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The Ducommun Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
68% of The Ducommun Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Orange County'S United Way, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 3 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year The Ducommun Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $115k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $25,000 |
| UNICEF USA | $25,000 |
| SW MO FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE | $15,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| WOUNDED WARRIORS FAMILY SUPPORT | $10,000 |
| US VETERANS INITIATIVE | $10,000 |
| HIRE HEROES USA | $10,000 |
| FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $242k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 69% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2022, 1 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- HHHIRE HEROES USA INC2× · 2021–2022 · $40k · revenue +140%
- WWWOUNDED WARRIORS FAMILY SUPPORT INC2× · 2021–2022 · $35k · revenue +14%
- ABAMERICAN BATTLE MONUMENTS FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $25k · revenue +177%
Funded once
- UWUNITED WAY INCone grant, 2020 · $240k · revenue -16%
- NINACME Incone grant, 2020 · $75k
- CFCommunity Foundation For The Fox Vaone grant, 2020 · $71k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…
Harvesters mobilizes the power of our community to create equitable access to nutritious food and address the root causes and impact of hunger.
United way of greater kansas city assembles the best available resources to provide the farthest-reaching network of support for those in need in our community.
Wounded veterans relief fund (wvrf), founded in 2009, is a veteran-led 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization. our mission is to provide urgent financial assistance and critical dental care to florida's eligible wounded and disabled veterans.…
The mission of heart of florida united way is to improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of our communities. this is accomplished by standing up for the health, education, and financial stability of every person in central florida.
To improve lives by mobilizing caring power of communities around the world to advance common good.
Build strong, stable, and secure military families so they can thrive - not simply struggle to get by - in the communities they've worked so hard to protect.
Our mission is to provide nourishment and hope in northwest missouri and northeast kansas by engaging the region in the fight to end hunger.
The mission of the regional food bank of oklahoma is to lead a network that provides nutritious food and pathways to self-sufficiency for people facing hunger. our vision is an oklahoma where no one goes hungry.
Find, fund, shape, and accelerate equitable solutions that help our impacted veterans, service members, their families, and their caregivers thrive.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way St Croix and Red Cedar Valleys Inc and the most unlike its peers is Huntington Beach Post 133 Department of California the American Legion. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
34 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 34 of the 49 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds ORANGE COUNTY'S UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds TULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY ST CROIX AND RED CEDAR VALLEYS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds HIRE HEROES USA INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION BERRYVILLE ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIORS FAMILY SUPPORT INC ↗
- Who funds ST CROIX VALLEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LABETTE COUNTY EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Children of Fallen Patriots Foundation ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN BATTLE MONUMENTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YELLOW RIBBON FUND INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds MERLIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PARSONS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WATERED GARDENS RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE CAPITAL DISTRICT (4416) ↗
- Who funds OUR HEALTHY COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY FOX CITIES INC ↗
- Who funds Greater Kansas City Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds HUNTSVILLE KIWANIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE BRIDGES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MAUI UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds MAUI FOOD BANK INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Arvest Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Ducommun Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Tulsa Community Foundation — 11% of income from government
- Yellow Ribbon Fund Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.