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The Debra Carroll and Donald Duford Family 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.

$85k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
17
Grants FY2025
14
Organizations funded FY2024
71%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$20,000
Organizations funded a year
8 to 14
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$1.5M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 71% of the organizations The Debra Carroll and Donald Duford Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 58% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesFood & NutritionInternationalPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterOther
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
FY2025still arriving17$85k41%
FY202414$85k71%
FY202311$85k36%
FY20228$85k38%
FY202110$80k20%
FY202012$85k33%
FY201914$85k57%
FY20189$89k22%
97% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$261kInternational$155kHuman Services$138kFood & Nutrition$72kCivil Rights$31kHousing & Shelter$21kEnvironment$16kYouth Development$16kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
MI
NY
IA
PA
CT
CA
MD
KS
DC

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 28 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($282k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Debra Carroll and Donald Duford Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDiamond Educational Excellence Partnership: $142,000 over 8y, 4.6% of budgetPromises2kids Foundation: $123,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetOlivewoods Gardens & Learning Center Inc: $65,000 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetMonarch School Project: $19,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetUnbound: $17,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRoosevelt School PTA: $15,500 over 2y, 8.5% of budgetWorkshops for Warriors Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHomeless Children's Education Fund: $15,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetOne World Bridge: $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetLa Jolla Historical Society: $8,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetHumble Design Inc: $5,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Arc of San Diego: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKiss the Ground: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRegeneration International: $4,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetUn Mar de Colores: $4,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSoil and Water Conservation Society: $4,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetClimateworks Foundation: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLos Angeles Regional Food Bank: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEnvironmental and Energy Study Institute: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetToo Young to Wed Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMadre Inc: $650 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPostpartum Health Alliance: $500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetRady Children's Hospital Foundation San Diego: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSan Diego Center for Children: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 25.

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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 Conrad Prebys FoundationCA19.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Conrad Prebys Foundation · Sempra Foundation · The San Diego Foundation · David C Copley Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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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About The Debra Carroll and Donald Duford Family Foundation

How much does The Debra Carroll and Donald Duford Family Foundation give?
The Debra Carroll and Donald Duford Family Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $85,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 14 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Debra Carroll and Donald Duford Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (34%), International (20%), Human Services (18%).
Who are The Debra Carroll and Donald Duford Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Diamond Educational Excellence Partnership ($142k), Promises2kids Foundation ($123k), Olivewoods Gardens & Learning Center Inc ($65k).
Does The Debra Carroll and Donald Duford Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 71% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Debra Carroll and Donald Duford Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Debra Carroll and Donald Duford Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Conrad Prebys Foundation, Sempra Foundation, The San Diego Foundation.
Where is The Debra Carroll and Donald Duford Family Foundation based?
The Debra Carroll and Donald Duford Family Foundation is based in CA.

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 49 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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