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Dugas Family Foundation II Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$592k
Granted FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Health$2.1MHuman Services$683kYouth Development$524kFood & Nutrition$225kRecreation & Sports$122kAnimals$90kArts & Culture$85kHousing & Shelter$65kOther$0
02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $267k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $320k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$24M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CUMBERLAND HEIGHTS FOUNDATION$100,000
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK$70,000
THE CROSSROADS CAMPUS$50,000
FAITH FAMILY MEDICAL CLINIC$50,000
FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES$50,000
FRIENDS OF WARNER PARKS$30,000
FRIENDS LIFE COMMUNITY$25,000
BACKLIGHT PRODUCTIONS$25,000
413 STRONG$25,000
MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE$25,000
FRIENDS OF FRANKLIN PARKS$22,000
PET COMMUNITY CENTER INC$20,000
WALDEN'S PUDDLE$20,000
NASHVILLE DOLPHINS$20,000
YWCA NASHVILLE & MIDDLE TENNESSEE$20,000
02The need
03

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 (FY20–24, $747k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 85% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%HOPE STATION INC: $12k → 9%ARCHIE'S PROMISE: $10k → 9%ABLE YOUTH: $15k → 4%ABLE YOUTH: $15k → 4%FRIENDS LIFE COMMUNITY: $25k → 14%ABLE YOUTH: $15k → 4%MOTHER TO MOTHER: $20k → 14%ABLE YOUTH: $15k → 4%FRIENDS LIFE COMMUNITY: $5k → 14%ABLE YOUTH: $10k → 4%THE CROSSROADS CAMPUS: $50k → 14%THE CROSSROADS CAMPUS: $50k → 14%THE CROSSROADS CAMPUS: $50k → 14%GRACEWORKS MINISTRIES INC: $25k → 4%THE CROSSROADS CAMPUS: $5k → 14%GRACEWORKS MINISTRIES INC: $15k → 4%INSIGHT COUNSELING CENTERS: $75k → 14%INSIGHT COUNSELING CENTERS: $40k → 14%FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $125k → 14%FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $50k → 14%ALIVE HOSPICE: $52k → 14%AMPUTEE BLADE RUNNERS: $17k → 14%MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE: $25k → 14%AMPUTEE BLADE RUNNERS: $15k → 14%AMPUTEE BLADE RUNNERS: $11k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.8M · 25 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against -12% for the ones you funded once.

25 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
15

Total granted

$2.8M
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
-12%

Still filing today

88%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $117k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthRecreation & SportsAnimalsHousing & ShelterEnvironmentOther

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

  • CH
    CUMBERLAND HEIGHTS FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $500k · revenue +49%
  • SN
    STARS NASHVILLE
    4× · 2020–2023 · $228k · revenue +272%
  • FC
    FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE
    2× · 2020–2024 · $175k · revenue +192%

Funded once

  • WH
    WILLIAMSON HEALTH FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue -12%
  • TA
    THISBE AND NOAH SCOTT FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue -95% · 71% of their budget
  • AH
    ALIVE HOSPICE INC
    one grant, 2020 · $52k · revenue +5%

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.

1
Easter Seals Tennessee Inc

The mission of easterseals tennessee is to make profound positive differences in the lives of people with disabilities as they learn, work, and play in their communities.

Health
2
East Tennessee Children's Hospital Association Inc

East tennessee children's hospital is a free-standing, independent, not-for-profit pediatric health care system which serves the east tennessee region. children's hospital is certified by the state of tennessee as a comprehensive regional…

Health
3
The Family Center Inc

Raising resilience tennessee's (formerly known as the family center, inc.) mission is breaking multigenerational cycles of childhood trauma and our vision is a resilient community where all children thrive.

Human Services
4
Oasis Center Inc

Oasis center targets undeserved youth, families, schools, and neighborhoods with a mission to help youth grow, thrive and create positive change in their lives and in our community.

Community Improvement
5
Centerstone of Tennessee Inc

Our mission is "delivering care that changes people's lives"

Health
6
Memphis Child Advocacy Center

The mission is to serve children who are victims of sexual and severe physical abuse through prevention, education, and intervention.

Crime & Legal
7
Thompson Child & Family Focus Inc

Founded in 1886, thompson child & family focus is called to strengthen children, families, and communitiesdelivering measurable outcomes through healing, teaching, worship, and play. for more than a century, thompson has transformed lives…

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8
Easter Seals North Texas

We help advance the independence of individuals with disabilities & other special needs.

Health
9
Ability Kc

Our mission is to build brighter futures for children and adults with disabilities by providing comprehensive medical, therapeutic, educational, and vocational services.

—
10
Teamability Inc

Teamability strives to ensure that children with severe multiple disabilities have the opportunity to benefit from therapeautic educational intervention to participate actively in life.

Education
11
Pathways Youth and Family Services Inc

Pathways' mission is: transforming lives, families and communities.

Human Services
12
Ability Connection Texas

The mission of ability connection is to enrich the lives of people with disabilities...one person at a time. the cornerstone of our programs are the core values of compassion, respect and results through a personalized approach to address…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Middle Tennessee and the most unlike its peers is Able Youth Inc. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyBusiness & Economic AdvocacyHousing & Basic Needs Assis…Community Philanthropy & Gr…Crisis Counseling & Support…Tennessee Business AdvocacyWilliamson County Community…Community Health & Social S…Parks and Green Space Stewa…
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 25 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%0%<5yr15%3%5–10yr19%35%10–20yr16%29%20–35yr12%18%35–55yr14%15%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr15%0%5–10yr19%22%10–20yr16%36%20–35yr12%16%35–55yr14%27%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/38
the rest of the field
12%
841/6,772

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

36 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. 36 of the 45 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/36
Grantees still filing
22/36
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

WILLIAMSON HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $500,000 · HealthWILLIAMSON HEALTH FOUNDATION INCCUMBERLAND HEIGHTS FOUNDATION INC — $500,000 · HealthCUMBERLAND HEIGHTS FOUNDATION INCSTARS NASHVILLE — $227,500 · HealthSTARS NASHVILLEFAITH FAMILY MEDICAL CENTER INC — $100,000 · HealthFAITH FAMILY MEDICAL CENTER INC+2 more — $75,000 · Health+2 moreVANDERBUILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER - VUMC — $500,000 · OtherVANDERBUILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER…SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK — $225,000 · OtherSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANKHIGH HOPES INC — $196,300 · OtherHIGH HOPES INCNASHVILLE EDUCATION COMMUNITY AND ARTS TELEVISION CORPORATION — $60,000 · OtherBRIDGES FOR THE DEAF AND HARD OF HEARING — $50,000 · OtherTHE VICTOR S JOHNSON III NASHVILLE CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE INC — $50,000 · Other+11 more — $229,000 · Other+11 moreFAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE — $175,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY & CHILDREN'S SE…THE CROSSROADS CAMPUS — $155,000 · Human ServicesTHE CROSSROADS CAMPUSPASTORAL COUNSELING CENTERS OF TENN — $115,000 · Human ServicesPASTORAL COUNSELING CE…Able Youth Inc — $70,000 · Human ServicesAble Youth IncALIVE HOSPICE INC — $52,000 · Human ServicesALIVE HOSPICE INCAmputee Blade Runners — $42,900 · Human ServicesAmputee Blade RunnersGRACEWORKS MINISTRIES INC — $40,000 · Human ServicesTUCKER'S HOUSE — $40,000 · Human ServicesFriends Life Community — $30,000 · Human Services+4 more — $67,000 · Human Services+4 moreTHISBE AND NOAH SCOTT FOUNDATION INC — $250,000 · PhilanthropyWALDENS PUDDLE WILDLIFE REHABILITATION & EDUCATIO — $40,000 · AnimalsALAQUA ANIMAL REFUGE INC — $25,000 · AnimalsPET COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $25,000 · AnimalsFRIENDS OF THE WARNER PARKS INC — $35,000 · Recreation & SportsDOLPHIN AQUATICS DBA NASHVILLE DOLPHINS — $22,000 · Recreation & SportsFRIENDS OF FRANKLIN PARKS INC — $22,000 · Recreation & SportsABE'S GARDEN — $40,000 · Housing & Shelter413 STRONG INC — $25,000 · Housing & Shelter
Health$1,402,500Other$1,310,300Human Services$786,900Philanthropy$250,000Animals$90,000Recreation & Sports$79,000Housing & Shelter$65,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWILLIAMSON HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $500,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetCUMBERLAND HEIGHTS FOUNDATION INC — $500,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHISBE AND NOAH SCOTT FOUNDATION INC — $250,000 over 1y, 71% of budgetSTARS NASHVILLE — $227,500 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetHIGH HOPES INC — $196,300 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetFAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE — $175,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetTHE CROSSROADS CAMPUS — $155,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetPASTORAL COUNSELING CENTERS OF TENN — $115,000 over 2y, 8.1% of budgetFAITH FAMILY MEDICAL CENTER INC — $100,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetAble Youth Inc — $70,000 over 5y, 14% of budgetNASHVILLE EDUCATION COMMUNITY AND ARTS TELEVISION CORPORATION — $60,000 over 2y, 87% of budgetALIVE HOSPICE INC — $52,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBRIDGES FOR THE DEAF AND HARD OF HEARING — $50,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTHE VICTOR S JOHNSON III NASHVILLE CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE INC — $50,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetAmputee Blade Runners — $42,900 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetWALDENS PUDDLE WILDLIFE REHABILITATION & EDUCATIO — $40,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetGRACEWORKS MINISTRIES INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTUCKER'S HOUSE — $40,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetABE'S GARDEN — $40,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSADDLE UP — $40,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetYWCA NASHVILLE & MIDDLE TENNESSEE — $40,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTENNESSEE WILDLIFE FEDERATION INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSEXUAL ASSAULT CENTER — $35,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WARNER PARKS INC — $35,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFriends Life Community — $30,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetBACKLIGHT PRODUCTIONS — $25,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetALAQUA ANIMAL REFUGE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPET COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE — $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budget413 STRONG INC — $25,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetDOLPHIN AQUATICS DBA NASHVILLE DOLPHINS — $22,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF FRANKLIN PARKS INC — $22,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetMOTHER TO MOTHER INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE HOPE STATION — $12,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetARCHIES PROMISE — $10,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetBRIGHTSTONE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

Hca Healthcare Founda…The Community Foundat…Memorial Foundation I…United Way of Middle …The Frist FoundationNashville Predators F…The Healing Trust For…Louie M & Betty M Phi…Dorothy Cate and Thom…T & T Family Foundati…Carolyn Smith Foundat…The Danner Foundation
Hca Healthcare FoundationTN57× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hca Healthcare Foundation · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Memorial Foundation Inc · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · The Frist Foundation · Nashville Predators Foundation · The Healing Trust Formerly Baptist Healing Hospital Trust · Louie M & Betty M Phillips Foundatn · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · T & T Family Foundation · Carolyn Smith Foundation · The Danner 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 organization Dugas Family Foundation II Inc 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get 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
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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: 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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Dugas Family Foundation II Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Dugas Family Foundation II Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 45 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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