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Duff & Phelps Charitable Foundation at a glance

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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.

$334k
Granted FY2019
42
Grants FY2019
11
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

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

25
’19
39
’20
9
’21
0
’22
0
’23
0
’24
0
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Philanthropy$1.8MInternational$664kHealth$316kEducation$136kCrime & Legal$102kYouth Development$100kHuman Services$72kCivil Rights$49kOther$0
02FY2019 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2019

  • Under $10k29 grants · $135k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $199k
$6,030
Median grant
11
States reached
$147k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STANDUP FOR KIDS$25,000
CHILDREN OF FALLEN PATRIOTS FOUNDATION$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
BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC$10,000
THE MALALA FUND$10,000
GIVE2ASIA$10,000
SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC$9,300
NATIONAL NETWORK TO END DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC$9,109
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.

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.

show:

Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%PAWS WITH A CAUSE: $11k → 10%CORNERSTONES INC: $794 → 6%ONE VOICE: $200 → 14%NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC: $9k → 17%NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC: $4k → 17%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

MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
IA
IN
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
DE
AZ
TN
DC
AL
GA
TX
FL

Beyond the US: 34% of all-years giving ($1.2M)

8 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
United Kingdom$854k · 4 grants
Norway$250k · 1 grant
Italy$22k · 7 grants
India$14k · 1 grant
China$11k · 1 grant
Spain$5k · 1 grant
Germany$3k · 1 grant
Ireland$2k · 1 grant
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 66% of Duff & Phelps Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Duff & Phelps Charitable Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 37% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

60%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 11 repeat orgs$788k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
71

Total granted

$1.2M
$788k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+38%

Still filing today

91%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationYouth DevelopmentInternationalCivil RightsHuman ServicesEnvironmentOther
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

  • StandUp for Kids
    2× · 2019–2020 · $50k · revenue +76%
  • CO
    Children of Fallen Patriots Foundation
    2× · 2019–2020 · $50k · revenue +48%
  • THE PENNSYLVANIA INNOCENCE PROJECT
    2× · 2020–2021 · $50k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • CF
    COALITION FOR EPIDEMIC PREPAREDNESS INNOVATIONS
    one grant, 2020 · $250k
  • UI
    US INDIA FRIENDSHIP ALLIANCE INC
    one grant, 2021 · $40k · revenue -99%
  • CM
    CREATIVE MINDS NYC INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $35k · revenue +41%
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
Internet Society Foundation

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…

International
2
Actionaid Usa

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…

Social Science
3
American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment
4
American Gas Association

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…

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5
United States Telecom Association

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…

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6
United States Naval Institute

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.

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7
Npr Foundation

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…

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8
National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors

Empowering financial professionals and consumers through world-class advocacy and education.

—
9
The Common Application Inc

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…

Education
10
Common Impact Inc

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…

Unclassified
11
Common Future

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…

Community Improvement
12
International Women's Forum Inc

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dress for Success Worldwide; 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.
05the grantee network

67 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
64/67
Grantees still filing
51/67
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC: $942,555 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INCCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $468,786 · PhilanthropyCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA+2 more: $3,233 · PhilanthropyTHE UK ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION: $846,174 · OtherTHE UK ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATIONCOALITION FOR EPIDEMIC PREPAREDNESS INNOVATIONS: $250,000 · OtherCOALITION FOR EPIDEMIC PREPAREDNESS INNOVATIONS+49 more: $444,294 · Other+49 moreUNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · InternationalUnited States Association for UNHCR: $45,000 · InternationalMAGIC BUS USA: $16,500 · InternationalGIVE2ASIA: $10,000 · InternationalDRESS FOR SUCCESS WORLDWIDE: $7,360 · International+1 more: $4,050 · InternationalChildren of Fallen Patriots Foundation: $50,000 · EducationThurgood Marshall College Fund: $22,100 · EducationNATIONAL DIVERSITY COUNCIL: $11,477 · EducationTHE MALALA FUND: $10,000 · EducationCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS: $8,411 · EducationTeach for America Inc: $5,205 · EducationPOINT FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Education+2 more: $4,523 · EducationEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $28,700 · Civil RightsNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $25,000 · Civil RightsTHE RECONCILIATION CENTER INC: $17,000 · Civil RightsTREVOR PROJECT INC: $15,900 · Civil RightsHUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION: $11,000 · Civil RightsUS INDIA FRIENDSHIP ALLIANCE INC: $40,000 · Arts & CultureCREATIVE MINDS NYC INC: $35,000 · Arts & CultureCHICAGO INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL CHANGE FILM FESTIVAL: $5,100 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $1,000 · Arts & CultureNational Network to End Domestic Violence Inc: $34,509 · Youth DevelopmentMINDS MATTER OF NYC INC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $7,268 · Youth DevelopmentJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA: $4,729 · Youth Development+3 more: $1,896 · Youth Development
Philanthropy$1,414,574Other$1,540,468International$132,910Education$116,716Civil Rights$97,600Arts & Culture$81,100Youth Development$58,402

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 budgetAMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC: $942,555 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $468,786 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetStandUp for Kids: $50,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetChildren of Fallen Patriots Foundation: $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE PENNSYLVANIA INNOCENCE PROJECT: $50,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetUnited States Association for UNHCR: $45,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUS INDIA FRIENDSHIP ALLIANCE INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCREATIVE MINDS NYC INC: $35,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF NASHVILLE AND MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC: $35,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetNational Network to End Domestic Violence Inc: $34,509 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE AMERICAN IRELAND FUND (DBA THE IRELAND FUNDS AMERICA/THE IRELAND FUNDS): $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $28,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetI Got This Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThurgood Marshall College Fund: $22,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOTHERS FOR JUSTICE AND EQUALITY INC: $20,800 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTHE RECONCILIATION CENTER INC: $17,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY SETTLEMENT SOCIETY OF NEW YORK: $16,950 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAGIC BUS USA: $16,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC: $15,900 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBGH FOUNDATION INC: $15,900 over 1y, 11% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $14,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC: $13,009 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL DIVERSITY COUNCIL: $11,477 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION: $11,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMINDS MATTER OF NYC INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGIVE2ASIA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MALALA FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $9,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS: $8,411 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $7,713 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS WORLDWIDE: $7,360 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $7,268 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTREES FOR THE FUTURE INC: $6,030 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN RIVERS INC: $5,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $5,205 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL CHANGE FILM FESTIVAL: $5,100 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetPOINT FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA: $4,729 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSERIOUSFUN CHILDREN'S NETWORK: $4,147 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOBS FOR THE FUTURE INC: $4,094 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRAZIL FOUNDATION: $4,050 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEVERYBODY WINS DC INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFriends of Transparency International: $2,669 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetSTUDENT LEADERSHIP NETWORK INC: $2,571 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.

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.

The Blackbaud Giving …Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The New York Communit…Assurant FoundationTides FoundationAmerican Express Foun…Columbus FoundationBoston Foundation IncChubb Charitable Foun…California Community …Charities Aid Foundat…The Ayco Charitable F…
The Blackbaud Giving FundSC12.9× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Duff & Phelps Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Duff & Phelps Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 43%
  • Mothers for Justice and Equality Inc: 43% of income from government
  • Jobs for the Future Inc: 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get 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
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 Duff & Phelps Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Duff & Phelps Charitable Foundation 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 86 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home