· Private foundation
The Darden Family Charitable Foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k6 grants · $105k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| MAYO CLINIC | $50,000 |
| NATIONAL CENTER FOR MISSING CHILDREN | $22,000 |
| MD ANDERSON | $22,000 |
| BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $21,000 |
| WESTERN TEXAS COLLEGE | $20,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ST JUDE'S CHILDREN HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
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 (FY18–23, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 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 +27% since the first grant, against -34% for those funded once.
27 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 23 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, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HUHARDIN-SIMMONS UNIVERSITY6× · 2018–2023 · $140k · revenue +14%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC7× · 2018–2024 · $76k · revenue +125%
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY6× · 2018–2023 · $61k · revenue +51%
Funded once
- TTTEXAS TECH RED RAIDERS SCHOLARSHIP FUNDone grant, 2022 · $50k
- MCMETHODIST CHILDREN'S HOMEone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +11%
- FPFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH - TULSAone grant, 2020 · $10k
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 generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…
The mission of Taylor University is to develop servant-leaders marked with a passion to minister Christ's redemptive love, grace, and truth to a world in need.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
University of the sciences prepares students to become leaders, innovators, and skilled practitioners in the sciences, the health professions, and related disciplines. we deliver excellence in teaching, research, and service through a safe…
The university of tulsa is a student-centered research university that cultivates interconnected learning experiences to explore complex ideas and create new knowledge in a spirit of free inquiry. guided by our commitment to diversity,…
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.
Letourneau university is a comprehensive institution of christian higher education where educators engage learners to nurture christian virtue, to develop competency and ingenuity in their professional fields, to integrate faith and work,…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.
To facilitate research and development within the texas a&m university system and selected other entities.
The mission of the university of toledo foundation is to secure the future for the university of toledo, through prudent asset management and philanthropy. we build strong linkages between alumni and the university, fostering a spirit of…
How this is measured
17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 40 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 MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds HARDIN-SIMMONS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEPRESSION ↗
- Who funds IRON GATE INC ↗
- Who funds Meals on Wheels of Norman Inc ↗
- Who funds THE SPRING SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds SPEARMAN SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BAYLOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Foundation for Tulsa Schools ↗
- Who funds TEXAS TECH ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Oklahoma Educational Television Authority Foundation Inc ↗
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: Tulsa Community Foundation · The Charles & Marion Weber Foundation · Hille Family Charitable Foundation · Sanford P & Irene F Burnstein Foundation Irene F Burnstein Co-Trustee · Coretz Family Foundation · The Anne and Henry Zarrow Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Darden Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Darden Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
How this is measured
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