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The Darby 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $182k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $425k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LAMBDA LEGAL | $150,000 |
| ARTISTIC FREEDOM INITIATIVE | $90,000 |
| RAINFOREST FOUNDATION US | $75,000 |
| POLARIS VILLAGE MINISTRIES | $60,000 |
| NORTH CASCADES INSTITUTE | $50,000 |
| SHARE MY MEALS | $40,000 |
| WORLD FOOD PROGRAM | $40,000 |
| HARWICH CONSERVATION TRUST | $35,000 |
| GRAND CANYON TRUST | $30,000 |
| AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND | $15,000 |
| HELPOUTKAWAGUCHI O'CONNOR INITIATIVE | $12,000 |
| RESOURCES | $10,000 |
| COSEE | $7,500 |
| BUILDING AFRICAN AMERICAN MINDS | $5,000 |
| DEFENDERS OF WILDLIFE | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $125k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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 +85% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $52k 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
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC7× · 2018–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +50%- LLLAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND INC9× · 2017–2025 · $925k · revenue +196%
- PVPOLARIS VILLAGE MINISTRIES5× · 2021–2025 · $685k · revenue +431% · 25% of their budget
Funded once
- SFSEATTLE FOUNDATION COVID-19 RESPONSE FUNDone grant, 2020 · $100k
- SCSprouts Chef Trainingone grant, 2024 · $40k · revenue 0%
- NCNATIONAL CONGRESS OF AMERICAN INDIANS COVID-19 RELIEF FUNDone grant, 2020 · $30k
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.
To protect the rainforest and advance the rights of Indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin. We partner with Indigenous communities in campaigns for human rights, corporate accountability, and the preservation of the Amazon Basin's…
Grist is an independent, non profit media organization dedicated to reporting on climate change.
To cultivate leaders and community partnerships to advance environmental justice.
New Roots Institute is a nonprofit empowering the next generation with knowledge and training to end factory farming.
The Alliance for Collective Action convenes leaders of environmental and social movements to advance solutions for a thriving planet. We advance our mission through the Alliance Center building and community, as well as through Collective…
The Oakland Institute, an independent policy think tank, works to support global struggles for Indigenous rights, human rights, and land rights and to promote public participation and fair debate on critical social, economic, and…
Taproot Earth works with communities to support strategies around the use of water, energy and land.
The NW Energy Coalition is an alliance of over 100 environmental, civic, and human service organizations, utilities, and businesses in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, and British Columbia, plus many individual members. The NW Energy…
Namati, inc. (namati) is dedicated to putting the law in people's hands. we strive to build a just world, in which every one of us can take part in the decisions and demand accountability from the institutions that affect our lives.…
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Partnership for Policy Integrity (PFPI) uses data-driven advocacy and litigation to fight for forests, communities and the climate.
Global Forest Generation restores and protects forest ecosystems in partnership with grassroots leaders and local communities across vast landscapes which play a critical role in preserving water, protecting biodiversity, storing carbon,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwest Harvest Emm and the most unlike its peers is Southerners On New Ground 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 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 15% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 32 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 PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds LAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds POLARIS VILLAGE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds RAINFOREST FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds North Cascades Institute ↗
- Who funds ARTISTIC FREEDOM INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds HARWICH CONSERVATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds SHARE MY MEALS INC ↗
- Who funds BUILDING AFRICAN AMERICAN MINDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE GRAND CANYON TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST HARVEST EMM ↗
- Who funds BURNING MAN PROJECT ↗
- Who funds RE SOURCES ↗
- Who funds ORLEANS CONSERVATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds Defenders of Wildlife ↗
- Who funds Sprouts Chef Training ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds TASK Inc Trenton Area Soup Kitchen Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Front and Centered ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERNERS ON NEW GROUND INC ↗
- Who funds ADULT CONGENITAL HEART ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Got Green ↗
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: The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 The Darby 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Building African American Minds Inc — 12% of income from government
- Orleans Conservation Trust — 2% 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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