· Private foundation
The Duke Endowment
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $368k
- $50k–250k258 grants · $36M
- $250k+208 grants · $215M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $6,808,000 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $6,750,000 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM | $6,750,000 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $5,000,000 |
| DAVIDSON COLLEGE | $5,000,000 |
| JOHNSON C SMITH UNIVERSITY | $5,000,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA | $5,000,000 |
| FURMAN UNIVERSITY | $4,250,000 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $3,500,000 |
| DAVIDSON COLLEGE | $3,000,000 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $3,000,000 |
| DAVIDSON COLLEGE | $3,000,000 |
| FURMAN UNIVERSITY | $3,000,000 |
| FURMAN UNIVERSITY | $2,901,440 |
| GET READY GUILFORD | $2,590,815 |
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 (FY19–24, $68.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 13% 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, 74% of the giving stays in NC; read by stated purpose it is 67% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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.
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 +31% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
276 repeat relationships — 127 still active in FY2024, 149 since wound down; 44 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16M 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
DUKE UNIVERSITY6× · 2019–2024 · $317M · revenue +44%- FUFURMAN UNIVERSITY6× · 2019–2024 · $88M · revenue +27%
Davidson College6× · 2019–2024 · $73M · revenue +26%
Funded once
- BMBLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INCone grant, 2020 · $9.4M
- DCDAVIDSON COLLEGEone grant, 2020 · $3.5M
- IGIndividual grant recipientone 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.
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. provides accessible and affordable health care with excellence...where patients come FIRST
Facilitate networking among hospitals
Care share health alliance is a north carolina-based nonprofit organization advancing community health and wellbeing through systems change. guided by the mission of collaborating for health and a vision of communities that are healthy and…
Cumberland Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.
To foster and enhance quality, efficiency and access to health care services for patients in need of such services, particularly patient populations that are vulnerable and/or underserved.
Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.
Florida community health centers, inc. (fchc) is a federally qualified health center serving medically needy populations in south florida, with an emphasis on serving rural and farm worker communities.
To engage and inspire our community to support caromont health in providing compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.
Conway hospital community services provides outpatient health care services to horry county and the surrounding community in conjunction with conway hospital, inc., a non-profit acute care hospital system.
Roane County Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of a patient's ability to pay.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Carolina Healthcare Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Professional Renewal Initiative. 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 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.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
286 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. 286 of the 549 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FURMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Davidson College ↗
- Who funds JOHNSON C SMITH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds READY FOR SCHOOL READY FOR LIFE ↗
- Who funds GET READY GUILFORD ↗
- Who funds ATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds University of South Carolina Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds Children's Home Society of North Carolina Inc ↗
- Who funds MCLEOD HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S TRUST OF SOUTH CAROLINA ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR HEALTH LEADERSHIP AND INNOVATION ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Feeding the Carolinas ↗
- Who funds SCHA Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds MDRC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds Upstream USA Inc ↗
- Who funds Prisma Health-Upstate ↗
- Who funds Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System Foundation ↗
- Who funds Positive Childhood Alliance North Carolina ↗
- Who funds Roper St Francis Foundation ↗
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: The Leon Levine Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Dogwood Health Trust · Foundation for the Carolinas · North Carolina Community Foundation · North Carolina Healthcare Foundation Inc · Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina · BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina Foundation · Children's Trust of South Carolina · Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nc Foundation · Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc
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 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.
- Child Trends Inc — 50% of income from government
- Reach Out and Read Inc — 9% of income from government
- Upstream Usa Inc — 4% of income from government
- Shatterproof a Nonprofit Corporation — 2% of income from government
- Year Up 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.