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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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 50% of EDWARD & MARY ELLEN DARLING FAMILY 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $140k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HUSSON UNIVERSITY | $30,000 |
| GOOD SHEPPERD FOOD BANK | $25,000 |
| BANGOR AREA HOMELESS SHELTER | $25,000 |
| ST JOSEPH HOSPITAL | $15,000 |
| MOOD AND MEMORY CLINIC | $15,000 |
| CANCER CARE OF MAINE | $10,000 |
| JOHN BAPST MEMORIAL HS | $10,000 |
| MDI HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| SARAH'S HOUSE | $7,500 |
| ST JOHN'S CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| MAINE VETERANS PROJECT | $3,200 |
| ST JUDE RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $3,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| BANGOR AREA RECOVERY NETWORK | $3,000 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITALS CHILDREN | $2,500 |
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 (FY22–25, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
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.
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.
19 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- HUHusson University6× · 2020–2025 · $305k · revenue +16%
- TBTHE BANGOR AREA HOMELESS SHELTER6× · 2020–2025 · $98k · revenue +5%
- SJSt Joseph Hospital5× · 2021–2025 · $70k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- BFBRIGHTFOCUS FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue +30%
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.
Penobscot Bay Medical Center (PBMC) is an acute care hospital that offers inpatient and outpatient care, diagnostic, therapeutic and rehabilitative services, patient and community education, and a full range of specialty services through…
Maine Behavioral Healthcare provides a seamless and compassionate continuum of care through a community of providers collaborating to promote recovery and the overall mental and physical well-being of those we are privileged to serve.
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment, and compassion ofour family of caregivers.
MaineHealth is a voluntary, not-for-profit community and referral system of hospitals, dedicated to providing high quality health care services to all persons who seek care regardless of their sex, race, religion, age, color, sexual…
Southern Maine Health Care exists to improve the health and health care of the communities we serve.
The memorial hospital at north conway, n.h. (memorial hospital) provides healthcare services to the residents and visitors of the mount washington valley area of new hampshire as well as western maine.
It is the mission of the Bangor Nursing and Rehabilitation Center to provide the highest level of care with the highest level of quality, competency and professionalism that focuses on the health andwell-being of the community it serves.
Community Health and Nursing Services (CHANS) provides home health andcommunity health promotion services in Brunswick, Bath, andsurrounding communities.
The mission of new england baptist hospital (nebh or hospital) is the operation and maintenance of an acute care, orthopedic specialty hospital and provision of all services related thereto for the benefit of patients. nebh strives to…
Ensured a high quality, accessible, affordable and appropriate integrated health care system to improve the health and well being of the community.
Penobscot Community Health Center (PCHC) is a non-profit organization incorporated in 1997 that is governed by a Board of community volunteers and is the largest Federally Qualified Health Center in Maine. PCHC is driven by its mission…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Birch Bay Retirement Village and the most unlike its peers is Brightfocus Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 21 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
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 Husson University ↗
- Who funds THE BANGOR AREA HOMELESS SHELTER ↗
- Who funds St Joseph Hospital ↗
- Who funds Bangor Area Recovery Network Inc ↗
- Who funds BRIGHTFOCUS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MOUNT DESERT ISLAND HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds MAINE VETERANS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds MAINE DISCOVERY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Bangor Humane Society ↗
- Who funds BIRCH BAY RETIREMENT VILLAGE ↗
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 tightly interlocked camp — 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
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 Edward & Mary Ellen Darling Family 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Wounded Warrior Project 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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