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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
COMMUNITY ACTION GATHERING PLACE$5,000
LANSING COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$5,000
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 (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 its 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
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

IL
MI
NY
IA
UT
CO
NE
KS
DC
MS
TX
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +9% for those 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
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

  • 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
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
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

—
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

—
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Civic Nebraska; 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.
04the grantee network

88 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

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

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
85/88
Grantees still filing
53/88
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 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 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 budgetLINCOLN LITERACY COUNCIL: $26,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetLINCOLNLANCASTER COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER: $26,000 over 6y, 0.1% 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 budgetNEBRASKA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Artists Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWESTERN NEBRASKA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $17,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetLUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NE INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% 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 budgetMATT TALBOT KITCHEN & OUTREACH: $12,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetASIAN COMMUNITY AND CULTURAL CENTER: $11,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF UTAH COUNTY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEDUCARE OF LINCOLN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCIVIC NEBRASKA: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% 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 budgetWOMEN IN CORPORATE AVIATION: $5,000 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetTAKE FLIGHT FARMS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetLIVADA ORPHAN CARE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNORTHEAST FAMILY CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUTAH FOOD BANK: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEBRASKA HUMANITIES COUNCIL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCEREAL CITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $3,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPATRIOTIC PRODUCTIONS INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMOURNING HOPE: $3,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSOUTHEAST COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNET FOUNDATION FOR RADIO: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBATTLE CREEK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,633 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Action Services and Food Bank: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDISABILITY NETWORK SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN: $2,500 over 1y, 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.

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

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 Duncan Family Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Duncan Family Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's 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
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 142 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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