John and Anne Duffy Foundation

OVERVIEW: The John and Anne Duffy Foundation supports global development and public health in New York and Arizona. 

IP TAKE: This small funder only makes a few grants each year in its areas of interest. It does not appear to accept applications for funding at this time. This is a tight and competitive grant space that is inaccessible to most organizations. Funding prioritizes the founder’s personal interests and appears to be concentrated in New York and Arizona. Grantseekers beyond those areas will have a harder time securing funding, unless they have an in with the family. However, reach out to the foundation to learn more about how this low-key grantmaker conducts grants.

PROFILE: Based in New York City, the John and Anne Duffy Foundation was established by John Duffy, a former partner in the financial firm Spear, Leeds and Kellogg, and his wife, Anne. The foundation focuses its international grantmaking on children and families living in poverty around the world. This is a small family foundation that awards modest sized grants to large international development organizations and a few global health groups. The Duffy Foundation does not maintain a website, limiting information about its grantmaking practices.  

Grants for Global Development and Sustainable Agriculture

Duffy’s global development grantmaking works in the areas of food security, access to education and sustainable agriculture. Grants tend to go to large, well-established organizations including Oxfam America, the International Rescue Committee and Bread for the World. 

Grants for Public Health and Access

The John and Anne Duffy Foundation makes a number of grants to public health organizations each year, prioritizing the greater New York area and Arizona, where the couple maintains homes. In the New York/Tri-State area, the foundation has supported chapters of Covenant House in New York and New Jersey and the Cancer Research and Treatment Fund. In Arizona, the foundation has provided ongoing support to the Banner Alzheimer’s Foundation. On the national level, the Planned Parenthood Federation of America has also received funding.

Important Grant Details:

This funder makes only a few grants each year, ranging in amount from a few thousand to $25,000. In a recent year, its grantmaking totaled about $260,000. Grantees tend to be large, well-established organizations in the couple’s areas of grantmaking interest. 

This funder does not maintain a website or provide information about how to get in touch. The foundation’s phone number is 520-299-1825. An address is provided below. 

PEOPLE:

Search for staff contact info and bios in PeopleFinder (paid subscribers only).

CONTACT:

The John and Anne Duffy Foundation 

C/O JAD-61 Broadway, Suite 512

New York, NY 10006

(973) 919-2167