Nebraska · Private foundation
Duncan Family Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $632k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 38
- Grants FY2025
- 27
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 37%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $4,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $148,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 39
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 37% of the organizations Duncan Family Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 35% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $96k 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 | 37 | $483k | 35% |
| FY2024 | 27 | $277k | 37% |
| FY2023 | 27 | $285k | 44% |
| FY2022 | 39 | $686k | 56% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $192k | 62% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $251k | 81% |
| FY2019 | 36 | $194k | 61% |
| FY2018 | 22 | $124k | 32% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Nebraska Foundation | $307,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Cultural Centers of Lincoln | $150,000 | 2 | n/a |
| United Way of South Central Michigan | $124,750 | 5 | 0% |
| Food Bank of Lincoln Inc | $121,500 | 3 | 0% |
| The Foundation for Lincoln Public Schools | $107,398 | 8 | 1% |
| Malone Community Center | $89,000 | 3 | 1% |
| United Way of Lincoln and Lancaster County | $64,318 | 1 | 1% |
| Clyde Malone Community Center Foundation | $64,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Western Michigan University Foundation | $61,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Lux Center for the Arts | $40,000 | 4 | 1% |
Show all 91 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 49 recipients with no EIN on record ($963k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Duncan Family Trust 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: Lincoln Community Foundation Inc · Abel Foundation · Cooper Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · Assurity Life Foundation · Spreetail Foundation · United Way of Lincoln and Lancaster County · Lee and Debbie Stuart Family Foundation · Kinder Porter Scott Family Foundation · Rogers Foundation · Acklie Charitable Foundation · D F Dillon Foundation
How this is measured
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About Duncan Family Trust
- How much does Duncan Family Trust give?
- Duncan Family Trust reported 38 grants totaling $631,770 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 39 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Duncan Family Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (45%), Education (19%), Human Services (10%).
- Who are Duncan Family Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of Nebraska Foundation ($308k), Cultural Centers of Lincoln ($150k), United Way of South Central Michigan ($125k).
- Does Duncan Family Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 37% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Duncan Family Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Duncan Family Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lincoln Community Foundation Inc, Abel Foundation, Cooper Foundation.
- Where is Duncan Family Trust based?
- Duncan Family Trust is based in NE.
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