· Private foundation
Darrow Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| IMMACULATE CONCEPTION ACADEMY | $8,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO-MARIN FOOD BANK | $8,000 |
| MARIN FOSTER CARE | $2,500 |
| SPAULDING MARINE CENTER | $2,000 |
| ST ANTHONY'S DINING ROOM | $2,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $2,000 |
| ST VINCENT DEPAUL SOCIETY | $2,000 |
| HOMEWARD BOUND | $2,000 |
| FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS | $2,000 |
| ST RAPHAEL'S SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| BLOOM MARIN | $1,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA | $500 |
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 (FY17–22, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +60% since the first grant, against +58% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 1 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- SFSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK8× · 2017–2024 · $55k · revenue +74%
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES CYO OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF SAN FRANCISCO5× · 2017–2022 · $10k · revenue +60%
- GMGLIDE MEMORIAL CHURCH3× · 2017–2019 · $6k · revenue ×18
Funded once
- MCMARIN CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $2k
- TNThe Novato Human Needs Centerone grant, 2017 · $500
- GSGIRL SCOUTS OF AMERICAone grant, 2017 · $500
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.
MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…
To provide high-quality, heart-centered, affordable, and accessible psychotherapy to our diverse San Francisco/Bay Area communities. The MCC offers excellent training and supervision for the next generation of mental health professionals.
Mission statement: mission: caring for our patients first and our people always. vision: to be the most comprehensive, integrated and connected health system for getting and staying well. values: excellence - we deliver high-quality,…
North Beach Citizens meets the needs of our unhoused and extremely low-income neighbors with trust, integrity, and compassion. Through personalized, innovative programs, we help individuals facing poverty reclaim dignity, stability, and a…
Senior Access's mission is to help Marin's older and disabled adults remain independent and part of the community for as long as possible.
Homeward Bound is the main provider of emergency shelter, supportive housing and services for people overcoming a crisis of homelessness in Marin County, California. Our mission of "opening doors to safety, dignity, hope, and…
To support art and culture in Marin County, including enhancing the programs and facilities at the Marin Center and Marin County Fair.
Marin Advocates mission is to prevent abuse and to advocate for the best interest of children.
We make it possible for people in marin to achieve well-being by providing the vital services they need. together, we break down the barriers that get in the way of fair and lasting change in service to better outcomes for all.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities Cyo of the Archdiocese of San Francisco and the most unlike its peers is The Foundation Fighting Blindness Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 26 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 SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES CYO OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities San Bernardino & Riverside Counties ↗
- Who funds GLIDE MEMORIAL CHURCH ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds The Spaulding Wooden Boat Center ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC ↗
- Who funds North Marin Community Services ↗
- Who funds BLOOM MARIN ↗
- Who funds Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum ↗
- Who funds The Novato Human Needs Center ↗
- Who funds MARIN ATHLETIC FOUNDATION ↗
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: Marin Community Foundation · Allensby Charity Fund · The William G Irwin Charity Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 Darrow Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.