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Dart Group Foundation Inc at a glance

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Dart Group Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$134k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$50k
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, FY2019 to 2024.

Health$224kFood & Nutrition$160kInternational$140kPhilanthropy$130kArts & Culture$63kHuman Services$16kCivil Rights$6kHousing & Shelter$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $6k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $78k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$12,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BEST BUDDIES INTERNATIONAL$50,000
CLINTON FOUNDATION$25,000
HOLLYWOOD FOOD COALITION$20,000
SILVERSTEIN DREAM FOUNDATION$12,500
THE KINGS FOUNDATION AMERICA$10,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE LOUVRE$10,000
ELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION$5,000
EQUALITY CALIFORNIA$1,000
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 (FY24–24, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%THE KINGS FOUNDATION AMERICA: $10k → 14%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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$541k · 10 repeat orgs$196k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
14

Total granted

$541k
$138k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+49%

Still filing today

90%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $58k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Civil RightsHealthArts & CultureInternationalPhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther
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

  • Best Buddies International Inc
    6× · 2019–2024 · $140k · revenue +49%
  • HF
    HOLLYWOOD FOOD COALITION
    5× · 2019–2024 · $135k · revenue +771%
  • ELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $106k · revenue +172%

Funded once

  • EJ
    ELTON JOHN FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $50k
  • TJ
    THE JEWISH FEDERATION
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • TW
    THE WHARTON FUND
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
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
Clinton Health Access Initiative Inc

For over 20 years, chai's mission has been to save lives and improve health outcomes in low-and middle-income countries around the world. we do this by enabling the government and private sector to strengthen and sustain quality health…

International
2
Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric Aids Foundation

The elizabeth glaser pediatric aids foundation (egpaf) is a proven leader in the fight against pediatric hiv/aids and has reached over 33 million pregnant women with services to prevent transmission of hiv to their babies. to date, egpaf…

Health
3
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
4
California Institute for Immunology and Immunotherapy

To harness the power of the human immune system and advanced computing technologies to create and translate scientific discoveries into next generation vaccines and therapies for prevention, control and cure of chronic diseases, enabling…

Health
5
The Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation

The jonsson cancer center foundation is the single most important vehicle for raising private funds for cancer research at ucla and plays a key role in advancing cancer treatments and care. please see schedule o for additional information.

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6
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences

The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…

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7
Los Angeles World Affairs Council and Town Hall

The organization is a non-partisan, membership based speakers' forum that connects business leaders, community members, and engaged individuals with shared interest in local, national, and global affairs. it provides an open and accessible…

International
8
California Dental Association Foundation

The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.

Science & Tech
9
Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund Inc

The transgender legal defense and education fund is committed to ending discrimination based on gender identity and expression, and to achieving equality for transgender people through public education, test-case litigation, direct legal…

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10
University of California Irvine Foundation

The mission of the university of california, irvine foundation (uc irvine foundation) is to raise and manage private funds to support uc irvine's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service. to this end, the uc…

Education
11
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
12
Internet Society Foundation

At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

20 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. 20 of the 30 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
14/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HOLLYWOOD FOOD COALITION: $135,000 · OtherHOLLYWOOD FOOD COALITIONELTON JOHN FOUNDATION: $50,000 · OtherELTON JOHN FOUNDATIONTHE JEWISH FEDERATION: $50,000 · OtherTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONLOS ANGELES LGBT CENTER: $47,500 · OtherLOS ANGELES LGBT CENTERLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $25,000 · OtherLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANKTHE PRINCE OF WALES FOUNDATION: $20,000 · OtherTHE PRINCE OF WALES FOUNDATION+10 more: $33,000 · Other+10 moreELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION INC: $105,500 · HealthELTON JOHN AIDS FOUND…BILL HILLARY & CHELSEA CLINTON FOUNDATION: $25,000 · HealthBILL HILLARY & CHELSE…SILVERSTEIN DREAM FOUNDATION: $12,500 · HealthSILVERSTEIN DREAM FOU…+1 more: $1,000 · HealthBest Buddies International Inc: $140,000 · InternationalBest Buddies Internat…TREVOR PROJECT INC: $56,000 · Civil RightsTREVOR PRO…EQUALITY CALIFORNIA: $6,000 · Civil RightsEQUALITY C…TRUE COLORS UNITED INC: $5,000 · Civil RightsTRUE COLOR…GLSEN INC: $4,000 · Civil RightsGLSEN INCCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $15,000 · PhilanthropyGABRIELLE'S ANGEL FOUNDATION FOR CANCER RESEARCH INC: $1,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE LOUVRE INC: $10,000 · Arts & CulturePETERSEN AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Arts & CultureTHE KING'S FOUNDATION AMERICA INC: $10,000 · Human Services
Other$360,500Health$144,000International$140,000Civil Rights$71,000Philanthropy$16,000Arts & Culture$11,000Human Services$10,000

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

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 budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 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 budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $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
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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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.
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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.

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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