· Private foundation
The Darby Foundation Inc
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 placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TOCCOA FALLS COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| DOGS INC | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES-GA | $1,200 |
| LOVE HIM LOVE THEM MINISTRIES | $1,200 |
| FIRST METHODIST CHURCH | $1,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $1,000 |
| OPEN ARMS CLINIC | $1,000 |
| CHURCH OF CHRIST DISASTER RESPONSE | $1,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA | $500 |
| TOCCOA-STEPHENS COUNTY HUMANE SHELT | $100 |
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 (FY18–24, $34k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of The Darby Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +80% since the first grant, against +0% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 3 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- TFToccoa Falls College Inc7× · 2017–2024 · $205k · revenue +28%
- SGSoutheastern Guide Dogs Inc7× · 2018–2024 · $34k · revenue +80%
- OAOPEN ARMS CLINIC INC4× · 2018–2024 · $22k · revenue +168%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $15k
- VHVets Helping Heroes Incone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +0%
- VRVETERINARY REFERRAL SURGICAL PRACTIone grant, 2019 · $4k
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.
The organization retrieves dogs from kill shelters and transports them to non kill shelters in the northern part of the united states. the dogs are then adopted. the adoption rate for the southern states is considerably lower than the…
Our mission is to promote and provide for the humane treatment of cats and dogs in Forsyth County. In support of its mission, the Forsyth Humane Society FHS is committed to achieving a save rate of 90 percent for shelter animals in our…
Hero Dogs improves the quality of life of our nations heroes and enhances the services of community organizations by placing assistance dogs with customized training & lifetime support.
At Animal Samaritans we champion compassion and respect for all living creatures, with a primary focus on dogs, cats, and the people who love them. We view pets not merely as animals, but as members of our families. As their guardians and…
Angels among us pet rescue, inc. is a 501(c)(3) charity dedicated to rescuing dogs and cats from shelters and other at-risk situations across georgia. they operate through a network of foster homes in the metro atlanta area and hold pet…
The mission of the Atlanta Humane Society is to improve animal welfare in the southeastern United States by providing quality animal services including preventative initiatives, education, advocacy and adoption of animals into permanent…
We save dogs in need and provide them with food, shelter and housing, vet care before finding them new loving homes. Our group accepts owner surrenders as well as dogs from county animal control facilities in Georgia.
Athenspets is an all-volunteer 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to helping the most vulnerable animals in the Athens (GA) area and the people who love them.
To compassionately serve pets and the people who love them.
Southern Comfort Animal Rescue, Inc. is 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization that rescues and rehomes abused, unwanted and abandoned companion animals.Southern Comfort was founded in 2001 in Savannah, Georgia, to provide shelter and find…
The organization is comprised of volunteers who seek to assist animals in need and promote spay and neuter to reduce the overwhelming number of unwanted liters. Georgias pet overpopulation has reached crisis levels dispite the efforts of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Toccoa Stephens County Humane Shelter Inc and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 39 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 Toccoa Falls College Inc ↗
- Who funds Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN ARMS CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds TOCCOA STEPHENS COUNTY HUMANE SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds Vets Helping Heroes Inc ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA SHERIFFS' ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA SHERIFFS' YOUTH HOMES 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: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · 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 Inc 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.
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.