· Private foundation
Dave & Cheryl Duffield 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k5 grants · $105k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $462k
- $250k+6 grants · $9.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LIBERTY DOGS FOUNDATION | $3,675,557 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY | $2,830,000 |
| WASHOE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT | $1,000,000 |
| MAUI HUMANE SOCIETY | $604,074 |
| K9'S FOR WARRIORS | $600,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF NORTH LAKE TAHOE | $387,500 |
| NEVADA MILITARY SUPPORT ALLIANCE | $200,000 |
| INCLINE HIGH SCHOOL BOOSTERS | $147,325 |
| PET NETWORK HUMANE SOCIETY | $115,000 |
| CANINES WITH A CAUSE | $34,800 |
| DOGTREE PINES SENIOR DOG SANCTUARY | $25,000 |
| INCLINE EDUCATION FUND | $25,000 |
| ASSISTANCE DOGS INTERNATIONAL (ADI) | $10,000 |
| NORTHERN NEVADA CONCERNS OF POLICE SURVIVORS | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 8% of Dave & Cheryl Duffield 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. Read by recipient address, 65% of the giving stays in NV; read by stated purpose it is 59% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +57% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
82 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 73 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.7M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- PNPet Network Humane Society7× · 2017–2024 · $7.6M · revenue +69% · 73% of their budget
Cornell University3× · 2022–2024 · $7.6M · revenue +15%- HNHumane Network4× · 2017–2020 · $7.0M · revenue +19% · 94% of their budget
Funded once
- CUCORNELL UNIVERSITY IMAGING LOCKBOXone grant, 2021 · $2.6M
- ARAMERICAN RED CROSSone grant, 2022 · $2.0M
- IVINCLINE VILLAGE GENERAL IMPROVEMENT DISTRICTone grant, 2022 · $1.1M
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Animal rescue
To help injured, abandoned and unwanted animals. We provide food, vet care that includes heartworm prevention and spay or neuter services, shelter and anything else needed.
Find homes for homeless/abandoned dogs. Provide full vet car and housing while awaiting adoption,
Rescue of abused or abandoned animals
Idaho Animal Rescue Network is a 501(c)(3) non-profit based in Idaho that works in Idaho and Eastern Washington to educate, advocate, and network with other rescues and law enforcement in Idaho regarding animal cruelty and neglect. We are…
Dog rescue and care nurturing finding a home
Animal rescue organization dedicated to finding homes for animals at the animal shelter. we also provde vet care foster homes, and assistance with homing for special needs animals.
Animal Welfare
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feeding Pets of the Homeless Aka Pets of the Homeless and the most unlike its peers is Kiss for Homeless Animals. 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.
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 16 years old; the field is 9. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 35% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 20% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
122 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. 122 of the 204 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Pet Network Humane Society ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds Humane Network ↗
- Who funds Lake Tahoe School ↗
- Who funds MAUI HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY DOGS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ANIMAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NORTH LAKE TAHOE ↗
- Who funds K9S FOR WARRIORS INC ↗
- Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds HEAVEN CAN WAIT ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds INCLINE BOOSTERS CLUB ↗
- Who funds RIDGEWOOD HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEVADA HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds INCLINE VILLAGE COMMUNITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEVADA MILITARY SUPPORT ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Humane World for Animals Inc ↗
- Who funds Renown Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds HEARTS ALIVE VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS OF NORTHERN NV ↗
- Who funds ROTARY FOUNDATION OF INCLINE VILLAGE ↗
- Who funds Canines With a Cause ↗
- Who funds NEVADA SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds Sonoma Community Animal Response Team ↗
- Who funds INCLINE TAHOE PARKS & RECREATION VISION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOMEWARD BOUND CAT ADOPTIONS ↗
- Who funds SAMMIES FRIENDS ↗
- Who funds El Dorado County Humane Society ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Humane Network · Tahoe Community Foundation · The Duffield Family Foundation Dba Maddie's Fund · Humane World for Animals Inc · Vincent C and Pamela A Immordino Charitable Foundation · Petsmart Charities Inc · Petco Love · Offerdahl Family Foundation · Community Foundation of Northern Nevada · Greater Good Charities · The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals · Thelma B & Thomas P Hart 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 Dave & Cheryl Duffield 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.
- Entrepreneurship for All Inc — 2% of income from government
- K9S for Warriors Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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