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Richard W & Phyllis B Duesenberg Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.2M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
8
Grants FY2024
5
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$50,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$556,562
Organizations funded a year
3 to 9
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$15M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations Richard W & Phyllis B Duesenberg Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $62k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’23
HealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving8$1.2M25%
FY20235$62k100%
FY20219$2.0M44%
FY20203$150k0%
FY20195$1.0Mn/a
88% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$2.1MArts & Culture$1.3MPhilanthropy$557kReligion$261kHuman Services$185kHousing & Shelter$20kScience & Tech$20kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Lutheran Music Program$640,365445%
Concordia Historical Institute$620,0003n/a
Lutheran High School Association of St Louis$550,0002n/a
Interfaith Residence D/B/A Doorways$20,00010%
Opera Theatre of Saint Louis$15,00030%
St Louis University High School$10,0001n/a
Archdiocese of St Louis$1,0001n/a

Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.5M), not named here.

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.

The Blackbaud Giving FundSC10.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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Find your warmest path to Richard W & Phyllis B Duesenberg Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Richard W & Phyllis B Duesenberg Foundation

How much does Richard W & Phyllis B Duesenberg Foundation give?
Richard W & Phyllis B Duesenberg Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $1,175,562 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 9 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Richard W & Phyllis B Duesenberg Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (31%), Arts & Culture (19%), Philanthropy (8%).
Who are Richard W & Phyllis B Duesenberg Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Lutheran Music Program ($640k), Concordia Historical Institute ($620k), Lutheran High School Association of St Louis ($550k).
Does Richard W & Phyllis B Duesenberg Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Richard W & Phyllis B Duesenberg Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Richard W & Phyllis B Duesenberg Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Blackbaud Giving Fund, American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is Richard W & Phyllis B Duesenberg Foundation based?
Richard W & Phyllis B Duesenberg Foundation is based in MO.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 16 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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