Does Duke Endowment accept unsolicited proposals?

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Duke Endowment

Charlotte, NC · EIN 560529965 · Website ↗ · 990s on ProPublica ↗

Assets

$3.6B

Total Giving

$372.8M

Grants on File

799

Average Grant

$467K

Giving Radius

Where Duke Endowment Has Given

Historical grants to 333 recipients across 13 states. Top concentrations: DURHAM ($114.4M, 76 grants), CHARLOTTE ($35.4M, 88 grants), GREENVILLE ($35.3M, 30 grants), DAVIDSON ($24.2M, 12 grants), COLUMBIA ($22.8M, 58 grants).

Section I

How to Apply

No specific forms are required for letters of inquiry. Forms for formal applications are available on the Endowment's website. There are no submission deadlines. The following information may be helpful to potential grantees: - Eligible requests will be referred to an appropriate program officer in our education, health care, child care, or rural church program areas - The program officer may request a full proposal, including project description, budget, funding sources, board members, and other pertinent information - If a meeting is desirable, the program officer will arrange this, as well as site visits or other conferences - If the proposal is eligible and complete, the program officer will take it to a committee of the trustees - The trustees of the Duke Endowment maintain committees for each of the four program areas

On Unsolicited Proposals yes

Restrictions

See Statement 20.

Section IV

Recent Grants

Recipient	Location	Amount	Purpose	Year
Youth Villages	Charlotte, NC	$500K	To provide implementation support for intercept, an evidence-based, intensive in-home therapy model, in seven north carolina counties.	2022
Zero to Three - National Center for Infants Toddlers and Families	Washington, DC	$121K	To support the expansion, integration, and sustainability of healthy steps in guilford county in 2022 (year 4).	2022
Yadkinville United Methodist Church	Yadkinville, NC	$30K	To begin a Community Meal Preparation Ministry for latino families and test it as a congregational model.	2022
Wilkesboro United Methodist Church	Wilkesboro, NC	$58K	To test a summer literacy program.	2022
Western North Carolina Conference United Methodist Church	Huntersville, NC	$40K	To provide diversity training for clergy and congregations.	2022
Western North Carolina Conference United Methodist Church	Huntersville, NC	$338K	To support the bishop's emerging leadership initiative.	2022
Western North Carolina Conference United Methodist Church	Huntersville, NC	$175K	To Test an Evidence-informed Clergy Deployment System in the Western North Carolina Conference of the United Methodist Church.	2022
Western Carolina Medical Society Foundation	Asheville, NC	$250K	To expand a community network of care for the low-INCome, uninsured in buncombe county.	2022
West Nash United Methodist Church	Wilson, NC	$45K	To test a summer literacy program in wilson county.	2022
Western North Carolina Conference United Methodist Church	Huntersville, NC	$1.2M	To provide pensions to retired ministers and widows and dependent children of deceased ministers.	2022
Wesley Community Development	Huntersville, NC	$375K	To Provide Real Estate Development Support to the Church legacy initiative.	2022
Wesley Community Development	Huntersville, NC	$75K	To develop an online course for united methodist conferences to guide real estate use.	2022
Wake Forest University Health Sciences	Winstonsalem, NC	$79K	To INCrease the number of community-based walking programs for older adults to pursue payment reform.	2022
Wakemed	Raleigh, NC	$250K	To expand a community network of care for the low-INCome, uninsured in wake county.	2022
Welvista	Columbia, SC	$475K	To expand a medication assistance program for the low-INCome, uninsured in south carolina.	2022
Wake Forest University Health Sciences	Winstonsalem, NC	$90K	To address the needs of families in food insecure households.	2022
Wake Forest University Health Sciences	Winstonsalem, NC	$80K	To expand the centering pregnancy program and INCrease access for minority women.	2022
Wake Forest University Health Sciences	Winstonsalem, NC	$100K	To establish a new healthy people, Healthy Carolinas Coalition to INCrease capacity and improve population health in guilford county.	2022
Wake Forest University Health Sciences	Winstonsalem, NC	$115K	To leverage implementation science to eliminate cardiac emergency care disparities.	2022
Wake Forest University Health Sciences	Winstonsalem, NC	$127K	To develop and test predictive technology that enables earlier detection of alzheimer's disease.	2022
Wake Forest University Health Sciences	Winstonsalem, NC	$175K	To implement home telemonitoring resources for patients discharged from intensive care.	2022
Wake Forest University Health Sciences	Winstonsalem, NC	$143K	To expand a community paramedicine program in forsyth county.	2022
Wake Forest University Health Sciences	Winstonsalem, NC	$140K	To evaluate the effectiveness of integrating the collaborative care model to improve mental health conditions of patients diagnosed with epilepsy.	2022
Wake Forest University Health Sciences	Winstonsalem, NC	$190K	To establish and conduct a randomized control trial on a community health worker program supporting frail elderly adults.	2022
Wake Forest University Health Sciences	Winstonsalem, NC	$200K	To conduct a randomized control trial to test the effectiveness of a home-based patient monitoring sySTEM for new mothers.	2022

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Section VI

Filing History

Year-by-year financial summary from IRS 990-PF filings. Total assets and qualifying distributions show the foundation's growth and giving trajectory.

Year	Total Assets	Qualifying Distributions	Total Revenue	Total Expenses
2022	$3.6B	$257.7M	$497.7M	$255.1M
2021	$3.4B	$246.2M	$832.4M	$220.2M
2020	$2.8B	$181.0M	$163.2M	$208.2M
2019	$2.8B	$181.3M	$244.6M	$195.7M
2015	$2.7B	$163.6M	$176.5M	$150.2M
2014	$2.7B	$163.3M	$326.2M	$173.4M
2013	$2.6B	$146.5M	$262.4M	$151.3M
2012	$2.4B	$133.7M	$139.1M	$146.6M
2011	$2.5B	$132.4M	$103.0M	$141.3M