· Private foundation
Dart Foundation fka Solid Waste Management Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 50% of Dart Foundation fka Solid Waste Management Foundation’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $130k
- $50k–250k13 grants · $1.0M
- $250k+3 grants · $1.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Columbia University | $900,000 |
| Lansing Public Media Authority | $625,000 |
| Boys & Girls Club of Lansing | $250,000 |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters Michigan Capital Region Inc | $130,000 |
| Highfields Inc | $120,000 |
| Capital Area Humane Society | $100,000 |
| Feeding America Kentucky's Heartland Inc | $100,000 |
| North Texas Food Bank | $100,000 |
| CASA of Talbot County Inc | $100,000 |
| REACH Studio Art Center | $70,000 |
| Feeding America Riverside and San Bernardino Counties | $50,000 |
| Cristo Rey Community Center | $50,000 |
| RUSH Ministries Inc | $50,000 |
| Friends of Joshua House Foundation Inc | $50,000 |
| Rockdale County Emergency Relief Fund Inc | $50,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $1.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 75% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 9% of Dart Foundation fka Solid Waste Management Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +59% since the first grant, against +37% for the ones you funded once.
190 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 183 since wound down; 13 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, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M 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
- I5IMPRESSION 5 SCIENCE CENTER3× · 2021–2023 · $2.4M · revenue +137% · 46% of their budget
- FCForty Carrots of Sarasota Inc2× · 2017–2018 · $1.3M · revenue +152% · 41% of their budget
- HIHIGHFIELDS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +1%
Funded once
- WCWARREN COUNTY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2018 · $500k · revenue -31% · 39% of their budget
- MGMcLaren Greater Lansing Healthcare Foundationone grant, 2019 · $500k
- MGMCLAREN GREATER LANSING FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $350k · revenue -73%
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.
Florida community health centers, inc. (fchc) is a federally qualified health center serving medically needy populations in south florida, with an emphasis on serving rural and farm worker communities.
Lakeshore community health care provides access to comprehensive, integrated health care, regardless of ability to pay, eliminating health disparities among the underserved.
Provide affordable, high-quality health services and remove inequities to improve the lives of all.
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
The mission of greater minneapolis crisis nursery is to end the abuse and neglect of children and create strong and healthy families.
Children's services
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.
The lincoln children's museum invites children to create, discover and learn through the power of play.
To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.
Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease and injury.
To strengthen youth and families while enhancing systems and communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Promise House Inc and the most unlike its peers is Abba's Tables Incorporated. 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) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
314 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. 314 of the 612 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 IMPRESSION 5 SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds Forty Carrots of Sarasota Inc ↗
- Who funds HIGHFIELDS INC ↗
- Who funds SARASOTA MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Child and Family Charities ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF LANSING ↗
- Who funds SPARROW FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds POTTER PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds WARREN COUNTY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL CARIBBEAN MARINE INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds MCLAREN GREATER LANSING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF LANSING ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL OFFICE THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH'S INTERNATIONAL AWARD USA ↗
- Who funds Burr Oak 4-H Club - Michigan State ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities of Ingham Eaton & Clinton Counties ↗
- Who funds MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC ↗
- Who funds LANSING COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds MID-MICHIGAN RECOVERY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS MICHIGAN CAPITAL REGION INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA PIEDMONT TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR RUSH 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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.
Open a dossier: Capital Region Community Foundation · Lancaster County Community Foundation · The Steinman Foundation · High Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · Delta Dental Plan of Michigan Inc · Clark Associates Charitable Foundation · Lansing Rotary Foundation · Joe D Pentecost Foundation · Texas Women's Foundation · High Foundation · Jackson Charitable 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 Dart Foundation fka Solid Waste Management 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Selah Freedom Inc — 53% of income from government
- Kristi House Inc — 49% of income from government
- Safe Place and Rape Crisis Center Inc — 23% of income from government
- Easter Seals Southwest Florida Inc — 12% of income from government
- Child Protection Center Inc — 8% of income from government
- Feeding South Florida Inc — 5% of income from government
- Mote Marine Laboratory Inc — 4% of income from government
- Feeding America Tampa Bay Inc — 2% of income from government
- All Faiths Food Bank Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Nemours Foundation — 0% of income from government
- The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc — 0% of income from government
- Kids in Distress 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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