· Private foundation
The Stannard & Dorothy Dunn Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 54% of THE STANNARD & DOROTHY DUNN CHARITABLE TRUST’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.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k41 grants · $143k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $97k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GREEN MOUNTAIN HORSE ASSOCIATION | $16,000 |
| SHELBURNE FARM & MUSEUM | $15,500 |
| ZIENZELE FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| ENFIELD SHAKER MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $10,000 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF LYME | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY CARE OF LYME | $10,000 |
| UPPER VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY | $8,500 |
| ACTS HONDURAS | $7,000 |
| SHAKER BRIDGE THEATER | $5,500 |
| AUSBON SARGENT LAND PRESERVATION TRUST | $5,000 |
| SPAULDING YOUTH CENTER | $5,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $5,000 |
| VERMONT INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCE (VINS) | $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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $66k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
116 repeat relationships — 46 still active in FY2025, 70 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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
- LOLEBANON OPERA HOUSE IMPROVEMENT CORP8× · 2017–2024 · $91k · revenue +140%
- ZFZIENZELE FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +34%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $86k · revenue +98%
Funded once
- PFPOORE FAMILY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $10k
- TPTHE PARK THEATRE INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +110%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $10k
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.
Maine Historical Society, founded in 1822, is a private non-profit whose mission is to preserve and share Maine's story. Based in Portland, we work closely with communities and partners throughout the state, and serve a statewide and…
Overview - founded in boston by pioneering landscape architect and open space visionary charles eliot in 1891, the trustees is the nation's first and the commonwealth's largest conservation and preservation nonprofit.
New england museum association's mission is to connect a community engaged in learning, collaboration, and action to cultivate a better museum world.
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
The Organization works with local landowners to permanently protect natural land and waters that define its community and enrich the quality of life by purchasing, managing, negotiating and developing conservations easements in the Upper…
To educate a diverse public about the significance of New Hampshire's past and its relationship to our lives today. To this end, the Society collects, preserves, and interprets material pertaining to New Hampshire history.
The hanover conservancy, the oldest local land trust in new hampshire, protects the land and waters of our community through land conservation and stewardship, education, and advocacy for conservation-oriented public policy.
The ecotarium's mission is to inspire a passion for science and nature among all members of the community through one-of-a-kind experiences, interactive exhibits, and accessible programming. as new england's leading science and nature…
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Society for the Preservation of New Engl and the most unlike its peers is Norwegian Elkhound Rescuereferral of New England Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
77 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 77 of the 146 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 LEBANON OPERA HOUSE IMPROVEMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds ZIENZELE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds UPPER VALLEY MUSIC CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UPPER VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CASTLE PRESERVATION SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SAFEART INC ↗
- Who funds OXFAM-AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SPAULDING ACADEMY & FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds AUSBON SARGENT LAND PRESERVATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds MAYHEW ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds Good Neighbor Health Clinic Inc ↗
- Who funds GREEN MOUNTAIN HORSE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc ↗
- Who funds Andover Historical Society ↗
- Who funds ORANGUTAN FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds THE LIVESTOCK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds LEDYARD CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds AMERICANS CARING TEACHING SHARING 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: New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · The Couch Family Foundation · Mascoma Bank Foundation · Barrette Family Fund · Hypertherm Hope Foundation Inc · The Vermont Community Foundation · Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · Lane & Elizabeth C Dwinell Fdn · Frank and Brinna Sands Foundation · Emily Landecker Foundation Inc · The Jack and Dorothy Byrne Foundation Inc · Claremont Savings Bank 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 Stannard & Dorothy Dunn Charitable Trust 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- World Learning Inc — 39% of income from government
- Advance Transit Inc — 18% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- Vital Communities Inc — 5% of income from government
- Northern Stage Company — 5% of income from government
- Huntington Theatre Co Inc — 4% of income from government
- Montshire Museum of Science Inc — 4% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc — 2% of income from government
- Society for the Preservation of New Engl — 2% of income from government
- Friends of the Public Garden Inc — 1% of income from government
- Nantucket Historical Association — 1% of income from government
- Proprietors of the Boston Athenaeum — 0% of income from government
- Museum of Fine Arts — 0% of income from government
- Oxfam-America Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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