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Duke Farms Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN COMMUNITY GARDEN ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| RARITAN HEADWATERS ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| RARITAN BAYKEEPER INC | $5,000 |
| SWEET FARM FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| PHIPPS CONSERVATORY & BOTANICAL GARDENS INC | $5,000 |
| NORTH JERSEY RC&D AREA INC | $5,000 |
| HILLSBOROUGH VOLUNTEER FIRE CO NO1 | $5,000 |
| SOURLAND CONSERVANCY | $5,000 |
| NEW JERSEY CONSERVATION FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| VOLUNTEER FIRE CO #2 OF HILLSBOROUGH TWP | $5,000 |
| NJ LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND | $3,500 |
| THE RAPTOR TRUST | $2,500 |
| MANVILLE FIRST AID & RESCUE | $2,500 |
| FOODSHED ALLIANCE | $2,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 23% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +36% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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
- SCSOURLAND CONSERVANCY4× · 2021–2024 · $16k · revenue +7%
- TRTHE RAPTOR TRUST6× · 2019–2024 · $13k · revenue +90%
- HVHILLSBOROUGH VOLUNTEER FIRE CO 13× · 2020–2024 · $12k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- GCGLYNWOOD CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +610%
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue -32%- COCOUNTY OF SOMERSETone grant, 2020 · $14k
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.
Conserve wildlife foundation of new jersey works to preserve rare and at-risk wildlife in new jersey through field science, habitat restoration, education, and public engagement.
The land conservancy of new jersey preserves land and water resources, conserves open space, and inspires and empowers individuals and communities to protect land and the environment.
The Native Plant Society of New Jersey is a statewide non-profit organization dedicated to the appreciation protection and study of the native flora of New Jersey.
The mission of hackensack riverkeeper is to protect, preserve, and restore the hackensack river watershed and its living resources. hackensack riverkeeper fights for clean water, open space preservation, and public access to the river for…
Ridge and valley conservancy is an accredited land trust that, in cooperation with strategic partners, permanently protects and stewards land in northwestern new jersey for the benefit of natural communities.
To promote and sponsor, with the cooperation of the palisades interstate park commission, a sanctuary on the top of the cliffs in the new jersey section of the palisades interstate park known as greenbrook sanctuary. the association's…
New Jersey Environmental Justice Alliance, Inc. Is an alliance of New Jersey Organizations and Individuals committed to creating healthy, sustainable and just communities by eliminating environmental injustices in low income and…
To protect, preserve and enhance the water, forests wildlife, farmland and other natural, historic and cultural resources of the new jersey highlands and to enhance the sustainability of natural and human communities and the quality of…
Connect businesses, nonprofits and individuals to protect and restore new jersey's natural environment, assuring a better quality of life for all.
Foodshed Alliance works to strengthen sustainable farming, increase access to local, healthy food, and protect the environment for all members of our communities
Protects and restores the hudson river from source to sea and safeguards drinking water supplies.
To represent the agricultural producers and enterprises of new jersey at all levels of government - local, county, state, federal, and international.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Jersey Rc&D Area Inc and the most unlike its peers is Manville First Aid & Rescue Squad. 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 37 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% 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 11% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 57 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 NEW JERSEY CONSERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOURLAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds GLYNWOOD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE RAPTOR TRUST ↗
- Who funds HILLSBOROUGH VOLUNTEER FIRE CO 1 ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF HOPEWELL VALLEY OPEN SPACE ↗
- Who funds FIRST AID & RESCUE SQUAD INC OF SOMERVILLE NJ ↗
- Who funds MANVILLE FIRST AID & RESCUE SQUAD ↗
- Who funds NORTH JERSEY RC&D AREA INC ↗
- Who funds RARITAN BAYKEEPER INC ↗
- Who funds THE WATERSHED INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds CITY GREEN INC ↗
- Who funds LOWER RARITAN WATERSHED PARTNERSHIP CORP ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION OF NEW JERSEY ENVIRONMENTAL COMMISSIONS ↗
- Who funds RARITAN HEADWATERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Northeast Organic Farming Association of New Jersey Inc ↗
- Who funds THE INSTITUTE FOR BIRD POPULATIONS ↗
- Who funds New Jersey Audubon Society ↗
- Who funds PINELANDS PRESERVATION ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds PHIPPS CONSERVATORY AND BOTANICAL GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds SWEET FARM FOUNDATION ↗
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: Geraldine R Dodge Foundation Inc · Pseg Foundation Inc · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · New Jersey League of Conservation Voters Education Fund · Doris Duke Foundation · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Victoria Foundation Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Environmental Endowment for New Jersey Inc · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc · National Fish and Wildlife 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 Farms 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Ironbound Community Corporation — 100% of income from government
- City Green Inc — 100% of income from government
- Raritan Headwaters Association — 94% of income from government
- North Jersey Rc&d Area Inc — 52% of income from government
- Hunterdon Land Trust — 48% of income from government
- Pinelands Preservation Alliance — 35% of income from government
- Northeast Organic Farming Association of New Jersey Inc — 6% of income from government
- The Watershed Institute Inc — 3% of income from government
- New Jersey Audubon Society — 1% of income from government
- Friends of Hopewell Valley Open Space — 0% of income from government
- Rutgers University Foundation — 0% of income from government
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.