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Dart Foundation fka Solid Waste Management Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
22
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$900k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$11MHuman Services$4.6MHealth$4.4MScience & Tech$3.3MYouth Development$1.8MArts & Culture$823kFood & Nutrition$799kAnimals$764kOther$0
02FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $130k
  • $50k–250k13 grants · $1.0M
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.8M
$50,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$72k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
North Texas Food Bank$100,000
CASA of Talbot County Inc$100,000
Capital Area Humane Society$100,000
Feeding America Kentucky's Heartland Inc$100,000
REACH Studio Art Center$70,000
RUSH Ministries Inc$50,000
Anderson Animal Shelter DBA Anderson Humane$50,000
Friends of Joshua House Foundation Inc$50,000
Cristo Rey Community Center$50,000
Feeding America Riverside and San Bernardino Counties$50,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Presbyterian Children's Homes and Services: $5k → 10%Helping Mamas Inc: $50k → 9%Rockdale County Emergency Relief Fund Inc: $50k → 11%A Child's Voice Child Advocacy Center Inc: $25k → 11%Cunningham Children's Home of Urbana IL: $52k → 19%Presbyterian Children's Homes and Services: $5k → 10%ChildNet Inc: $25k → 13%Cristo Rey Community Center: $50k → 9%Jefferson DeFrees Family Center: $89k → 14%United Food Bank and Services of Plant City Inc: $15k → 13%Kids In Distress Inc: $5k → 13%Cristo Rey Community Center: $25k → 9%Project Renewal Domestic Violence Intervention Program Inc: $5k → 11%Public Action to Deliver Shelter Inc: $50k → 8%Child Protective Services Community Partners: $5k → 14%Kids In Distress Inc: $5k → 13%Cristo Rey Community Center: $24k → 9%Young Mens Christian Association of Metropolitan Atlanta Inc: $5k → 13%Cristo Rey Community Center: $20k → 9%Public Action to Deliver Shelter Inc: $15k → 8%Equestrian Connection NFP: $5k → 8%Cristo Rey Community Center: $19k → 9%Cristo Rey Community Center: $18k → 9%Friends of Disabled Adults and Children Too Inc: $5k → 14%Cristo Rey Community Center: $18k → 9%Public Action to Deliver Shelter Inc: $5k → 8%Cristo Rey Community Center: $17k → 9%Public Action to Deliver Shelter Inc: $5k → 8%Cristo Rey Community Center: $16k → 9%Community Action Council of Lewis Mason & Thurston Counties: $10k → 9%Public Action to Deliver Shelter Inc: $5k → 8%Cristo Rey Community Center: $16k → 9%Cristo Rey Community Center: $16k → 9%Cristo Rey Community Center: $14k → 9%Cristo Rey Community Center: $13k → 9%Bridges Training Foundation: $5k → 9%Waxahachie CARE Services: $12k → 9%SierraRose Farms Healing Hearts with Horses Foundation: $5k → 9%Randolph County Family Crisis Center Inc: $10k → 14%A Kid's Place of Tampa Bay Inc: $50k → 13%The Night Ministry: $25k → 14%Water Street Ministries: $17k → 9%Child and Family Charities: $750k → 16%Child and Family Charities: $25k → 16%Child and Family Charities: $24k → 16%Child and Family Charities: $10k → 16%American Red Cross Mid-Michigan Chapter: $119k → 16%American Red Cross Mid-Michigan Chapter: $75k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
ID
IL
MI
NY
IN
PA
NJ
CA
KY
VA
MD
DE
NC
SC
DC
OK
MS
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 9% of Dart Foundation fka Solid Waste Management Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Dart Foundation fka Solid Waste Management Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$20M · 190 repeat orgs$9.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against +37% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

190
405

Total granted

$20M
$8.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
+37%

Still filing today

48%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionArts & CultureOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • I5
    IMPRESSION 5 SCIENCE CENTER
    3× · 2021–2023 · $2.4M · revenue +144% · 46% of their budget
  • FC
    Forty Carrots of Sarasota Inc
    2× · 2017–2018 · $1.3M · revenue +152% · 41% of their budget
  • HI
    HIGHFIELDS INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • MG
    McLaren Greater Lansing Healthcare Foundation
    one grant, 2019 · $500k
  • WC
    WARREN COUNTY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2018 · $500k · revenue -31% · 39% of their budget
  • MG
    MCLAREN GREATER LANSING FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $350k · revenue -51%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Florida Community Health Centers Inc

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.

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2
Lakeshore Community Health Care Inc

Lakeshore community health care provides access to comprehensive, integrated health care, regardless of ability to pay, eliminating health disparities among the underserved.

Health
3
Heartland Community Health Clinic D/B/a Heartland Health Services

Provide affordable, high-quality health services and remove inequities to improve the lives of all.

Health
4
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
5
Greater Minneapolis Crisis Nursery

The mission of greater minneapolis crisis nursery is to end the abuse and neglect of children and create strong and healthy families.

Human Services
6
United Children's Services of Bennington County Inc

Children's services

Human Services
7
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

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…

Community Improvement
8
Central Maine Healthcare Corporation

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.

Health
9
Lincoln Children's Museum

The lincoln children's museum invites children to create, discover and learn through the power of play.

Arts & Culture
10
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Inc

To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.

Health
11
Cook Children's Medical Center

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.

Health
12
Choices Coordinated Care Solutions Inc

To strengthen youth and families while enhancing systems and communities.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Promise House Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

314 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
93
Early backer (in before they grew)
295/314
Grantees still filing
244/314
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Forty Carrots of Sarasota Inc: $1,271,940 · OtherForty Carrots of Sarasota IncHIGHFIELDS INC: $1,246,040 · OtherHIGHFIELDS INCMason Public Schools: $779,055 · OtherIngham Intermediate School District: $700,000 · OtherLansing Public Media Authority: $625,000 · Other+120 more: $10,645,569 · Other+120 moreTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $1,800,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES O…EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA COUNTY: $393,500 · EducationEDUCATION FOUN…LANSING COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $200,000 · EducationLANSING COMMUN…GEORGIA PIEDMONT TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $130,000 · Education+17 more: $1,062,890 · Education+17 moreSARASOTA MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $978,200 · HealthSARASOTA MEM…SPARROW FOUNDATION: $555,000 · HealthSPARROW FOUN…MCLAREN GREATER LANSING FOUNDATION: $350,000 · HealthMCLAREN GREA…HOSPICE OF LANSING: $300,000 · HealthHOSPICE OF L…Safe Place and Rape Crisis Center Inc: $110,670 · Health+17 more: $819,065 · Health+17 moreIMPRESSION 5 SCIENCE CENTER: $2,400,500 · Arts & CultureIMPRESSION…+2 more: $120,000 · Arts & CultureChild and Family Charities: $808,635 · Human ServicesCatholic Charities of Ingham Eaton & Clinton Counties: $268,010 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $193,900 · Human ServicesJEFFERSON DEFREES FAMILY CENTER: $88,995 · Human ServicesPUBLIC ACTION TO DELIVER SHELTER INC D/B/A HESED HOUSE: $84,850 · Human Services+11 more: $410,070 · Human ServicesBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF LANSING: $557,500 · Youth DevelopmentNATIONAL OFFICE THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH'S INTERNATIONAL AWARD USA: $290,317 · Youth DevelopmentBurr Oak 4-H Club - Michigan State: $280,900 · Youth DevelopmentBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS MICHIGAN CAPITAL REGION INC: $130,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SARASOTA AND DESOTO COUNTIES INC: $81,365 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF MAGIC VALLEY: $53,000 · Youth Development+4 more: $127,400 · Youth DevelopmentWARREN COUNTY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION: $500,000 · Community ImprovementFOUNDATION FOR RUSH INC: $130,000 · Community ImprovementMISSISSIPPI FIRST INC: $46,300 · Community Improvement
Other$15,267,604Education$3,586,390Health$3,112,935Arts & Culture$2,520,500Human Services$1,854,460Youth Development$1,520,482Community Improvement$676,300

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetIMPRESSION 5 SCIENCE CENTER: $2,400,500 over 3y, 46% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $1,800,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetForty Carrots of Sarasota Inc: $1,271,940 over 2y, 41% of budgetHIGHFIELDS INC: $1,246,040 over 8y, 5.2% of budgetSARASOTA MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $978,200 over 3y, 6.7% of budgetChild and Family Charities: $808,635 over 4y, 7.5% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF LANSING: $557,500 over 5y, 12% of budgetSPARROW FOUNDATION: $555,000 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetPOTTER PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $504,650 over 2y, 25% of budgetWARREN COUNTY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION: $500,000 over 1y, 39% of budgetThe Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc: $450,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetEDUCATION FOUNDATION OF SARASOTA COUNTY: $393,500 over 4y, 8.2% of budgetCENTRAL CARIBBEAN MARINE INSTITUTE INC: $385,351 over 4y, 9.1% of budgetMCLAREN GREATER LANSING FOUNDATION: $350,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetHOSPICE OF LANSING: $300,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetNATIONAL OFFICE THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH'S INTERNATIONAL AWARD USA: $290,317 over 3y, 17% of budgetBurr Oak 4-H Club - Michigan State: $280,900 over 3y, 7.2% of budgetCatholic Charities of Ingham Eaton & Clinton Counties: $268,010 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetMOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC: $266,940 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetLANSING COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $193,900 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMID-MICHIGAN RECOVERY SERVICES INC: $162,500 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS MICHIGAN CAPITAL REGION INC: $130,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR RUSH INC: $130,000 over 2y, 94% of budgetSouthern Crescent Technical College Foundation Inc: $118,965 over 3y, 22% of budgetSafe Place and Rape Crisis Center Inc: $110,670 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetDELAWARE TECHNICAL & COMMUNITY COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $105,335 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetFEEDING AMERICA KENTUCKY'S HEARTLAND INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCASA OF TALBOT COUNTY INC: $100,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetAMERICAN CAVE CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $100,000 over 4y, 7.6% of budgetINGHAM COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $100,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetOWENSBORO COMMUNITY AND TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $96,120 over 1y, 21% of budgetRIVERSIDE COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $95,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetLANCASTER COUNTY CAREER & TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION: $94,400 over 1y, 15% of budgetJEFFERSON DEFREES FAMILY CENTER: $88,995 over 1y, 12% of budgetPUBLIC ACTION TO DELIVER SHELTER INC D/B/A HESED HOUSE: $84,850 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SARASOTA AND DESOTO COUNTIES INC: $81,365 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetEPHRATA PUBLIC LIBRARY: $80,870 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetLANCASTER GENERAL HOSPITAL: $80,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION ADA: $77,000 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetEATON RAPIDS MEDICAL CENTER: $75,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRUSH Ministries Inc: $75,000 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetADVOCATE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $71,475 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFEEDING AMERICA RIVERSIDE SAN BERNARDINO COUNTIES: $70,650 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPARKLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $70,360 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetReach Studio Art Center: $70,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetLODI HOUSE: $67,500 over 2y, 2.5% of budget
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.

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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.

Capital Region Commun…Lancaster County Comm…The Steinman Foundati…High FoundationUnited Way of Metropo…Delta Dental Plan of …Clark Associates Char…Lansing Rotary Founda…Joe D Pentecost Found…Texas Women's Foundat…High FoundationJackson Charitable Fo…
Capital Region Community FoundationMI53.4× affinity26 shared granteesties to 4 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Dart Foundation fka Solid Waste Management Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dart Foundation fka Solid Waste Management Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 160%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
16get no government money at all
82report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Dart Foundation fka Solid Waste Management Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Dart Foundation fka Solid Waste Management Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 612 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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