· Public charity
The Darien Foundation Inc
The darien foundation's mission is to provide grant funding for technology and capital projects that create opportunity for darien's youth, support town safety and security services, enhance the overall quality of life in darien, and otherwise benefit the citizens of darien, connecticut.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k2 grants · $64k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $222k
- $250k+1 grant · $314k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE DARIEN LIBRARY TEENTWEEN CENTER | $314,185 |
| MATHER HOMESTEAD FOUNDATION | $161,600 |
| DARIEN LIBRARY | $60,815 |
| AT HOME IN DARIEN | $38,500 |
| DARIEN SENIOR CENTER | $25,504 |
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.
None of your grants could be placed against low income need for this view.
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 +26% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 9 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, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $340k 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
- AHAT HOME IN DARIENINC2× · 2022–2025 · $121k · revenue +2% · 31% of their budget
- DLDARIEN LIBRARY INC2× · 2022–2025 · $110k · revenue +5%
- PTPERSON TO PERSON INC2× · 2019–2020 · $103k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- ASANDREW SHAW MEMORIAL TRUSTone grant, 2018 · $200k · revenue -53%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $124k
- TTTHE TINY MIRACLES FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2024 · $102k · revenue +8%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Darien Community Association Inc and the most unlike its peers is Andrew Shaw Memorial Trust. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 25 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 Darien Athletic Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds MATHER HOMESTEAD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANDREW SHAW MEMORIAL TRUST ↗
- Who funds AT HOME IN DARIENINC ↗
- Who funds DARIEN LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds PERSON TO PERSON INC ↗
- Who funds THE TINY MIRACLES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DARIEN FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
- Who funds DARIEN ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DARIEN NATURE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NOROTON HEIGHTS DEPOT INC ↗
- Who funds DARIEN EMS POST 53 INC ↗
- Who funds STAR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ABILIS INC ↗
- Who funds DARIEN HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Darien Community Association 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: The Goodnow Fund · The Meredith and Whitney George Family Foundation Inc · 522 Foundation Inc · The Rogers Family Foundation · The Sosnow Foundation Inc · The Edward E Hood Jr Foundation · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Schaefer-Phillips Foundation Inc · The Stuart L Higley Foundation Inc · Chuza Foundation · Alexandra Foundation · The Weatherstone Family Foundation Inc
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 Darien 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.
- Abilis Inc — 74% of income from government
- Person to Person Inc — 5% of income from government
- Mather Homestead Foundation — 4% of income from government
- Darien Nature Center Inc — 0% 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.