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Duke University

To provide a superior liberal education, to prepare future members of learned professions, to advance the frontiers of knowledge, and to help those who suffer, cure disease, and promote health

$518M
Granted FY2025still arriving
101
Grants FY2025still arriving
20
States reached
$345k
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.

Education$6.2MHealth$5.8MCommunity Improvement$4.4MHousing & Shelter$3.0MInternational$1.6MArts & Culture$1.2MReligion$1.2MScience & Tech$1.1MOther$0
02FY2025 · 101 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 101 grants below total $3,835,569, the rows itemized in this filing. The $518,261,261 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $514,425,692 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k30 grants · $208k
  • $10k–50k52 grants · $738k
  • $50k–250k15 grants · $1.7M
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.2M
$11,000
Median grant
20
States reached
$22.1B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITURE INC$344,591
PACIFIC PEDIATRIC NEURO ONCOLOGY$328,453
DURHAM TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE$283,004
BRIGHAM AND WOMENS HOSPITAL INC$280,000
EMILY KRZYZEWSKI FAMILY LIFE CENTER$212,000
STANFORD UNIVERSITY$202,591
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF DURHAM$165,000
SOLAR FREEZE$150,000
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA$126,116
RESEARCH FOR A STRONGER AMERICA$105,000
CARING HOUSE INC$103,000
RESEARCH TRIANGLE FOUNDATION OF NC$100,000
NATIONAL HUMANITIES CENTER$100,000
NC STATE UNIVERSITY$96,086
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION INC$75,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $758k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 79% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SOUTH CAROLINA SPINAL CORD INJURY A: $10k → 16%SHACKLE FREE COMM OUTREACH AGENCY: $6k → 12%EL REFUGIO INC: $7k → 16%CAMP KESEM NATIONAL: $19k → 14%CAMP KESEM NATIONAL: $6k → 14%COALITION FOR SPIRITUAL AND PUBLIC: $10k → 14%DIAPER BANK OF NC: $9k → 13%SE RALEIGH PROMISE INC: $7k → 8%YMCA OF THE TRIANGLE AREA INC: $20k → 8%YMCA OF THE TRIANGLE AREA INC: $20k → 8%YMCA OF THE TRIANGLE AREA INC: $20k → 8%YMCA OF THE TRIANGLE AREA INC: $21k → 8%MIRACLE LEAGUE OF THE TRIANGLE: $70k → 8%YOUTH VILLAGES: $30k → 11%KRAMDEN INSTITUTE: $2k → 11%KRAMDEN INSTITUTE: $2k → 11%KRAMDEN INSTITUTE: $1k → 11%DIAPER BANK OF NC: $85k → 11%BELIEVERS UNITED FOR PROGRESS: $58k → 11%BELIEVERS UNITED FOR PROGRESS: $10k → 11%DURHAM CONGREGATIONS IN ACTION: $82k → 11%LATINO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT C: $75k → 11%YMCA OF THE TRIANGLE INC: $45k → 11%STEPUP DURHAM: $34k → 11%STEPUP DURHAM: $21k → 11%STEPUP DURHAM: $19k → 11%DIAPER BANK OF NC: $15k → 11%STEPUP DURHAM: $8k → 11%STEPUP DURHAM: $8k → 11%DURHAM CONGREGATIONS IN ACTION: $7k → 11%DURHAM CONGREGATIONS IN ACTION: $7k → 11%LGBTQ CENTER OF DURHAM INC: $5k → 11%KRAMDEN INSTITUTE INC: $8k → 11%LGBTQ CENTER OF DURHAM INC: $5k → 11%JUBILEE HOME: $8k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
WA
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
GA
TX
FL
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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$19M · 124 repeat orgs$8.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.

124 repeat relationships: 52 still active in FY2025, 72 since wound down; 47 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

124
178

Total granted

$19M
$7.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+26%

Still filing today

77%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $865k 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
EducationHealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • EMILY KRZYZEWSKI CENTER INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +78%
  • TP
    THE PACIFIC PEDIATRIC NEURO-ONCOLOG CONSORTIUM FOUNDATION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +6% · 34% of their budget
  • HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF DURHAM INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • SV
    Self-Help Ventures Fundgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $2.5M · revenue +165%
  • Carolina Small Business Development Fundgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $1.0M · revenue +41%
  • UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $500k · revenue +14%
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
Triangle Global Health Consortium Inc

The mission of the north carolina global health alliance is to advance north carolina as an international center for research, training, education, advocacy and business dedicated to improving the health of the world's communities. we…

Health
2
Research Triangle Cleantech Cluster

Research Triangle Cleantech Cluster's mission is to accelerate cleantech innovation and adoption in the reseach triangle region and beyond.

Community Improvement
3
Disability Rights North Carolina

Disability rights north carolina is a legal advocacy organization that advances and defends the rights of people with all types of disabilities, of all ages, throughout north carolina.

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4
North Carolina Biotechnology Center

The north carolina biotechnology center aids the biotechnology-related efforts of researchers, businesses, state and federal governments, and other agencies primarily through awards of grants and loans related to specific programs and…

Science & Tech
5
North Carolina Business Leaders for Educ

The mission of north carolina business leaders for education (dba best nc) is to unite an engaged and informed business perspective to dramatically transform and improve north carolina's education system. our goal is for every student to…

Education
6
Research Triangle Institute

Research Triangle Institute is one of the world's leading research institutes, dedicated to improving the human condition by turning knowledge into practice. Our staff of more than 3,700 provides research and technical (continued on…

Science & Tech
7
Action Institute Nc

Action institute nc is a community organization and citizens action group that organizes residents of low-wealth communities and constituencies most of whom are people of color- to represent their own interests on issues of social and…

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8
Center for Participatory Change

Igniting collective power. Transforming systems of oppression. Healing in community.

Community Improvement
9
Communities in Schools of North Carolina Inc

Cisnc's mission is to surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life. cisnc serves as the backbone for its statewide network of 20 independent nonprofit organizations that serve local…

Human Services
10
Economic Development Partnership of North Carolina Inc

Our mission is to improve the economic well-being and quality of life for all north carolinians. we do this by collaborating with state, regional, local, and private-sector partners in new business recruitment, existing employer support,…

Community Improvement
11
Care Share Health Alliance Inc

Care share health alliance is a north carolina-based nonprofit organization advancing community health and wellbeing through systems change. guided by the mission of collaborating for health and a vision of communities that are healthy and…

Health
12
The North Carolina Coalition Against Domestic Violence

Nccadv leads the state's movement to end domestic violence and to enhance work with survivors through collaborations, innovative trainings, prevention, technical assistance, state policy development and legal advocacy.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is El Centro Hispano Inc; the most unlike its peers is J-Jireh Services. 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

261 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. 261 of the 353 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.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
65
Early backer (in before they grew)
248/261
Grantees still filing
163/261
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF DURHAM INC: $1,167,250 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF DURHAM INCThe Fund for Reconciliation Tolerance and Peace: $1,017,100 · OtherThe Fund for Reconciliation Tolerance and PeaceDURHAM TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $872,992 · OtherDURHAM TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGEDURHAM PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $790,224 · OtherDURHAM PUBLIC SCHOOLSMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $787,452 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDCHARLOTTE MECKLENBURG LIBRARY: $470,000 · Other+127 more: $7,527,689 · Other+127 moreTHE PACIFIC PEDIATRIC NEURO-ONCOLOG CONSORTIUM FOUNDATION: $1,570,479 · HealthTHE PACIFIC PED…Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $927,495 · HealthDana-Farber Can…American Heart Association Inc: $287,750 · HealthAmerican Heart …CARING HOUSE INC: $205,200 · HealthCARING HOUSE IN…EL FUTURO INC: $162,638 · Health+16 more: $602,829 · Health+16 moreSelf-Help Ventures Fund: $2,500,000 · Community ImprovementSelf-Help Vent…THE COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT FUND: $329,333 · Community ImprovementTHE COMMUNITY …Reinvestment Partners: $293,000 · Community ImprovementReinvestment P…Communities In Partnership: $119,800 · Community Improvement+5 more: $281,236 · Community Improvement+5 moreDURHAM PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $592,000 · EducationDURHAM PUBLIC…THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $511,495 · EducationTHE BOARD OF …UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $500,000 · EducationUNC HEALTH FO…ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHEASTERN RESEARCH LIBRARIES INC: $226,150 · EducationASSOCIATION O…West End Community Foundation Inc Dosali Reed-Bandele Executive Director: $194,011 · EducationWest End Comm…The North Carolina Albert Schweitzer Fellowship Inc: $163,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $107,500 · EducationSTUDENT U: $104,542 · Education+19 more: $734,003 · Education+19 moreEMILY KRZYZEWSKI CENTER INC: $1,966,877 · Recreation & Sports+2 more: $54,497 · Recreation & SportsCarolina Small Business Development Fund: $1,000,000 · Public BenefitHEALTHY LEARNERS INC: $100,000 · Public Benefit+1 more: $13,500 · Public BenefitDURHAM COMMUNITY LAND TRUSTEES INC: $788,870 · Housing & ShelterHOUSING FOR NEW HOPE: $74,002 · Housing & ShelterCASA: $52,163 · Housing & ShelterPRESERVING HOME INC: $35,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$12,632,707Health$3,756,391Community Improvement$3,523,369Education$3,132,701Recreation & Sports$2,021,374Public Benefit$1,113,500Housing & Shelter$950,035

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSelf-Help Ventures Fund: $2,500,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetEMILY KRZYZEWSKI CENTER INC: $1,966,877 over 9y, 11% of budgetTHE PACIFIC PEDIATRIC NEURO-ONCOLOG CONSORTIUM FOUNDATION: $1,570,479 over 3y, 34% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF DURHAM INC: $1,167,250 over 9y, 4.3% of budgetThe Fund for Reconciliation Tolerance and Peace: $1,017,100 over 2y, 88% of budgetCarolina Small Business Development Fund: $1,000,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $927,495 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDURHAM COMMUNITY LAND TRUSTEES INC: $788,870 over 5y, 8.7% of budgetDURHAM PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $592,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $511,495 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $500,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT FUND: $329,333 over 6y, 11% of budgetNATIONAL HUMANITIES CENTER: $300,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetReinvestment Partners: $293,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $287,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFARMER FOODSHARE INC: $240,990 over 4y, 9.3% of budgetASSOCIATION OF SOUTHEASTERN RESEARCH LIBRARIES INC: $226,150 over 1y, 43% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE GREATER TRIANGLE INC: $215,618 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCARING HOUSE INC: $205,200 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetWest End Community Foundation Inc Dosali Reed-Bandele Executive Director: $194,011 over 9y, 15% of budgetTRIANGLE RESIDENTIAL OPTIONS FOR SUBSTANCE ABUSERS INC: $193,700 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetSTEPUP DURHAM: $189,250 over 6y, 22% of budgetFAMILIES MOVING FORWARD: $184,450 over 5y, 6.8% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $176,316 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe North Carolina Albert Schweitzer Fellowship Inc: $163,000 over 7y, 19% of budgetEL FUTURO INC: $162,638 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetUrban Ministries of Durham Inc: $153,529 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetTransformation Lab Incorporated fka Transformation Lab Inc: $150,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetResearch Triangle Foundation of NC: $140,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetREALITY MINISTRIES INC: $133,022 over 3y, 9.5% of budgetThe Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598): $126,496 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetDON'T EVER GIVE UP INC: $125,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPartners for Youth Opportunity: $123,945 over 4y, 11% of budgetMUSEUM OF DURHAM HISTORY: $120,600 over 5y, 6.3% of budgetCommunities In Partnership: $119,800 over 4y, 18% of budgetDIAPER BANK OF NORTH CAROLINA: $109,652 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $107,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRESEARCH FOR A STRONGER AMERICA INC: $105,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetSTUDENT U: $104,542 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetSERVEMINNESOTA: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMADE IN DURHAM: $100,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetHEALTHY LEARNERS INC: $100,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetSENIOR PHARMASSIST INC: $98,616 over 5y, 5.3% of budgetLEGAL AID OF NORTH CAROLINA INC: $97,852 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetDurham Congregations in Action: $95,195 over 3y, 15% of budgetDURHAM CHILDREN'S INITIATIVE: $95,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetWALLTOWN CHILDRENS THEATRE: $93,535 over 8y, 7.8% of budgetCHURCH WORLD SERVICE INC: $92,650 over 6y, 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.

Triangle Community Fo…United Way of the Gre…Duke University Healt…The Mary Duke Biddle …Aj Fletcher FoundationThe Forest At Duke IncDurham Merchants Asso…Durham Congregations …Fox Family Foundation…Z Smith Reynolds Foun…The Leon Levine Found…The Burt's Bees Great…
Triangle Community Foundation IncNC130.9× affinity115 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc · Duke University Health System Inc · The Mary Duke Biddle Foundation Missionpost Pmb #101 · Aj Fletcher Foundation · The Forest At Duke Inc · Durham Merchants Association Charitable Foundation · Durham Congregations in Action · Fox Family Foundation Inc · Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc · The Leon Levine Foundation · The Burt's Bees Greater Good Foundation AKA THE BURT'S BEES 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 University funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Duke University. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals: 67% of income from government
  • Icivics Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • United States Association for the Study of Pain Inc: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
45report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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 353 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 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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