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Duck Foundation Inc

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.

$14k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
20
Grants FY2024
24
Organizations funded FY2023
54%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$750
Largest grant, FY2024
$1,517
Organizations funded a year
8 to 24
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$337k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 54% of the organizations Duck Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 52% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthHuman ServicesAnimalsCrime & LegalArts & CultureOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving20$14k60%
FY202324$13k54%
FY202220$9k65%
FY202113$16k46%
FY202011$9k55%
FY20198$7k63%
FY20188$8k50%
FY20179$5kn/a
69% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$33kHuman Services$8kEducation$6kHealth$5kHousing & Shelter$2kYouth Development$2kInternational$2kCrime & Legal$1kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
House of Refuge Inc$3,5005n/a
Wib Wib Foundation$2,0002n/a
Burke United Christian Ministries$1,75020%
Adoption Support Alliance$1,50030%
Lighthouse for Boys Inc$1,3502n/a
Options Inc$1,00010%
The Joe Martin ALS Foundation$75020%
The Outreach Center$60010%
Atrium Health Foundation$50010%
Burke Psychosocial Services Inc$50010%
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All grantees of Duck Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
House of Refuge Inc$3,5005n/a
Wib Wib Foundation$2,0002n/a
Burke United Christian Ministries$1,75020%
Adoption Support Alliance$1,50030%
Lighthouse for Boys Inc$1,3502n/a
Options Inc$1,00010%
The Joe Martin ALS Foundation$75020%
The Outreach Center$60010%
Atrium Health Foundation$50010%
Burke Psychosocial Services Inc$50010%
Hoskins Park Ministries Inc$50010%
Humane Society of Charlotte Inc$45030%
Telra Institute Inc$45010%
Zion Baptist Church$4001n/a
Crisis Assistance Ministry$40020%
Changed Choices Inc$35010%
Hebron Colony Ministries Inc$25010%
Historic Burke Foundation Inc$25010%
Youth Orchestras of Charlotte$10010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 49 recipients with no EIN on record ($64k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Duck Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBurke United Christian Ministries: $1,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAdoption Support Alliance: $1,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetOptions Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Joe Martin ALS Foundation: $750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Outreach Center: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAtrium Health Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBurke Psychosocial Services Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHoskins Park Ministries Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHumane Society of Charlotte Inc: $450 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTelra Institute Inc: $450 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCrisis Assistance Ministry: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChanged Choices Inc: $350 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHebron Colony Ministries Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHistoric Burke Foundation Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYouth Orchestras of Charlotte: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 15.

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.

Rostan Family FoundationNC15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Rostan Family Foundation · Community Foundation of Burke County · Foundation for the Carolinas · Duke Energy Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

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About Duck Foundation Inc

How much does Duck Foundation Inc give?
Duck Foundation Inc reported 20 grants totaling $13,667 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 24 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Duck Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (42%), Human Services (10%), Education (8%).
Who are Duck Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: House of Refuge Inc ($4k), Wib Wib Foundation ($2k), Burke United Christian Ministries ($2k).
Does Duck Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 54% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Duck Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Duck Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Rostan Family Foundation, Community Foundation of Burke County, Foundation for the Carolinas.
Where is Duck Foundation Inc based?
Duck Foundation Inc is based in NC.

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 68 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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