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Duncan Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k20 grants · $85k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $165k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $53k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $53,000 |
| BRITTANY MCCANN PROJECT | $40,000 |
| CLEVELAND CLINIC | $20,000 |
| GRACE BAPTIST CHURCH | $20,000 |
| KINGDOM COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES | $15,300 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES | $10,000 |
| KING TRAINING AND MINISTRY | $10,000 |
| SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| NAACP | $10,000 |
| SURGE MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| HEALING WHEELS | $5,500 |
| COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF HAMPTON | $5,000 |
| NRCC EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 75% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 24 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $160k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- BMBRITTANY MCCANN PROJECT INC2× · 2023–2024 · $90k
- IGIndividual grant recipient2× · 2023–2024 · $63k
- HSHEAVEN SENT MINISTRIES INC2× · 2022–2023 · $55k · revenue -54%
Funded once
- MAMaterial Aid and Advocacy Program Incone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +8%
- SFSOOUL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
HopeShines Ministry is a Christian faith-based, Christ centered, Biblically based, non-profit organization dedicated to offering hope and encouragement for a changed life by furnishing Bibles and resources both locally as well as in other…
We are a missions base that empowers, equips, and sends. we empower disciples to fulfill their god-ordained call. we equip sons and daughters of god in their identity in christ. we send disciples into nations to spread the supremacy of…
Emergency food, shelter, clothing & counseling.
To educate and prepare students for biblical gospel ministry as educators, pastors, and foreign missionaries.
To bring people into a closer relation with jesus christ, and help them overcome the crippling effects of sin and guilt. we accomplish this mission by offering our counselees a christ-centered scripturally - rotted approach; wherein,…
To provide services that will have ministry impact to families, churches, organizations at any time and place within our areas of expertise.
Reaching the Unreached, Loving the Abandoned
Envision and equip people to better understand the bible, the biblical roots of their faith, and apply that in their daily lives.
The focus of the ministry is to establish christian camps and retreats that will reach men and women who have been affected by post traumatic stress disorder with the gospel of jesus christ, and equip them to recognize, manage, and…
Evangelism and outreach to urban, rural, inner city and suburban communities in the u.s.a.
Dedicated to serving those infected & affected by HIV/AIDS around the world through support groups, community & medical outreach, education, seminars, and serving AIDS widows and orphans with care and support. Equiping indigenous leaders.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fellowship of Christian Athletes and the most unlike its peers is Kingdom Community Health Services. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 38 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds HEAVEN SENT MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds STRAIGHT STREET ROANOKE VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds Material Aid and Advocacy Program Inc ↗
- Who funds RENEWANATION ↗
- Who funds NEW RIVER COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON AUTOMOTIVE APPRENTICES INC ↗
- Who funds Lone Star Kei ↗
- Who funds VITTLES FOR VETS ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Foundation 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.
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.
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