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Robin Chandler Duke Foundation at a glance

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Robin Chandler Duke Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$23k
Granted FY2022
8
Grants FY2022
5
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

100% of Robin Chandler Duke Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Robin Chandler Duke Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $23k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

2
’17
3
’18
8
’19
5
’20
4
’21
5
’22
2
’23
0
’24
0
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$465kHealth$60kArts & Culture$28kCrime & Legal$19kEducation$14kInternational$13kCivil Rights$10kYouth Development$7kOther$0
02FY2022 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,500
Median grant
5
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$5,000
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE$5,000
PROJECT MOST INC$3,500
CENTER FOR HEIRS PROPERTY PRESERVATION$2,500
LAND IS LIFE$2,000
CITY SURF PROJECT$2,000
LONG BEACH RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE$2,000
HISTORIC CHARLESTON FOUNDATION$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–20, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WINGS FOR KIDS: $1k → 12%WINGS FOR KIDS: $500 → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
MN
NY
MA
CA
CO
VA
NM
NC
SC
DC
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$141k · 12 repeat orgs$45k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +67% since the first grant, against +50% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2022, 7 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
17

Total granted

$141k
$36k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+67%
+50%

Still filing today

58%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalHealthOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • CF
    Center for Heirs' Property Preservation
    2× · 2017–2018 · $18k · revenue +577%
  • IR
    International Rescue Committee INC
    2× · 2019–2022 · $13k · revenue +67%
  • PT
    Pure Theatre
    2× · 2020–2021 · $6k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • SI
    SAVORY INSTITUTEORG INC
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -40%
  • AD
    ANTHONY DREXEL DUKE SCHOLAR
    one grant, 2018 · $3k
  • BH
    BASSET HOUND RESCUE OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
    one grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue -20%
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.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Conservation Law Foundation Inc

Conservation law foundation, inc. (clf) protects new england's environment for the benefit of all people and future generations. we use the law, science, and markets to create solutions that preserve and restore our natural resources,…

Environment
2
Rescape California

ReScape addresses climate change by providing a regenerative, nature-based whole systems foundation for landscaping education, workforce development and policy.Foundational to our work is a whole systems watershed framework that…

Environment
3
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
4
Resource Renewal Institute

The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.

Environment
5
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
6
Nature Collective

Nature collective's mission is to drive a passion for nature for all. we think inclusively and diversely when serving those devoid of nature those who remember nature and want to connect back to it and those who have an affinity with…

Environment
7
World Learning Inc

Creating a more sustainable, peaceful, and just world through education, development, and exchange since 1932. as both an accredited academic institution and an international ngo, world learning, inc. offers the best of theory and practice…

International
8
Center for Community Solutions

The mission is to end relationship and sexual violence by being a catalyst for caring communities and social justice. the vision is for all people to live full, free, expressive, and empowered lives in a safe, healthy, vibrant, and…

Health
9
Terra Marin School

Our mission is to spark wonder and intellectual curiosity in each child. We achieve this through a purposeful blend of:Engaging academics custom-tailored to each child's abilities, strengths and interests;An unparalleled social-emotional…

Education
10
Allies for Every Child Inc

All children need a childhood. Allies for Every Child brings together and strengthens families, cultivating conditions for children to succeed in life. (Continues on Schedule O)

Human Services
11
Public Counsel

Public counsel is a nonprofit public interest law firm dedicated to advancing civil rights and racial and economic justice, as well as to amplifying the power of our clients through comprehensive legal advocacy. (see sch o for…

Crime & Legal
12
Sweet Farm Foundation

Sweet farm is the world's first nonprofit sanctuary to address the devastating impact that factory farming has on climate change from the perspective of animals, plants, and the planet. we must first understand how these pieces are…

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys and Girls Harbor Inc; the most unlike its peers is Pure Theatre. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 37 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/21
Grantees still filing
13/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $462,816 · Community ImprovementFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUNDPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $52,500 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOODCENTER FOR HEIRS PROPERTY PRESERVATION: $14,500 · OtherCENTER FOR HEIRS PROPE…PAI: $12,000 · OtherPAIORG LATINO AMERICANA DE EAS: $5,700 · OtherSAVORY INSTITUTEORG INC: $5,000 · OtherCity Surf Project: $5,000 · Other+21 more: $34,500 · Other+21 moreCenter for Heirs' Property Preservation: $18,000 · Crime & LegalInternational Rescue Committee INC: $12,500 · InternationalPure Theatre: $5,500 · Arts & CultureOLA OF EASTERN LONG ISLAND INC: $2,500 · Arts & CultureMOVING ARTS ESPANOLA INCORPORATED: $2,000 · Arts & CulturePROJECT MOST INC: $5,300 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITY: $2,500 · Education826LA: $2,000 · EducationSurfers Healing Foundation Inc: $6,500 · Health
Community Improvement$462,816Other$129,200Crime & Legal$18,000International$12,500Arts & Culture$10,000Education$9,800Health$6,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $462,816 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for Heirs' Property Preservation: $18,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSurfers Healing Foundation Inc: $6,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetPure Theatre: $5,500 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetPROJECT MOST INC: $5,300 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCity Surf Project: $5,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSAVORY INSTITUTEORG INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBASSET HOUND RESCUE OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $2,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOLA OF EASTERN LONG ISLAND INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS HARBOR INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMIDDLEBURY TRANSITIONAL CARE COALITION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSTORYTELLER CHILDRENS CENTER INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGIRLS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLand is Life Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget826LA: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCLIENTEARTH USA INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWINGS FOR KIDS: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHISTORIC CHARLESTON FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

The Scheerer Family F…Coastal Community Fou…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Boston Foundation IncImpactassetsincNational Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …
The Scheerer Family FoundationCA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Scheerer Family Foundation · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Impactassetsinc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Robin Chandler Duke Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robin Chandler Duke Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 37 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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