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The Duke Endowment

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$251M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
480
Grants FY2024
180
Organizations funded FY2023
26%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$200,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$6,808,000
Organizations funded a year
180 to 222
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
14
Total assets, FY2024
$3.6B
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 26% of the organizations The Duke Endowment funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
HealthEducationHuman ServicesCrime & LegalArts & CultureReligionOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving171$243M26%
FY2023180$222M26%
FY2022199$212M26%
FY2021209$172M37%
FY2020222$170M47%
FY2019217$156Mn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$639MHealth$315MHuman Services$104MReligion$41MPhilanthropy$15MCrime & Legal$13MFood & Nutrition$11MEmployment$9.5MOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Duke University$316,546,45762%
Furman University$87,822,45568%
Davidson College$73,241,44569%
Johnson C Smith University$62,146,663625%
Duke University Health System Inc$43,831,87940%
Blue Meridian Partners Inc$29,175,15044%
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill$24,608,6596n/a
Medical University of South Carolina Foundation$22,643,65267%
Ready for School Ready for Life$19,256,731578%
Get Ready Guilford$14,056,631298%
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All grantees of The Duke Endowment by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Duke University$316,546,45762%
Furman University$87,822,45568%
Davidson College$73,241,44569%
Johnson C Smith University$62,146,663625%
Duke University Health System Inc$43,831,87940%
Blue Meridian Partners Inc$29,175,15044%
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill$24,608,6596n/a
Medical University of South Carolina Foundation$22,643,65267%
Ready for School Ready for Life$19,256,731578%
Get Ready Guilford$14,056,631298%
Atrium Health Foundation$13,894,89964%
University of South Carolina Educational Foundation$11,871,00066%
Children's Home Society of North Carolina Inc$9,665,974613%
McLeod Health Foundation$9,245,552622%
Children's Trust of South Carolina$9,148,210516%
North Carolina Healthcare Foundation Inc$8,300,000475%
Foundation for Health Leadership and Innovation$6,096,508653%
Feeding the Carolinas$5,500,000241%
SCHA Foundation Inc$5,360,000362%
Mdrc$5,270,23052%
Upstream USA Inc$5,000,00033%
Prisma Health-Upstate$4,929,00060%
Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System Foundation$4,913,000610%
Positive Childhood Alliance North Carolina$4,783,150648%
United Methodist Church and Its Affiliated Organizations North Car$3,750,6821n/a
Roper St Francis Foundation$3,650,000613%
Dee Norton Lowcountry Children's Center$3,517,000521%
The Conservation Fund a Nonprofit Corporation$3,495,00050%
Health Sciences South Carolina$3,460,00033%
North Carolina Institute of Medicine$3,367,0006n/a
Moses H Cone Memorial Hospital Operating Corporation$3,072,52240%
Child Welfare Innovation Inc$3,000,000220%
Welvista$3,000,00060%
MedAssist of Mecklenburg DBA NC Medassist$2,850,00061%
North Carolina Council of Churches$2,779,5505n/a
Rural Economic Development Center Inc$2,656,67757%
Wesley Community Development Corporation$2,580,200547%
South Carolina First Steps to School Readiness Board of Trustees$2,300,00032%
Cumberland County Hospital System Inc$2,250,00050%
Presbyterian Hospital Foundation$2,246,424111%
Conway Hospital Inc$2,160,00030%
Hinton Rural Life Center Inc$2,157,3415n/a
Epworth Children's Home$2,072,00039%
Rural Advancement Foundation Internation$2,060,500523%
Fletcher Hospital Inc$2,001,00050%
Community Medical Clinic of Kershaw$2,000,000614%
North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services$1,967,5151n/a
South Carolina Network of Children's Advocacy Centers$1,920,000539%
Benchmarks$1,810,958431%
Hope Restorations Inc$1,798,360567%
Guilford County Department of Health and Human Services$1,795,5833n/a
Blue Ridge Healthcare Foundation Inc$1,795,000681%
International African American Museum$1,750,000310%
Chapin Hall Center for Children$1,733,09462%
South Carolina Institute of Medicine and Public Health$1,710,000443%
Orthocarolina Research Institute Inc$1,640,000625%
Nc Child$1,612,200619%
The Anmed Health Foundation$1,600,000615%
El Futuro Inc$1,583,400615%
Catawba Medical Foundation Inc$1,580,000440%
Wake Forest University Health Sciences$1,553,00010%
Self Regional Healthcare$1,550,0004n/a
Thompson Child & Family Focus Inc$1,528,39352%
Institute for Child Success Inc$1,509,946510%
Caromont Health$1,500,00052%
Family Connects International$1,500,000332%
Albemarle Hospital Foundation$1,400,000640%
Year Up Inc$1,350,00030%
Family Focused Treatment Association$1,293,510328%
Generationed$1,262,50023%
Western Carolina Medical Society Foundation Inc$1,250,000519%
Firsthealth of the Carolinas Inc$1,250,00040%
North Carolina Community Action Association$1,228,500219%
Interfaith America$1,200,000112%
Curanopy Inc$1,168,000489%
Prisma Health-Midlands$1,157,68140%
Zero to Three National Center for Infants Toddlers and Families$1,154,42251%
Self Regional Healthcare Foundation$1,149,000241%
Baptist Children's Homes of North Carolina Incorporated$1,125,00031%
Crossnore Communities for Children$1,124,00041%
American Academy of Pediatrics$1,120,00030%
South Carolina Department of Mental Health$1,100,0003n/a
South Carolina Youth Advocate Program Inc$1,091,43632%
The Lynnwood Foundation$1,060,000315%
Lexington Medical Center Foundation Inc D/B/A Lexington Health Foundation$1,055,00048%
Amy Wellness Foundation$1,050,000132%
Partners in Ministry$1,030,000514%
Wine to Water$1,000,000114%
Youth Villages Inc$1,000,00030%
Johnston Memorial Hospital Foundation Inc$974,000437%
Thornwell$969,84553%
Chatham Hospital Inc$949,00031%
Southmountain Children and Family Services$900,00027%
Center for Child and Family Health Inc$880,00027%
Family Centered Treatment Foundation Inc$877,000246%
Johnston Health Services Corporation$877,0003n/a
Forsyth Medical Center Foundation$849,64817%
US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants Inc$800,21830%
Rapid Resource for Families Inc$779,000319%
Wrmc Hospital Operating Corporation$750,00011%
Educationnc$725,000610%
York County Council on Alcohol and Drug Abuse Inc$715,00045%
The Moses H Cone Memorial Hospital$661,79211%
Boys & Girls Homes of Nc Inc$653,69832%
Public Religion Research Institute Inc$650,00027%
Northside Development Corporation$650,00048%
First United Methodisst Church$650,0003n/a
High Country Community Health Inc$650,00032%
Fact Forward$645,00028%
Communities in Schools of North Carolina Inc$609,147111%
A Child's Haven Inc$600,00039%
WNC Health Network Inc$580,000234%
Exchange Club Center for the Prevention of Child Abuse of North Carolina Inc$578,25039%
Healthy Learners$550,000315%
Fractured Atlas Inc$543,03221%
New Morning$500,00017%
United Way of Greenville County Inc$500,00014%
Justicematters Inc$500,000129%
Legal Aid of North Carolina Inc$500,00011%
Granville Health System$500,0003n/a
Fairfield Behavioral Health Service$500,000415%
J Arthur Dosher Memorial Hospital$500,0004n/a
Hugh Chatham Memorial Hospital Inc$500,00010%
Triangle Residential Options for Substance Abusers Inc$500,00021%
Pamlico Partnership for Children Inc$495,000440%
Robeson County Church and Community Center$478,500424%
Tri-County Cradle to Career Collaborative$475,000149%
Granville-Vance Public Health$450,0003n/a
Carolina Caring Inc$450,00021%
Pisgah Legal Services$448,00012%
Lucy Daniels Center for Early Childhood$444,00039%
Scotland Memorial Hospital Inc$442,00030%
Landmarks for Families Inc$435,60035%
Charlotte Community Health Clinic Inc$430,00026%
Council for Childrens Rights Inc$425,00046%
Doors to Freedom$423,000218%
Harnett Health System Inc$418,00040%
The Relatives Inc$400,00062%
Mountain Area Health Education Center Inc$400,00020%
Piedmont Health Services Inc$400,00020%
Kinston Community Health Center Inc$400,00023%
MemoryCare Inc$400,000210%
Caresouth Carolina Inc$400,00021%
Greene County Health Care Incorporated$400,00021%
Mountain Community Health Partnership Inc$400,00022%
Greenville County First Steps to School Readiness Partnership$400,000120%
Eastern Area Health Education Center Inc$380,00015%
International Center for Clubhouse Development Inc$365,00029%
Southeastern Regional Medical Center$350,00030%
Prisma Health$350,00010%
Bon Secours St Francis Health System Inc$350,00032%
Student Action With Farmworkers$350,000412%
Greenville Health Authority$335,0001n/a
Nurse-Family Partnership$327,22511%
American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences$323,60020%
Partners for Sacred Places Inc$322,236113%
The Carolinas Center for Hospice and End of Life Care$321,800157%
Families First-Nc Inc$313,000320%
Palmetto Association for Children and Families$313,000333%
Reach Out and Read Inc$300,43821%
ChildSmiles Dental Inc$300,000290%
Tamassee DAR School Inc$300,00028%
Wilmington Area Rebuilding Ministry Inc$300,00035%
National Society to Prevent Blind-$300,00028%
Appalachian Mountain Community Health Centers$300,00021%
Pardee Memorial Hospital Foundation Inc$300,00027%
The Society of St Andrew Inc$300,00021%
Regional Medical Center of Orangeburg and Calhoun Counties$300,0002n/a
Catawba Valley Medical Center$300,0002n/a
Boone United Methodist Church$297,0005n/a
Youth Empowered Solutions (Yes)$290,000239%
Charles a Cannon Jr Memorial Hospital Inc$290,00030%
Triangle Family Services Inc$290,00043%
St Lukes Hospital$265,00020%
Communities in Schools of South Carolina$260,00017%
NeighborHealth Center Inc$255,75014%
United Way of Greater Greensboro Inc$250,00012%
Little River Medical Center Inc$250,00011%
Gaston Memorial Hospital Inc$250,00010%
Caldwell Memorial Hospital Inc$250,00010%
Cabarrus Health Alliance$250,0001n/a
Rural Health Services Inc$250,00021%
Boone Area Chamber of Commerce$250,000137%
Gaston Family Health Services Inc$250,00011%
Union Grove United Methodist Church$244,0004n/a
Pats Place Child Advocacy Center$241,00026%
Children and Family Futures Inc$231,98222%
Impact America$225,50027%
Shatterproof a Nonprofit Corporation$225,00021%
Child Trends Inc$223,98211%
Oxford United Methodist Church$223,5004n/a
New Foundations Home for Children$222,00032%
University of South Carolina Upstate Foundation$219,93829%
Kay Phillips Child Advocacy Center Inc$219,33334%
West Nash United Methodist Church$218,0005n/a
Wayne Memorial Hospital Inc$213,00010%
Carteret County General Hospital Foundation$210,00025%
Red Oak United Methodist Church$202,0005n/a
Rowan Regional Medical Center Foundation Inc$200,00013%
Bellwether Education Partners Inc$200,00011%
Bipartisan Policy Center Inc$200,00011%
Connie Maxwell Children's Ministries$200,00021%
Philanthropy Southeast Inc$200,00052%
Child Medical Collaborative Inc$200,000219%
Healthconnect One$200,00013%
Renaissance West Community Initiative$200,00019%
Sharon United Methodist Church$200,0001n/a
El Pueblo Inc$200,000111%
Lutheran Family Services in the Carolinas$200,00020%
Fuller Theological Seminary$200,00020%
Peletah Ministries$200,0001n/a
Ashe Memorial Hospital Inc$195,00010%
Children's Place Inc$190,00014%
Pitt County Memorial Hospital Inc$182,00010%
Wilkesboro United Methodist Church$179,5003n/a
Blue Ridge Partnership for Children$176,000111%
Wilson County Health Department$175,0001n/a
County of Wayne$175,0001n/a
The Center for Rural Health Innovation$175,000151%
Frameworks Institute$174,90012%
The Methodist Home for Children Inc$165,00011%
Professional Renewal Initiative$163,400394%
Blue Ridge Community Health Services Inc$161,00010%
The Center for Rural Strategies Inc$160,00016%
Eliada Foundation Inc$160,0001n/a
Fairview United Methodist Church$156,0003n/a
United Way of Greater High Point Inc$150,00013%
House of Hope of the Pee Dee Inc$150,00025%
Southeastern Regional Medical Center Inc$150,0001n/a
Greenlight Fund Inc$150,00030%
Barnwell County Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse$150,00019%
Candid$150,00020%
Shift Education$150,00016%
Safe Alliance Inc$150,00022%
Rural Health Group Inc$150,00010%
HopeWay Foundation$150,00020%
The National Mentoring Partnership Inc$150,00011%
St Francis Hospital Inc$150,00010%
West End United Methodist Church$150,0001n/a
Upper Midlands Rural Health Network$150,000133%
Rootedgood$150,000122%
Helping and Lending Outreach Support$141,03618%
Lenoir Memorial Hospital Inc$140,00020%
Boundless Impact$140,000427%
Hospice of Wake County Inc$140,00010%
Hospice of Henderson County Inc$135,00010%
Cedar Grove United Methodist Church$135,0003n/a
Childrens Homes of Cleveland County Inc$133,07525%
Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Charlotte$130,00010%
Brunswick Novant Medical Center Foundation$130,00014%
Coalition for Evidence-Based Policy Inc$125,000154%
Gha Autism Supports$125,00020%
Black Mountain Home for Children Youth and Families Inc$125,00012%
Nc Counts Coalition$125,00013%
Carolina Farm Stewardship Association$122,26612%
Campbell University$120,00020%
Hopeful Horizons$120,00013%
Hope Center for Children$120,00013%
SC Office of Rural Health Inc$120,00012%
The Dougy Center Inc$117,00013%
Imprints Cares$116,00021%
Present Age Ministries Inc$115,000118%
Ashe Memorial Hospital Foundation Inc$115,000148%
Health Education Foundation of Eastern N$110,00014%
South Carolina Network$109,0001n/a
James B Hunt Jr Institute for Educational Leadership & Policy Fdn$105,00012%
Safechild$100,00012%
East Carolina Health$100,0001n/a
Adults Working & Advocating for Kids Empowerment Inc$100,000113%
Hospice of the Blue Ridge Inc$100,00011%
Center for Assessment and Policy Development$99,700139%
Eliada Homes Inc$90,00011%
Vision to Learn$80,00020%
Together Sc$80,00024%
North Carolina State University Foundation Inc$75,00010%
The Corral Riding Academy$75,00015%
Museum of Durham History$75,00018%
Cross Connection Inc$65,00017%
Immersion for Spanish Language Acq$60,587112%
Blue Ridge Mountains Health Project Inc$57,500113%
The Colossian Forum$55,43517%
Beaufort Memorial Hospital Foundation$55,00011%
Johnson Service Corps$50,000115%
New Voice Strategies Nfp$50,000121%
Ocracoke United Methodist Church$50,0001n/a
College of Charleston Foundation$50,00010%
West Jefferson United Methodist Church$50,0001n/a
Cross and Key Prison Ministries$50,0001n/a
The Center for Evaluation Innovation Inc$50,00012%
Carolinas Medical Center-Northeast$50,0001n/a
Appalachian Community Capital Development Foundation$50,00011%
Indiana University School of Medicine$50,0001n/a
Circle De Luz Inc$48,500140%
Carolinaeast Foundation$48,00013%
University of North Carolina at Charlotte Institute for Social Capital$45,000171%
United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc$45,00030%
Children & Family Resource Center of Henderson County Inc$43,00023%
Care Ring Inc$40,00011%
North Carolina Alliance for Health$40,00012%
Soteria Community Development Corporation$37,50013%
South Carolina Cancer Alliance$34,000110%
Child Advocacy Center of Aiken County$34,00025%
Yadkinville United Methodist Church Inc$30,0001n/a
Grantmakers for Effective Organizations$25,00010%
Trail of History Inc$25,00018%
Third Sector Capital Partners Inc$25,00010%
Children's Advocacy Centers of North Carolina Inc$23,00011%
Young Womens Christian Association of the Central Carolinas Inc$20,00010%
Claflin University$20,00010%
Cleveland County Family YMCA Inc$20,00010%
Filmnorth$15,00011%
Hospitality House of Charlotte$15,00011%
Nc State University$12,3921n/a
Start Early$5,00010%
Charmeck Family Justice Center Inc co Safe Alliance$5,00010%
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research$5,00010%
The Center for Effective Philanthropy Inc$5,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 224 recipients with no EIN on record ($197M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Duke Endowment supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 42 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDuke University: $316,546,457 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetFurman University: $87,822,455 over 6y, 8.1% of budgetDavidson College: $73,241,445 over 6y, 9.1% of budgetJohnson C Smith University: $62,146,663 over 6y, 25% of budgetDuke University Health System Inc: $43,831,879 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetBlue Meridian Partners Inc: $29,175,150 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetMedical University of South Carolina Foundation: $22,643,652 over 6y, 6.8% of budgetReady for School Ready for Life: $19,256,731 over 5y, 78% of budgetGet Ready Guilford: $14,056,631 over 2y, 98% of budgetAtrium Health Foundation: $13,894,899 over 6y, 3.7% of budgetUniversity of South Carolina Educational Foundation: $11,871,000 over 6y, 5.8% of budgetChildren's Home Society of North Carolina Inc: $9,665,974 over 6y, 13% of budgetMcLeod Health Foundation: $9,245,552 over 6y, 22% of budgetChildren's Trust of South Carolina: $9,148,210 over 5y, 16% of budgetNorth Carolina Healthcare Foundation Inc: $8,300,000 over 4y, 75% of budgetFoundation for Health Leadership and Innovation: $6,096,508 over 6y, 53% of budgetFeeding the Carolinas: $5,500,000 over 2y, 41% of budgetSCHA Foundation Inc: $5,360,000 over 3y, 62% of budgetMdrc: $5,270,230 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetUpstream USA Inc: $5,000,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetPrisma Health-Upstate: $4,929,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSpartanburg Regional Healthcare System Foundation: $4,913,000 over 6y, 10% of budgetPositive Childhood Alliance North Carolina: $4,783,150 over 6y, 48% of budgetRoper St Francis Foundation: $3,650,000 over 6y, 13% of budgetDee Norton Lowcountry Children's Center: $3,517,000 over 5y, 21% of budgetThe Conservation Fund a Nonprofit Corporation: $3,495,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetHealth Sciences South Carolina: $3,460,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetMoses H Cone Memorial Hospital Operating Corporation: $3,072,522 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetChild Welfare Innovation Inc: $3,000,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetWelvista: $3,000,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetMedAssist of Mecklenburg DBA NC Medassist: $2,850,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetRural Economic Development Center Inc: $2,656,677 over 5y, 7.3% of budgetWesley Community Development Corporation: $2,580,200 over 5y, 47% of budgetSouth Carolina First Steps to School Readiness Board of Trustees: $2,300,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetCumberland County Hospital System Inc: $2,250,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPresbyterian Hospital Foundation: $2,246,424 over 1y, 11% of budgetConway Hospital Inc: $2,160,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetEpworth Children's Home: $2,072,000 over 3y, 8.9% of budgetRural Advancement Foundation Internation: $2,060,500 over 5y, 23% of budgetFletcher Hospital Inc: $2,001,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCommunity Medical Clinic of Kershaw: $2,000,000 over 6y, 14% of budgetSouth Carolina Network of Children's Advocacy Centers: $1,920,000 over 5y, 39% of budgetBenchmarks: $1,810,958 over 4y, 31% of budgetHope Restorations Inc: $1,798,360 over 5y, 67% of budgetBlue Ridge Healthcare Foundation Inc: $1,795,000 over 6y, 81% of budgetInternational African American Museum: $1,750,000 over 3y, 9.6% of budgetChapin Hall Center for Children: $1,733,094 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetSouth Carolina Institute of Medicine and Public Health: $1,710,000 over 4y, 43% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 200.

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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.

The Leon Levine FoundationNC111.7× affinity62 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 · 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

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.

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About The Duke Endowment

How much does The Duke Endowment give?
The Duke Endowment reported 480 grants totaling $251,218,558 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 180 and 222 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does The Duke Endowment fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (54%), Health (26%), Human Services (9%).
Who are The Duke Endowment's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Duke University ($317M), Furman University ($88M), Davidson College ($73M).
Does The Duke Endowment fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Duke Endowment accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Duke Endowment?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Leon Levine Foundation, The Cannon Foundation Inc, Dogwood Health Trust.
Where is The Duke Endowment based?
The Duke Endowment is based in NC.

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 549 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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