Florida · Private foundation
Bruce and Deborah Duncan Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.5M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 36
- Grants FY2025
- 45
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 24%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $675,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 29 to 49
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $44M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 24% of the organizations Bruce and Deborah Duncan Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 34 | $1.5M | 15% |
| FY2024 | 45 | $1.2M | 24% |
| FY2023 | 49 | $1.2M | 33% |
| FY2022 | 36 | $1.3M | 25% |
| FY2021 | 35 | $1.1M | 26% |
| FY2020 | 31 | $905k | 23% |
| FY2019 | 31 | $831k | 32% |
| FY2018 | 29 | $754k | 34% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kenyon College | $2,385,000 | 7 | 0% |
| The Heritage Foundation | $1,210,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Artis-Naples Inc | $365,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc | $240,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Moorings Presbyterian Church | $200,500 | 9 | n/a |
| Harry Chapin Food Bank of Southwest Florida Inc | $195,000 | 5 | 0% |
| St Andrew Baptist Church Inc | $167,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Rush University Medical Center | $165,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Nantucket Historical Association | $155,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Warrior-Scholar Project Foundation | $145,000 | 8 | 1% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bruce and Deborah Duncan Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Collier Community Foundation Inc · Carol B Phelon Foundation · The League Club Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc · The Hartman Family Foundation · Karp Family Foundation Stephen R and Jill E Karp Trustees · The Hajim Family Foundation · Nantucket Golf Club Foundation Inc · Clark Family Foundation Inc · Naples Children Foundation Inc · Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank Charitable Foundation Trust
How this is measured
Compare Bruce and Deborah Duncan Foundation with peer funders
About Bruce and Deborah Duncan Foundation
- How much does Bruce and Deborah Duncan Foundation give?
- Bruce and Deborah Duncan Foundation reported 36 grants totaling $1,502,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 29 and 49 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Bruce and Deborah Duncan Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (41%), Arts & Culture (11%), Health (11%).
- Who are Bruce and Deborah Duncan Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Kenyon College ($2.4M), The Heritage Foundation ($1.2M), Artis-Naples Inc ($365k).
- Does Bruce and Deborah Duncan Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bruce and Deborah Duncan Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Bruce and Deborah Duncan Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Collier Community Foundation Inc, Carol B Phelon Foundation, The League Club Inc.
- Where is Bruce and Deborah Duncan Foundation based?
- Bruce and Deborah Duncan Foundation is based in FL.
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