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Ducker Family 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.

$185k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
8
Grants FY2025
20
Organizations funded FY2024
50%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$59,623
Organizations funded a year
2 to 21
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
6
Total assets, FY2025
$7.3M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Ducker Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 30% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $94k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureReligionYouth DevelopmentInternationalPublic BenefitOther
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
FY2025still arriving8$185k38%
FY202420$319k50%
FY20236$272k50%
FY20229$81k89%
FY20212$13k0%
FY202021$362kn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Recreation & Sports$366kEducation$285kHuman Services$223kReligion$199kArts & Culture$33kCommunity Improvement$25kInternational$25kPublic Benefit$12kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
CA
CO
MO
WV
VA
AZ
TN
DC
OK
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Fellowship of Christian Athletes$193,46640%
Ole Miss Athletic Foundation$80,82830%
Ravi Zacharias International Ministries$50,0001n/a
University of Mississippi Foundation$30,00020%
Lorraine Civil Rights Museum Foundation$27,54520%
Ceo Forum Inc$25,00020%
But God Ministries$25,00011%
Family First Inc$16,08310%
East-West Ministries International$10,0001n/a
Memphis Child Advocacy Center$10,00010%
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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($728k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ducker Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFellowship of Christian Athletes: $193,466 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOle Miss Athletic Foundation: $80,828 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Mississippi Foundation: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLorraine Civil Rights Museum Foundation: $27,545 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCeo Forum Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBut God Ministries: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFamily First Inc: $16,083 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMemphis Child Advocacy Center: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Independent Institute: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTrucking Cares Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetTurning Point USA Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEducational Media Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of the Bible: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetStephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPublic School Bible Study Committee: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCato Institute: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMorehouse College: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Legal and Policy Center: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKen Turner Ministries: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDesire Street Ministries: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChampions for Literacy: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetShepherd University Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Heritage Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMadonna Learning Center Incorporated: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJohn Bramlett Ministry Inc: $250 over 1y, 1.0% 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 26.

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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.

Christian Community Foundation of MemphisTN19.4× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Ducker Family Foundation

How much does Ducker Family Foundation give?
Ducker Family Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $185,045 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 21 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Ducker Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (30%), Education (23%), Human Services (18%).
Who are Ducker Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Fellowship of Christian Athletes ($193k), Ole Miss Athletic Foundation ($81k), Ravi Zacharias International Ministries ($50k).
Does Ducker Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Ducker Family Foundation 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 Ducker Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Christian Community Foundation of Memphis, Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, American Endowment Foundation.
Where is Ducker Family Foundation based?
Ducker Family Foundation is based in TN.

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 45 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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