· Private foundation
Duchen Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AAJC | $1,388 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| AWF | $1,000 |
| CAT TOWN | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $888 |
| EAST BAY ASIAN LOCAL DEVELOPMENT | $888 |
| IFAW | $650 |
| ST JUDE HOSPITAL | $636 |
| ALAMENDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $600 |
| WWF | $550 |
| Individual grant recipient | $550 |
| FNDI | $500 |
| UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS | $500 |
| EARTH JUSTICE | $500 |
| MUTTVILLE | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 69% of its 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 +22% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.
12 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE2× · 2021–2025 · $1k · revenue +26%
EARTHJUSTICE2× · 2024–2025 · $900 · revenue +22%- BSBARN SANCTUARY2× · 2021–2022 · $774 · revenue +37%
Funded once
- HWHumane World for Animals Incone grant, 2021 · $500 · revenue -20%
- AWAFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $500 · revenue +14%
- ACAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNIONone grant, 2021 · $500
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.
HUMANE WORLD FOR ANIMALS INTERNATIONAL, FKA HUMANE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL (HSI), works around the globe to promote the human-animal bond, rescue and protect dogs and cats, improve farm animal welfare, protect wildlife, promote animal-free…
To ensure every companion animal has access to quality medical care, compassionate shelter, and a loving home.
To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.
Protection of animal rights
World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…
Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…
Create a more humane world by inspiring compassion, providing hope and advancing the welfare of animals and people.
Through management of oakland zoo, the conservation society of california deepens connection with animals, saves wildlife, and inspires champions for the natural world.
Our vision is a world where humans treat animals with respect, empathy and understanding. four paws mission is to be the strong, global and independent voice for animals.
At Environmental and Animal Defense, our mission is to provide Colorado with access to affordable legal services for environmental and animal issues, in addition to protecting wildlife and their habitats through enforcement of the law. No…
To pass animal protection laws, educate the public, and support humane candidates for office.
How this is measured
16 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. 16 of the 30 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
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.
- Who funds CAT TOWN ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MUTTVILLE ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds EAST BAY ASIAN LOCAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds BARN SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds Humane World for Animals Inc ↗
- Who funds PASADENA HUMANE ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITABLE BUREAU OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds Tri-Valley Animal Rescue ↗
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: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Duchen Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Duchen Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
How this is measured
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