· Private foundation
Doris Duke Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k104 grants · $182k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $301k
- $50k–250k16 grants · $1.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $108,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $71,250 |
| Individual grant recipient | $70,101 |
| Individual grant recipient | $66,056 |
| Individual grant recipient | $58,750 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 81% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.
212 repeat relationships: 80 still active in FY2024, 132 since wound down; 51 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, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $769k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NYNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC6× · 2019–2024 · $88k · revenue +12%
DUKE UNIVERSITY6× · 2019–2024 · $67k · revenue +44%- TCTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION4× · 2019–2022 · $60k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- CSCOLEMAN STEVEN Done grant, 2020 · $90k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $63k
- HFHONOLULU FIL-AM SEVENTH DAY ADVENT CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $40k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
How this is measured
397 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 397 of the 606 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
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: The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Inc · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Booth Ferris Foundation Xxxxx4008 · The Ford Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Rockefeller Brothers Fund Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Geraldine R Dodge Foundation Inc · Chubb Charitable Foundation · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Doris Duke Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Doris Duke Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Morrison Child and Family Services: 91% of income from government
- Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
- Hunterdon Land Trust: 48% of income from government
- Pinelands Preservation Alliance: 35% of income from government
- Vermont Law School: 14% of income from government
- Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
- Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc: 8% of income from government
- The Center for Independent Documentary Inc: 6% of income from government
- Alternatives Inc: 4% of income from government
- The Watershed Institute Inc: 3% of income from government
- Wellesley College: 1% of income from government
- New Jersey Audubon Society: 1% of income from government
- Rutgers University Foundation: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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