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Warren and Zoann Little Dusenbury Charity Trust

Its FY2020 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$10M
Granted FY2020
26
Grants FY2020
25
Organizations funded FY2020
28%
First-time grantees FY2020
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Median grant, FY2020
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2020
$7,918,373
Organizations funded a year
19 to 25
FY2017 to FY2020
States reached, FY2020
8
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2020, 28% of the organizations Warren and Zoann Little Dusenbury Charity Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 90% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 10% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8.0M went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20
EnvironmentHousing & ShelterArts & CultureHuman ServicesOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202025$8.9M28%
FY201919$390k16%
FY201824$464k25%
FY201720$354kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Philanthropy$9.4MEducation$910kEnvironment$862kHuman Services$110kArts & Culture$106kCrime & Legal$80kHealth$60kFood & Nutrition$25kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
OH
CA
CO
AZ
TN
DC

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 26 grantees

Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($8.1M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Warren and Zoann Little Dusenbury Charity Trust supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHawken School: $616,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetWestern Reserve Land Conservancy: $519,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetBook Trust: $100,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetThe Trustees of the Smith College: $82,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetProject Self-Sufficiency of Northern Colorado: $80,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetThe Ohio Environmental Council: $80,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetLiving Lands & Waters: $60,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetThe Ovarian Cancer Research Fund Inc: $60,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCase Western Reserve University: $50,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLegal Aid Society of Cleveland: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBas Bleu Theater Company: $40,000 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetShaker Lakes Regional Nature Center Dba Nature Center at Shaker Lakes: $40,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetColorado Open Lands: $31,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetConservancy for Cuyahoga Valley National Park: $30,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetOpenStage Theatre and Co Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetNeighbor to Neighbor Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetThe Food Bank for Larimer County: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of Great Smoky Mountains National Park: $22,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLand Trust Alliance Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCleveland Kids' Book Bank: $20,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetCrossroads Safehouse Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetVerde Valley School: $14,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNevada City Community Broadcast Group: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetThe Family Centerla Familia: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLaurel School: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCoalition for the Poudre River Watershed: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 26.

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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.

Otter Cares Foundation AKA OTTERCARES FOUNDATIONCO23.8× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Otter Cares Foundation AKA OTTERCARES FOUNDATION · The Cleveland Foundation · Community Foundation of Northern Colorado · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Colorado Gives Foundation · Woodward Governor Charitable Trust · The George Gund Foundation · Patagoniaorg · The Food Bank for Larimer County · The Louise H & David S Ingalls Fdn · United Way of Larimer County · Anschutz Family 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.

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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.

About Warren and Zoann Little Dusenbury Charity Trust

How much does Warren and Zoann Little Dusenbury Charity Trust give?
Warren and Zoann Little Dusenbury Charity Trust reported 26 grants totaling $10,352,373 in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 25 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2020.
What does Warren and Zoann Little Dusenbury Charity Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2020, its largest causes are Philanthropy (81%), Education (8%), Environment (7%).
Who are Warren and Zoann Little Dusenbury Charity Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2020: Hawken School ($616k), Western Reserve Land Conservancy ($519k), Book Trust ($100k).
Does Warren and Zoann Little Dusenbury Charity Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2020, 28% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Warren and Zoann Little Dusenbury Charity Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Warren and Zoann Little Dusenbury Charity Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Otter Cares Foundation AKA OTTERCARES FOUNDATION, The Cleveland Foundation, Community Foundation of Northern Colorado.
Where is Warren and Zoann Little Dusenbury Charity Trust based?
Warren and Zoann Little Dusenbury Charity Trust is based in CA.

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 38 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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