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Dan and Merrie Boone Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

Dan and Merrie Boone Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$836k
Granted FY2025still arriving
108
Grants FY2025still arriving
21
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$1.6MArts & Culture$1.2MEnvironment$357kHealth$250kHuman Services$236kPhilanthropy$101kHousing & Shelter$60kInternational$60kOther$0
02FY2025 · 108 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k83 grants · $177k
  • $10k–50k21 grants · $332k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $328k
$2,500
Median grant
21
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC$100,000
EMORY UNIVERSITY$90,000
MISSISSIPPI FOLK ART FOUNDATION$75,000
DAVIDSON COLLEGE$62,500
HELP OF BEAUFORT$30,000
PORT ROYAL SOUND FOUNDATION$27,500
TRYALL FUND JAMAICA$25,000
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA$25,000
PARADISE GARDEN FOUNDATION INC$25,000
MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSONS RESEARCH$25,000
NATURE CONSERVANCY$20,000
DAVIDSON COLLEGE$20,000
WESTMINSTER SCHOOLS INC$14,000
TRUSTEES OF TUFTS COLLEGE$10,000
WINNETKA COMMUNITY HOUSE$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $138k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 19% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%COMMUNITY ACTION NORTH BAY: $500 → 10%TRYALL FUND JAMAICA: $25k → 9%LOCAL MEDIA FOUNDATION: $1k → 13%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $3k → 11%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $3k → 11%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISES NURSERY: $3k → 11%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISES NURSERY: $2k → 11%KATE'S CLUB: $500 → 14%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $2k → 11%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISES NURSERY: $2k → 11%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISES NURSERY: $1k → 11%URBAN INITIATIVES INC: $1k → 14%URBAN INITIATIVES INC: $1k → 14%CHILDREN'S HOME AND AID: $1k → 14%ATLANTA UNION MISSION: $3k → 13%CHILDREN'S HOME AND AID: $500 → 14%CHILDREN'S HOME AND AID: $500 → 14%HIGHLAND COMMUNITY CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $3k → 12%HIGHLAND COMMUNITY CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $2k → 12%HELP OF BEAUFORT: $50k → 10%HELP OF BEAUFORT: $25k → 10%HELP OF BEAUFORT: $6k → 10%HELP OF BEAUFORT: $5k → 10%HELP OF BEAUFORT: $1k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
ID
MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
CT
CA
CO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
LA
MS
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.5M · 137 repeat orgs$261k to everyone else

137 repeat relationships: 69 still active in FY2025, 68 since wound down; 29 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

137
79

Total granted

$4.5M
$171k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+11%

Still filing today

64%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $91k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureEnvironmentHuman ServicesHealthInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • EU
    Emory University
    8× · 2018–2025 · $867k · revenue +61%
  • Davidson College
    8× · 2018–2025 · $532k · revenue +52%
  • HO
    HELP OF BEAUFORT
    7× · 2018–2025 · $217k · revenue +412%

Funded once

  • KA
    Kids Alive International Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $12k · revenue 0%
  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY PRESS OF KENTUCKY
    one grant, 2023 · $11k
  • OS
    OPEN SPACE INSTITUTE INC
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
Eastern National

Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.

Recreation & Sports
3
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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4
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
5
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
6
African Parks Foundation of America

To engage the united states and its citizens in the work of african parks and to promote access to american experience and expertise in the african parks actiities by 1) raising funds for specific projects, activities, training, equipment…

Recreation & Sports
7
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
8
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
9
The Land Trust for Tennessee Inc

To conserve the unique character of tennessee's natural and historic landscapes and sites for future generations.

Environment
10
National Forest Foundation

The national forest foundation (nff), chartered by congress, turns america's love of nature into meaningful action for 193-million acre national forest system through on the ground program work and grant making activities, and accepts and…

Recreation & Sports
11
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
12
Harvard Conservation Trust

To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Union Mission Corporation; the most unlike its peers is The Susan Morrow Legacy Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

161 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 161 of the 250 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
158/161
Grantees still filing
90/161
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Emory University: $866,500 · EducationEmory UniversityDavidson College: $532,000 · EducationDavidson CollegeThe Westminster Schools Inc: $58,000 · Education+20 more: $214,000 · Education+20 moreATLANTA HIGH MUSEUM OF ART: $669,400 · OtherATLANTA HIGH MUSEUM OF ARTNORTH SHORE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $114,000 · OtherNORTH SHORE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOLCOASTAL CONSERVATION LEAGUE: $61,000 · OtherTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC: $65,000 · Other+112 more: $820,134 · Other+112 moreROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC: $204,000 · Arts & CultureROBERT W WOODR…Mississipp Folk Art Foundation: $140,000 · Arts & CultureMississipp Fol…The Bascom Corporation: $57,000 · Arts & CultureThe Bascom Cor…PARADISE GARDEN FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · Arts & CulturePARADISE GARDE…GUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION: $42,500 · Arts & CultureGUTHRIE THEATE…Children's Theatre Company and School: $41,500 · Arts & CultureChildren's The…+14 more: $101,500 · Arts & Culture+14 moreHELP OF BEAUFORT: $216,500 · Human ServicesTryall Fund Jamaica: $25,000 · Human ServicesGREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $13,500 · Human Services+5 more: $18,000 · Human ServicesTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $182,450 · HealthBEAUFORT MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $22,500 · HealthEAGLE RANCH INC: $14,500 · HealthHighlands Cashiers Health Foundation Inc: $14,500 · HealthCUREPSP INC: $12,000 · HealthGOOD NEIGHBOR FREE MEDICAL CLINIC OF BEAUFORT: $12,000 · Health+5 more: $14,500 · HealthAMERICAN RIVERS INC: $65,000 · EnvironmentPORT ROYAL SOUND FOUNDATION: $47,500 · EnvironmentSouth Carolina Coastal Conservation League Inc: $20,000 · EnvironmentBEAUFORT COUNTY OPEN LAND TRUST: $20,000 · EnvironmentOPEN SPACE INSTITUTE INC: $10,000 · EnvironmentSPRING ISLAND TRUST: $10,000 · EnvironmentTHE ATLANTA BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $8,400 · EnvironmentGEORGIA CONSERVANCY INC: $7,000 · Environment+4 more: $13,500 · EnvironmentWORLD RESOURCES GROUP INC: $19,500 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $19,000 · InternationalPALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND: $18,000 · InternationalKids Alive International Inc: $12,000 · InternationalBRITISH SCHOOLS & UNIVERSITIES FOUNDATION INC: $11,500 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $6,500 · International+4 more: $7,250 · International
Education$1,670,500Other$1,729,534Arts & Culture$636,500Human Services$273,000Health$272,450Environment$201,400International$93,750

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEmory University: $866,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetDavidson College: $532,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetHELP OF BEAUFORT: $216,500 over 7y, 13% of budgetROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC: $204,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $182,450 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMississipp Folk Art Foundation: $140,000 over 4y, 71% of budgetNORTH SHORE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $114,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC: $65,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN RIVERS INC: $65,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetThe Westminster Schools Inc: $58,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe Bascom Corporation: $57,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetGeorgia Center for Opportunity Inc: $55,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetPARADISE GARDEN FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetPORT ROYAL SOUND FOUNDATION: $47,500 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetTHE BLAKE SCHOOL: $46,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION: $42,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY IN ATLANTA INC: $42,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Theatre Company and School: $41,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $41,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST MARGARET'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetTryall Fund Jamaica: $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetBEAUFORT MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $22,500 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetWINNETKA COMMUNITY HOUSE INC: $20,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSouth Carolina Coastal Conservation League Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetRabun Gap-Nacoochee School: $20,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $20,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBEAUFORT COUNTY OPEN LAND TRUST: $20,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetWORLD RESOURCES GROUP INC: $19,500 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $19,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND: $18,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLOWCOUNTRY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $15,500 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetEAGLE RANCH INC: $14,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHighlands Cashiers Health Foundation Inc: $14,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $13,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetLOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC: $13,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPerforming Arts Center Inc: $12,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCUREPSP INC: $12,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetATLANTA POLICE FOUNDATION INC: $12,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetKids Alive International Inc: $12,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGOOD NEIGHBOR FREE MEDICAL CLINIC OF BEAUFORT: $12,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetBRITISH SCHOOLS & UNIVERSITIES FOUNDATION INC: $11,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOPEN SPACE INSTITUTE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY CARE CLINIC OF HIGHLANDS-CASHIERS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSPRING ISLAND TRUST: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetIntuitCenter for IntuitiveOutsider Art: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHOPEFUL HORIZONS: $9,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

  • Who funds Emory University ↗
  • Who funds Davidson College ↗
  • Who funds HELP OF BEAUFORT ↗
  • Who funds ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
  • Who funds Mississipp Folk Art Foundation ↗
  • Who funds NORTH SHORE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN RIVERS INC ↗
  • Who funds The Westminster Schools Inc ↗
  • Who funds The Bascom Corporation ↗
  • Who funds Georgia Center for Opportunity Inc ↗
  • Who funds PARADISE GARDEN FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PORT ROYAL SOUND FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE BLAKE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds GUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY IN ATLANTA INC ↗
  • Who funds Children's Theatre Company and School ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds SPRING ISLAND TRUST FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ST MARGARET'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Tryall Fund Jamaica ↗
  • Who funds BEAUFORT MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WINNETKA COMMUNITY HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds South Carolina Coastal Conservation League Inc ↗
  • Who funds Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School ↗
  • Who funds ATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds BEAUFORT COUNTY OPEN LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds WORLD RESOURCES GROUP INC ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds PALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Coastal Community Fou…Community Foundation …The Community Foundat…The H FoundationGaylord and Dorothy D…The Bessemer Giving F…The Klamon Family Fou…Ashcourt Family Found…The Inman FoundationLaurel Charitable Tru…The Bargain BoxThe Community Foundat…
Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina IncSC40.5× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Community Foundation of the Lowcountry · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · The H Foundation · Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · The Klamon Family Foundation Inc · Ashcourt Family Foundation Inc · The Inman Foundation · Laurel Charitable Trust · The Bargain Box · The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Dan and Merrie Boone Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dan and Merrie Boone Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
33report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 250 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home