· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| MOOD AND MEMORY CLINIC | $15,000 |
| ST JOSEPH HOSPITAL | $15,000 |
| MDI HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| JOHN BAPST MEMORIAL HS | $10,000 |
| CANCER CARE OF MAINE | $10,000 |
| SARAH'S HOUSE | $7,500 |
| ST JOHN'S CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| MAINE VETERANS PROJECT | $3,200 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| BANGOR AREA RECOVERY NETWORK | $3,000 |
| ST JUDE RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $3,000 |
| MAINE DISCOVERY MUSEUM | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Edward & Mary Ellen Darling Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Edward & Mary Ellen Darling Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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