How much did DUFFY FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

Health$20MHuman Services$7.2MAnimals$4.2MArts & Culture$3.4MEnvironment$2.4MPhilanthropy$1.2MHousing & Shelter$785kYouth Development$710kEducation$75kOther$21M

02FY2024 · 63 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k1 grant · $5k
$10k–50k16 grants · $440k
$50k–250k38 grants · $4.5M
$250k+8 grants · $13M

$90,000

Median grant

States reached

$28M

Total assets

Largest grants

UMRC FOUNDATION$10,849,173
PAWS WITH A CAUSE$650,000
SHELTER ASSOCIATION OF WASHTENAW COUNTY$400,000
(LACASA) LIVINGSTON AREA COUNCIL AGAINST SPOUSE ABUSE INC$300,000
FOOD GATHERERS$300,000
ST LOUIS CENTER FOR EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN - GENERAL OPERATING$300,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS - SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN REGIONAL CHAPTER$250,000
HURON WATERLOO PATHWAYS INITIATIVE$250,000
ANN ARBOR AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$220,000
HOPE MEDICAL CLINIC INC$220,000
MCLAREN-NORTHERN MICHIGAN FDN$200,000
DAWN INC$200,000
ANN ARBOR HANDS-ON MUSEUM$200,000
HUMANE SOCIETY OF HURON VALLEY$200,000
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PROJECT INC$185,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $7.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 11%. 62% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$61M · 71 repeat orgs$780k to everyone else

71 repeat relationships — 63 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$61M

$780k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%

+47%

Still filing today

63%

13%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesAnimalsArts & CultureEnvironmentHealthPhilanthropyOther

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

UF
UMRC FOUNDATION
8× · 2017–2024 · $18M · revenue +98% · 83% of their budget
PW
PAWS WITH A CAUSE
8× · 2017–2024 · $2.5M · revenue +86%
FG
FOOD GATHERERS
8× · 2017–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +76%

Funded once

SJ
ST JOSEPH MERCY HOSPITAL
one grant, 2020 · $250k
AA
ANN ARBOR YMCA - CAMP AL-GON-QUIAN
one grant, 2017 · $200k
SL
ST LOUIS CENTER FOR EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN - LEGACY CAPITAL CAMPAIGN
one grant, 2017 · $75k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Land Conservancy of West Michigan

The Land Conservancy of West Michigan exists to help people protect, enjoy and care for natural land in West Michigan.

Environment

Southwest Michigan Land

Acquisition & conservation of natural areas

Environment

Michigan Animal Rescue League

The mission of the michigan animal rescue league is to provide the highest quality of life to dogs and cats through rescue, medical care, socialization and behavioral support, short- and long-term sanctuary, adoption, and community…

Animals

Habitat for Humanity of Michigan

To work with the economically disadvantaged to help them to create better places to live/work.

Housing & Shelter

Leelanau Conservancy

To conserve the land, water, and scenic character of leelanau county, michigan.

Environment

Six Rivers Land Conservancy

To conserve, sustain, and connect natural areas, land, and waters that make the places we live special

Environment

Lake Michigan Bird Observatory

Bird research and conservation in the western lake michigan region of the united states.

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United Way of South Central Michigan

United way of south central michigan strives for caring, connected, equitable communities.

Philanthropy

The Little Forks Conservancy Inc

To permanently protect and improve natural environments in Mid-Michigan by leading and inspiring actions that conserve vital habitats and waterways for the benefit of our entire community.

Environment

Friends for Animals of Metro Detroit

The friends are dedicated to the rescue, protection, and adoption of companion animals in need while inspiring the human-animal bond.

Animals

Humane Society of South Central Mi

Animal shelter - provide a safe haven for animals without homes.

Animals

Michigan Pharmacists Association

To represent the pharmacy profession for advancing public health and patient care in mi.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Michigan Humane Society and the most unlike its peers is Leader Dogs for the Blind. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 46 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/48

the rest of the field

15%

2,140/14,361

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.

04the grantee network

47 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

46/47

Grantees still filing

36/47

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$22,822,500Health$20,310,504Human Services$7,235,000Animals$4,194,000Arts & Culture$3,410,000Environment$2,355,000Philanthropy$1,195,000

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.

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.

Ann Arbor Area Community FoundationMI58× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation · United Way of Washtenaw County · James a and Faith Knight Foundation · The Martin Family Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast · Harry a and Margaret D Towsley · Vaughan Foundation · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · Herrick Foundation · Dte Energy Foundation · Thrift Shop Association of Ann Arbor · The Buhr 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 organisation DUFFY 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.

2025

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: UMRC FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~30 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +98% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 383443089 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on UMRC FOUNDATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 30 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 83% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Duffy Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Duffy Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

DUFFY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

47 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Duffy Foundation?

More from the funding graph

DUFFY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

47 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Duffy Foundation?

More from the funding graph