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Duke Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$71k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Animals$151kInternational$96kHuman Services$93kArts & Culture$80kEducation$42kFood & Nutrition$35kHousing & Shelter$19kHealth$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $9k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $62k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WOMEN'S CENTER & SHELTER OF GREATER PGH$12,000
THE WESTMORELAND MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART$10,000
SHADYSIDE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$10,000
GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK$10,000
CENTER FOR GREAT APES$10,000
PITTSBURGH ZOO & PPG AQUARIUM$10,000
SURGICORPS INTERNATIONAL$8,600
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%LIGHT OF LIFE RESCUE MISSION: $5k → 11%WOMEN'S CENTER & SHELTER OF GREATER PGH: $12k → 11%WOMEN'S CENTER & SHELTER OF GREATER PGH: $10k → 11%WOMEN'S CENTER & SHELTER OF GREATER PGH: $10k → 11%WOMEN'S CENTER & SHELTER OF GREATER PGH: $10k → 11%WOMEN'S CENTER & SHELTER OF GREATER PGH: $10k → 11%WOMEN'S CENTER & SHELTER OF GREATER PGH: $6k → 11%WOMEN'S CENTER & SHELTER OF GREATER PGH: $5k → 11%WOMEN'S CENTER & SHELTER OF GREATER PGH: $5k → 11%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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$466k · 16 repeat orgs$71k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +20% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
11

Total granted

$466k
$51k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+20%

Still filing today

88%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalArts & CultureAnimalsEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther
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

  • CF
    Center for Orangutan & Chimpanzee Conservation Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $72k · revenue +164%
  • WC
    WOMEN'S CENTER AND SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH
    8× · 2018–2025 · $68k · revenue +90%
  • ZS
    ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PITTSBURGH
    6× · 2019–2025 · $39k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • PF
    PHIPPS FUND
    one grant, 2021 · $6k
  • STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $6k · revenue +112%
  • LO
    LIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -16%
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
Point Park University

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…

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2
Western Pennsylvania Conservancy

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…

Environment
3
United States Naval Institute

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.

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4
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

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…

Health
5
Personal Care Products Council Foundation Inc

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…

Health
6
University of Pittsburgh

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…

Education
7
Highlands Hospital

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…

Health
8
International Life Sciences Institute

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…

Science & Tech
9
The Water Research Foundation

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…

Environment
10
Pittsburgh Mercy Health System Inc

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…

Health
11
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
Health and Environmental Sciences Institute

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…

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Homeless Children's Education Fund; 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.
04the grantee network

20 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. 20 of the 29 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
17/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Center for Orangutan & Chimpanzee Conservation Inc: $72,000 · AnimalsCenter for Orangutan & Chimpan…ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PITTSBURGH: $39,000 · AnimalsZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PITTSBUR…NATIONAL AVIARY IN PITTSBURGH INC: $35,000 · AnimalsNATIONAL AVIARY IN PITTSBURGH …BROTHER'S BROTHER FOUNDATION: $36,000 · InternationalBROTHER'S BROTHER FO…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $31,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTI…CHILDFUND INTERNATIONAL USA: $15,400 · InternationalCHILDFUND INTERNATIO…SURGICORPS INTERNATIONAL: $13,600 · InternationalSURGICORPS INTERNATI…WOMEN'S CENTER AND SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $68,000 · Human ServicesWOMEN'S CENTER …LIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesLIGHT OF LIFE M…PITTSBURGH MERCY: $19,900 · OtherPITTSBURGH MERCYIndividual grant recipient: $11,000 · OtherIndividual grant re…PHIPPS FUND: $6,000 · OtherPHIPPS FUNDPITTSBURGH ZOO PPG AQUARIUM: $5,000 · OtherVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA INC: $5,000 · OtherREFUGE FOR WOMEN PITTSBURGH: $5,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF PGH SCHOOL OF NURSING: $5,000 · OtherHOMELESS CHILDREN'S EDUCATION FUND: $14,000 · OtherHOMELESS CHILDREN'S…SHADYSIDE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherSHADYSIDE HOSPITAL …HUGH LANE WELLNESS FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · OtherLOGGERHEAD MARINELIFE CENTER INC: $4,000 · Other+2 more: $4,500 · OtherPITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC: $25,000 · Arts & CulturePITTSBURGH S…PITTSBURGH BALLET THEATRE INC: $12,000 · Arts & CulturePITTSBURGH B…CARNEGIE INSTITUTE: $11,000 · Arts & CultureCARNEGIE INS…WESTMORELAND MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $10,000 · Arts & CultureWESTMORELAND…GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $35,000 · Food & NutritionPROCTOR ACADEMY: $28,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $6,000 · Education
Animals$146,000International$96,000Human Services$73,000Other$94,400Arts & Culture$58,000Food & Nutrition$35,000Education$34,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCenter for Orangutan & Chimpanzee Conservation Inc: $72,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetWOMEN'S CENTER AND SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $68,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PITTSBURGH: $39,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBROTHER'S BROTHER FOUNDATION: $36,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL AVIARY IN PITTSBURGH INC: $35,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $35,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $31,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPROCTOR ACADEMY: $28,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPITTSBURGH SYMPHONY INC: $25,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDFUND INTERNATIONAL USA: $15,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOMELESS CHILDREN'S EDUCATION FUND: $14,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetSURGICORPS INTERNATIONAL: $13,600 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetPITTSBURGH BALLET THEATRE INC: $12,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCARNEGIE INSTITUTE: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWESTMORELAND MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHADYSIDE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIGHT OF LIFE MINISTRIES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUGH LANE WELLNESS FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLOGGERHEAD MARINELIFE CENTER INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

Hillman Family Founda…The Pittsburgh Founda…Clapp G H Decd Char a…The Fine FoundationThe Grable FoundationRichard King Mellon F…Church Brew Works Fou…Eden Hall FoundationThe Jack Buncher Foun…The United Way of Sou…The Heinz EndowmentsEqt Foundation
Hillman Family FoundationsPA19.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Duke Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Duke Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%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 · 0–5%
    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.

    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 29 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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