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The funder's latest Form 990-PF says it accepts applications. Read the instructions below before you write.
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The funder's latest Form 990-PF says it accepts applications. Read the instructions below before you write.
Application policy: Accepts applications, as stated on the FY2024 return.
These lines count this foundation's own Form 990-PF returns that the IRS has published as data. An amended return replaces its original. They describe past returns only.
This is a count from past returns. It does not say the foundation will consider a new request. How it is counted: names are compared as written on the returns, without "The" at the start, without endings such as "Inc" or "LLC", and without spaces and punctuation. A recipient also counts as already listed when our records link it to the same organization as an earlier recipient, or when its name is almost the same as an earlier name (a trigram similarity of 0.8 or more, where 1 means identical). The state on the grant row is not compared. Grants that the foundation marked as paid to an individual, such as a scholarship, are left out of both numbers, and no count is shown when most of its grants are marked that way. A person whom the foundation did not mark as an individual is still counted as a recipient. A recipient can still look new when its name is written very differently from year to year, and two different recipients with almost the same name can be counted as one.
Application guidance comes from the funder's own Form 990-PF, Part XV (the section where a private foundation says how to apply), shown as filed. It is the funder's words, not ours. These fields are free text and the IRS form cuts them short. Filers sometimes put whole sentences in the contact-name box. Shown exactly as filed.
Giving by year
Total assets by year
| Year | Form | Revenue | Expenses | Giving | Assets | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024 | 990-PF | $11,144,127 | $6,171,314 | $5,418,898 | $81,821,300 |
Figures are as reported on the e-filed return, with no restatement. Fiscal years are the funder's own tax year, labelled by the calendar year the period ends in. A blank line means the return does not carry that figure; a real zero shows as $0. When an amended return replaces an original, every figure here uses the amended return. The original is not shown. Giving is what the funder actually paid out toward its charitable purpose in the year (qualifying distributions on Form 990-PF, charitable disbursements otherwise). Assets are what it holds; giving is what moves.
| Recipient | Purpose | Amount | Year | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UThealth Science Center - Faillace Dept Of PsychiatryHouston, TX | Matching grant to establish 14 separate permanent endowments for the use, benefit, and support of UTHealth to advance behavioral health research, education, and patient care at the John S. Dunn Behavioral Sciences Center. | $3,000,000 | 2022 | |
Recipients are shown as the funder wrote them on the return. A recipient with a link was matched to an organization record; the rest stay as reported and are never guessed. Some links come from other funders' returns: when three or more of them wrote the same name and state with one EIN, and the city on this row matches, we use that EIN. The name on this row is still shown as this funder wrote it.
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Charles M Lusk Iii | President | 5.41 | $60,000 |
| John R Wallace | Vice President | 5.00 | $48,000 |
| David G Key | Secretary/Treasurer | 5.49 | $48,000 |
| Cynthia J Adkins | Trustee |
From the officer list on the latest e-filed return. Compensation is as reported there; a blank means the return carries no figure.
| $81,821,300 |
| FY2023 | 990-PF | $4,229,016 | $6,125,935 | $5,437,844 | $76,848,487 | $76,848,487 |
| FY2022 | 990-PF | $9,251,548 | $8,132,045 | $7,069,891 | $78,745,406 | $78,745,406 |
| FY2021 | 990-PF | $10,972,143 | $6,069,922 | $5,246,532 | $77,625,903 | $77,625,903 |
| FY2020 | 990-PF | $5,685,287 | $6,122,163 | $5,336,382 | $72,723,815 | $72,723,682 |
| FY2019 | 990-PF | $3,818,789 | $5,667,577 | $5,032,740 | $73,160,691 | $73,160,558 |
| The UThealth Science Center At HoustonHouston, TX |
| Grant to establish 14 separate permanent endowments for the use, benefit, and support of UTHealth to advance behavioral health research, education, and patient care at the John S. Dunn Behavioral Sciences Center. |
| $2,000,000 |
| 2023 |
| UThealth Science Center - John S Dunn Behavioral Sciences CenterHouston, TX | Grant to establish 14 separate permanent endowments for the use, benefit, and support of UTHealth to advance behavioral health research, education, and patient care at the John S. Dunn Behavioral Sciences Center. | $2,000,000 | 2024 |
| Houston Methodist Hospital FoundationHOUSTON, TX | Grant to establish the John S. "Steve" Dunn, Jr. Distinguished Professorship in Brain Tumor Research; Dagmar Dunn Pickens Gipe Distinguished Professorship in Brain Tumor Research; and Milby Dow Dunn Fund for Brain Tumor Research, Grant to establish the "Eva Lynn and John S. Dunn, Jr. Center for Research in Reconstructive and Plastic Surgery, Grant to establish the John S. Dunn Foundation Distinguished Centennial Chair in Behavioral Health to explore connection between mental health and gut microbiome | $657,143 | 2019 |
| The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer CenterHOUSTON, TX | TO SUPPORT DR. WRIGHT'S AND DR. WALLACE'S JSD RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES BUDGET AND DR. LI'S AND DR. WALLACE'S JSD IMAGING SCIENCES BUDGET | $450,000 | 2019 |
| The UT MD Anderson Cancer CenterHouston, TX | Radiological sciences and Imaging Lab | $450,000 | 2020 |
| Houston Pediatric Bipolar ConsortiumHouston, TX | Grant to support pediatric bipolar research | $350,000 | 2019 |
| The UT Health PsychiatryHouston, TX | Research to develop glioblastoma treatment | $350,000 | 2020 |
| Memorial Hermann FoundationHOUSTON, TX | Grant to expedite innovations in burn care that advance treatment and improve patient outcomes by funding specialized equipment, state-of-the-art technology, and research; Grant to support the second phase of the Ogilvie Fund research in which Dr. Dong Kim and his research team will be conducting human clinical trials to create a stem cell treatment for people with spinal cord injury | $341,400 | 2019 |
| Rice UniversityHouston, TX | Support infectious disease research infrastructure at UTMB to be named the "John S. Dunn Laboratory" | $300,000 | 2020 |
| Rice UniversityHouston, TX | Grant to support a fund for research seed grants with the Collaborative Research Center explicitly designed to bring together Rice researchers with their colleagues in the Texas Medical Center. | $300,000 | 2024 |
| Rice UniversityHOUSTON, TX | Grant to support a fund for research seed grants with the Collaborative Research Center explicitly designed to bring together Rice researchers with their colleagues in the Texas Medical Center | $300,000 | 2019 |
| Houston Methodist Hospital FoundationHouston, TX | Grant to establish the John S. Dunn Foundation Distinguished Centennial Chair in Behavioral Health to explore connection between mental health and gut microbiome. | $300,000 | 2022 |
| Rice UniversityHouston, TX | Grant to support a fund for research seed grants with the Collaborative Research Center explicitly designed to bring together Rice researchers with their colleagues in the Texas Medical Center. | $300,000 | 2023 |
| Rice UniversityHouston, TX | Grant to support a fund for research seed grants with the Collaborative Research Center explicitly designed to bring together Rice researchers with their colleagues in the Texas Medical Center. Payable over 10 years for a total grant of $3 million. | $300,000 | 2022 |
| Houston Methodist Hospital FoundationHouston, TX | Matching ($500,000) grant to establish the John S. Dunn Foundation distinguished centennial chair in behavioral health to explore connection between mental health and gut microbiome. | $300,000 | 2021 |
| Houston Baptist UniversityMatched to this organization because 14 grant-making charities wrote this name with its EIN. Source: Schedule I of their Form 990 returns, fiscal years 2020 to 2025. Counted Oct 9, 2026.HOUSTON, TX | Grant to provide partial scholarship to 20 full-time undergraduate BSN students and to provide 50% scholarships to 11 graduate MSN students | $300,000 | 2019 |
| Rice UniversityHouston, TX | Grant to support a fund for research seed grants with the collaborative research center explicitly designed to bring together rice researchers. | $300,000 | 2021 |
| Houston Baptist UniversityMatched to this organization because 14 grant-making charities wrote this name with its EIN. Source: Schedule I of their Form 990 returns, fiscal years 2020 to 2025. Counted Oct 9, 2026.Houston, TX | Grant to provide partial scholoarships to 20 full-time undergraduate BSN students and to provide 50% scholarships to 11 graduate MSN students. | $300,000 | 2021 |
| Houston Methodist Hospital FoundatiHouston, TX | Establish the John S. Dunn Foundation Distinguished Centennial Chair in Behaviroal Health to explore connection between mental health and gut microbiome | $300,000 | 2020 |
| The UT MD Anderson Cancer CenterHouston, TX | Grant to JSD Radiological Sciences | $280,000 | 2022 |
| Brookwood Community IncBrookshire, TX | Grant to be used for renovations to the John S. Dunn Health Center. | $253,000 | 2021 |
| Hope Biosciences Stem Cell Research FoundationSugar Land, TX | Grant to support an FDA-authorized randamized, double-blinded, single-center phase 2 efficacy and safety study of allogeneic HB_ADMSCS for the treatment Of patients with chronic post-Covid-19-syndrome - long haul Covid. | $250,000 | 2021 |
| UTMB - Healthgalveston, TX | Grant to support research to develop an engineered Zika virus for glioblastoma treatment led by Dr. Pei-Yong Shi; Grant to support infectious disease research infrastructure at UTMB to be named the "John S. Dunn Laboratory" | $250,000 | 2019 |
| Memorial Hermann FoundationHouston, TX | Specialized equipment, state-of-the-art technology, and research | $241,400 | 2020 |
| 5.28 |
| $48,000 |
| Diana M Hawkins | Trustee | 5.02 | $48,000 |
| Terri Lacy | Trustee | 5.10 | $48,000 |
| Andrew W Sowell | Trustee | 4.99 | $48,000 |
Nearest by size, location and giving pattern in the database. Geography weighs heavily. Treat it as a starting list, not a ranking of fit.