Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Duke Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $71k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2025
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $12,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 12
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.6M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Duke Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 7 | $71k | 29% |
| FY2024 | 8 | $64k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $66k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $76k | 10% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $59k | 27% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $58k | 25% |
| FY2019 | 9 | $59k | 44% |
| FY2018 | 9 | $52k | 78% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Center for Orangutan & Chimpanzee Conservation Inc | $72,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Women's Center and Shelter of Greater Pittsburgh | $68,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Zoological Society of Pittsburgh | $39,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Brother's Brother Foundation | $36,000 | 5 | 0% |
| National Aviary in Pittsburgh Inc | $35,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank | $35,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $31,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Proctor Academy | $28,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Pittsburgh Symphony Inc | $25,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Childfund International USA | $15,400 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 21 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Center for Orangutan & Chimpanzee Conservation Inc | $72,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Women's Center and Shelter of Greater Pittsburgh | $68,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Zoological Society of Pittsburgh | $39,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Brother's Brother Foundation | $36,000 | 5 | 0% |
| National Aviary in Pittsburgh Inc | $35,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank | $35,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $31,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Proctor Academy | $28,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Pittsburgh Symphony Inc | $25,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Childfund International USA | $15,400 | 3 | 0% |
| Homeless Children's Education Fund | $14,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Surgicorps International | $13,600 | 2 | 1% |
| Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre Inc | $12,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Carnegie Institute | $11,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Westmoreland Museum of American Art | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Shadyside Hospital Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Light of Life Ministries Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Hugh Lane Wellness Foundation Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Volunteers of America Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Loggerhead Marinelife Center Inc | $4,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($56k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Duke Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
About Duke Family Foundation
- How much does Duke Family Foundation give?
- Duke Family Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $70,600 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 12 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Duke Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (28%), International (18%), Human Services (17%).
- Who are Duke Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Center for Orangutan & Chimpanzee Conservation Inc ($72k), Women's Center and Shelter of Greater Pittsburgh ($68k), Zoological Society of Pittsburgh ($39k).
- Does Duke Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Duke Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Duke Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Hillman Family Foundations, The Pittsburgh Foundation, Clapp G H Decd Char and Ed Tr.
- Where is Duke Family Foundation based?
- Duke Family Foundation is based in PA.
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