· Private foundation
The Duckworth Charitable Foundation Inc
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WASHINGTON & LEE UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| THE WASHINGTON SCHOOL FOR GIRLS | $8,000 |
| JOBS FOR VIRGINIA GRADUATES | $7,500 |
| SEASIDE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $7,500 |
| ROANOKE COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| ECKERD COLLEGE | $2,500 |
| ROANOKE COLLEGE | $2,500 |
| BRUNSWICK FAMILY ASSISTANCE | $2,500 |
| JEFFERSON CENTER | $2,500 |
| CAMP AGAPE VERMONT | $2,000 |
| ADULT CARE CENTER | $2,000 |
| BLUE RIDGE LAND CONSERVANCY | $2,000 |
| CHIP OF ROANOKE VALLEY | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 72% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 23% of The Duckworth Charitable Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.
23 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
Washington and Lee University9× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +15%
THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $73k · revenue +56%- JFJOBS FOR VIRGINIA GRADUATES INC8× · 2017–2025 · $61k · revenue +240%
Funded once
- FCFIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHone grant, 2018 · $2k
- BSBROOKWOOD SCHOOL INCone grant, 2020 · $500 · revenue +19%
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.
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.
The mission of the University is to inspire independent thinkers who become trustworthy, effective leaders that shape caring communities. The vision of the University of Lynchburg is to cultivate a world that is innovative, authentic, and…
At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…
Goucher College provides an innovative liberal arts education that prepares students with a broad, humane perspective for a life of inquiry, creativity, and critical and analytical thinking. The College's vision is to become a top-100…
Virginia wesleyan university is a fully accredited liberal arts, united-methodist related institution founded in 1961.
Provides seminary, under-graduate, graduate, doctoral, and other continuing education programs
The only law school in Rhode Island, Roger Williams University School of Law offers future attorneys a rigorous, hands-on legal education in a supportive, personalized environment. Preparing students for success in the public and private…
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
The mission of Good Shepherd Episcopal School is to inspire each child to achieve academic excellence within a diverse, nurturing community that builds character and fosters respect for one another and our shared environment, locally and…
To secure financial support that enables college-bound students to access and graduate from outstanding virginia independent higher education institutions.
To provide investment and investment management and related services to the rector and the board of visitors of virginia commonwealth university (vcu), and/or to the private and independent foundations and other entities affiliated with…
Rocky mountain college educates future leaders through liberal arts and professional programs that cultivate critical thinking, creative expression, ethical decision making, informed citizenship, and professional excellence.
Foxcroft's mission is to help every girl explore her unique voice and to develop the skills, confidence, and courage to share it with the world with emphasis on Our Values of Respect, Integrity, Kindness, Service.
How this is measured
16 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. 16 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 Washington and Lee University ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON SCHOOL FOR GIRLS ↗
- Who funds JOBS FOR VIRGINIA GRADUATES INC ↗
- Who funds ROANOKE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CHILD HEALTH INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIP DBA CHIP OF ROANOKE VALLEY ↗
- Who funds CAMP AGAPE VERMONT INC ↗
- Who funds Eckerd College ↗
- Who funds LAND SAVERS UNITED ↗
- Who funds Brunswick Family Assistance Agency Inc ↗
- Who funds LONG TRAIL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Renovation Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds THE MAMA ADA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Roanoke Area Ministries ↗
- Who funds PathForward Inc ↗
- Who funds BROOKWOOD SCHOOL 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation Serving Western Virginia · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Duckworth Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Duckworth Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Eckerd College: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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