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The Ducommun Foundation at a glance

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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.

$115k
Granted FY2022
8
Grants FY2022
8
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

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

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’20
5
’21
5
’22
4
’23
3
’24

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

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Philanthropy$887kHuman Services$178kHousing & Shelter$166kEducation$150kFood & Nutrition$140kHealth$114kPublic Safety & Disaster$65kInternational$60kOther$0
02FY2022 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$10,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$41k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$25,000
UNICEF USA$25,000
SW MO FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE$15,000
FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION$10,000
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL$10,000
WOUNDED WARRIORS FAMILY SUPPORT$10,000
HIRE HEROES USA$10,000
US VETERANS INITIATIVE$10,000
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AMERICAN BATTLE MONUMENTS FOUNDATIO: $20k → 8%Wounded Warriors Family Support: $25k → 12%Huntsville Kiwanis Foundation Inc: $13k → 17%Labette County Emergency Assistanc: $31k → 15%United Way St Croix Valley: $50k → 5%AMERICAN BATTLE MONUMENTS FOUNDATIO: $5k → 8%WOUNDED WARRIORS FAMILY SUPPORT: $10k → 12%Parsons Area Community Foundation: $21k → 15%Watered Gardens: $18k → 18%YMCA Of The Capital District: $13k → 14%The Bridges Foundation: $13k → 15%American National Red Cross: $25k → 14%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

WI
NY
MA
CA
NE
MO
VA
MD
KS
AR
DC
HI
OK
MS
GA
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.

15%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$190k · 6 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +10% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
30

Total granted

$190k
$998k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+10%

Still filing today

83%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesPhilanthropyEducationFood & NutritionInternationalHealthOther
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

  • HH
    HIRE HEROES USA INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $40k · revenue +140%
  • WW
    WOUNDED WARRIORS FAMILY SUPPORT INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $35k · revenue +14%
  • AB
    AMERICAN BATTLE MONUMENTS FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $25k · revenue +177%

Funded once

  • UW
    UNITED WAY INC
    one grant, 2020 · $240k · revenue -16%
  • NI
    NACME Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $75k
  • CF
    Community Foundation For The Fox Va
    one grant, 2020 · $71k
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
Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

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…

Food & Nutrition
2
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
3
The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri

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…

Food & Nutrition
4
Harvesters - the Community Food Network

Harvesters mobilizes the power of our community to create equitable access to nutritious food and address the root causes and impact of hunger.

Food & Nutrition
5
United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc

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.

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6
Wounded Veterans Relief Fund Inc

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.…

Human Services
7
Heart of Florida United Way Inc

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.

Philanthropy
8
United Way Worldwide

To improve lives by mobilizing caring power of communities around the world to advance common good.

Philanthropy
9
Operation Homefront Inc

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.

Community Improvement
10
Second Harvest Community Food Bank

Our mission is to provide nourishment and hope in northwest missouri and northeast kansas by engaging the region in the fight to end hunger.

—
11
Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma Inc

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.

Food & Nutrition
12
Bob Woodruff Family Foundation Inc

Find, fund, shape, and accelerate equitable solutions that help our impacted veterans, service members, their families, and their caregivers thrive.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way St Croix and Red Cedar Valleys Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

34 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/34
Grantees still filing
25/34
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ORANGE COUNTY'S UNITED WAY: $407,718 · PhilanthropyORANGE COUNTY'S UNITED WAYUNITED WAY INC: $240,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY INCTULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 · PhilanthropyTULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 · PhilanthropyCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONST CROIX VALLEY FOUNDATION: $33,750 · Philanthropy+4 more: $60,000 · Philanthropy+4 moreNACME Inc: $75,000 · OtherNACME IncCommunity Foundation For The Fox Va: $71,250 · OtherCommunity Foundation For The Fo…NORTHWEST ARKANSAS FOOD BANK: $61,250 · OtherNORTHWEST ARKANSAS FOOD BANKUnited Way of SW Missouri SE Kansas: $51,250 · OtherUnited Way of SW Missouri SE Ka…Los Angeles Urban League: $35,000 · OtherLos Angeles Urban LeagueMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $30,000 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITALRonald McDonald House Charities Of: $21,250 · OtherMERLIN FOUNDATION: $21,250 · OtherThe City Lights Foundation of OK: $21,250 · Other+12 more: $121,670 · Other+12 moreUNITED WAY ST CROIX AND RED CEDAR VALLEYS INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesUNITED WAY ST …WOUNDED WARRIORS FAMILY SUPPORT INC: $35,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIO…LABETTE COUNTY EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE CENTER INC: $30,625 · Human ServicesLABETTE COUNTY…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $25,000 · Human ServicesAmerican Natio…AMERICAN BATTLE MONUMENTS FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Human ServicesAMERICAN BATTL…PARSONS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $20,625 · Human ServicesPARSONS AREA C…WATERED GARDENS RESCUE MISSION: $18,330 · Human ServicesWATERED GARDEN…THE BRIDGES FOUNDATION: $12,500 · Human ServicesHUNTSVILLE KIWANIS FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 · Human ServicesTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE CAPITAL DISTRICT (4416): $12,500 · Human ServicesHIRE HEROES USA INC: $40,000 · EducationMERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION BERRYVILLE: $40,000 · EducationChildren of Fallen Patriots Foundation: $30,000 · EducationUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $45,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $25,000 · InternationalREGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC: $50,000 · Food & NutritionMAUI FOOD BANK INC: $10,000 · Food & NutritionLabette Health Foundation Inc: $10,000 · HealthPROUD ANIMAL LOVERS SHELTER INC: $5,000 · Animals
Philanthropy$841,468Other$509,170Human Services$242,080Education$110,000International$70,000Food & Nutrition$60,000Health$10,000Animals$5,000

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 budgetORANGE COUNTY'S UNITED WAY: $407,718 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetUNITED WAY INC: $240,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNORTHWEST ARKANSAS FOOD BANK: $61,250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetREGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY ST CROIX AND RED CEDAR VALLEYS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetTULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $45,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHIRE HEROES USA INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION BERRYVILLE: $40,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIORS FAMILY SUPPORT INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetST CROIX VALLEY FOUNDATION: $33,750 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLABETTE COUNTY EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE CENTER INC: $30,625 over 1y, 11% of budgetChildren of Fallen Patriots Foundation: $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYELLOW RIBBON FUND INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN BATTLE MONUMENTS FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetMERLIN FOUNDATION: $21,250 over 1y, 48% of budgetPARSONS AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $20,625 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetWATERED GARDENS RESCUE MISSION: $18,330 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BRIDGES FOUNDATION: $12,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHUNTSVILLE KIWANIS FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 over 1y, 22% of budgetUNITED WAY FOX CITIES INC: $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE CAPITAL DISTRICT (4416): $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOUR HEALTHY COMMUNITIES INC: $12,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGreater Kansas City Community Foundation: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLabette Health Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMAUI FOOD BANK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAUI UNITED WAY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% 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.

Arvest FoundationThe Ayco Charitable F…The Blackbaud Giving …Charities Aid Foundat…National Philanthropi…Network for GoodThe Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Arvest FoundationAR17.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Tulsa Community Foundation: 11% of income from government
  • Yellow Ribbon Fund Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Ducommun Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Ducommun Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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

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