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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k35 grants · $129k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOMESTART | $10,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA | $9,500 |
| THE LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION | $9,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC | $8,500 |
| WORLD FOOD PROGRAM | $8,000 |
| NATIONAL NETWORK TO END DOMENSTIC VIOLENCE | $8,000 |
| CARITAS COMMUNITIES | $7,500 |
| SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW | $7,000 |
| HARLEM CHILDRENS ZONE | $6,500 |
| GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK | $6,000 |
| FEEDING AMERICA | $5,000 |
| THE PREPARATORY FOUNDATION BOSTON | $5,000 |
| BOSTON HEALTHCARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC | $5,000 |
| PAN MASS CHALLENGE | $3,000 |
| ROSIE'S PLACE | $3,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $73k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 65% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
25 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CCCARITAS COMMUNITIES INC4× · 2021–2024 · $59k · revenue +61%
- HIHomeStart Inc4× · 2021–2024 · $36k · revenue +34%
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC4× · 2021–2024 · $28k · revenue +167%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $3k
- AIAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL USAone grant, 2021 · $3k
- TOTRUSTEES OF THE RESERVATIONSone grant, 2021 · $3k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
Bridgespan's mission is to build a better world by strengthening the ability of mission-driven organizations and philanthropists to achieve breakthrough results in addressing society's most important challenges and opportunities.
Pact is a nonprofit organization that builds evidence-based, data-driven, and community-led solutions for human development (continued in schedule o)
Ceres is a nonprofit advocacy organization working to accelerate the transition to a cleaner, more just, and resilient world. through education and research, we make the business case for action on the most pressing sustainability…
Partnersglobal (partners) works through a global network to support local leaders and create partnerships that transform conflict, strengthen democratic institutions, and achieve sustainable development.
To improve the lives and protect the rights of women, children and youth displaced by conflict and crisis. the women's refugee commission envisions a world in which refugees are safe, healthy and reliant and seeks to drive change in…
People inc. provides health and human services that enrich lives and communities through innovation and supportive services. with a goal to help people achieve greater independence and quality of life, people inc. provides day,…
Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.
Improve the food value chain in developing countries by mobilizing corporate volunteers to share knowledge and expertise with small and growing food processors.
Making our government work better is a daunting task, and we are a small organization seeking to transform a government that employs millions of civilians and manages trillions of dollars in taxpayer revenue needed to protect public…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Human Rights Watch Inc and the most unlike its peers is Chicago Hope Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
41 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 41 of the 53 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 CARITAS COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds HomeStart Inc ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds MARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds National Network to End Domestic Violence Inc ↗
- Who funds HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC ↗
- Who funds PREPARATORY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
- Who funds FOUNTAIN HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds NEADS INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds Emerge Inc ↗
- Who funds BIG SISTER ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds THE BAIL PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds ROSIE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE TREEHOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO HOPE 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.
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
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 Darman Family Charitable Trust 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc — 32% of income from government
- Beacon Hill Village Inc — 28% of income from government
- The Treehouse Foundation Inc — 23% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- HomeStart Inc — 20% of income from government
- Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc — 8% of income from government
- Perkins School for the Blind — 7% of income from government
- Special Olympics Massachusetts Inc — 1% of income from government
- Neads Inc — 1% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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