· Public charity
Ken Duke and Friends Inc
Support well-deserving local and national organizations, through an annual celebrity pro-am golf tournament.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 7 grants below total $210,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $276,221 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $66,221 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOCA RATON CHAMPIONS GOLF CHARITIES | $42,000 |
| VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE | $30,000 |
| FIRST TEE TREASURE COAST | $30,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| PROJECT LIFT | $30,000 |
| FOLDS OF HONOR | $30,000 |
| ADVENTURES IN MOVEMENT | $18,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 35% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +28% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k 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
- FOFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION5× · 2021–2025 · $170k · revenue +28%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC2× · 2024–2025 · $140k · revenue +25%
- SOSPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $90k · revenue +221%
Funded once
- NCNicklaus Children's Health Care Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +32%
- EFELS FOR AUTISM FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $80k · revenue +3%
- POPLACE OF HOPEone grant, 2019 · $46k
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.
To foster national or international amateur golf competition.
The ben hogan foundation is dedicated to honor, celebrate, and preserve the legacy and character of ben hogan through support of organizations that promote the game of golf and charities that reflect mr. hogan's core values.
The corporation's mission is to impact the lives of children and youth by teaching life-skills and character through the game of golf, especially to those who would not otherwise be finacially able to play the game of golf; including, but…
American Golf Foundation is dedicated to the enhancement and enrichment of communities by promoting the enjoyment of the game of golf and its ideals through charity, education and community service.
To promote the enjoyment and involvement in the game of golf and to contribute to the growth of the golf professional and the golf industry. the south florida section will accomplish this mission by enhancing the skills of golf…
To provide an amateur junior golf association where the best junior golfers in the country could compete on some of the best courses and to bring awareness and support other organizations in the fight against pediatric diseases.
Provide charitable support for activities that enhance children's health, growth, and well-being through medical, educational, and social programs.
To use the game of golf and the classrooms in our clubhouse to attract kids to a learning environment and learn a game that will help develop character as they grow up.
The organization's mission is to make a difference in the lives of children affected by cancer and other life-threatening illnesses. we strive to improve the quality of life and well-being for them and their families by offering financial…
Our mission is to transform junior golf by providing a platform for junior players to gain access to exceptional high school caddies that provide youth mentorship for the future of the game.
Improve the quality of life for children and adults.
To impact the lives of young people in the greater st. louis area by providing educational programs that build character, instill life-enhancing values and promote healthy choices through the game of golf.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Golf Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Michelle McGann Fund Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 23 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 CHILDREN'S GOLF FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Nicklaus Children's Health Care Foundation ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEART OF A LION ↗
- Who funds ELS FOR AUTISM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROJECT LIFT INC ↗
- Who funds BOCA RATON CHAMPIONS GOLF CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds The Michelle McGann Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds ANGELS AND CAUSES INC ↗
- Who funds AIM INC DBA AIM FOR THE HANDICAPPED ↗
- Who funds PGA TOUR FIRST TEE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MARTIN COUNTY NORTH LITTLE LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH FLORIDA PROFESSIONAL GOLF ASSOCIATION CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION 300 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: Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Ken Duke and Friends Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Children's Golf Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
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.