· Private foundation
Joseph C and Lillian a Duke 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $95k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE TWIN CITIE | $15,000 |
| MINNESOTA COMPUTERS FOR SCHOOLS | $10,000 |
| LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE | $10,000 |
| OUR LADY OF PEACE HOME | $10,000 |
| TWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION (TPT) | $10,000 |
| MODEL CITIES OF ST PAUL INC | $10,000 |
| 180 DEGREES INC | $10,000 |
| UNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOCIATION -- | $10,000 |
| CAN DO CANINES | $10,000 |
| THE ST PAUL CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC | $7,500 |
| COMMUNITY PARTNERS WITH YOUTH | $7,500 |
| CHILDREN'S THEATER COMPANY & SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE | $5,000 |
| CHANGE INC | $5,000 |
| URBAN ROOTS MN | $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 (FY20–24, $83k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% 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.
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 +36% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 5 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, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
- CICOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE TWIN CITIES5× · 2020–2024 · $46k · revenue +120%
- CDCAN DO CANINES5× · 2020–2024 · $40k · revenue +35%
- TCTWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $38k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- UGUNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOCIATION OF ST PAUL INCone grant, 2023 · $13k · revenue +7%
- OLOUR LADY OF PEACEgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +39%
- SPSAINT PAUL CONSERVATORY OF MUSICone grant, 2023 · $8k
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.
Strengthen central mn communities through leadership in workforce excellence.
Breakthrough Twin Cities supports students on their journey to college by fostering a community of mutual learning with the next generation of educators so they both can collaborate, grow, and thrive.
As one of the upper midwest's leading career and college readiness organizations, achieve twin cities rallies community support and delivers best-in-class programs to inspire and equip young people in minneapolis and saint paul, minnesota…
Mity's mission is to inspire and challenge intellectually curious students to pursue their passions within a diverse, inclusive community and empower them by building skills and relationships for lifelong success.
Move minnesota leads the movement for an equitable and sustainable transportation system that puts people first. we are passionate about connecting communities, ending the climate crisis, expanding access to jobs and resources, and…
Mentoring partnership of minnesota (mpm) builds and elevates the capacity of programs, systems and policies to strengthen youth mentoring relationships. strategic priorities include: 1. support a statewide mentoring partner network2.…
The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…
Touchstone mental health provides innovative, person-centered services that foster hope, health and well-being. we envision a world where all people whose lives are affected by mental illness will flourish with effective treatment, quality…
To enable young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens. for more information visit www.boysandgirls.org.
We believe that great schools are the cornerstone of a just and thriving community. ensuring that every child is able to attend a school that works is our moral and social imperative - our children deserve no less.
Led by minnesota state university students, we are the inclusive voice for all future, current, and former students. we actively work to represent and support minnesota state university students and advocate at a campus, state, and federal…
The alliance is a coalition of community-based organizations and advocacy groups with a mission to build power across the intersections of geography, race, culture, and issues in the twin cities region to eliminate systems of oppression…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Change Inc and the most unlike its peers is Children's Theatre Company and School. 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 38 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
27 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. 27 of the 34 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 COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE TWIN CITIES ↗
- Who funds CAN DO CANINES ↗
- Who funds TWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC ↗
- Who funds Community Partners with Youth ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA YOUTH SYMPHONIES ↗
- Who funds GREATER TWIN CITIES YOUTH SYMPHONIES ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA COMPUTERS FOR SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds CHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICE OF MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds THE ST PAUL CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds PEACEMAKER MINNESOTA ↗
- Who funds UNION GOSPEL MISSION ASSOCIATION OF ST PAUL INC ↗
- Who funds OUR LADY OF PEACE ↗
- Who funds MODEL CITIES OF ST PAUL INC ↗
- Who funds 180 DEGREES INC ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC ↗
- Who funds LIFETRACK RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds Guild ↗
- Who funds URBAN ROOTS MN ↗
- Who funds THE ST PAUL AND RAMSEY COUNTY DOMESTIC ABUSE INTERVENTION PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Children's Theatre Company and School ↗
- Who funds TREEHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE LINK ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT NORTH ↗
- Who funds TRUE FRIENDS ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY NEIGHBORHOOD ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION ↗
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: Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Hardenbergh Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Warren Foundation · Fred C and Katherine B Andersen Foundation · Mardag Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · The Hubbard Broadcasting Foundation · The Walser 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 Joseph C and Lillian a Duke 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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