Evan Dunbar Foundation Incorporated
This organization is a private foundation dedicated to supporting health-related research initiatives. Its mission is inferred from its significant funding directed towards research, particularly in the area of pediatric health, as evidenced by substantial grants to the Norton Children's Hospital Foundation. The foundation primarily serves the healthcare sector, focusing on advancing medical research that can benefit children. While it is based in Tennessee, its recent funding activities have been concentrated in Kentucky.
Source: Zeffy Agent · Mar 2026
Ideal Applicant
An established medical research or hospital foundation able to receive large, single-purpose research grants and likely located or closely partnered within the grantee state or region.
Good Fit
- • Organizational profile as a hospital foundation or large medical research institution.
- • Capacity to manage high-dollar, project-specific research awards (mid- to high-six-figure grants).
- • Existing local or institutional relationships with the foundation's leadership or its known grantee network.
- • Alignment with cancer or medical research purposes.
Geography
Observed grants in 2024 were concentrated in a single state (all recorded dollars went to Kentucky), indicating a narrow geographic footprint in the latest year.
Recipient Variety
In the latest year the foundation made two grants to a single recipient (one organization received the entire reported grant pool), so the observed recipient set is very small.
New Applicants
Direct evidence of multi-year turnover is unavailable, but the foundation's profile explicitly indicates it only funds preselected recipients and the 2024 grants went to a single known organization, so unsolicited new applicants are unlikely to gain entry based on observed behavior.
Source: Zeffy Agent · Mar 2026
