· Private foundation
Leo and Laura Duwel Memorial Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $59k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR | $21,000 |
| SJO KIDS INC | $21,000 |
| STEPHEN T BADIN HIGH SCHOOL | $17,200 |
| ST XAVIER HIGH SCHOOL | $9,600 |
| MERCY MCAULEY HIGH SCHOOL | $7,200 |
| MOUNT NOTRE DAME HIGH SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| ELDER HIGH SCHOOL | $1,800 |
| LASALLE HIGH SCHOOL | $1,600 |
| SETON HIGH SCHOOL | $1,600 |
| ARCHBISHOP MOELLER HIGH SCHOOL | $500 |
| BISHOP FENWICK HIGH SCHOOL | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $44k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +2% since the first grant, against +0% for those funded once.
17 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LSLITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR SACRED HEART HOME5× · 2020–2024 · $115k · revenue -39%
- BHBADIN HIGH SCHOOL6× · 2020–2025 · $92k
- SKSJO KIDS INC4× · 2022–2025 · $86k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- UAURSULINE ACADEMY OF DALLAS FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $3k
- UAURSULINE ACADEMY KIRKWOOD MOone grant, 2023 · $2k
- BFBISHOP FENWICK HIGH SCHOOL INCone grant, 2023 · $1k
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.
4 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. 4 of the 22 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Leo and Laura Duwel Memorial Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Leo and Laura Duwel Memorial Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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