· Private foundation
W Russell and Patricia Davis Duke Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k78 grants · $101k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $38k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $106k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Son Set Ministries | $105,500 |
| Young Life | $16,000 |
| Christ Hope Church | $12,200 |
| Children's Home Society of NC | $10,000 |
| Mt Airy Center | $9,000 |
| Baptist Childrens Homes of NC | $6,000 |
| Building Hope Community Life Center | $5,000 |
| Boys Girls Club of the Coastal Plai | $5,000 |
| KOJ Ministries | $5,000 |
| Fellowship of Christian Athletes | $5,000 |
| Community Foundation of NC East | $3,500 |
| Fellowship for Performing Arts | $3,500 |
| Heart for ENC | $3,000 |
| The Covenant School | $2,500 |
| Carolina Pregnancy Center | $2,500 |
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 (FY20–25, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +38% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
94 repeat relationships — 65 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 15 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- SSSON SET MINISTRIES INC6× · 2020–2025 · $341k · revenue +69%
- YLYOUNG LIFE6× · 2020–2025 · $81k · revenue +62%
- CHChildren's Home Society of North Carolina Inc4× · 2020–2025 · $34k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- KUKiwanis-Greenville University Cityone grant, 2023 · $3k
- IFInternational Foundationone grant, 2020 · $3k
- PCPITT COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INCone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue -35%
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.
Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.
Greensboro College provides a liberal arts education grounded in the traditions of the United Methodist Church and fosters the intellectual, social, and spiritual development of all students while supporting their individual needs.
Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…
North greenville university exists to glorify god by cultivating graduates who are equipped to serve as transformational leaders for church and society.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Carolina college of biblical studies exists to disciple christ-followers, through biblical higher education, for a lifetime of effective servant leadership.
The organization is a proactive, nonpartisan business advocacy organization. the organization works in the legislative, regulatory and political arenas to proactively drive positive change to ensure that north carolina is a leading place…
Erskine College exists to glorify God as a Christian academic community where students are equipped to flourish as whole persons for lives of service through the pursuit of undergraduate liberal arts and graduate theological education.
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
The north carolina bar association is organized for the purposes of promoting and improving the administration of justice in north carolina; fostering and encouraging law reform when in the public interest; advancing the science of…
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
Inspiring philanthropy and strengthening our region through innovative community initiatives and quality services to donors and constituents.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The International Foundation. 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 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1.0% 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.
85 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. 85 of the 162 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 SON SET MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds Children's Home Society of North Carolina Inc ↗
- Who funds Building Hope Community Life Center Inc ↗
- Who funds BAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOMES OF NORTH CAROLINA INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds The Greenville Community Shelters ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NC EAST INC ↗
- Who funds Third Street Education Center Inc ↗
- Who funds THE COVENANT SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Carolina Pregnancy Center Inc ↗
- Who funds ST DAVID'S SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds HEART FOR ENC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CHRISTIANITY AND SCHOLARSHIP ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds North Carolina Stop Human Trafficking Inc ↗
- Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MEREDITH COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CARENET COUNSELING EAST ↗
- Who funds Pitt Community College Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE GREATER BATH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STATE POLICY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP FOR PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds Bath High School Preservation Inc ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds THE JOHN LOCKE FOUNDATION 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: Eddie and Jo Allison Smith Family Foundation Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · James J & Mamie Richardson Perkins Memorial Fund - C/O Bank of America · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Mildred Sheffield Wells Char Trust · University Health Systems of Eastern Carolina Foundation Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · The Community Foundation of Nc East Inc · Southern Bank Foundation · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Tr Uw Vivian S West - West Memorial Fund · Bill & Agnes Monk Family Foundation
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 W Russell and Patricia Davis Duke Foundation 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.