Maryland · Private foundation
The Daba Fund
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.
- $580k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2025
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 42%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 12
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $13M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 42% of the organizations The Daba Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 35% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $170k 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 | 11 | $530k | 45% |
| FY2024 | 12 | $480k | 42% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $485k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $315k | 86% |
| FY2021 | 2 | $175k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $400k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sterling College | $880,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Gays and Lesbians Living in a Transgender Society Inc | $172,500 | 4 | 7% |
| Soul Fire Farm Institute Inc | $172,500 | 4 | 2% |
| Black and Pink Inc | $172,500 | 4 | 2% |
| The Okra Project | $145,000 | 3 | 17% |
| The Loveland Foundation Inc | $122,500 | 3 | 1% |
| Darkness RISING Project | $102,500 | 3 | 14% |
| Possibility Labs | $60,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Sisterreach | $50,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Center for an Agricultural Economy Inc | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sterling College | $880,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Gays and Lesbians Living in a Transgender Society Inc | $172,500 | 4 | 7% |
| Soul Fire Farm Institute Inc | $172,500 | 4 | 2% |
| Black and Pink Inc | $172,500 | 4 | 2% |
| The Okra Project | $145,000 | 3 | 17% |
| The Loveland Foundation Inc | $122,500 | 3 | 1% |
| Darkness RISING Project | $102,500 | 3 | 14% |
| Possibility Labs | $60,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Sisterreach | $50,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Center for an Agricultural Economy Inc | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Borealis Philanthropy | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Griffin-Gracy Educational Retreat & Historical Center | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Susu Community Farm Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 7% |
| Project Prosper | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| For the Gworls Inc | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Presente Maine | $30,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Niweskok | $30,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Arts Business Collaborative | $27,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Middle East Children's Alliance | $20,000 | 1 | 1% |
| American Near East Refugee Aid | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($80k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Daba Fund 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: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Borealis Philanthropy · Impactassetsinc · Tides Foundation · Stonewall Community Foundation · Groundswell Fund · Ms Foundation for Women Inc · Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc · Grapevine giving foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
About The Daba Fund
- How much does The Daba Fund give?
- The Daba Fund reported 12 grants totaling $580,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 12 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Daba Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (36%), Human Services (13%), Food & Nutrition (12%).
- Who are The Daba Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Sterling College ($880k), Gays and Lesbians Living in a Transgender Society Inc ($173k), Soul Fire Farm Institute Inc ($173k).
- Does The Daba Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 42% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Daba Fund 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 The Daba Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc, Borealis Philanthropy, Impactassetsinc.
- Where is The Daba Fund based?
- The Daba Fund is based in MD.
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