· Private foundation
Darragh 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, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k6 grants · $155k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $295k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY | $195,000 |
| GOLDSBORO WORSHIP CENTER | $50,000 |
| VIA HEALTH PARTNERS | $50,000 |
| TRINITY LOAVES AND FISHES | $35,000 |
| JANE'S FUND | $25,000 |
| BEAUFORT COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| GATEWAY HOUSE INC | $25,000 |
| CATHOLIC INNER CITY SCHOOLS | $25,000 |
| MATER FILIUS QUEEN CITY | $20,000 |
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 (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 12% of Darragh Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 64% of the giving stays in NC; by stated purpose, 48%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +33% for those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 11% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $400k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ECEAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC4× · 2018–2021 · $242k · revenue +98%
Nova Southeastern University Inc2× · 2018–2019 · $92k · revenue +39%- CCISE2× · 2024–2025 · $40k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- RFRate Foundation - Team Gleasonone grant, 2024 · $100k
- HFHoly Family Catholic Churchone grant, 2024 · $30k
- OCOlph Catholic Schoolone grant, 2024 · $30k
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.
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.
Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.
Greensboro College provides a liberal arts education grounded in the traditions of the United Methodist Church and fosters the intellectual, social, and spiritual development of all students while supporting their individual needs.
North greenville university exists to glorify god by cultivating graduates who are equipped to serve as transformational leaders for church and society.
Florida southern college (florida southern or the college) is committed to educational excellence and is a selective comprehensive, private, united methodist affiliated college with a strong liberal arts core and signature programs. (see…
John brown university (jbu) provides christ-centered education that prepares students to honor god and serve others by developing their intellectual, spiritual, and professional lives. (continued on schedule o)jbu serves traditional…
Columbia college provides educational opportunities that develop students' capacity for critical thought and expression, life-long learning, acceptance of personal responsibilty, and commitment to service and social justice.
Queens university of charlotte provides transformative educational experiences that nurture intellectual curiosity, promote global understanding, encourage ethical living and prepare individuals for purposeful and fulfilling lives.
Carolina college of biblical studies exists to disciple christ-followers, through biblical higher education, for a lifetime of effective servant leadership.
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.
The College of Arts and Sciences is committed to the development of the whole person through a liberal arts education of the highest quality. The School of Theology educates women and men to serve the broad whole of the Episcopal Church in…
Johnson C. Smith University offers a liberal arts education to a diverse group of talented and motivated students in preparation for advance study and specific careers.
Southern wesleyan university is a christ-centered, student-focused learning community devoted to transforming lives by challenging students to be dedicated scholars and servant-leaders who impact the world for christ.
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 41 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.
- Who funds EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Nova Southeastern University Inc ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CISE ↗
- Who funds JANES FUND ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds BEAUFORT COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Mater Filius Queen City Inc ↗
- Who funds LIPSCOMB UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GFWC OF NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD SHEPHERD NATIVITY MISSION SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Greenville Community Shelters ↗
- Who funds KRISTI OVERTON JOHNSON MINISTRIES ↗
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.
Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Darragh Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Darragh Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Nova Southeastern University Inc: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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