How much did THE DUKE ENDOWMENT grant in FY2024?

Education$499MHealth$151MHuman Services$63MPhilanthropy$16MFood & Nutrition$5.5MEmployment$5.3MCrime & Legal$3.7MArts & Culture$3.5MCommunity Improvement$2.8MOther$354M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

school-based preventativepreventative treatmentmembership feefee humanitiesattend humanitiessummer residencymembers

2020

due covidcovid financialoffer short-termshort-term covidschool-based preventativepreventative treatmentimpacted coronavirus

2021

transition graduatinggraduating healthycarolinas mentorshipmentorship coalitionspandemicculturallycommemorate leadership

2022

healthy stepssteps guilfordpregnancylarge healthcare systemcolor fellowshiphealth supports

2023

testing summercoalitions southcommunicationsorderschool-based mentalsummer residenciesresidencies faculty

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 393 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k1 grant · $7k
$10k–50k12 grants · $343k
$50k–250k202 grants · $27M
$250k+178 grants · $180M

$213,000

Median grant

States reached

$5.0B

Total assets

Largest grants

DUKE UNIVERSITY$6,808,000
DUKE UNIVERSITY$6,750,000
DUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM$6,750,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA$5,000,000
DUKE UNIVERSITY$5,000,000
DAVIDSON COLLEGE$5,000,000
JOHNSON C SMITH UNIVERSITY$5,000,000
FURMAN UNIVERSITY$4,250,000
DUKE UNIVERSITY$3,500,000
FURMAN UNIVERSITY$3,000,000
DUKE UNIVERSITY$3,000,000
DAVIDSON COLLEGE$3,000,000
FURMAN UNIVERSITY$2,901,440
GET READY GUILFORD$2,590,815
CENTRAL CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$2,500,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $59.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16% — the area typically sits at 10%. 91% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 9% of THE DUKE ENDOWMENT’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 73% of the giving stays in NC; read by stated purpose it is 68% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

THE DUKE ENDOWMENTlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.0B · 290 repeat orgs$96M to everyone else

290 repeat relationships — 129 still active in FY2024, 161 since wound down; 50 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

290

220

Total granted

$1.0B

$75M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%

+44%

Still filing today

48%

35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyCrime & LegalReligionOther

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

Duke University
6× · 2019–2024 · $233M · revenue +11%
Davidson College
6× · 2019–2024 · $68M · revenue +4%
JC
Johnson C Smith University
6× · 2019–2024 · $60M · revenue +5% · 25% of their budget

Funded once

BM
BLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC
one grant, 2020 · $9.4M
DC
DAVIDSON COLLEGE
one grant, 2020 · $3.5M
BM
Blue Meridian
one grant, 2019 · $2.7M

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Carolina Family Health Centers Inc

Provide quality healthcare to the people of edgecombe, nash and wilson counties.

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Coastal Carolinas Health Alliance

Facilitate networking among hospitals

Health

Cumberland Medical Center

Cumberland Medical Center is a 189-bed full service, acute care hospital located in Crossville, TN. It is a member of the Covenant Health system.

Health

Conway Hospital Community Services

Provides health care services in conjunction with conway hospital, inc.

Health

Carolinas Center for Medical Excellence Found

Health

North Carolina Partnership for

Advance a high quality, comprehensive, accountable early childhood system that benefits each child in north carolina beginning with a healthy birth.

Education

Central Maine Healthcare Corporation

Central maine healthcare corporation supports its affiliated healthcare institutions in order for these entities to provide exceptional healthcare services.

Health

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic

Advancing health through research, education, clinical practice, and community partnerships; providing each person the best care in the right place, at the right time, every time.

Health

Advance Community Health Inc

Advance community health provides quality health care at eight locations to the residents of wake and franklin county, nc.

Health

Roane County Medical Center

Roane County Medical Center is a 54-bed full service, acute care hospital located in Harriman, TN. It is a member of the Covenant Health system.

Health

Unc Health Foundation Inc

The unc health foundation, inc. secures financial resources for the unc school of medicine and unc health to support the highest quality clinical care, life-changing research and innovative education.

Education

Granville Health Inc

To provide medical services to the community of granville county north carolina.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for Health Leadership and and the most unlike its peers is Start Early. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 36 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/261

the rest of the field

13%

6,816/52,919

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.

06the grantee network

247 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

246/247

Grantees still filing

195/247

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Education$499,401,813Other$363,813,254Health$151,456,429Human Services$63,427,912Philanthropy$15,822,237Food & Nutrition$5,500,000Employment$5,270,230

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.

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.

The Leon Levine FoundationNC71.6× affinity35 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Leon Levine Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · Dogwood Health Trust · North Carolina Community Foundation · Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina · Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Blue Cross and Blue Shield of NC Foundation · North Carolina Healthcare Foundation Inc · Central Carolina Community

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 organisation THE DUKE ENDOWMENT 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get no government money at all

1rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: GET READY GUILFORD.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~2 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 2 filed years.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

2 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 6.0× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 922360261 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on GET READY GUILFORD, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 2 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 98% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Duke Endowment?

Find your warmest path to The Duke Endowment through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE DUKE ENDOWMENT

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

247 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Duke Endowment?

More from the funding graph

THE DUKE ENDOWMENT

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

247 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Duke Endowment?

More from the funding graph