· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 48 grants below total $1,331,232 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,388,752 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $57,520 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k34 grants · $850k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $435k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Durham Nativity School | $60,000 |
| Durham Literacy Center | $60,000 |
| Lakewood School | $60,000 |
| Local Start Dental | $55,000 |
| Hill Learning Center | $50,000 |
| Leading Age Foundation - Hurricane Helene | $50,000 |
| Urban Ministries of Durham | $50,000 |
| Durham Tech Foundation | $50,000 |
| Cristo Rey Research Triangle | $47,500 |
| Meals on Wheels of Durham | $47,418 |
| North Carolina Symphony | $45,000 |
| Boys & Girls Club of Durham | $43,900 |
| Liberty Arts Inc | $40,000 |
| Exchange Family Center | $40,000 |
| Center for Child and Family Health | $40,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $407k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 33% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
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 +25% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
47 repeat relationships — 37 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $186k 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
DURHAM CENTER FOR SENIOR LIFE9× · 2017–2025 · $438k · revenue +58%
Urban Ministries of Durham Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $370k · revenue +65%
Meals on Wheels of Durham Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $325k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- TFTRUTH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $60k
- TMTHE MIRACLE LEAGUE OF THE TRIANGLEone grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +10%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $30k
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.
Help Durham residents love neighbors.
Provide relevant educational and entertaining opportunities within the region that exceed customer expectations, while preserving our community's vibrant cultural history.
Build strong communities by developing, managing, and advocating for permanent affordable housing that provides durham residents with low to moderate incomes a stable foundation for achieving economic security.
Durham central park is an exciting downtown destination that offers a venue for cultural activities and is part of a 24-hour, authentic, walkable, neighborhood for arts, recreation and locally owned businesses.
To create a community where all LGBTQ+ lived experiences are affirmed, supported, and celebrated.
To improve outcomes for students in the Durham community by providing programs focused on academic success, social-emotional well being, and leadership.
The research triangle regional partnership is an association of area economic development agencies dedicated to keeping the research triangle region economically strong by collectively marketing the region's competitive advantages and…
To promote real estate by providing ethical, professional services to its members and consumers seeking real estate information
Dcia organizes communities of diverse faiths to work for racial justice, social equity, and human dignity.
Our mission is to empower and equip first-generation college students in durham public schools, their families, and educators to become the leaders that will transform our city.
The primary mission of the durham museum foundation is solicitation, receipt and management of funds received through contributions, gifts, grants and other fundraising sources to support the durham museum.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Durham Library Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Raleigh Business and Professional Network. 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 35 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 6% 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.
60 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. 60 of the 70 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
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 DURHAM CENTER FOR SENIOR LIFE ↗
- Who funds Urban Ministries of Durham Inc ↗
- Who funds Meals on Wheels of Durham Inc ↗
- Who funds LOCAL START DENTAL INC ↗
- Who funds SENIOR PHARMASSIST INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DURHAM AND ORANGE COUNTIES ↗
- Who funds CASA ↗
- Who funds CARING HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Center for Child and Family Health Inc ↗
- Who funds LEADINGAGE NORTH CAROLINA ↗
- Who funds STEPUP DURHAM ↗
- Who funds The Exchange Clubs Child Abuse Prevention Center ↗
- Who funds DURHAM LITERACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DURHAM NATIVITY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Durham Colored Library Inc ↗
- Who funds DURHAM LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOUSING FOR NEW HOPE ↗
- Who funds DRESS FOR SUCCESS TRIANGLE NC ↗
- Who funds DURHAM TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF DURHAM HISTORY ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR DOCUMENTARY STUDIES ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE HILL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Carolina Theatre of Durham Inc ↗
- Who funds Community Health Coalition ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds CRISTO REY RESEARCH TRIANGLE CORPORATE WORK STUDY PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds THE NORTH CAROLINA HOMES FOR THE AGING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Lyons Farm Elementary PTA ↗
- Who funds TRIANGLE RADIO READING SERVICE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN DANCE FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds TRUTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE MIRACLE LEAGUE OF THE TRIANGLE ↗
- Who funds St Josephs Historic Foundation ↗
- Who funds TRIANGLE RESEARCH LIBRARIES NETWORK INC ↗
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: 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
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 Forest At Duke Inc 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.
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.