· Private foundation
The Duke Endowment
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 HEALTH SYSTEM | $6,750,000 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $6,750,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA | $5,000,000 |
| DAVIDSON COLLEGE | $5,000,000 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $5,000,000 |
| JOHNSON C SMITH UNIVERSITY | $5,000,000 |
| FURMAN UNIVERSITY | $4,250,000 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $3,500,000 |
| DAVIDSON COLLEGE | $3,000,000 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $3,000,000 |
| FURMAN UNIVERSITY | $3,000,000 |
| DAVIDSON COLLEGE | $3,000,000 |
| FURMAN UNIVERSITY | $2,901,440 |
| GET READY GUILFORD | $2,590,815 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $68.1M) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 13% of The Duke Endowment’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 74% of the giving stays in NC; by stated purpose, 67%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +19% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
286 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. 286 of the 549 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 Upstream USA Inc ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA 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 ↗
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Duke Endowment funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Duke Endowment. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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