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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 FY2025still arriving
38
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$149k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0193% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$1.5MEducation$637kHuman Services$329kArts & Culture$265kFood & Nutrition$163kCommunity Improvement$74kYouth Development$57kInternational$57kOther$0
02FY2025 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k27 grants · $70k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $130k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $433k
$4,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$3.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LINCOLN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$148,500
UNITED WAY OF LINCOLNLANCASTER COUNTY$131,500
CULTURAL CENTERS OF LINCOLN$100,000
MALONE COMMUNITY CENTER$52,500
UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN$28,500
UNITED WAY OF UTAH COUNTY$26,500
FAMILY SERVICE LINCOLN$20,000
GOOD NEIGHBOR COMMUNITY CENTER$15,000
LEADERSHIP LINCOLN INC$15,000
EL CENTRO DE LAS AMERICAS$14,500
SOUTH MICHIGAN FOOD BANK$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION$7,500
TABITHA'S WAY LOCAL FOOD PANTRY$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $257k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Livada Orphan Care: $5k → 5%QUILTS OF VALOR: $500 → 7%SET ME FREE PROJECT: $2k → 12%Disability Network Southwest Michigan: $3k → 12%COMMUNITY ACTION SERVICES & FOOD BANK: $3k → 8%Voces: $1k → 14%Voces: $500 → 14%VOCES: $500 → 14%YWCA Lincoln: $10k → 13%CULTURAL CENTERS OF LINCOLN: $100k → 13%Cultural Centers Of Lincoln: $50k → 13%GOOD NEIGHBOR COMMUNITY CENTER: $15k → 13%MATT TALBOT KITCHEN & OUTREACH: $13k → 13%Good Neighbor Community Center: $10k → 13%LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 13%LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 13%EL CENTRO DE LAS AMERICAS: $15k → 13%El Centro de las Americas: $7k → 13%El Centro de las Americas: $5k → 13%El Centro de las Americas: $4k → 13%The Hub - Central Access Point for Young Adults: $500 → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

IL
MI
NY
IA
UT
CO
NE
KS
DC
MS
TX

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.2M · 58 repeat orgs$436k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.

58 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 34 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

58
69

Total granted

$2.2M
$387k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+9%

Still filing today

60%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $49k 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
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationHealthPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN
    5× · 2020–2025 · $125k · revenue +92%
  • TF
    THE FOUNDATION FOR LINCOLN PUBLIC SCHOOLS
    8× · 2017–2025 · $107k · revenue +40%
  • MC
    MALONE COMMUNITY CENTER
    3× · 2020–2025 · $89k · revenue ×21

Funded once

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF LINCOLN AND LANCASTER COUNTY
    one grant, 2022 · $64k · revenue -8%
  • CM
    CLYDE MALONE COMMUNITY CENTER FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $64k · revenue +19%
  • KR
    Kalamazoo RESA Foundation
    one grant, 2023 · $53k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Lincoln Land Community College Foundation

Cultivating and stewarding charitable gifts to support lincoln land community college students, programs and services.

Philanthropy
2
Lincoln University Aka Lincoln College

Lincoln college uniquely empowers students to realize their full potential

Education
3
Lincoln Chamber of Commerce

Community development in lincoln, ne

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4
Lincoln County Community Development Corporation

To promote, facilitate and develop or co-develop affordable housing in lincoln county, nebraska.

Philanthropy
5
Nebraska Credit Union League Inc

To promote credit unions in nebraska

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6
Nebraska Community Foundation

The nebraska community foundation unleashes abundant local assets, inspires charitable giving, and connects ambitious people to build stronger communities and a greater nebraska.

Philanthropy
7
Nebraska Community College Assoc

Support for community colleges

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8
Lincoln Central Neighborhood Family Center

To provide programs for the residents in the lincoln/central school area.

Community Improvement
9
Lincoln Area Chamber of Commerce

To Market Lincoln as the area of choice in which to live and do business, by attracting, assisting, retaining and promoting our members

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10
Council of Independent Nebraska Colleges Foundation

The council of indepependent nebraska colleges foundation exists to provide operating funds and scholarship support for students attending nebraska's independent institutions of excellence.

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11
Nebraska Children & Families Foundation

Nebraska children's mission is to create positive change for children through community engagement. our vision is a nebraska where all children will have the resources and support to reach their full potential. our values are (1)…

Philanthropy
12
Urban League of Nebraska

The mission of the urban league of nebraska is to be an empowering voice in the community advocating for economic self-reliance, parity, power, civil rights and equal opportunity for all (see schedule o). the vision of the urban league of…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Civic Nebraska and the most unlike its peers is Kalamazoo Mortgage Hero Salute. 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 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%1%<5yr14%5%5–10yr18%16%10–20yr14%27%20–35yr16%35%35–55yr16%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%8%<5yr14%1%5–10yr18%2%10–20yr14%10%20–35yr16%26%35–55yr16%53%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/93
the rest of the field
11%
1,103/9,923

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.

04the grantee network

88 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. 88 of the 142 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
85/88
Grantees still filing
52/88
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNITED WAY OF LINCOLNLANCASTER COUNTY — $276,026 · OtherUNITED WAY OF LINCOLNLANCASTER COUNTYUnited Way Of Lincoln — $140,400 · OtherUnited Way Of LincolnUNITED WAY OF UTAH COUNTY — $109,250 · OtherUNITED WAY OF UTAH COUNTYMALONE COMMUNITY CENTER — $89,000 · OtherMALONE COMMUNITY CENTERIndividual grant recipient — $75,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCLYDE MALONE COMMUNITY CENTER FOUNDATION — $64,000 · OtherBurma Center — $55,073 · OtherKalamazoo RESA Foundation — $52,500 · OtherFOUNDATION FOR LPS-TCA FUND — $50,000 · Other+85 more — $417,206 · Other+85 moreLincoln Community Foundation Inc — $715,645 · PhilanthropyLincoln Community Foundation I…UNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN — $124,750 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MI…UNITED WAY OF LINCOLN AND LANCASTER COUNTY — $64,318 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF LINCOLN AND LANC…+3 more — $6,133 · PhilanthropyUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION — $307,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF N…WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $61,000 · EducationWESTERN MICHIGA…LINCOLN LITERACY COUNCIL — $26,000 · EducationLINCOLN LITERAC…NEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY — $20,000 · EducationWESTERN NEBRASKA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $17,500 · Education+4 more — $30,000 · Education+4 moreCULTURAL CENTERS OF LINCOLN — $150,000 · Human ServicesEL CENTRO DE LAS AMERICAS — $30,000 · Human ServicesGOOD NEIGHBOR COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesLUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NE INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesMATT TALBOT KITCHEN & OUTREACH — $12,500 · Human ServicesYWCA OF LINCOLN — $10,000 · Human Services+8 more — $16,000 · Human ServicesTHE FOUNDATION FOR LINCOLN PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $107,398 · Arts & CultureLUX CENTER FOR THE ARTS — $40,000 · Arts & CultureUnited States Artists Inc — $20,000 · Arts & CultureBEMIS CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS INC — $15,000 · Arts & CultureASIAN COMMUNITY AND CULTURAL CENTER — $11,000 · Arts & Culture+9 more — $21,000 · Arts & CultureFOOD BANK OF LINCOLN INC — $121,500 · Food & NutritionKALAMAZOO LOAVES & FISHES INC — $7,500 · Food & Nutrition+1 more — $1,500 · Food & NutritionLINCOLN CHILDREN'S ZOO — $35,000 · Animals+1 more — $500 · Animals
Other$1,328,455Philanthropy$910,846Education$462,000Human Services$258,500Arts & Culture$214,398Food & Nutrition$130,500Animals$35,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLincoln Community Foundation Inc — $715,645 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION — $307,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SOUTH CENTRAL MICHIGAN — $124,750 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetFOOD BANK OF LINCOLN INC — $121,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR LINCOLN PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $107,398 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetMALONE COMMUNITY CENTER — $89,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetUNITED WAY OF LINCOLN AND LANCASTER COUNTY — $64,318 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetWESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $61,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLUX CENTER FOR THE ARTS — $40,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetLINCOLN CHILDREN'S ZOO — $35,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetEL CENTRO DE LAS AMERICAS — $30,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetLINCOLNLANCASTER COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER — $26,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetLINCOLN LITERACY COUNCIL — $26,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetGOOD NEIGHBOR COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetLEADERSHIP LINCOLN INC — $24,875 over 4y, 4.1% of budgetSOUTH MICHIGAN FOOD BANK — $22,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Artists Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTERN NEBRASKA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $17,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCORPORATE ANGEL NETWORK INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetBEMIS CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLANSING COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetLUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NE INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMATT TALBOT KITCHEN & OUTREACH — $12,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetASIAN COMMUNITY AND CULTURAL CENTER — $11,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetEDUCARE OF LINCOLN INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCIVIC NEBRASKA — $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF UTAH COUNTY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYWCA OF LINCOLN — $10,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetSOUTHWEST MICHIGAN FIRST CORP — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWILLARD COMMUNITY CENTER — $7,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetKALAMAZOO LOAVES & FISHES INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLINCOLN CHILDREN'S MUSEUM — $6,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCAUSE COLLECTIVE — $5,325 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetNORTHEAST FAMILY CENTER — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLIVADA ORPHAN CARE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetUTAH FOOD BANK — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN IN CORPORATE AVIATION — $5,000 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetNEBRASKA HUMANITIES COUNCIL — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTAKE FLIGHT FARMS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetCEREAL CITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $3,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHEAST COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPATRIOTIC PRODUCTIONS INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMOURNING HOPE — $3,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNET FOUNDATION FOR RADIO — $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBATTLE CREEK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $2,633 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEBRASKA PUBLIC MEDIA FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF OMAHA — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Lincoln Community Fou…Abel FoundationCooper FoundationThe Sherwood Foundati…Assurity Life Foundat…Spreetail FoundationUnited Way of Lincoln…Lee and Debbie Stuart…Kinder Porter Scott F…Rogers FoundationAcklie Charitable Fou…D F Dillon Foundation
Lincoln Community Foundation IncNE80.2× affinity40 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Duncan Family Trust 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    30report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Duncan Family Trust?

    Find your warmest path to Duncan Family Trust through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 142 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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