North Carolina · Public charity
The Forest At Duke Inc
To provide a caring, responsible community that fosters the independence of residents of retirement age by enhancing their capability to lead purposeful, active, healthy and secure lives.
- $1.4M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 48
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 41
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $1.3M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $60,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 17 to 41
- FY2018 to FY2024
- Total assets, FY2025
- $244M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations The Forest At Duke Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $196k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 45 | $1.3M | 18% |
| FY2024 | 41 | $1.2M | 20% |
| FY2023 | 35 | $987k | 23% |
| FY2022 | 34 | $1.0M | 9% |
| FY2021 | 33 | $836k | 30% |
| FY2020 | 25 | $729k | 16% |
| FY2019 | 25 | $480k | 32% |
| FY2018 | 17 | $280k | 35% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Durham Public Schools | $452,970 | 8 | n/a |
| Durham Center for Senior Life | $437,500 | 9 | 8% |
| Urban Ministries of Durham Inc | $370,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Meals on Wheels of Durham Inc | $324,922 | 9 | 4% |
| Local Start Dental Inc | $295,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Senior Pharmassist Inc | $275,000 | 9 | 5% |
| Casa | $264,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Durham and Orange Counties | $264,000 | 9 | 7% |
| Caring House Inc | $260,478 | 9 | 3% |
| Center for Child and Family Health Inc | $213,500 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 67 grantees
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($40k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Forest At Duke Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 57 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Duke University · Duke University Health System Inc · Durham Merchants Association Charitable Foundation · The Mary Duke Biddle Foundation Missionpost Pmb #101 · Fox Family Foundation Inc · United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc · Aj Fletcher Foundation · The Leon Levine Foundation · Truist Foundation Inc · Fm Kirby Foundation Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas
How this is measured
About The Forest At Duke Inc
- How much does The Forest At Duke Inc give?
- The Forest At Duke Inc reported 48 itemized grants totaling $1,331,232, out of $1,388,752 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 41 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Forest At Duke Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (23%), Health (18%), Arts & Culture (14%).
- Who are The Forest At Duke Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Durham Public Schools ($453k), Durham Center for Senior Life ($438k), Urban Ministries of Durham Inc ($370k).
- Does The Forest At Duke Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Forest At Duke Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Triangle Community Foundation Inc, Duke University, Duke University Health System Inc.
- Where is The Forest At Duke Inc based?
- The Forest At Duke Inc is based in NC.
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