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.

The Forest At Duke Inc

The Forest At Duke Inc at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· 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 FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

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States reached

$60k

Largest

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.

Education$1.7MHealth$1.3MArts & Culture$1.0MHuman Services$881kHousing & Shelter$814kYouth Development$359kFood & Nutrition$344kEmployment$324kOther$0

02FY2025 · 48 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 48 grants below total $1,331,232, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,388,752 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $57,520 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k6 grants · $46k
$10k–50k34 grants · $850k
$50k–250k8 grants · $435k

$25,000

Median grant

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States reached

$244M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Durham Literacy Center	$60,000
Durham Nativity School	$60,000
Lakewood School	$60,000
Local Start Dental	$55,000
Leading Age Foundation - Hurricane Helene	$50,000
Hill Learning Center	$50,000
Durham Tech Foundation	$50,000
Urban Ministries of Durham	$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
Center for Child and Family Health	$40,000
Liberty Arts Inc	$40,000
Exchange Family Center	$40,000

02The need

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 (FY17–23, $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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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.

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$6.7M · 47 repeat orgs$443k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against +5% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$6.7M

$257k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%

+5%

Still filing today

89%

71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $186k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesCrime & LegalFood & NutritionOther

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

DURHAM CENTER FOR SENIOR LIFE
9× · 2017–2025 · $438k · revenue +58%
Urban Ministries of Durham Inc
9× · 2017–2025 · $370k · revenue +65%
Meals on Wheels of Durham Inc
9× · 2017–2025 · $325k · revenue +4%

Funded once

TF
TRUTH FOUNDATION
one grant, 2023 · $60k
TM
THE MIRACLE LEAGUE OF THE TRIANGLE
one grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +10%
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2024 · $30k

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.

Durhamcares Inc

Help Durham residents love neighbors.

Philanthropy

The Durham Museum

Provide relevant educational and entertaining opportunities within the region that exceed customer expectations, while preserving our community's vibrant cultural history.

Arts & Culture

Durham Community Land Trustees Inc

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.

Housing & Shelter

Durham Central Park

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.

Community Improvement

Durham Home Inc

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The Lgbtq Center of Durham Inc

To create a community where all LGBTQ+ lived experiences are affirmed, supported, and celebrated.

Human Services

Durham Dreams Youth Mentorship Foundation

To improve outcomes for students in the Durham community by providing programs focused on academic success, social-emotional well being, and leadership.

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Research Triangle Regional Partnership

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…

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Durham Regional Association of Realtors Inc

To promote real estate by providing ethical, professional services to its members and consumers seeking real estate information

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Durham Congregations in Action

Dcia organizes communities of diverse faiths to work for racial justice, social equity, and human dignity.

Human Services

Student U

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.

Education

The Durham Museum Foundation Inc

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.

Philanthropy

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Durham Library Foundation; 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.

04the grantee network

60 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. 60 of the 70 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

58/60

Grantees still filing

41/60

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$2,832,946Health$1,173,178Education$1,117,300Human Services$655,568Arts & Culture$513,285Crime & Legal$421,533Housing & Shelter$399,000

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.

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.

Triangle Community Foundation IncNC76× affinity39 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home