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Dart Group Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$134k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
8
Grants FY2024
4
Organizations funded FY2023
75%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$12,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 11
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
4
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 75% of the organizations Dart Group Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 55% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
HealthCivil RightsYouth DevelopmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving8$134k50%
FY20234$110k75%
FY20227$121k14%
FY202110$128k30%
FY202010$114k60%
FY201911$131kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Health$224kFood & Nutrition$160kInternational$140kPhilanthropy$130kArts & Culture$63kHuman Services$16kCivil Rights$6kHousing & Shelter$5kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($125k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Dart Group Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBest Buddies International Inc: $140,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHollywood Food Coalition: $135,000 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetElton John AIDS Foundation Inc: $105,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTrevor Project Inc: $56,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLos Angeles Lgbt Center: $47,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBill Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLos Angeles Regional Food Bank: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSilverstein Dream Foundation: $12,500 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetAmerican Friends of the Louvre Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe King's Foundation America Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetEquality California: $6,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTrue Colors United Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGlsen Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNetwork for Teaching Entrepreneurship: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCedars-Sinai Medical Center: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPetersen Automotive Museum Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGabrielle's Angel Foundation for Cancer Research Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 17.

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.

National Philanthropic TrustPA8.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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.

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How do I get to Dart Group Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Dart Group Foundation Inc 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.

About Dart Group Foundation Inc

How much does Dart Group Foundation Inc give?
Dart Group Foundation Inc reported 8 grants totaling $133,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 11 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Dart Group Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (30%), Food & Nutrition (21%), International (19%).
Who are Dart Group Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Best Buddies International Inc ($140k), Hollywood Food Coalition ($135k), Elton John AIDS Foundation Inc ($106k).
Does Dart Group Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 75% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Dart Group Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Dart Group Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Philanthropic Trust, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Dart Group Foundation Inc based?
Dart Group Foundation Inc is based in MD.

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 30 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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