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Duke Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $9k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $62k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WOMEN'S CENTER & SHELTER OF GREATER PGH | $12,000 |
| THE WESTMORELAND MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART | $10,000 |
| CENTER FOR GREAT APES | $10,000 |
| SHADYSIDE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| PITTSBURGH ZOO & PPG AQUARIUM | $10,000 |
| SURGICORPS INTERNATIONAL | $8,600 |
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 (FY18–25, $73k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +45% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- CFCenter for Orangutan & Chimpanzee Conservation Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $72k · revenue +184%
- WCWOMEN'S CENTER AND SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH8× · 2018–2025 · $68k · revenue +90%
- ZSZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PITTSBURGH6× · 2019–2025 · $39k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- PFPHIPPS FUNDone grant, 2021 · $6k
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $6k · revenue +112%- UOUNIVERSITY OF PGH SCHOOL OF NURSINGone grant, 2018 · $5k
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.
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
The western pennsylvania conservancy protects and restores exceptional places to provide our region with clean waters and healthy forests, wildlife and natural areas for the benefit of present and future generations. the conservancy…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
The foundation is set up to deliver one program - look good feel better. the mission of this nationwide program is to improve the quality of life of women, men, and teens undergoing cancer treatment by offering advice on how to cope with…
The university of pittsburgh, founded in 1787, is one of the oldest institutions of higher education in the united states and one of the nation's top public research universities. for more than two centuries, the university of pittsburgh…
Highlands hospital is committed to providing health care to the community in a competent, nurturing and healing environment. our staff will provide support in times of crisis and furnish the resources necessary to promote a healthy…
Ilsi is a global, nonprofit federation dedicated to generating and advancing emerging science and groundbreaking research to ensure foods are safe, nutritious and sustainable, and that they improve planetary and human health and well-being…
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
We, pittsburgh mercy health system (pittsburgh mercy) and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. pittsburgh mercy is a member of trinity…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The health and environmental sciences institute (hesi) is a nonprofit institution whose mission is to engage scientists from academia, government, industry, nonprofit, and other research institutions to identify and resolve global health…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Homeless Children's Education Fund and the most unlike its peers is Women's Center and Shelter of Greater Pittsburgh. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
20 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. 20 of the 29 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 Center for Orangutan & Chimpanzee Conservation Inc ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S CENTER AND SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds BROTHER'S BROTHER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL AVIARY IN PITTSBURGH INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds PROCTOR ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDFUND INTERNATIONAL USA ↗
- Who funds HOMELESS CHILDREN'S EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds SURGICORPS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH BALLET THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds CARNEGIE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds SHADYSIDE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WESTMORELAND MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds HUGH LANE WELLNESS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LOGGERHEAD MARINELIFE CENTER INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Hillman Family Foundations · The Pittsburgh Foundation · Clapp G H Decd Char and Ed Tr · The Fine Foundation · The Grable Foundation · Richard King Mellon Foundation · Church Brew Works Foundation · Eden Hall Foundation · The Jack Buncher Foundation · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · The Heinz Endowments · Eqt 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 Duke 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.
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.