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Duff Family Foundation
Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k20 grants · $142k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $82k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LIMA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL AUXFDN | $14,000 |
| CHILDREN'S DEV CENTER OF LIMA | $13,000 |
| VETERANS FOOD PANTRY OF NW OHIO | $11,000 |
| DEBS DOGS | $11,000 |
| LIMA RESCUE MISSION | $11,000 |
| SAMARITAN HOUSE | $11,000 |
| CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE | $11,000 |
| OUR DAILY BREAD SOUP KITCHEN | $9,000 |
| MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FDN | $9,000 |
| LIMA SRO PROGRAM | $9,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $9,000 |
| FAMILY PROMISE OF LIMA-ALLEN COUNTY | $9,000 |
| JOHNNY APPLESEED MET PARK DISTRICT | $9,000 |
| PARK DISTRICT FDN OF ALLEN COUNTY | $9,000 |
| WEST OHIO FOOD BANK | $8,900 |
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 human-services grants (FY17–22, $119k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 70% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
33 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2022, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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
- WOWest Ohio Food Bank6× · 2017–2022 · $85k · revenue +86%
- LRLIMA RESCUE MISSION6× · 2017–2022 · $66k · revenue +210%
- ODOUR DAILY BREAD SOUP KITCHEN INC6× · 2017–2022 · $59k · revenue +163%
Funded once
- LRLIMA ROTARY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue -40%
- JAJOHNNY APPLESEED MET PARK DISTRICKone grant, 2021 · $10k
- BCBRADFORD COMMUNITY ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2021 · $4k
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.
The mission of the food pantry is to eliminate food insecurity in the alliance ohio area for residents who qualify under the guidelines of the ohio job and family services.
The mission of ohio tri county food alliance/second harvest food bank is to alleviate hunger in clark, champaign, and logan counties by sourcing and distributing nutritious food to people in need, building community partnerships, and…
The oshkosh area community pantry strives to eliminate food insecurity.
Distribution of food to those in need.
To enable other community organizations to end hunger. we strive to maximize community resources by effectively obtaining and distributing food through a food collection and distribution system.
Many seniors and veterans share their only meal of the day with their companion animals. we deliver pet food for these precious animals so they can remain at home or with their person and not have to be surrendered to shelters.
Organized for the purpose of creating, developing and effecting programs and projects designed to enhance the economic development of Allen, Auglaize, and Mercer Counties and its citizens, particularly to those areas of the community and…
The mission of the cooperstown food pantry is to address issues of poverty and hunger in otsego county.
To procure and distribute nutritional food to qualified agencies that feed the hungry of West Central Texas.
The WTFB exists to collect, purchase, and distribute food to feed the hungry in 19 counties in West Texas in partnership with volunteers and community organizations and to educate these partners and the public at large about the real face…
To provide food to various charitable organizations and needy individuals in northwest indiana.
To identify, activate, and support informed and passionate philanthropists who strive to improve the quality of life in our community. we accomplish this by:- building a permanent source of charitable funding- cultivating strategic…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Debs Dogs. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 43 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 West Ohio Food Bank ↗
- Who funds LIMA RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds OUR DAILY BREAD SOUP KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Park District Foundation of Allen County ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF NORTHWEST OH ↗
- Who funds CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds Allen County Historical Society ↗
- Who funds DEBS DOGS ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF ALLEN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds LIMA ROTARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds BRADFIELD COMMUNITY ASSN ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
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.
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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 Family 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% 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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