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Doris J & Donald L Duchene Foundation C/O David Findling at a glance

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Doris J & Donald L Duchene Foundation C/O David Findling

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.

$20k
Granted FY2023
4
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Education$3.1MRecreation & Sports$639kArts & Culture$331kHealth$174kHuman Services$166kReligion$153kPhilanthropy$82kAnimals$45kOther$0
02FY2023 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MUNSON HEALTHCARE REGIONAL FDTN$5,000
CHILD & FAMILY SERVICE PETE'S PLACE$5,000
CHERRYLAND HUMANE SOCIETY$5,000
GRAND TRAVERSE REGIONAL LAND CONS$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–22, $99k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 80% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%House of the Good Shepherd: $3k → 16%GUARDIAN ANGELS MEDICAL SERVICES: $2k → 16%Cristo Rey Community Central: $3k → 9%GUARDIAN ANGELS MEDICAL SERVICES: $2k → 16%Cristo Rey Community Central: $3k → 9%GUARDIAN ANGELS MEDICAL SERVICES: $1k → 16%FATHER FRED FOUNDATION: $3k → 10%FATHER FRED FOUNDATION: $3k → 10%Father Fred Foundation: $2k → 10%FATHER FRED FOUNDATION: $2k → 10%FATHER FRED FOUNDATION: $2k → 10%FATHER FRED FOUNDATION: $1k → 10%ANGIE'S TOY CHEST: $3k → 10%POPE FRANCIS CENTER: $5k → 21%POPE FRANCIS CENTER: $1k → 21%St Patrick Senior Center Inc: $3k → 21%THE HELM AT THE BOLL LIFE CENTER: $18k → 21%SERVICES FOR OLDER CITIZENS: $12k → 21%THE HELM AT THE BOLL LIFE CENTER: $12k → 21%Services for Older Citizens: $10k → 21%THE HELM AT THE BOLL LIFE CENTER: $6k → 21%THE HELM AT THE BOLL LIFE CENTER: $6k → 21%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
MA
PA
CA
AZ
TN
NC
DC
OK
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.2M · 74 repeat orgs$544k to everyone else

74 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2023, 70 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

74
104

Total granted

$4.2M
$544k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+63%

Still filing today

39%
23%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyArts & CultureAnimalsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY
    6× · 2017–2022 · $156k · revenue +20%
  • MU
    Madonna University
    6× · 2017–2022 · $101k · revenue +8%
  • Vanderbilt University
    3× · 2018–2020 · $80k · revenue +65%

Funded once

  • AO
    ARCHDIOCESE OF DETROIT CATHOLIC HS
    one grant, 2018 · $109k
  • AO
    Archdiocese of Detroit Catholic HS League
    one grant, 2017 · $79k
  • VU
    Vanderbilt University Medical Centergraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $40k · revenue +120%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Saint Xavier University

Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…

Education
2
Hilbert College

Hilbert college is an independent institution of higher learning that embraces its catholic franciscan heritage and values. students from diverse backgrounds are educated in liberal arts and professional programs to become informed…

Education
3
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
4
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
5
Marietta College

Marietta college (mc) provides a strong foundation for a lifetime of leadership, critical thinking, and problem solving. we achieve this mission by offering undergraduates a contemporary liberal arts education and graduate students an…

Education
6
University of New Haven

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…

Education
7
Gettysburg College

Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.

Education
8
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
9
Delaware Valley University

See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…

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10
DePauw University

Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…

Education
11
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
12
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Madonna University; the most unlike its peers is Edsel & Eleanor Ford House. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

55 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. 55 of the 179 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
54/55
Grantees still filing
43/55
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Wayne State University: $2,161,500 · OtherWayne State UniversityGROSSE POINTE WAR MEMORIAL: $135,000 · Other+135 more: $1,585,943 · Other+135 moreUNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY: $156,450 · EducationUNIVERSITY O…Madonna University: $100,500 · EducationMadonna Univ…Vanderbilt University: $80,000 · EducationVanderbilt U…UNIVERSITY LIGGETT SCHOOL: $27,000 · EducationADRIAN COLLEGE: $25,115 · EducationTHE GROSSE POINTE ACADEMY: $22,000 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITY: $20,000 · EducationWAYNESBURG UNIVERSITY: $20,000 · Education+11 more: $62,500 · Education+11 moreGROSSE POINTE THEATRE INC: $79,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY: $39,300 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $2,500 · Arts & CultureSERVICES FOR OLDER CITIZENS INC DBA THE HELM AT THE BOLL LIFE CENTER: $64,000 · Human ServicesFATHER FRED FOUNDATION: $11,500 · Human ServicesPOPE FRANCIS CENTER: $6,000 · Human ServicesCatholic Charities of Ingham Eaton & Clinton Counties: $5,000 · Human ServicesGUARDIAN ANGELS MEDICAL SERVICE DOGS INC: $4,000 · Human Services+3 more: $8,000 · Human ServicesVanderbilt University Medical Center: $40,000 · HealthGUEST HOUSE INC: $22,500 · HealthNational Kidney Foundation of Michigan Inc: $10,000 · HealthKEVINS SONG A NONPROFIT COMMUNITY EDUCATION ON DEPRESSION & SUICIDE: $5,000 · Health+1 more: $200 · HealthTHE GIBSON FOUNDATION GIBSON: $38,000 · PhilanthropyFALLEN AND WOUNDED SOLDIERS FUND: $5,000 · PhilanthropyTED LINDSAY FOUNDATION: $2,500 · PhilanthropyROSE HILL FOUNDATION: $2,000 · PhilanthropyCHERRYLAND HUMANE SOCIETY: $21,000 · AnimalsMICHIGAN HUMANE SOCIETY: $8,000 · Animals+1 more: $500 · Animals
Other$3,882,443Education$513,565Arts & Culture$120,800Human Services$98,500Health$77,700Philanthropy$47,500Animals$29,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY: $156,450 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMadonna University: $100,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetVanderbilt University: $80,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGROSSE POINTE THEATRE INC: $79,000 over 5y, 6.6% of budgetSERVICES FOR OLDER CITIZENS INC DBA THE HELM AT THE BOLL LIFE CENTER: $64,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY: $39,300 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE GIBSON FOUNDATION GIBSON: $38,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetUNIVERSITY LIGGETT SCHOOL: $27,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDETROIT ATHLETIC CLUB: $26,705 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetADRIAN COLLEGE: $25,115 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGUEST HOUSE INC: $22,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GROSSE POINTE ACADEMY: $22,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCHERRYLAND HUMANE SOCIETY: $21,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWAYNESBURG UNIVERSITY: $20,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRACQUET UP DETROIT: $12,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE: $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFATHER FRED FOUNDATION: $11,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBEYOND BASICS: $11,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetWINNING FUTURES: $11,250 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetVISTA MARIA: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNational Kidney Foundation of Michigan Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMICHIGAN HUMANE SOCIETY: $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEARLY CHILDHOOD INITIATIVE INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetEDSEL & ELEANOR FORD HOUSE: $7,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPOPE FRANCIS CENTER: $6,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCatholic Charities of Ingham Eaton & Clinton Counties: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSAY DETROIT: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBELLE ISLE CONSERVANCY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGROSSE POINTE SOUTH DUGOUT CLUB INC: $5,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF NORTHERN MICHIGAN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFALLEN AND WOUNDED SOLDIERS FUND: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGUARDIAN ANGELS MEDICAL SERVICE DOGS INC: $4,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetANGIES TOY CHEST: $3,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD CLUB: $3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetST PATRICK SENIOR CENTER INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHENRY FORD ESTATE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBING YOUTH INSTITUTE: $2,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetST PAUL EDUCATIONAL TRUST: $2,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHOUSE OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTED LINDSAY FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREENHILLS SCHOOL: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROSE HILL FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALMA COLLEGE: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DETROIT MERCY ↗
  • Who funds Madonna University ↗
  • Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
  • Who funds GROSSE POINTE THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds SERVICES FOR OLDER CITIZENS INC DBA THE HELM AT THE BOLL LIFE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds DMC FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Vanderbilt University Medical Center ↗
  • Who funds MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY ↗
  • Who funds THE GIBSON FOUNDATION GIBSON ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY LIGGETT SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds DETROIT ATHLETIC CLUB ↗
  • Who funds ADRIAN COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds GUEST HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE GROSSE POINTE ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds CHERRYLAND HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds WAYNESBURG UNIVERSITY ↗

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.

S Gary Spicer Sr Foun…Community Foundation …DTE Energy FoundationCatholic Foundation o…Mary I McLeod Foundat…Joanne Nicolay Founda…United Way for Southe…Raymond M & Jane E Cr…Charles Stewart Mott …Ford PhilanthropyConsumers Energy Foun…Sacred Family Causes …
S Gary Spicer Sr FoundationMI51.5× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: S Gary Spicer Sr Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · DTE Energy Foundation · Catholic Foundation of Michigan · Mary I McLeod Foundation · Joanne Nicolay Foundation · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · Raymond M & Jane E Cracchiolo Foundation · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · Ford Philanthropy · Consumers Energy Foundation · Sacred Family Causes Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Doris J & Donald L Duchene Foundation C/O David Findling funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Doris J & Donald L Duchene Foundation C/O David Findling. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Doris J & Donald L Duchene Foundation C/O David Findling?

    Find your warmest path to Doris J & Donald L Duchene Foundation C/O David Findling through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 179 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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