North Carolina · Nonprofit
DUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC
DUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 131 organizations whose IRS filings report $74,570,685 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND ($24,006,490). 55 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
DUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 877 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 877 health nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Alexs Lemonade Stand Foundationshared funders
- Neurosurgery Research and Education Foundationportfolio match
- The Foundation for Surgical Fellowshipsportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 2% · 2021 2% · 2022 1% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of DUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (1% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 21 funders to 43 funders, grant income rose $5.1M → $5.4M.
27 of 131 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $4.2B from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Gothic Hsp Corporation). These are real filings, and they are not money DUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC raised.
From the IRS filings of DUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 131 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
DUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
90% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund DUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 68% · 2018 61% · 2019 56% · 2020 33% · 2021 41% · 2022 35% · 2023 34% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
26% of DUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
64% of DUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $27M that is directly attributable, 83% of it comes from funders outside North Carolina, across 29 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $48M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 statesis excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 131 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Alexs Lemonade Stand Foundationshared fundersPA · backs 109 organizations that share your funders
- Neurosurgery Research and Education Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Foundation for Surgical Fellowshipsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lewy Body Dementia Association Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Teen Cancer America Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Huntington's Disease Society of America Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicineportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Blood Cancer United Incshared fundersDC · backs 94 organizations that share your funders
- The Children's Oncology Group Foundation Incshared fundersPA · backs 104 organizations that share your funders
- Crohn's & Colitis Foundation Incshared fundersNY · backs 97 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding DUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $44.2M on record — $44.1M federal, $19k state.
- Department of Veterans Affairs$43.0M
- Department of Justice$1.1M
- Environmental Protection Agency$25k
- DIRECT STATE SERVICES - NON-SALARY$14k
- DEDICATED$4k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like DUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 28 states
Part of a family of 80 related entities
- Duke Prmo LLC · disregarded
- Same Day Surgery Center Franklin LLC · disregarded
- Associated Health Svcs Inc · exempt
- Du Special Ventures Fund Inc · exempt
- Duke Corporate Education · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC?
- DUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 131 organizations whose IRS filings report $74,570,685 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND ($24,006,490). 55 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does DUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC have?
- IRS filings report 131 organizations giving $74,570,685 in grants to DUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC, 55 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC?
- JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND is the largest funder on record, with $24,006,490 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DUKE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 131funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing