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Darlington Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$18k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$48kRecreation & Sports$23kEducation$18k
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$175k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CLARKE PENNSYLVANIA INC$10,000
WESTERN PA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF$8,045
02The need
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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 (FY18–23, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Camp Possibilities Foundation: $9k → 10%THE WATSON INSTITUTE: $10k → 11%Camp Possibilities Foundation: $9k → 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.
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 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
All Children's Research Institute Inc

The corporation is organized and is operated exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes. all children's research institute supports, encourages, and engages in and conducts medical research and other research in…

Health
2
Abilitypath

Empower people with special needs to achieve their full potential through innovative, inclusive programs and community partnerships.

Employment
3
The Charles Armstrong School

Charles armstrong school unlocks the unique potential of students with dyslexia and related learning differences, changing the trajectory of their lives.

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4
Acds Inc

Acds is dedicated to providing lifetime resources of exceptional quality, innovation and inclusion for individuals with down syndrome, autism and other developmental disabilities and their families. we provide a continuum of year round…

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5
Via Rehabilitation Services Inc

Our mission is to empower people with disabilities and their families to grow, develop, and thrive by providing essential skill-building, therapeutic, and recreational programs.

Health
6
The Arc of Greater Pittsburgh

The organization advocates with, empowers, and supports people with disabilities and their families throughout their lives.

Human Services
7
The Waldorf School Inc

The waldorf school of lexington nurtures each child's curiosity, ingenuity, and love of learning so that they can meet the future with wonder, confidence, and resilience.

Education
8
Job Options Inc

To actively seek employment for individuals with psychological or physical disabilities.

Employment
9
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Inc

To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.

Health
10
Western Pennsylvania School for Blind Children

The mission of western pennsylvania school for blind children is to nurture the unique abilities of individuals with blindness and visual impairment through educational excellence and a lifetime of learning.

Education
11
The Clarke School for the Deaf Clarke Schools for Hearing and Speech

Clarke provides children who are deaf and hard of hearing with the listening, learning and spoken language skills they need to succeed.

Education
12
Woodfield Academy Inc

Woodfield academy empowers students with diagnosed learning differences or developmental disorders to reach their maximum potential through an individualized education approach.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wills Eye Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Lending Hearts. 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

8 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. 8 of the 10 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
3/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CAMP POSSIBILITIES FOUNDATION: $18,339 · Human ServicesCAMP POSSIBILITIES FOUNDATIONTHE WATSON INSTITUTE: $9,735 · Human ServicesTHE WATSON INSTITUTECLARKE PENNSYLVANIA INC: $10,000 · EducationCLARKE PENNSYLVANIA INCWILLS EYE FOUNDATION INC: $8,684 · EducationWILLS EYE FOUNDATION INCWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF: $8,045 · EducationWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL FOR T…ACHIEVA: $9,723 · HealthACHIEVAARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC: $7,682 · HealthARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INCLending Hearts: $4,085 · HealthLending HeartsST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH: $7,830 · OtherST JUDE CHILDREN…Children's Cancer Recovery Foundation: $5,000 · OtherChildren's Cance…
Human Services$28,074Education$26,729Health$21,490Other$12,830

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCAMP POSSIBILITIES FOUNDATION: $18,339 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetCLARKE PENNSYLVANIA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE WATSON INSTITUTE: $9,735 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetACHIEVA: $9,723 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWILLS EYE FOUNDATION INC: $8,684 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF: $8,045 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC: $7,682 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

The Pittsburgh FoundationPA13.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pittsburgh Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Darlington Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Darlington Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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 10 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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