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Darman Family Charitable Trust

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.

$139k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
36
Grants FY2024
22
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$3,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
22 to 29
FY2021 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
11
Total assets, FY2024
$4.9M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Darman Family Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23
Human ServicesInternationalPhilanthropyFood & NutritionCrime & LegalOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving36$139k44%
FY202322$117k0%
FY202229$120k52%
FY202122$80kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Housing & Shelter$97kHealth$71kFood & Nutrition$58kInternational$45kHuman Services$38kCivil Rights$35kYouth Development$33kPublic Safety & Disaster$28kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
VA
MD
TN
DC
AL
GA
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 41 grantees
All grantees of Darman Family Charitable Trust by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Caritas Communities Inc$58,50041%
HomeStart Inc$35,50040%
World Central Kitchen Inc$27,80040%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$26,80040%
Marc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation$25,80040%
Southern Poverty Law Center Inc$25,80040%
Greater Boston Food Bank Inc$25,80040%
National Network to End Domestic Violence Inc$25,30040%
Harlem Children's Zone Inc$19,50030%
Preparatory Foundation Inc$16,50030%
Share Our Strength$13,80040%
Fountain House Inc$10,80040%
Neads Inc$10,00030%
International Rescue Committee INC$9,50030%
Feeding America$8,00030%
Friends of the World Food Program Inc$8,00010%
Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc$7,00040%
Emerge Inc$6,80021%
Big Sister Association of Greater Boston Inc$6,00030%
Human Rights Watch Inc$5,50030%
Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc$5,00010%
The Bail Project Inc$4,50030%
Breakthrough T1d$3,80020%
Perkins School for the Blind$3,30020%
Rosie's Place Inc$3,00010%
Global Fund for Women Inc$3,00010%
Partnership Against Domestic Violence Inc$2,80010%
The Treehouse Foundation Inc$2,80010%
Human Rights Campaign Foundation$2,80010%
The Innocence Project Inc$2,00010%
Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc$2,00010%
Chicago Hope Inc$2,0002n/a
Thurgood Marshall College Fund$2,00010%
Compassionate Care ALS Inc$1,50010%
Centurion Ministries Inc$1,20010%
Marine Toys for Tots Foundation$1,00010%
Equality Now Inc$1,00010%
The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee$93510%
Refugees International Inc$50010%
Special Olympics Massachusetts Inc$50010%
Beacon Hill Village Inc$50010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($37k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Darman Family Charitable Trust supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCaritas Communities Inc: $58,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetHomeStart Inc: $35,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $27,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $26,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMarc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation: $25,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Poverty Law Center Inc: $25,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Boston Food Bank Inc: $25,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNational Network to End Domestic Violence Inc: $25,300 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHarlem Children's Zone Inc: $19,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPreparatory Foundation Inc: $16,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetShare Our Strength: $13,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFountain House Inc: $10,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNeads Inc: $10,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $9,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the World Food Program Inc: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: $7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEmerge Inc: $6,800 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetBig Sister Association of Greater Boston Inc: $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHuman Rights Watch Inc: $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBoston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Bail Project Inc: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBreakthrough T1d: $3,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPerkins School for the Blind: $3,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRosie's Place Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGlobal Fund for Women Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPartnership Against Domestic Violence Inc: $2,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Treehouse Foundation Inc: $2,800 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHuman Rights Campaign Foundation: $2,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Innocence Project Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBridge Over Troubled Waters Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThurgood Marshall College Fund: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCompassionate Care ALS Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCenturion Ministries Inc: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMarine Toys for Tots Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEquality Now Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee: $935 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRefugees International Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSpecial Olympics Massachusetts Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBeacon Hill Village Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 40.

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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.

Boston Foundation IncMA16.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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.

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About Darman Family Charitable Trust

How much does Darman Family Charitable Trust give?
Darman Family Charitable Trust reported 36 grants totaling $139,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 29 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
What does Darman Family Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (21%), Health (15%), Food & Nutrition (13%).
Who are Darman Family Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Caritas Communities Inc ($59k), HomeStart Inc ($36k), World Central Kitchen Inc ($28k).
Does Darman Family Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Darman Family Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Darman Family Charitable Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc, The Blackbaud Giving Fund.
Where is Darman Family Charitable Trust based?
Darman Family Charitable Trust is based in MA.

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 53 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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