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The Durden Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$2.7MPublic Benefit$1.8MCivil Rights$150kHuman Services$135kEducation$45kAnimals$34kCrime & Legal$21kPublic Safety & Disaster$19kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
  • $250k+2 grants · $900k
$400,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$3k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JAMES MADISON INSTITUTE$500,000
PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION$400,000
MOFFITT CANCER CENTER$100,000
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 (FY17–22, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%GREEN BERET FOUNDATION: $3k → 16%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS: $1k → 10%PAWS 4 LIBERTY: $3k → 11%GREEN BERET FOUNDATION: $3k → 16%PAWS 4 LIBERTY: $1k → 11%GREEN BERET FOUNDATION: $1k → 16%PAWS 4 LIBERTY: $1k → 11%BEACH CARE SERVICES INC: $3k → 12%BEACH CARE SERVICES INC: $3k → 12%ANCHORAGE CHILDREN'S HOME: $25k → 12%ANCHORAGE CHILDREN'S HOME: $15k → 12%ANCHORAGE CHILDREN'S HOME: $3k → 12%ANCHORAGE CHILDREN'S HOME: $3k → 12%ANCHORAGE CHILDREN'S HOME: $3k → 12%RACHALS RECOVERY RELIEF INC: $5k → 12%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
IA
PA
NJ
CA
VA
MD
AZ
KS
DC
AL
TX
FL
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.7M · 38 repeat orgs$195k to everyone else

38 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 36 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
28

Total granted

$4.7M
$95k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+32%

Still filing today

66%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentAnimalsReligionOther
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

  • PC
    PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $2.5M · revenue +57%
  • TJ
    THE JAMES MADISON INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +104%
  • AC
    ANCHORAGE CHILDREN'S HOME OF BAY COUNTY INC
    5× · 2017–2022 · $48k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • LW
    LITTLE WARRIOR FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +33%
  • TF
    TGEN FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
  • CS
    CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES OF DOTHAN
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
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
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Tampa Bay Florida Inc

Spca tampa bay is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that operates pinellas county's only nonprofit for-all animal shelter assisting all animals in need, regardless of species or circumstance, at its 10-acre campus in largo. (continued on…

Animals
2
K9 Hurricane's Heroes Inc

K9 hurricane's heroes, a federally recognized, non-profit organization, provides "retired law enforcement and military dogs" with subsidized veterinary care so they can live a long and healthy life. often these incredible dogs are the…

Animals
3
Florida Pointer Rescue Inc

Rescue pointer dogs and treat back to health and f

Animals
4
Dogs for Life Inc

The corporation's mission is to improve the quality of life for people and dogs through training assistance dogs, pet therapy dogs, and owning and operating an off-leash dog park. the corporation also assists with enhancing the quality of…

Animals
5
Mote Marine Laboratory Inc

The advancement of marine and environmental sciences through scientific research, education and public outreach, leading new discoveries, revitalization and sustainability of our oceans and greater public understanding of our marine…

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6
Northcoast Marine Mammal Center

The northcoast marine mammal centers (nmmc) mission is to promote the long-term health of marine mammals along approximately two hundred miles of remote coastline in humboldt and del norte counties in northern california. the nmmc does…

Animals
7
Clinic for the Rehabilitation of Wildlife Inc

The clinic for the rehabilitation of wildlife is a teaching hospital and visitor center dedicated to the saving of wildlife through state-of-the-art veterinary care, research, education, and conservation medicine.

Animals
8
Disabled American Veterans Department of Florida Inc

To uphold and maintain the constitution and the laws to the united states; to realize the true american ideals and aims for which those eligible to membership fought; to advance the interests and work for the betterment of all wounded,…

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9
Quick Reaction Foundation

Quick reaction foundation (qrf) is a non-profit organization founded by veterans to provide rapid response to the developing needs of elite operators and their families from within select u.s. special operations command ("ussocom") teams.…

Public Benefit
10
Warrior Canine Connection Inc

Support recovering combat veterans & their families utilizing service dog training/placement.

Human Services
11
Sacred Heart Foundation Inc

Rooted in the loving ministry of jesus as healer, we commit ourselves to serving all persons with special attention to those who are poor and vulnerable. our catholic health ministry is dedicated to spiritually-center, holistic care which…

Health
12
Biscayne Bay Waterkeeper Inc

In 2024, biscayne bay waterkeeper (d/b/a miami waterkeeper) built on our reputation by navigating challenges, seizing opportunities, and continuing our unwavering commitment to safeguarding our precious waterways and finding local…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Green Beret Foundation; the most unlike its peers is League to Save Lake Tahoe. 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

42 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. 42 of the 68 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/42
Grantees still filing
26/42
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $2,500,000 · PhilanthropyPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION+2 more: $12,500 · PhilanthropyTHE JAMES MADISON INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES INC: $1,750,000 · OtherTHE JAMES MADISON INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY S…MOFFITT CANCER CENTER: $100,000 · Other+43 more: $228,300 · Other+43 moreSTATE POLICY NETWORK: $150,000 · Civil RightsTHE HUNTSVILLE HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONINC: $50,000 · HealthST ANDREW COMMUNITY MEDICAL CENTER INC: $12,500 · HealthMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC: $9,500 · Health+3 more: $7,500 · HealthANCHORAGE CHILDREN'S HOME OF BAY COUNTY INC: $47,500 · Human ServicesGREEN BERET FOUNDATION: $6,000 · Human ServicesBEACH CARE SERVICES INC: $5,500 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $5,000 · Human ServicesRACHAL'S RECOVERY RELIEF INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesPAWS 4 LIBERTY INC: $4,500 · Human Services+1 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesBAY LAW ENFORCEMENT ASSISTANCE FOUN: $10,500 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS INCORPORATED OF BAY COUNTY: $7,000 · Youth DevelopmentFlorida Sheriffs Youth Ranches Inc: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentSt Andrew Christian Care Center Inc: $15,000 · ReligionLEAGUE TO SAVE LAKE TAHOE: $5,000 · Religion
Philanthropy$2,512,500Other$2,078,300Civil Rights$150,000Health$79,500Human Services$79,500Youth Development$22,500Religion$20,000

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 budgetPROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION: $2,500,000 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetTHE JAMES MADISON INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES INC: $1,750,000 over 9y, 12% of budgetSTATE POLICY NETWORK: $150,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE HUNTSVILLE HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONINC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetANCHORAGE CHILDREN'S HOME OF BAY COUNTY INC: $47,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetWARRIOR BEACH RETREAT INC: $17,500 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetSt Andrew Christian Care Center Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetST ANDREW COMMUNITY MEDICAL CENTER INC: $12,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPanama City Rescue Mission Inc: $12,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetBAY LAW ENFORCEMENT ASSISTANCE FOUN: $10,500 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetLITTLE WARRIOR FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE SEASIDE SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetALAQUA ANIMAL REFUGE INC: $10,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPATRONIS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTA: $9,500 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC: $9,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD4KIDZ INC: $7,500 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetPANAMA CITY MUSIC ASSOCIATION INC: $7,000 over 3y, 21% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF BAY COUNTY: $7,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetLUCKY PUPPY DOG RESCUE & KENNEL INC: $6,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetGREEN BERET FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBEACH CARE SERVICES INC: $5,500 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFlorida Sheriffs Youth Ranches Inc: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRACHAL'S RECOVERY RELIEF INC: $5,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetGULF COAST CHARITY CELEBRATION ASSOCIATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetLEAGUE TO SAVE LAKE TAHOE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAWS 4 LIBERTY INC: $4,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTHOMAS DRIVE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $3,500 over 2y, 20% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS FLORIDA Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetK9S FOR WARRIORS INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSpikes K9 Fund: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSNEAKERS FOR SOLDIERS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE TRANSLATIONAL GENOMICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIFE RAFT GROUP INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSoutheastern Guide Dogs Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

The St Joe Community …Isaac W Byrd Family F…Community Service Fou…Mack and Eleanor Lewi…United Way of Northwe…Gulf Power Foundation…Publix Super Markets …Ge Aerospace Foundati…Edward Jones Foundati…The Blackbaud Giving …Charities Aid Foundat…Paypal Charitable Giv…
The St Joe Community Foundation IncFL32.3× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The St Joe Community Foundation Inc · Isaac W Byrd Family Foundation Inc · Community Service Foundation of Bay County Inc · Mack and Eleanor Lewis Family Foundation Inc · United Way of Northwest Florida Inc · Gulf Power Foundationinc · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 140%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Anchorage Children's Home of Bay County Inc: 14% of income from government
  • Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • K9S for Warriors Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
14get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.

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 68 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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