· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k20 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BOSTON | $100,000 |
| SUN VALLEY OPERA | $20,000 |
| ST LUKES RIVER FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| IMPACT MELANOMA | $5,000 |
| OFFICE OF PHILANTHROPY NEW ENGLAND BAPTIST HOSPITAL | $2,500 |
| MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY | $2,500 |
| WOOD RIVER JEWISH COMMUNITY INC | $2,000 |
| WOOD RIVER YMCA | $2,000 |
| HUNGER COALITION | $1,000 |
| HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS | $1,000 |
| SWIFTSURE RANCH THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER | $1,000 |
| HIGHER GROUND SUN VALLEY | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| BETHESDA HOUSE | $500 |
| THE CONWAY HOUSE | $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 (FY21–24, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 67% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +20% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC4× · 2021–2024 · $450k · revenue +83%
- SLST LUKE'S WOOD RIVER FOUNDATION INC4× · 2021–2024 · $20k · revenue +20%
- HGHIGHER GROUND USA INC4× · 2021–2024 · $4k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- HCHARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INCone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue -55%
- MEMASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EARone grant, 2021 · $3k
- MGMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITALone grant, 2021 · $3k
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.
Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.
The mission of winchester hospital is "to care. to heal. to excel." this ethos provides each and every staff member with clear expectations, promoting teamwork and respect while ensuring safety, quality and empathy for patients. winchester…
Tertiary care academic medical center
Patient care, teaching, research and serving the community.
The mission of the beth israel deaconess hospital-milton, inc. (bid-milton or hospital) is to provide safe, high-quality, community-based health care and access to tertiary care in close collaboration with its sister hospital, beth israel…
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
The mission of the beth israel deaconess hospital-plymouth, inc. (bid-plymouth or hospital) is to improve the health and well-being of its patients and communities by providing a full continuum of healthcare services with excellence and…
Beth israel lahey health primary care (bilhpc) is a network of community based physicians affiliated with the beth israel lahey health (bilh) network and serving the patients and communities served by the lahey clinic hospital (lahey…
Beth israel lahey health inc.'s mission is to support its affiliates and their healthcare missions, to improve the health of patients, their families and the communities served and as a network its purpose is to create healthier…
Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…
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…
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Home for Little Wanderers Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wayne Barton Study Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
30 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. 30 of the 45 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 BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds ST LUKE'S WOOD RIVER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds IMPACT MELANOMA INC ↗
- Who funds WOOD RIVER LAND TRUST CO ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS EYE & EAR INFIRMARY ↗
- Who funds SWIFTSURE RANCH THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HIGHER GROUND USA INC ↗
- Who funds Wood River Community Young Men's Christian Association Inc ↗
- Who funds THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC ↗
- Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND BAPTIST HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds BETHESDA HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds LEE PESKY LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MADELEINE H GORDON DBA GIFT OF LIFE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HEALING WATERS FLY FISHING INC ↗
- Who funds THE BAIL PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL SHELTER OF WOOD RIVER VALLEY DBA MOUNTAIN HUMANE ↗
- Who funds LIVING WITH WOLVES LTD ↗
- Who funds SUN VALLEY SKI EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BLAINE COUNTY HUNGER COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds WAYNE BARTON STUDY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR RARE DISORDERS INC ↗
- Who funds BIG SISTER ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
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: 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
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 Gary and Patricia Darman Charitable Trust 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing Inc — 46% of income from government
- The Home for Little Wanderers Inc — 38% of income from government
- Beacon Hill Village Inc — 28% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Impact Melanoma Inc — 3% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc — 2% of income from government
- Special Olympics Massachusetts Inc — 1% of income from government
- New England Baptist Hospital — 1% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc — 0% of income from government
- Our Sisters School — 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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