· Private foundation
Michael and Carmen Duffek Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HEARD MUSEUM | $7,200 |
| MUSEUM OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION | $6,828 |
| FOOTHILLS FOOD BANK | $850 |
| CENTRAL NEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $140 |
| SCHOOL FOR ADVANCED RESEARCH | $120 |
| LIGHTNING BOY FOUNDATION | $100 |
| STUHR MUSEUM | $100 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH SANTA FE | $25 |
| SANTA FE BOTANICAL GARDEN | $20 |
| KITCHEN ANGELS | $11 |
| WHEELWRIGHT MUSEUM | $10 |
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 (FY21–24, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 25% of those 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.
21 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 5 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $275 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
- MOMUSEUM OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION5× · 2021–2025 · $26k · revenue +88%
- THTHE HEARD MUSEUM6× · 2020–2025 · $22k · revenue +133%
- CNCENTRAL NEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY6× · 2020–2025 · $20k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF HUBBELL TRADING POST NHSone grant, 2024 · $908
- SMSCOTTSDALE MUSEUM OF THE WEST INCone grant, 2021 · $760 · revenue -35%
- SFSANTA FE OPERA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $600
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.
As the official philanthropic and collaborative partner of the grand canyon national park, grand canyon conservancy's mission is to inspire generations of park champions to cherish and support the natural and cultural wonder of the grand…
To respect and support the traditions and creative expressions of the native american peoples, and to present exhibitions and other public programs relating to them; to collect and document contemporary expressions of the navajo people…
We inspire people to live in harmony with the natural world by fostering love, appreciation, and understanding of the sonoran desert.
Guided by artists, rooted in new mexico, site santa fe celebrates contemporary creative expression.
Phoenix art museum creates spaces of exchange and belonging for all audiences through dynamic exhibitions, collections, and experiences with art. this mission is supported by seven strategic pillars:(continued on schedule o)1. be a space…
The tucson museum of art and historic block connects art to life through meaningful and engaging experiences that inspire discovery, spark creativity, and promote cultural understanding.
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
To provide accessible holistic patient centered care, to empower our community to achieve the highest quality health and well-being.
The Arts Foundation mission is to advance artistic expression, civic participation, and equitable economic growth of our diverse community by supporting, promoting, and advocating for arts and culture in our region.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Mexico Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Banzerini House. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% 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.
36 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. 36 of the 54 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 MUSEUM OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE HEARD MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL NEBRASKA HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Adopt-A-Native Elder ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NEW MEXICO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WHEELWRIGHT MUSEUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Foothills Food Bank ↗
- Who funds OCJ KIDS ↗
- Who funds Anthem Cares Through Service ↗
- Who funds SCOTTSDALE MUSEUM OF THE WEST INC ↗
- Who funds NATIVE AMERICAN CONNECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds Hopi Relief ↗
- Who funds STUHR MUSEUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Youth for Troops ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWESTERN ASSOCIATION FOR INDIAN INDIAN ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds REUNITY RESOURCES ↗
- Who funds RUSTY S ANGELS SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL FOR ADVANCED RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC WHALE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INDIAN PUEBLO CULTURAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds LIGHTNING BOY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Helens Hope Chest ↗
- Who funds Reigning Grace Ranch ↗
- Who funds THE FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TREVORS VISION INC ↗
- Who funds GABRIELS ANGELS 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: Santa Fe Community Foundation · Arizona Community Foundation · American Express Foundation · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · New Mexico Community Foundation · Thunderbirds Charities · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · Assurant Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund
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 Michael and Carmen Duffek Foundation 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 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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