000
OPERATION 300 INC$50,000
SHOOTING TOUCH INC$50,000
HEART2HEART SENIOR OUTREACH OF SO FL INC$50,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $790k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 84% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BOYS TOWN: $115k → 12%Camp Southern Ground: $35k → 6%BOYS TOWN: $100k → 12%CAMP SOUTHERN GROUND INC: $30k → 6%BOYS TOWN: $75k → 12%CAMP SOUTHERN GROUND INC: $15k → 6%BOYS TOWN: $75k → 12%CAMP SOUTHERN GROUND: $15k → 6%BOYS TOWN: $75k → 12%CAMP SOUTHERN GROUND INC: $15k → 6%BOYS TOWN: $75k → 12%CAMP SOUTHERN GROUND INC: $15k → 6%BOYS TOWN: $55k → 12%Boys Town: $50k → 12%LUMPKIN FAMILY CONNECTION: $15k → 12%LUMPKIN FAMILY CONNECTION: $10k → 12%LUMPKIN FAMILY CONNECTION: $10k → 12%LUMPKIN FAMILY CONNECTION: $5k → 12%Lumpkin Family Connection: $5k → 12%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
NY
MA
NJ
CA
NE
MO
WV
VA
AZ
KS
TN
DC
GA
TX
FL
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$14M · 48 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

48 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 23 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

48
23

Total granted

$14M
$462k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+66%

Still filing today

50%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $760k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationAnimalsInternationalHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.6M · revenue +145%
  • N4
    NEIGHBORS 4 NEIGHBORS
    8× · 2017–2024 · $875k · revenue +124%
  • TM
    THE MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC DBA THE NORTHEAST GEORGIA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUN
    8× · 2017–2024 · $835k · revenue +67%

Funded once

  • NO
    NETWORK OF SACRED HEART SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2017 · $100k
  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF ARCHDIOCESE OF HOUSTON
    one grant, 2017 · $100k
  • CA
    CARING ABOUT THE STRAYS
    one grant, 2017 · $70k
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
Pediatric Specialty Group Inc

Pediatric specialty group, inc. (d/b/a nicklaus children's pediatric specialists ("ncps")) is a physician-directed, multi-specialty pediatric group with a regional, national, and international presence in providing pediatric-centric care…

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2
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
3
University of Florida Health Corporation

UF Health's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across the spectrum of basic,…

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4
Miami Children's Health System Foundation Inc

The mission of MIAMI CHILDREN'S HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION (D/B/A NICKLAUS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION, INC. )is to create awareness and generate funds for Nicklaus Children's Health System (System), Nicklaus Children's Hospital and any…

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5
Miami Children's Health System Inc

Nicklaus Children's Health System is the region's only healthcare system exclusively for children. Our mission is to inspire hope and promote lifelong health by providing the best care to every child. TO PERFORM THE FUNCTIONS OF, OR TO…

Health
6
The Hospice of the Florida Suncoast Inc

Suncoast hospice's mission is to be the center to improve life for those touched by advanced illness, death, dying, grief, bereavement and other end-of-life issues.

Human Services
7
Holy Cross Hospital Inc

We, holy cross hospital and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. holy cross hospital is a member of trinity health.

Health
8
The Hospice Institute of the Florida Suncoast Inc

Suncoast hospice institute is now inactive.

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9
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
10
SantaFe Healthcare Inc

The mission of santafe healthcare, inc. is to serve as the not-for-profit system parent for its family of not-for-profit, mission-driven, affiliate organizations. see schedule o for continuation of the organization's mission. santafe…

Health
11
The Florida International University Health Care Network Inc

Fiu health care network's mission is to improve and support medical education at the fiu herbert wertheim college of medicine and provide clinical support services to the larger fiu community.

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12
Variety Children's Hospital

To inspire hope and promote lifelong health by providing the best care to every child.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Neighbors 4 Neighbors; the most unlike its peers is Helping Hands Youth Center. 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

50 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. 50 of the 94 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/50
Grantees still filing
29/50
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UM DIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $2,525,000 · OtherUM DIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTEBaptist Health Foundation: $690,000 · OtherBaptist Health FoundationIndividual grant recipient: $566,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientNOA (NO ONE ALONE): $350,000 · OtherUM-BASCOM PALMER EYE INSTITUTE: $300,000 · OtherNICKLAUS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $275,000 · Other+61 more: $2,372,100 · Other+61 moreST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $2,600,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARC…THE MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC DBA THE NORTHEAST GEORGIA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUN: $835,000 · HealthTHE MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDAT…+8 more: $62,000 · HealthMiami Rescue Mission Inc: $1,015,000 · Housing & ShelterMiami Rescue…AIR FORCE ENLISTED VILLAGE INC: $601,000 · Housing & ShelterAIR FORCE EN…+1 more: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterNEIGHBORS 4 NEIGHBORS: $875,000 · Public Safety & DisasterFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $620,000 · Human ServicesCAMP SOUTHERN GROUND INC: $125,000 · Human ServicesLUMPKIN COUNTY FAMILY CONNECTION: $45,000 · Human Services+1 more: $10,000 · Human ServicesSouth Florida SPCA Inc: $280,000 · AnimalsHUMANE SOCIETY OF GREATER MIAMI-DADE FOR POCTA AAP: $195,000 · AnimalsHUMANE SOCIETY OF BROWARD COUNTY INC: $125,000 · Animals+2 more: $1,500 · AnimalsCOMMUNITY PET RESCUE INC: $380,000 · Youth DevelopmentOPERATION 300 INC: $50,000 · Youth Development+2 more: $600 · Youth Development
Other$7,078,100Health$3,497,000Housing & Shelter$1,636,000Public Safety & Disaster$875,000Human Services$800,000Animals$601,500Youth Development$430,600

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $2,600,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMiami Rescue Mission Inc: $1,015,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetNEIGHBORS 4 NEIGHBORS: $875,000 over 8y, 25% of budgetTHE MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC DBA THE NORTHEAST GEORGIA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUN: $835,000 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $620,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAIR FORCE ENLISTED VILLAGE INC: $601,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY PET RESCUE INC: $380,000 over 7y, 80% of budgetSouth Florida SPCA Inc: $280,000 over 8y, 8.7% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF GREATER MIAMI-DADE FOR POCTA AAP: $195,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetBILLIE JEAN KING FOUNDATION: $155,000 over 2y, 8.5% of budgetCAMP SOUTHERN GROUND INC: $125,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF BROWARD COUNTY INC: $125,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDSHIP EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetHonor Flight South Florida Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetBATTIER TAKE CHARGE FOUNDATION: $55,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetSHOOTING TOUCH INC: $50,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStudent Aces Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetNANCY LIEBERMAN CHARITIES: $50,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetOPERATION 300 INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $48,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH FLORIDA PBS INC: $47,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetLUMPKIN COUNTY FAMILY CONNECTION: $45,000 over 5y, 9.2% of budgetCAMILLUS HOUSE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEMPOWERS AFRICA INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetKRISTI HOUSE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S BREAST & HEART INITIATIVE FLORIDA AFFILIATE INC: $20,500 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetTHE SUNDARI FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBest Buddies International Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH FLORIDA COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetZANMI BENI FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTHE SEEING EYE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MOTIVATIONAL EDGE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSHAKE A LEG MIAMI INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS FLORIDA Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOCONUT GROVE CRISIS FOOD PANTRY: $5,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EDUCATION FUND INC F/K/A DADE PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND IN: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE KING'S ACADEMY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds Miami Rescue Mission Inc ↗
  • Who funds NEIGHBORS 4 NEIGHBORS ↗
  • Who funds THE MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC DBA THE NORTHEAST GEORGIA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUN ↗
  • Who funds Father Flanagan's Boys' Home ↗
  • Who funds AIR FORCE ENLISTED VILLAGE INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY PET RESCUE INC ↗
  • Who funds South Florida SPCA Inc ↗
  • Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF GREATER MIAMI-DADE FOR POCTA AAP ↗
  • Who funds BILLIE JEAN KING FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CAMP SOUTHERN GROUND INC ↗
  • Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF BROWARD COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDSHIP EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Honor Flight South Florida Inc ↗
  • Who funds BATTIER TAKE CHARGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SHOOTING TOUCH INC ↗
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds Student Aces Inc ↗
  • Who funds NANCY LIEBERMAN CHARITIES ↗
  • Who funds OPERATION 300 INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH FLORIDA PBS INC ↗

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.

The Miami Foundation …The Batchelor Foundat…Mightycause Charitabl…Assurant FoundationNetwork for GoodPaypal Charitable Giv…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Renaissance Charitabl…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Charities Aid Foundat…
The Miami Foundation IncFL21.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Miami Foundation Inc · The Batchelor Foundation Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Assurant Foundation · Network for Good · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America

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 Lowell S & Betty L Dunn Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Lowell S & Betty L Dunn Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 130%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Kristi House Inc: 49% of income from government
  • The Sundari Foundation Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Camillus House Inc: 2% of income from government
  • The Education Fund Inc F/K/a Dade Public Education Fund in: 0% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
  • South Florida Pbs Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
13get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.

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 94 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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