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Gary and Patricia Darman Charitable Trust

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$148k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
22
Grants FY2024
28
Organizations funded FY2023
14%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
26 to 33
FY2021 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
4
Total assets, FY2024
$1.8M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 14% of the organizations Gary and Patricia Darman Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23
HealthEnvironmentRecreation & SportsAnimalsOther
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 arriving22$148k9%
FY202328$165k14%
FY202226$168k23%
FY202133$221kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Youth Development$451kHealth$102kArts & Culture$98kHuman Services$11kReligion$9kEnvironment$6kRecreation & Sports$5kHousing & Shelter$5kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ID
NY
MA
OH
CA
VA
MD
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 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 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($148k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Gary and Patricia Darman Charitable Trust supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc: $450,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetSt Luke's Wood River Foundation Inc: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetImpact Melanoma Inc: $20,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetWood River Land Trust Co: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHigher Ground USA Inc: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSwiftsure Ranch Therapeutic Equestrian Center Inc: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWood River Community Young Men's Christian Association Inc: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Home for Little Wanderers Inc: $3,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMarine Toys for Tots Foundation: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNew England Baptist Hospital: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHarlem Children's Zone Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMadeleine H Gordon Dba Gift of Life Foundation: $2,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetProject Healing Waters Fly Fishing Inc: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBethesda House Inc: $2,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetLee Pesky Learning Center Inc: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAnimal Shelter of Wood River Valley Dba Mountain Humane: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Bail Project Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLiving With Wolves Ltd: $1,200 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSun Valley Ski Education Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPine Street Inn Inc: $1,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWayne Barton Study Center Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNational Organization for Rare Disorders Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBig Sister Association of Greater Boston Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBlaine County Hunger Coalition Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBeacon Hill Village Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOur Sisters School: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSpecial Olympics Massachusetts Inc: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRosie's Place Inc: $200 over 2y, 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 29.

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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.

Spur Community Foundation IncID15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Spur Community Foundation Inc · Idaho Community Foundation Inc · The Nalen Foundation · The Pesky Family Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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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Find your warmest path to Gary and Patricia Darman Charitable Trust 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 Gary and Patricia Darman Charitable Trust

How much does Gary and Patricia Darman Charitable Trust give?
Gary and Patricia Darman Charitable Trust reported 22 grants totaling $147,800 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 26 and 33 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
What does Gary and Patricia Darman Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Youth Development (64%), Health (14%), Arts & Culture (14%).
Who are Gary and Patricia Darman Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc ($450k), St Luke's Wood River Foundation Inc ($20k), Impact Melanoma Inc ($20k).
Does Gary and Patricia Darman Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Gary and Patricia Darman Charitable Trust 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 Gary and Patricia Darman Charitable Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Spur Community Foundation Inc, Idaho Community Foundation Inc, The Nalen Foundation.
Where is Gary and Patricia Darman Charitable Trust based?
Gary and Patricia Darman Charitable Trust is based in MA.

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 45 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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