· Private foundation
Darling Family 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k6 grants · $210k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $210k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Nature Conservancy | $110,000 |
| Soaring Hawk Raptor Rehabilitation Center | $100,000 |
| High Speed Rail Alliance | $35,000 |
| Anti-Cruelty Society | $35,000 |
| Chicago Symphony Orchestra | $35,000 |
| Fourth Presbyterian Church | $35,000 |
| Jazz Institute of Chicago | $35,000 |
| Devereux-Glenhome School | $35,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 48% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
7 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SHSoarin Hawk Raptor Rehabilitation Inc3× · 2023–2025 · $260k · revenue +5% · 74% of their budget
- TETHE EDUCATION ASSOC OF CHRISTIAN4× · 2021–2025 · $140k
- JIJazz Institute of Chicago4× · 2021–2025 · $140k · revenue -83%
Funded once
- MHMidwest High Speed Rail Allianceone grant, 2023 · $47k
- MHMidwest High Speed Rail Associationone grant, 2021 · $23k
- SHSoarin Hawk Raptor Rehabilitation Centerone grant, 2021 · $20k
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.
7 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 7 of the 11 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Darling Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Darling Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
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