Robert & Polly Dunn Foundation

• The foundation focuses on child welfare, education, and health and human services, and its filings describe operational support across a broad mix of organisations, including schools, children's advocacy services, visual arts, churches, food assistance and animal welfare.
• It restricts grants to the southeastern United States, with a priority on metropolitan Atlanta, so check your location against that before writing.
• Most of its grants are small: about 8 in 10 fall between $500 and $31,500, the median grant is $6,000, and half of its 144 grants to organisations were $6,000 or less, so a modest request fits best, though its largest grant was $210,000.
• Most of its grant dollars go to organisations it has funded before, with 88% in its most recent filing going to organisations that also appeared in earlier filings, so relationships matter and new applicants should be realistic about how much money reaches first-time grantees.
• Apply with a letter of request and a copy of your IRS determination letter of tax-exempt status; the filing gives no submission deadline and says the foundation accepts applications.

The largest grants to organisations in the foundation’s latest filing:

• Path to Hope · Operations
  $135,0002025 tax year
• Karen's Kids · Operations
  $113,0002025 tax year
• Reach · Operations
  $38,0002025 tax year
• Special Liberty Project · Operations
  $33,0002025 tax year
• Safepath Childrens Advocacy Center · Operations
  $31,5002025 tax year
• Shepherd Center Foundation · Operations
  $30,0002025 tax year
• Digital Love · Operations
  $25,0002025 tax year
• Watoto Trust · Operations
  $25,0002025 tax year

Grants to organisations listed in the foundation’s Form 990-PF filings. Grants to individuals are not shown.

Figures from the foundation’s IRS Form 990-PF filings. Assets are at fair market value at year end. The document icon links to each year’s filing on ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer.