· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +85% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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,…
How this is measured
24 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. 24 of the 32 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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Darby Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Darby Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Building African American Minds Inc: 12% of income from government
- Orleans Conservation Trust: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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