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Rubber Ducky Foundation at a glance

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Rubber Ducky 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.

$10k
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Health$43kArts & Culture$43kPhilanthropy$32kAnimals$7kHuman Services$7kFood & Nutrition$4kPublic Benefit$2kEducation$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$16k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PACIFIC WRECKS$10,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY18–18, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%INTERVAL HOUSE: $1k → 10%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

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IL
NY
MA
CA
KY
MD
AZ
KS
DC
AL
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$131k · 9 repeat orgs$19k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
16

Total granted

$131k
$19k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+72%

Still filing today

56%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureReligionAnimalsPublic BenefitOther
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

  • AD
    ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    5× · 2019–2024 · $13k · revenue +85%
  • CH
    Children's Hospital Los Angeles
    5× · 2018–2024 · $13k · revenue +27%
  • WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC
    3× · 2019–2023 · $4k · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • AL
    AMERICAN LEBANESE SYRIAN ASSOCIATED CHARITIES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $4k · revenue +72%
  • OS
    Operation Second Chance Incgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue +99%
  • NH
    NATIONAL HEADACHE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue 0%
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.

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Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education
2
Head Strong Project Inc

The head strong project (headstrong) is a non-profit organization founded in 2012 that provides barrier-free, stigma-free ptsd treatment to veterans, transitioning service members, and family members connected to their care.

Health
3
Aerial Recovery

Aerial recovery's mission is to save lives and stop evil. through the creation and deployment of humanitarian special operators, aerial recovery brings together selected veterans, first responders, and mission-qualified civilians who,…

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4
Brightfocus Foundation

Brightfocus foundation funds exceptional research worldwide to defeat alzheimer's disease, macular degeneration, and glaucoma and provides expert information on these heartbreaking diseases. please refer to schedule o for a complete…

Health
5
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

The aspca's mission, as stated by founder henry bergh in 1866, is "to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the united states." the aspca was founded on the belief that animals are entitled to kind and…

Animals
6
Children's Hospital & Research Center At Oakland

The mission of children's hospital & research center at oakland is to protect and advance the health and well-being of children through clinical care, teaching and research.

Health
7
Wipe Out Kids' Cancer Inc

Wipe out kids cancer offers comfort and hope to kids with cancer through support programs serving the entire family and funds innovative research leading to new discoveries and treatments in the fight against pediatric cancer. "support and…

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8
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
9
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
10
David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness -Based Education and World Peace

The david lynch foundation for consciousness-based education and world peace (the "foundation or "dlf") is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization founded in 2005. the foundation helps to prevent and eradicate the epidemic of trauma and toxic…

Philanthropy
11
The Ovarian Cancer Research Fund Inc

Ovarian cancer research alliance (ocra) is committed to preventing, developing better treatments for and ultimately curing ovarian and related gynecologic cancers through innovative research, raising awareness and ensuring the best care…

Philanthropy
12
Blood Cancer United Inc

Our mission is to cure leukemia, lymphoma, hodgkin's disease and myeloma, and improve the quality of life of patients and their families.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Headache Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Pacific Wrecks Incorporated. 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

12 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. 12 of the 25 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $16,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMAKE A WISH FOUNDATION: $16,000 · OtherMAKE A WISH FOUNDATIONSt Jude Children's Research Hospita: $11,000 · OtherSt Jude Children's Research HospitaSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $4,000 · OtherSHARE OUR STRENGTHSEAL BEACH ANIMAL CARE: $3,500 · OtherSEAL BEACH ANIMAL CARE+12 more: $11,850 · Other+12 morePacific Wrecks Incorporated: $51,000 · Arts & CulturePacific Wrecks IncorporatedALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $13,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE…Children's Hospital Los Angeles: $13,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital…WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $3,500 · Human ServicesINTERVAL HOUSE: $1,000 · Human ServicesAMERICAN LEBANESE SYRIAN ASSOCIATED CHARITIES INC: $3,500 · ReligionOperation Second Chance Inc: $2,000 · Public BenefitWILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC: $500 · Animals
Other$62,350Arts & Culture$51,000Health$26,000Human Services$4,500Religion$3,500Public Benefit$2,000Animals$500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPacific Wrecks Incorporated: $51,000 over 8y, 12% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $13,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $13,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN LEBANESE SYRIAN ASSOCIATED CHARITIES INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOperation Second Chance Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL HEADACHE FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TREVOR FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC: $500 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.

  • Who funds Pacific Wrecks Incorporated ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
  • Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN LEBANESE SYRIAN ASSOCIATED CHARITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds Operation Second Chance Inc ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL HEADACHE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds INTERVAL HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds THE TREVOR FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS ↗
  • Who funds WILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Rubber Ducky Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rubber Ducky Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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 25 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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