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Duff & Phelps Charitable 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Duff & Phelps Charitable Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to American Online Giving Foundation Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2019, the last year Duff & Phelps Charitable Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 25 organizations, $334k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k29 grants · $135k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $199k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILDREN OF FALLEN PATRIOTS FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| STANDUP FOR KIDS | $25,000 |
| CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA | $20,123 |
| WWP INC - WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC | $17,425 |
| MAGIC BUS USA | $16,500 |
| THE AMERICAN IRELAND FUND | $15,000 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED | $14,600 |
| ROTARY SANSKARDHAM CHARITABLE TRUST | $14,000 |
| PAWS WITH A CAUSE | $10,950 |
| HEEP HONG SOCIETY | $10,500 |
| GIVE2ASIA | $10,000 |
| BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| THE MALALA FUND | $10,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC | $9,300 |
| NATIONAL NETWORK TO END DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC | $9,109 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your US giving — 66% of grant dollars ($2.3M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 34% that went abroad ($1.2M) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY19–20, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 53% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
Beyond the US — 34% of all-years giving ($1.2M)
8 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 66% of Duff & Phelps Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
11 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2019, 6 since wound down; 71 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call). Read against FY2019, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
THE PENNSYLVANIA INNOCENCE PROJECT2× · 2020–2021 · $50k · revenue +8%- COChildren of Fallen Patriots Foundation2× · 2019–2020 · $50k · revenue +48%
StandUp for Kids2× · 2019–2020 · $50k · revenue +76%
Funded once
- CFCOALITION FOR EPIDEMIC PREPAREDNESS INNOVATIONSone grant, 2020 · $250k
- UIUS INDIA FRIENDSHIP ALLIANCE INCone grant, 2021 · $40k · revenue -99%
- CMCREATIVE MINDS NYC INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $35k · revenue +41%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
See schedule oustelecom exists to ensure members can compete, grow and thrive to build a world where families, enterprises and communities are connected through the power of broadband.our member companies have committed a considerable…
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 npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
Empowering financial professionals and consumers through world-class advocacy and education.
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
Common impact's mission is to strengthen the capacity of social change organizations, enabling them to better run and scale their programs. through its partnership with companies, common impact taps into the business skills and expertise…
Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…
The mission of the international women's forum is to advance women's leadership worldwide. iwf takes direct action to achieve our mission in three important ways. connect: our convenings provide networking and cutting-edge content…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dress for Success Worldwide and the most unlike its peers is Community Advanced Practice Nursesinc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
67 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 67 of the 86 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
- Who funds THE PENNSYLVANIA INNOCENCE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Children of Fallen Patriots Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds StandUp for Kids ↗
- Who funds United States Association for UNHCR ↗
- Who funds US INDIA FRIENDSHIP ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF NASHVILLE AND MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds CREATIVE MINDS NYC INC ↗
- Who funds National Network to End Domestic Violence Inc ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN IRELAND FUND (DBA THE IRELAND FUNDS AMERICA/THE IRELAND FUNDS) ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC ↗
- Who funds I Got This Foundation ↗
- Who funds Thurgood Marshall College Fund ↗
- Who funds MOTHERS FOR JUSTICE AND EQUALITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE RECONCILIATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT SOCIETY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds MAGIC BUS USA ↗
- Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds BGH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL DIVERSITY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Paws With A Cause ↗
- Who funds THE MALALA FUND ↗
- Who funds THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MINDS MATTER OF NYC INC ↗
- Who funds GIVE2ASIA ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Assurant Foundation · Tides Foundation · American Express Foundation · Columbus Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Chubb Charitable Foundation · California Community Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Ayco Charitable Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Duff & Phelps Charitable Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Mothers for Justice and Equality Inc — 43% of income from government
- Jobs for the Future Inc — 11% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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