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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.

$98k
Granted FY2024still arriving
31
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0188% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Environment$151kEducation$126kPublic Safety & Disaster$79kFood & Nutrition$43kAnimals$28kPublic Benefit$14kRecreation & Sports$6kCrime & Legal$4kOther$0
02FY2024 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$59M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN COMMUNITY GARDEN ASSOCIATION$5,000
RARITAN BAYKEEPER INC$5,000
HILLSBOROUGH VOLUNTEER FIRE CO NO1$5,000
SOURLAND CONSERVANCY$5,000
NORTH JERSEY RC&D AREA INC$5,000
PHIPPS CONSERVATORY & BOTANICAL GARDENS INC$5,000
SWEET FARM FOUNDATION$5,000
RARITAN HEADWATERS ASSOCIATION$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
NEW JERSEY CONSERVATION FOUNDATION$5,000
VOLUNTEER FIRE CO #2 OF HILLSBOROUGH TWP$5,000
NJ LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND$3,500
MANVILLE FIRST AID & RESCUE$2,500
THE WATERSHED INSTITUTE INC$2,500
NEW JERSEY AUDUBON SOCIETY$2,500
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 23% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%PHIPPS CONSERVATORY & BOTANICAL GARDENS INC: $5k → 11%GLYNWOOD CENTER INC: $15k → 6%SWEET FARM FOUNDATION: $5k → 15%AMERICAN COMMUNITY GARDEN ASSOCIATION: $5k → 13%NORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSC OF NEW JERSEY INC: $3k → 4%THE ASSOCIATION OF NEW JERSEY ENVIRONMENTAL COMMISSIONS: $4k → 4%HILLSBOROUGH VOLUNTEER FIRE CO NO1: $5k → 5%RARITAN BAYKEEPER INC: $5k → 6%PINELANDS PRESERVATION ALLIANCE: $3k → 7%RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $15k → 8%SOURLAND CONSERVANCY: $5k → 11%CITY GREEN INC: $3k → 12%AMERICAN COMMUNITY GARDENING: $3k → 13%NORTH JERSEY RC&D AREA INC: $5k → 4%HILLSBOROUGH VOL FIRE CO #1: $5k → 5%SOURLAND CONSERVANCY: $5k → 11%HILLSBOROUGH VOLUNTEER FIRE CO #1: $5k → 5%SOURLAND CONSERVANCY: $3k → 11%NORTH JERSEY RC&D AREA INC: $5k → 4%RARITAN HEADWATERS ASSOCIATION: $5k → 5%SOURLAND CONSERVANCY: $3k → 11%IRONBOUND COMMUNITY CORPORATION: $3k → 16%FRIENDS OF HOPEWELL VALLEY OPEN SPACE: $7k → 11%RELIEF HOSE CO NO 2: $5k → 5%FRIENDS OF HOPEWELL VALLEY OPEN: $3k → 11%THE RAPTOR TRUST: $3k → 4%RARITAN BOROUGH: $5k → 5%THE RAPTOR TRUST: $3k → 4%SUSTAINABLE JERSEY: $3k → 11%NEW JERSEY CONSERVATION FOUNDATION: $5k → 5%NEW JERSEY CONSERVATION FOUNDATION: $5k → 5%NEW JERSEY CONSERVATION FOUNDATION: $5k → 5%NEW JERSEY CONSERVATION FOUNDATION: $5k → 5%COUNTY OF SOMERSET: $14k → 5%FIRST AID & RESCUE SQUAD INC OF SOMERVILLE: $5k → 5%HILLSBOROUGH TOWNSHIP BOARD OF EDUCATION: $56k → 5%TOWNSHIP OF HILLSBOROUGH: $12k → 5%VOLUNTEER FIRE CO #2 OF HILLSBOROUGH TWP: $5k → 5%TOWNSHIP OF HILLSBOROUGH: $5k → 5%TOWNSHIP OF HILLSBOROUGH: $5k → 5%VOLUNTEER FIRE CO #2 OF HILLSBOROUGH: $5k → 5%VOLUNTEER FIRE CO #2 OF HILLSBOROUGH TWP: $5k → 5%HILLSBOROUGH VOLUNTEER FIRE CO NO 1: $5k → 5%TOWNSHIP OF HILLSBOROUGH: $5k → 5%VOLUNTEER FIRE CO #2 OF HILLSBOROUGH: $5k → 5%TOWNSHIP OF HILLSBOROUGH: $5k → 5%MANVILLE FIRST AID & RESCUE SQUAD: $5k → 5%MANVILLE FIRE DEPARTMENT: $5k → 5%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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$419k · 36 repeat orgs$94k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +15% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
16

Total granted

$419k
$77k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+15%

Still filing today

50%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentAnimalsPublic Safety & DisasterEducationPublic BenefitOther
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

  • SC
    SOURLAND CONSERVANCY
    4× · 2021–2024 · $16k · revenue +7%
  • TR
    THE RAPTOR TRUST
    6× · 2019–2024 · $13k · revenue +90%
  • HV
    HILLSBOROUGH VOLUNTEER FIRE CO 1
    3× · 2020–2024 · $12k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue -32%
  • GC
    GLYNWOOD CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +610%
  • CO
    COUNTY OF SOMERSET
    one grant, 2020 · $14k
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
Conserve Wildlife Foundation of New Jersey Inc

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.

Animals
2
The Land Conservancy of New Jersey

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.

Environment
3
The Native Plant Society of New Jersey Inc

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.

Environment
4
Hackensack Riverkeeper Inc

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…

Environment
5
Ridge and Valley Conservancy Inc

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.

Environment
6
Palisades Nature Association

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…

Animals
7
New Jersey Environmental Justice Alliance

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…

Environment
8
New Jersey Highlands Coalition

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…

Environment
9
Earthshare New Jersey Inc

Connect businesses, nonprofits and individuals to protect and restore new jersey's natural environment, assuring a better quality of life for all.

Philanthropy
10
Foodshed Alliance a Nj Nonprofit Corporation

Foodshed Alliance works to strengthen sustainable farming, increase access to local, healthy food, and protect the environment for all members of our communities

Food & Nutrition
11
Riverkeeper Inc

Protects and restores the hudson river from source to sea and safeguards drinking water supplies.

Environment
12
New Jersey Farm Bureau

To represent the agricultural producers and enterprises of new jersey at all levels of government - local, county, state, federal, and international.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Jersey Rc&D Area Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/27
Grantees still filing
20/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HILLSBOROUGH TOWNSHIP BOARD OF EDUCATION: $110,104 · OtherHILLSBOROUGH TOWNSHIP BOARD OF EDUCATIONIndividual grant recipient: $32,169 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $14,500 · OtherCOUNTY OF SOMERSET: $14,429 · OtherRARITAN RELIEF HOSE CO NO 2: $11,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $11,000 · Other+29 more: $133,578 · Other+29 moreNEW JERSEY CONSERVATION FOUNDATION: $20,000 · EnvironmentNEW JERSEY CONSERVATION …SOURLAND CONSERVANCY: $16,000 · EnvironmentSOURLAND CONSERVANCYFRIENDS OF HOPEWELL VALLEY OPEN SPACE: $11,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF HOPEWELL VALL…LOWER RARITAN WATERSHED PARTNERSHIP CORP: $7,500 · EnvironmentLOWER RARITAN WATERSHED …RARITAN BAYKEEPER INC: $7,500 · EnvironmentRARITAN BAYKEEPER INCCITY GREEN INC: $7,500 · EnvironmentCITY GREEN INCTHE WATERSHED INSTITUTE INC: $7,500 · EnvironmentTHE WATERSHED INSTITUTE …ASSOCIATION OF NEW JERSEY ENVIRONMENTAL COMMISSIONS: $6,650 · EnvironmentASSOCIATION OF NEW JERSE…RARITAN HEADWATERS ASSOCIATION: $6,500 · EnvironmentRARITAN HEADWATERS ASSOC…PHIPPS CONSERVATORY AND BOTANICAL GARDENS INC: $5,000 · EnvironmentPINELANDS PRESERVATION ALLIANCE: $5,000 · EnvironmentNew Jersey Audubon Society: $5,000 · Environment+2 more: $5,500 · EnvironmentTHE RAPTOR TRUST: $12,500 · AnimalsTHE INSTITUTE FOR BIRD POPULATIONS: $6,000 · AnimalsSWEET FARM FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Animals+1 more: $50 · AnimalsHILLSBOROUGH VOLUNTEER FIRE CO 1: $11,500 · Public Safety & DisasterFIRST AID & RESCUE SQUAD INC OF SOMERVILLE NJ: $10,250 · Public Safety & DisasterRUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $15,000 · EducationGLYNWOOD CENTER INC: $15,000 · Public Benefit
Other$327,280Environment$110,650Animals$23,550Public Safety & Disaster$21,750Education$15,000Public Benefit$15,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNEW JERSEY CONSERVATION FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSOURLAND CONSERVANCY: $16,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetRUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLYNWOOD CENTER INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE RAPTOR TRUST: $12,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetHILLSBOROUGH VOLUNTEER FIRE CO 1: $11,500 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF HOPEWELL VALLEY OPEN SPACE: $11,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetFIRST AID & RESCUE SQUAD INC OF SOMERVILLE NJ: $10,250 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetMANVILLE FIRST AID & RESCUE SQUAD: $10,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetNORTH JERSEY RC&D AREA INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetLOWER RARITAN WATERSHED PARTNERSHIP CORP: $7,500 over 5y, 4.1% of budgetRARITAN BAYKEEPER INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCITY GREEN INC: $7,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE WATERSHED INSTITUTE INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetASSOCIATION OF NEW JERSEY ENVIRONMENTAL COMMISSIONS: $6,650 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNortheast Organic Farming Association of New Jersey Inc: $6,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetRARITAN HEADWATERS ASSOCIATION: $6,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE FOR BIRD POPULATIONS: $6,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPHIPPS CONSERVATORY AND BOTANICAL GARDENS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPINELANDS PRESERVATION ALLIANCE: $5,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNew Jersey Audubon Society: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSWEET FARM FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSUSTAINABLE JERSEY: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIronbound Community Corporation: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUNTERDON LAND TRUST: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFEDERATION OF STATE CONSERVATION VOTER LEAGUES DBA NJ LEAGUE OF CONS VOTERS: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOODLANDS WILDLIFE REFUGE INC: $50 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds NEW JERSEY CONSERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SOURLAND CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GLYNWOOD CENTER INC ↗
  • 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 LOWER RARITAN WATERSHED PARTNERSHIP CORP ↗
  • Who funds RARITAN BAYKEEPER INC ↗
  • Who funds CITY GREEN INC ↗
  • Who funds THE WATERSHED INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds ASSOCIATION OF NEW JERSEY ENVIRONMENTAL COMMISSIONS ↗
  • Who funds Northeast Organic Farming Association of New Jersey Inc ↗
  • Who funds RARITAN HEADWATERS ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds THE INSTITUTE FOR BIRD POPULATIONS ↗
  • Who funds PHIPPS CONSERVATORY AND BOTANICAL GARDENS INC ↗
  • Who funds PINELANDS PRESERVATION ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds New Jersey Audubon Society ↗
  • Who funds SWEET FARM FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Geraldine R Dodge Fou…Pseg Foundation IncThe Robert Wood Johns…New Jersey League of …Doris Duke FoundationCommunity Foundation …Victoria Foundation I…The Hyde and Watson F…Environmental Endowme…Bristol-Myers Squibb …Princeton Area Commun…National Fish and Wil…
Geraldine R Dodge Foundation IncNJ25.9× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 35%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
4rely on government for over half their income
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 57 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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