The Forest at Duke Inc
Durham, NC · EIN 56-1630158. Reported 149 grants totalling $4,024,320 to 52 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For The Forest at Duke Inc, the IRS classifies it under human services rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE P750) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 52 distinct organizations, with 7% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 86% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $25,000. Half of what it reported fell between $13,500 and $35,478; the smallest was $5,000 and the largest $150,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Durham Center for Senior Life | Durham, NC | $275,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Rogers-Herr Middle School | Durham, NC | $255,970 | 10 | 4 | 2023 |
| Local Start Dental Inc | Durham, NC | $240,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| CASA | Raleigh, NC | $198,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Urban Ministries of Durham Inc | Durham, NC | $180,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Meals on Wheels of Durham Inc | Durham, NC | $176,624 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Caring House Inc | Durham, NC | $175,478 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Durham Literacy Center | Durham, NC | $165,275 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Durham and Orange Counties | Durham, NC | $147,100 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Durham Library Foundation | Durham, NC | $145,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Exchange Clubs Child Abuse Prevention Center in Durham Inc | Durham, NC | $142,623 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Stepup Durham | Durham, NC | $134,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Durham Colored Library Incorporated | Atlanta, GA | $125,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Senior Pharmassist Inc | Durham, NC | $120,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| The Center for Child and Family Health Inc | Durham, NC | $110,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Housing for New Hope Inc | Durham, NC | $105,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Durham Nativity School Inc | Durham, NC | $100,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Lincoln Community Health Center Incorporated | Durham, NC | $92,800 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Dress for Success Triangle Nc | Raleigh, NC | $65,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Community Health Coalition | Durham, NC | $61,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Full Frame Documentary Film Festival | Durham | $60,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Truth Education Foundation | Durham, NC | $60,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| American Dance Festival Inc | Durham, NC | $52,500 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Carolina Theatre of Durham Inc | Durham, NC | $50,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Durham Technical Community College Foundation Inc | Durham, NC | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| St Josephs Historic Foundation Inc | Durham, NC | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Museum of Durham History Inc | Durham, NC | $49,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| North Carolina Symphony Society Inc | Raleigh, NC | $47,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Hill Center Inc | Durham, NC | $45,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Liberty Arts Inc | Durham, NC | $45,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Alzheimers Disease and Related Disorders Association Inc | Chicago, IL | $42,750 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| PTA North Carolina Congress | Durham, NC | $42,700 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Book Harvest | Durham, NC | $42,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Triangle Research Libraries Network | Durham, NC | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Cristo Rey Research Triangle Corporate Work Study Program Inc | Durham, NC | $36,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Triangle Residential Options for Substance Abusers Inc | Durham, NC | $31,500 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Kate's Corner | Durham, NC | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Triangle Radio Reading Service | Raleigh, NC | $30,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Greater Durham Chamber of Commerce | Durham, NC | $28,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| The Historic Preservation Society of Durham Inc | Durham, NC | $27,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Durham Childrens Initiative | Durham, NC | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Durham Public Schools Foundation | Durham, NC | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Music Maker Foundation Inc | Hillsborough, NC | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Chapel Hill, NC | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| The Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle Inc | Durham, NC | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Animal Protection Society of Durham | Durham, NC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra Inc | Fayetteville, NC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Food Bank of Central & Eastern North Carolina Inc | Raleigh, NC | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Benniegirl Healthy Lifestlye Branding & Events | Durham, NC | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Habitat for Humanity of Durham Inc | Durham, NC | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Raleigh Business and Professional Network | Raleigh, NC | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Southern Pines Rotary Club | Southern Pnes, NC | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
38 of 52 (73%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
OPERATING SUPPORT (THROUGH DUKE UNIVERSITY ENTITY ID: 265770; GIFT ID 6315667)
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 36 of 52 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 34 | $835,851 | $25,000 |
| 2021 | 35 | $1,035,500 | $22,500 |
| 2022 | 37 | $986,660 | $20,000 |
| 2023 | 43 | $1,166,309 | $25,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
96% of its giving went to organizations in North Carolina. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $25,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in North Carolina.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from The Forest at Duke Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 42 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 1 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 2701 Pickett Road, Durham, NC, 27705.
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