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Charyn Darby Foundation 48238976

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$62k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192024.

Human Services$64kHealth$57kArts & Culture$54kEnvironment$49kPublic Safety & Disaster$47kEducation$31kAnimals$25kCrime & Legal$20kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $40k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $22k
$5,250
Median grant
1
States reached
$525k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KEEP SMYRNA BEAUTIFUL$12,000
VISION REHABILITATION SVS OF GA$10,250
HUMANE SOCIETY OF COBB COUNTY$8,000
ATLANTA MISSION$5,250
THE JOY HOUSE$5,250
PAWS ATLANTA$5,250
SMYRNA PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION$5,000
SMYRNA EDUCATION FOUNDATION$5,000
SMYRNA ARTS COUNCIL$5,000
SMYRNA JONQUIL LIONS CLUB$1,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%ATLANTA MISSION: $6k → 13%ATLANTA MISSION: $6k → 13%ATLANTA MISSION: $5k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 6% of Charyn Darby Foundation 48238976’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Charyn Darby Foundation 48238976lessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$337k · 14 repeat orgs$32k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
6

Total granted

$337k
$24k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+15%

Still filing today

50%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesEnvironmentPublic Safety & DisasterCommunity ImprovementAnimalsOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • KS
    KEEP SMYRNA BEAUTIFUL
    6× · 2019–2024 · $49k · revenue +32%
  • SP
    SMYRNA PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $47k · revenue +824% · 45% of their budget
  • AU
    ATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $17k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • VR
    VISION REHABILITATION SERVICES
    one grant, 2023 · $6k
  • MM
    Must Ministries Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -16%
  • CF
    CENTER FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +15%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Angels Among Us Pet Rescue Inc

Angels among us pet rescue, inc. is a 501(c)(3) charity dedicated to rescuing dogs and cats from shelters and other at-risk situations across georgia. they operate through a network of foster homes in the metro atlanta area and hold pet…

Animals
2
Good Mews Animal Foundation Inc

Good mews offers an alternative to traditional animal shelters in the metro-atlanta area by providing a limited admission haven for homeless, abused, or abandoned cats until placing them in permanent, loving homes. good mews promotes…

Animals
3
Wet Noses Animal Rescue Inc

We save dogs in need and provide them with food, shelter and housing, vet care before finding them new loving homes. Our group accepts owner surrenders as well as dogs from county animal control facilities in Georgia.

Animals
4
No Kill Glynn County Inc

Dedicated to saving the lives of the homeless animals in Glynn County, GA. We will do this through fundraising, partnering with other organizations, leveraging resources, educating the public, and embracing and employing 'best practices'…

Animals
5
Cedartown Polk County Humane Society Inc

We speak for animals who cannot speak for themselves. We are in the daily business of saving the lives of companion animals by eliminating starvation, abuse, neglect and euthanasia.

Animals
6
Southern Comfort Animal Rescue Inc

Southern Comfort Animal Rescue, Inc. is 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization that rescues and rehomes abused, unwanted and abandoned companion animals.Southern Comfort was founded in 2001 in Savannah, Georgia, to provide shelter and find…

Animals
7
Southern Souls Rescue

Animal Welfare and Rescue.

Animals
8
Northeast Georgia Animal Shelter Inc

To provide a humane method of controlling the animal population

Animals
9
Athenspets Inc

Athenspets is an all-volunteer 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to helping the most vulnerable animals in the Athens (GA) area and the people who love them.

Animals
10
Simple Needs Ga Inc

Simple Needs GAs mission is to meet the simple needs of children and people experiencing homelessness and others in need, while inspiring our community to do the same.

Human Services
11
Helping Paws of North Georgia Inc

The organization is comprised of volunteers who seek to assist animals in need and promote spay and neuter to reduce the overwhelming number of unwanted liters. Georgias pet overpopulation has reached crisis levels dispite the efforts of…

Animals
12
Saving Georgia Dogs Inc

The organization retrieves dogs from kill shelters and transports them to non kill shelters in the northern part of the united states. the dogs are then adopted. the adoption rate for the southern states is considerably lower than the…

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Union Mission Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Joy House Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 21 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
4/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SMYRNA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $31,000 · OtherSMYRNA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INCSMYRNA ARTS COUNCIL — $29,000 · OtherSMYRNA ARTS COUNCILATLANTA THEATRE-TO-GO — $22,500 · OtherATLANTA THEATRE-TO-GOSMYRNA JONQUIL LIONS CLU — $21,500 · OtherSMYRNA JONQUIL LIONS CLUCENTER FOR MUST MINISTIES INC — $15,000 · OtherCENTER FOR MUST MINISTIES INCSMYRNA OPTIMIST CLUB — $12,500 · OtherSMYRNA OPTIMIST CLUBAnna L Haas Humane Society of Cobb County — $8,000 · OtherSUPPORT SMYRNA INC — $8,500 · Other+5 more — $18,500 · Other+5 moreVision Rehabilitation Services of Georgia Inc — $46,250 · HealthVision Rehabili…CENTER FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · HealthCENTER FOR THE …KEEP SMYRNA BEAUTIFUL — $48,500 · EnvironmentKEEP SMYRNA BE…SMYRNA PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION INC — $47,000 · Public Safety & DisasterSMYRNA PUBLIC …ATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION — $16,750 · Human ServicesMust Ministries Inc — $5,000 · Human ServicesPAWS ATLANTA INCORPORATED — $16,750 · AnimalsJoy House Inc — $16,750 · Crime & Legal
Other$166,500Health$51,250Environment$48,500Public Safety & Disaster$47,000Human Services$21,750Animals$16,750Crime & Legal$16,750

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetKEEP SMYRNA BEAUTIFUL — $48,500 over 6y, 16% of budgetSMYRNA PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION INC — $47,000 over 6y, 45% of budgetVision Rehabilitation Services of Georgia Inc — $46,250 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION — $16,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPAWS ATLANTA INCORPORATED — $16,750 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetJoy House Inc — $16,750 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetSUPPORT SMYRNA INC — $8,500 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetAnna L Haas Humane Society of Cobb County — $8,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetMust Ministries Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNortheast Cobb Business Association Inc — $5,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetCENTER FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds KEEP SMYRNA BEAUTIFUL
  • Who funds SMYRNA PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds Vision Rehabilitation Services of Georgia Inc
  • Who funds ATLANTA UNION MISSION CORPORATION
  • Who funds PAWS ATLANTA INCORPORATED
  • Who funds Joy House Inc
  • Who funds SUPPORT SMYRNA INC
  • Who funds Anna L Haas Humane Society of Cobb County
  • Who funds Must Ministries Inc
  • Who funds Northeast Cobb Business Association Inc
  • Who funds CENTER FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED FOUNDATION INC

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The L&C Wood Family Foundation IncGA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Charyn Darby Foundation 48238976 funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2023
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 21 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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