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W Russell and Patricia Davis Duke Foundation Inc at a glance

· 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.

$245k
Granted FY2025still arriving
82
Grants FY2025still arriving
13
States reached
$106k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Religion$662kYouth Development$155kHuman Services$78kEducation$63kCivil Rights$28kHealth$26kArts & Culture$24kPublic Benefit$23kOther$0
02FY2025 · 82 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k78 grants · $101k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $38k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $106k
$1,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$398k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Boys Girls Club of the Coastal Plai$5,000
KOJ Ministries$5,000
Building Hope Community Life Center$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
NC Family Policy Council$2,500
The Covenant School$2,500
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Wounded Warrior Project: $100 → 14%Family Research Council: $250 → 14%Family Research Council: $250 → 14%Family Research Council: $250 → 14%Family Policy Alliance: $200 → 9%Family Research Council: $200 → 14%Family Policy Alliance: $100 → 9%Family Research Council: $100 → 14%Tammy Lynn Memorial Foundation: $100 → 8%Tammy Lynn Memorial Foundation: $50 → 8%Pitt County Council on Aging: $2k → 20%CareNet Counseling East: $1k → 20%CareNet Counseling East: $1k → 20%CareNet Counseling East: $1k → 20%CareNet Counseling East: $700 → 20%CareNet Counseling East: $500 → 20%CareNet Counseling East: $500 → 20%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

MN
MI
NY
IN
PA
NJ
CA
CO
NE
MO
VA
MD
AZ
NC
DC
GA
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 94 repeat orgs$21k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

94
50

Total granted

$1.1M
$14k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
0%

Still filing today

59%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesReligionArts & CultureHealthPublic BenefitOther
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

  • SS
    SON SET MINISTRIES INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $341k · revenue +69%
  • YL
    YOUNG LIFE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $81k · revenue +62%
  • CH
    Children's Home Society of North Carolina Inc
    4× · 2020–2025 · $34k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • IF
    International Foundation
    one grant, 2020 · $3k
  • KU
    Kiwanis-Greenville University City
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
  • PC
    PITT COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC
    one grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue -35%
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.

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Greenville College

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.

Education
2
Greensboro College

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.

Education
3
Barton College

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…

Education
4
North Greenville University

North greenville university exists to glorify god by cultivating graduates who are equipped to serve as transformational leaders for church and society.

Education
5
Furman University

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.

Education
6
Carolina College of Biblical Studies

Carolina college of biblical studies exists to disciple christ-followers, through biblical higher education, for a lifetime of effective servant leadership.

Education
7
North Carolina Chamber

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…

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8
Erskine College and Theological Seminary

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.

Education
9
Saint Anselm College

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…

Education
10
North Carolina Bar Association

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…

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11
Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education
12
Foundation for the Carolinas

Inspiring philanthropy and strengthening our region through innovative community initiatives and quality services to donors and constituents.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

85 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. 85 of the 162 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)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
84/85
Grantees still filing
61/85
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHRIST HOPE CHURCH: $200,674 · OtherCHRIST HOPE CHURCHBoys Girls Club of the Coastal Plai: $40,000 · OtherBoys Girls Club of the Coastal PlaiKOJ Ministries: $28,500 · OtherKOJ MinistriesMT AIRY CENTER: $24,000 · OtherPrison Fellowship: $22,200 · OtherThe Greenville Community Shelters: $19,000 · Other+114 more: $188,613 · Other+114 moreSON SET MINISTRIES INC: $340,701 · ReligionSON SET MINISTRIES INCBAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOMES OF NORTH CAROLINA INCORPORATED: $19,000 · ReligionThird Street Education Center Inc: $14,400 · Religion+5 more: $26,835 · Religion+5 moreYOUNG LIFE: $81,200 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG LIF…FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $17,500 · Youth DevelopmentFELLOWSHI…+1 more: $350 · Youth DevelopmentChildren's Home Society of North Carolina Inc: $33,500 · Human ServicesBuilding Hope Community Life Center Inc: $27,000 · Human ServicesCARENET COUNSELING EAST: $4,800 · Human Services+6 more: $4,100 · Human ServicesST DAVID'S SCHOOL: $13,500 · EducationHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $8,000 · EducationWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $6,100 · EducationMEREDITH COLLEGE: $6,000 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITY: $1,500 · Education+7 more: $1,400 · EducationCarolina Pregnancy Center Inc: $14,100 · HealthNorth Carolina Stop Human Trafficking Inc: $6,200 · Health+5 more: $1,500 · HealthALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM: $8,500 · Civil RightsINSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $8,000 · Civil RightsSTATE POLICY NETWORK: $4,500 · Civil Rights
Other$522,987Religion$400,936Youth Development$99,050Human Services$69,400Education$36,500Health$21,800Civil Rights$21,000

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 budgetSON SET MINISTRIES INC: $340,701 over 6y, 15% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $81,200 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Home Society of North Carolina Inc: $33,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBuilding Hope Community Life Center Inc: $27,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetThe Greenville Community Shelters: $19,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetBAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOMES OF NORTH CAROLINA INCORPORATED: $19,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $17,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NC EAST INC: $16,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetThird Street Education Center Inc: $14,400 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetTHE COVENANT SCHOOL INC: $14,220 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCarolina Pregnancy Center Inc: $14,100 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetST DAVID'S SCHOOL: $13,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $13,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHEART FOR ENC: $12,200 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetCENTER FOR CHRISTIANITY AND SCHOLARSHIP: $9,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM: $8,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $8,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $8,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNorth Carolina Stop Human Trafficking Inc: $6,200 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $6,100 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMEREDITH COLLEGE: $6,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCARENET COUNSELING EAST: $4,800 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetPitt Community College Foundation Inc: $4,600 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFELLOWSHIP FOR PERFORMING ARTS INC: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GREATER BATH FOUNDATION: $4,500 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetSTATE POLICY NETWORK: $4,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBath High School Preservation Inc: $3,600 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $3,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JOHN LOCKE FOUNDATION INC: $3,200 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFARMVILLE COMMUNITY ARTS COUNCIL INC: $3,100 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetGREENVILLE MUSEUM OF ART INC: $3,050 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetPROJECT MERCY INC: $3,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetEast Carolina Study Center Inc: $2,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMOVING PICTURE INSTITUTE: $2,400 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Bible Study: $2,085 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPITT COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $1,900 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSOUND RIVERS INC: $1,625 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $1,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCOASTAL CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $1,050 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREENVILLE LEARNING CENTER: $700 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetOperation Sunshine Inc: $700 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetThe Historic Preservation Foundation of North Carolina Inc: $660 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HISTORIC BATH FOUNDATION INC: $600 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetJOURNEY RESOURCES: $600 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGUILFORD MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION INC: $550 over 2y, 0.1% 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.

  • 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 The Greenville Community Shelters ↗
  • Who funds BAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOMES OF NORTH CAROLINA INCORPORATED ↗
  • 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 FELLOWSHIP FOR PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE GREATER BATH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds STATE POLICY NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds Bath High School Preservation Inc ↗
  • Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
  • Who funds THE JOHN LOCKE FOUNDATION INC ↗

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.

Eddie and Jo Allison …North Carolina Commun…James J & Mamie Richa…The Cannon Foundation…Mildred Sheffield Wel…University Health Sys…Foundation for the Ca…The Community Foundat…Southern Bank Foundat…Triangle Community Fo…Tr Uw Vivian S West -…Bill & Agnes Monk Fam…
Eddie and Jo Allison Smith Family Foundation IncNC62.1× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 W Russell and Patricia Davis Duke Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from W Russell and Patricia Davis Duke Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get 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
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 162 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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