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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.

$224k
Granted FY2022
27
Grants FY2022
5
States reached
$14k
Largest
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Food & Nutrition$203kRecreation & Sports$119kHousing & Shelter$115kHuman Services$90kHealth$88kArts & Culture$77kYouth Development$70kPhilanthropy$67kOther$0
02FY2022 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k20 grants · $142k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $82k
$9,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LIMA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL AUXFDN$14,000
CHILDREN'S DEV CENTER OF LIMA$13,000
DEBS DOGS$11,000
VETERANS FOOD PANTRY OF NW OHIO$11,000
SAMARITAN HOUSE$11,000
CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE$11,000
LIMA RESCUE MISSION$11,000
MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FDN$9,000
Individual grant recipient$9,000
PARK DISTRICT FDN OF ALLEN COUNTY$9,000
FAMILY PROMISE OF LIMA-ALLEN COUNTY$9,000
JOHNNY APPLESEED MET PARK DISTRICT$9,000
OUR DAILY BREAD SOUP KITCHEN$9,000
LIMA SRO PROGRAM$9,000
WEST OHIO FOOD BANK$8,900
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $5k → 14%CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE: $11k → 5%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $4k → 14%CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE: $8k → 5%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $3k → 14%CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE: $8k → 5%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 14%CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE: $7k → 5%CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE: $2k → 5%THE ARC OF ALLEN COUNTY: $8k → 13%THE ARC OF ALLEN COUNTY: $7k → 13%THE ARC OF ALLEN COUNTY: $6k → 13%FAMILY PROMISE OF LIMA-ALLEN CTY: $12k → 13%FAMILY PROMISE OF LIMA-ALLEN CTY: $11k → 13%FAMILY PROMISE OF LIMA-ALLEN CTY: $10k → 13%FAMILY PROMISE OF LIMA-ALLEN COUNTY: $9k → 13%FAMILY PROMISE OF LIMA-ALLEN CTY: $4k → 13%FAMILY PROMISE OF LIMA-ALLEN CTY: $3k → 13%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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 33 repeat orgs$51k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
8

Total granted

$1.1M
$37k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+86%
+120%

Still filing today

36%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22
Human ServicesFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyAnimalsInternationalOther
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

  • WO
    West Ohio Food Bank
    6× · 2017–2022 · $85k · revenue +86%
  • LR
    LIMA RESCUE MISSION
    6× · 2017–2022 · $66k · revenue +210%
  • OD
    OUR DAILY BREAD SOUP KITCHEN INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $59k · revenue +163%

Funded once

  • LR
    LIMA ROTARY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue -40%
  • JA
    JOHNNY APPLESEED MET PARK DISTRICK
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • AL
    AUTISM LIFE CENTER INC
    one grant, 2021 · $4k
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
Alliance Community Pantry Inc

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.

Human Services
2
Ohio Tri County Food Alliance Dba Second Harvest Food Bank

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…

Food & Nutrition
3
Oshkosh Area Community Pantry Inc

The oshkosh area community pantry strives to eliminate food insecurity.

Food & Nutrition
4
The Food Pantry Network of Licking County

Distribution of food to those in need.

Food & Nutrition
5
Toledo Northwestern Ohio Food Bank

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.

Food & Nutrition
6
CAUSE4PAWS Pet Food Bank

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.

Animals
7
West Ohio Community Action Partnership

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…

Community Improvement
8
Cooperstown Food Pantry Inc

The mission of the cooperstown food pantry is to address issues of poverty and hunger in otsego county.

Food & Nutrition
9
Food Bank of West Central Texas

To procure and distribute nutritional food to qualified agencies that feed the hungry of West Central Texas.

Food & Nutrition
10
West Texas Food Bank

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…

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11
Food Bank of Northwest Indiana Inc

To provide food to various charitable organizations and needy individuals in northwest indiana.

Food & Nutrition
12
Akron Community Foundation

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…

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

16 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. 16 of the 43 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
13/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $100,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientOUR DAILY BREAD SOUP KITCHEN INC: $59,000 · OtherOUR DAILY BREAD SOUP KITCHEN INCSAMARITAN HOUSE: $55,500 · OtherSAMARITAN HOUSEVETERANS FOOD PANTRY OF NW OHIO: $52,500 · OtherVETERANS FOOD PANTRY OF NW OHIOPark District Foundation of Allen County: $48,500 · OtherPark District Foundation of Allen CountyJOHNNY APPLESEED MET PARK DISTRICT: $48,500 · OtherJOHNNY APPLESEED MET PARK DISTRICTLIMA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL AUXFDN: $46,000 · OtherLIMA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL AUXFDNCHILDREN'S DEV CENTER OF LIMA: $42,000 · OtherLIMA SRO PROGRAM: $41,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $39,500 · OtherAllen County Historical Society: $29,000 · OtherCRIME VICTIM SERVICES OF ALLENPUTNAM: $27,250 · Other+21 more: $209,969 · Other+21 moreFAMILY PROMISE OF NORTHWEST OH: $48,500 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROM…CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $36,000 · Human ServicesCANINE COMP…THE ARC OF ALLEN COUNTY: $21,000 · Human ServicesTHE ARC OF …WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $13,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WAR…West Ohio Food Bank: $84,600 · Food & NutritionFeeding America: $7,000 · Food & NutritionLIMA RESCUE MISSION: $66,200 · Housing & ShelterMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $51,500 · PhilanthropyDEBS DOGS: $28,500 · AnimalsWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $7,000 · International
Other$798,719Human Services$118,500Food & Nutrition$91,600Housing & Shelter$66,200Philanthropy$51,500Animals$28,500International$7,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWest Ohio Food Bank: $84,600 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetLIMA RESCUE MISSION: $66,200 over 6y, 3.6% of budgetOUR DAILY BREAD SOUP KITCHEN INC: $59,000 over 6y, 13% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $51,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPark District Foundation of Allen County: $48,500 over 6y, 3.6% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF NORTHWEST OH: $48,500 over 6y, 5.1% of budgetCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $36,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAllen County Historical Society: $29,000 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetDEBS DOGS: $28,500 over 4y, 5.0% of budgetTHE ARC OF ALLEN COUNTY: $21,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetLIMA ROTARY FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $13,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBRADFIELD COMMUNITY ASSN: $12,500 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetFeeding America: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOHIO SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $800 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

  • 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 Feeding America ↗
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗

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.

Dayton Foundation DepositoryOH17.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Dayton Foundation Depository · United Way of Greater Lima Inc · American Electric Power Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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.

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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
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 Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Duff Family 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 43 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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