· Private foundation
Duff Family Foundation
Its FY2019 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, FY2017 to 2019.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OPERATION DIGNITY | $8,000 |
| ISLAND DOLPHIN CARE | $3,000 |
| OCEAN REEF COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–18, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 -3% for those funded once.
3 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2019, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (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 FY2019, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ODOPERATION DIGNITY INC3× · 2017–2019 · $26k · revenue +22%
- IDISLAND DOLPHIN CARE INC2× · 2017–2019 · $10k · revenue -48%
- GCGOOD COUNSEL INC2× · 2017–2018 · $2k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- OROCEAN REEF MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2018 · $32k · revenue -3%
- RURUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDone grant, 2017 · $25k
- RSRUTGERS SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCESone grant, 2018 · $25k
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.
To preserve and protect reef fish in the Gulf of Mexico through science and education.
Facilitate communication/participation among interested individuals, corporations, scientists and educators through education, scientific research, charity work to support sound resource use, management, research and conservation of marine…
To perform scientific research and educational outreach on the marine environments of sensitive and lesser known deep coral reefs, and implement outreach and education programs to increase awareness and understanding of these unusual…
To protect and preserve the environment, fish, wildlife and marine related areas including water quality and habitat. to protect nearby and offshore coral reefs and fishery habitats by repairing, re-growth and regernation, in order to have…
Reef renewal usa is renewing coral reefs for future generations in a rapidly changing world by producing and outplanting resilient corals of the future at an unprecedented scale.
Leading Citizen scientists to promote stewardship of sustainable reef communities worldwide.
Reef Relief is a nonprofit membership organization dedicated to improving and protecting our coral reef ecosystem
Unify and strengthen the reef fish industry to achieve sustainability and accountability using individual fishing quotas to manage the catch.
Inspired by the fishing community, our mission is to protect fish populations, unite resources stakeholders, and restore aquatic habitats.
Advance the conservation of the world's oceans through scientific, research, education and community engagement.
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 26 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 OCEAN REEF MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION DIGNITY INC ↗
- Who funds ISLAND DOLPHIN CARE INC ↗
- Who funds Lois Lodge Inc ↗
- Who funds ALPHA RHO MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OCEAN REEF COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR THE POOR INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD COUNSEL INC ↗
- Who funds PALM BEACH COUNTY FISHING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Guides Trust Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Pope Memorial Library ↗
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: National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Duff Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Duff Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Pope Memorial Library: 16% of income from government
- Food for the Poor Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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