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Ann M Duffer Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$645k
Granted FY2024still arriving
35
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Health$830kPhilanthropy$470kHousing & Shelter$220kYouth Development$170kHuman Services$165kFood & Nutrition$150kCivil Rights$135kInternational$95kOther$0
02FY2024 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k29 grants · $615k
$20,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SONORA AREA FOUNDATION$35,000
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC$30,000
NASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION$30,000
CHARITY WATER$30,000
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER$25,000
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER$25,000
NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST$25,000
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER$25,000
MEDICAL COLLEGE OF VIRGINIA FOUNDATION$25,000
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER$25,000
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER$25,000
EAST TENNESSEE FOUNDATION$25,000
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER$25,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCORPORATED$25,000
ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC$25,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $65k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 46% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%CHARITY WATER: $30k → 4%MICHAEL PHELPS FOUNDATION: $5k → 7%ALIVE HOSPICE INC: $30k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

ME
NY
PA
CA
CO
KY
VA
MD
TN
DC
GA
FL

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.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 11% of Ann M Duffer Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Ann M Duffer Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 3.3% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.9M · 21 repeat orgs$280k to everyone else

21 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
12

Total granted

$1.9M
$215k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+33%

Still filing today

90%
92%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesInternationalEducationCivil RightsHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • VU
    Vanderbilt University Medical Center
    5× · 2020–2024 · $545k · revenue +76%
  • SH
    SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TN INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $150k · revenue +69%
  • NR
    NASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION
    6× · 2019–2024 · $145k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • KH
    KENTUCKY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC
    one grant, 2022 · $40k · revenue -12%
  • AH
    ALIVE HOSPICE INC
    one grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue -10%
  • CC
    Columbia College Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +204%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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Nashville Public Radio

Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.

Arts & Culture
2
Methodist Medical Center

Methodist Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health regardless of a patient's ability to pay.

Health
3
Nashville Cares

Nashville cares exists to end the hiv epidemic, promote comprehensive sexual health and end sexual health stigmatization and discrimination through prevention, education, treatment, support, advocacy, and strategic partnership.

Health
4
Vanderbilt University

See Disclosure Above.

Education
5
Cumberland Medical Center

Cumberland Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.

Health
6
Roane County Medical Center

Roane County Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of a patient's ability to pay.

Health
7
The Land Trust for Tennessee Inc

To conserve the unique character of tennessee's natural and historic landscapes and sites for future generations.

Environment
8
Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition

Tirrc is a statewide, immigrant and refugee-led collaboration. our mission is to build power, amplify our voices, and organize communities to advocate for our rights. our vision is a stronger, more inclusive tennessee where people of all…

Civil Rights
9
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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10
Harpeth Conservancy

To restore and protect clean water and healthy ecosystems for rivers in tennessee by employing scientific expertise and collaborative relationships to develop, promote, and support broad community stewardship and action.

Environment
11
National Committee for Quality Assurance

Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.

Health
12
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is East Tennessee Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Lucky Puppy Dog Rescue & Kennel 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsHealth Access Advocacy and …Environmental Conservation …Orchestra and Ensemble Perf…Lgbtq+ Community SupportChristian Missionary Organi…Community FoundationsAnimal Rescue and ShelterIndependent K-12 SchoolsAffordable Housing Construc…Food Banks and PantriesCommunity College Foundatio…Youth Development Centers
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 37 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr17%21%10–20yr13%29%20–35yr11%26%35–55yr24%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr17%40%10–20yr13%25%20–35yr11%17%35–55yr24%18%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/41
the rest of the field
13%
4,628/36,359

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.

05the grantee network

41 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 41 of the 43 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
40/41
Grantees still filing
28/41
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Vanderbilt University Medical Center — $545,000 · HealthVanderbilt University Medical …ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $120,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HO…CHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS INC — $25,000 · Health+1 more — $10,000 · HealthTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC — $210,000 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDA…Sonora Area Foundation — $120,000 · PhilanthropySonora Area Foundati…NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST — $105,000 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL PHILANTHROP…EAST TENNESSEE FOUNDATION — $25,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $10,000 · PhilanthropyTHISTLE FARMS INC — $85,000 · OtherTHISTLE FARMS INCCHARITY GLOBAL INC - CHARITY WATER — $80,000 · OtherCHARITY GLOBAL INC - CHARITY WATERKENTUCKY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $40,000 · OtherWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $85,000 · OtherWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCOASIS CENTER INC — $85,000 · OtherOASIS CENTER INCBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE — $85,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF MIDDLE TENN…NASHVILLE HUMANE ASSOCIATION AKA NASHVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY — $80,000 · OtherNASHVILLE HUMANE ASSOCIATION AKA NA…NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC — $50,000 · OtherNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC+16 more — $235,000 · Other+16 moreNASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION — $145,000 · Housing & ShelterNASHVILLE LAUNCH PAD INC — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterMEDICAL COLLEGE OF VA FOUNDATION — $100,000 · EducationHAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE — $35,000 · EducationFISHBURNE-HUDGINS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 · EducationSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TN INC — $150,000 · Food & NutritionCHARITY GLOBAL INC — $70,000 · Human ServicesSEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INC — $40,000 · Human ServicesALIVE HOSPICE INC — $30,000 · Human ServicesTHE MICHAEL PHELPS FOUNDATION — $5,000 · Human Services
Health$700,000Philanthropy$470,000Other$825,000Housing & Shelter$155,000Education$155,000Food & Nutrition$150,000Human Services$145,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center — $545,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC — $210,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TN INC — $150,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNASHVILLE RESCUE MISSION — $145,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSonora Area Foundation — $120,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $120,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST — $105,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMEDICAL COLLEGE OF VA FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $85,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOASIS CENTER INC — $85,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTHISTLE FARMS INC — $85,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE — $85,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetNASHVILLE HUMANE ASSOCIATION AKA NASHVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY — $80,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCHARITY GLOBAL INC — $70,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC — $50,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKENTUCKY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $40,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetSEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE — $35,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetALIVE HOSPICE INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEAST TENNESSEE FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetColumbia College Foundation — $25,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER NASHVILLE — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHURCH HEALTH CENTER OF MEMPHIS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNative American Indian Association of Tennessee — $20,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetFISHBURNE-HUDGINS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION — $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNashville Symphony Association — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERNERS ON NEW GROUND INC — $12,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetISLAMIC RELIEF USA — $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWater for South Sudan Inc — $12,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC — $12,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTENNESSEE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER (TPAC) MANAGEMENT CORPORATION — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVOLUNTEERS FOR OUTDOOR COLORADO — $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNASHVILLE LAUNCH PAD INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMULTIDISCIPLINARY ASSOCIATION FOR PSYCHEDELIC STUDIES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG AMERICANS CENTER FOR FINANCIAL EDUCATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MICHAEL PHELPS FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budget
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.

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.

Hca Healthcare Founda…Memorial Foundation I…Raymond James Charita…The Community Foundat…Dorothy Cate and Thom…The Frist FoundationCharities Aid Foundat…The Pfizer Foundation…The Blackbaud Giving …Baird Foundation IncNational Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…
Hca Healthcare FoundationTN17.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hca Healthcare Foundation · Memorial Foundation Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · The Frist Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Baird Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment 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 Ann M Duffer Family Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 43 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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