Maine · Private foundation
Edward & Mary Ellen Darling Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $174k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 18
- Grants FY2025
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 26%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $7,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 19
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 26% of the organizations Edward & Mary Ellen Darling Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 25% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $48k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 18 | $174k | 6% |
| FY2024 | 19 | $189k | 26% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $240k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $140k | 36% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $178k | 40% |
| FY2020 | 6 | $25k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Husson University | $305,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Bangor Area Homeless Shelter | $97,500 | 6 | 2% |
| St Joseph Hospital | $70,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Bangor Area Recovery Network Inc | $31,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Brightfocus Foundation | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation | $11,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Mount Desert Island Hospital | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Wounded Warrior Project Inc | $7,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Maine Veterans Project | $5,700 | 2 | 1% |
| Maine Discovery Museum | $5,000 | 2 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Husson University | $305,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Bangor Area Homeless Shelter | $97,500 | 6 | 2% |
| St Joseph Hospital | $70,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Bangor Area Recovery Network Inc | $31,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Brightfocus Foundation | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation | $11,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Mount Desert Island Hospital | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Wounded Warrior Project Inc | $7,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Maine Veterans Project | $5,700 | 2 | 1% |
| Maine Discovery Museum | $5,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Bangor Humane Society | $5,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Birch Bay Retirement Village | $2,450 | 3 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($372k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Edward & Mary Ellen Darling Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Lawrence Family Foundation · Fisher Charitable Foundation · Davis Family Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Edward & Mary Ellen Darling Family Foundation
- How much does Edward & Mary Ellen Darling Family Foundation give?
- Edward & Mary Ellen Darling Family Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $174,200 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 19 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Edward & Mary Ellen Darling Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (45%), Health (28%), Housing & Shelter (14%).
- Who are Edward & Mary Ellen Darling Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Husson University ($305k), The Bangor Area Homeless Shelter ($98k), St Joseph Hospital ($70k).
- Does Edward & Mary Ellen Darling Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Edward & Mary Ellen Darling Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Edward & Mary Ellen Darling Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc, Maine Community Foundation Inc, Bangor Savings Bank Foundation.
- Where is Edward & Mary Ellen Darling Family Foundation based?
- Edward & Mary Ellen Darling Family Foundation is based in ME.
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