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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.

$586k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$314k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$646kYouth Development$617kArts & Culture$505kRecreation & Sports$455kEnvironment$450kPublic Safety & Disaster$291kHuman Services$202kFood & Nutrition$173kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $64k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $222k
  • $250k+1 grant · $314k
$60,815
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

None of its grants could be placed against low income need for this view.

How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.5M · 12 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +8% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
11

Total granted

$2.5M
$929k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+8%

Still filing today

67%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $340k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • MH
    MATHER HOMESTEAD FOUNDATION
    2× · 2019–2025 · $237k · revenue +44%
  • AH
    AT HOME IN DARIENINC
    2× · 2022–2025 · $121k · revenue +2% · 31% of their budget
  • DL
    DARIEN LIBRARY INC
    2× · 2022–2025 · $110k · revenue +5%

Funded once

  • AS
    ANDREW SHAW MEMORIAL TRUST
    one grant, 2018 · $200k · revenue -53%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $124k
  • TT
    THE TINY MIRACLES FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $102k · revenue +8%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
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…

Education
2
Land Trust of Darien Inc

Open space preservation in darien, connecticut

Environment
3
Darien Emergency Medical Service Inc

to provide ambulance services

Health
4
Darien Study Center Inc

In cooperation with the Roman Catholic Prelature of Opus Dei, Darien Study Center fosters the search for holiness in the middle of the world, by means of ordinary work and all the other circumstances of daily life. See www.opusdei.org.

Education
5
The Cottage in Darien Inc

To operate a residential facility for mentally or physically disabled young adults to allow them to live in a safe and secure community environment, to participate in the life of the greater community in which they live.

Human Services
6
The Noroton Heights Fire Department Incorporated

The Noroton Heights Fire Department, Incorporated provides fire and other emergency response services to its district within the Town of Darien, Connecticut, as well as providing mutual aid coverage to the other fire departments in town…

Health
7
Darien Police Association Inc

Sponsorship of various activities designed to maintain contact & visibility with the community; to improve relations & foster goodwill with the public.

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8
Danbury Animal Welfare Society

Danbury animal welfare society , inc.(daws) is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the lives of animals in our community and beyond. we promote responsible pet guardianship and the humane treatment of animals, and work toward…

Animals
9
Friends of the Danbury Library Inc
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10
The Community Fund of Darien

Promote and support the efforts of various local charitable organizations and new community initiatives

Philanthropy
11
Darien Youth Club

To insure participation for all children and young adults in the available activities of their choice without regard to race, color, creed, sex, wherewithal, athletic, physical or mental abilities. To foster and promote camaraderie, good…

Youth Development
12
Dalton Fire Company

The dalton fire company provides fire fighting in the borough of dalton and all other areas designated as fire coverage territory of the dalton fire company.

Public Safety & Disaster
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Darien Community Association Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

16 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. 16 of the 25 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
11/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DARIEN PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $577,393 · OtherDARIEN PUBLIC SCHOOLSIndividual grant recipient: $388,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE DARIEN LIBRARY TEENTWEEN CENTER: $314,185 · OtherTHE DARIEN LIBRARY TEENTWEEN CENTERCORBIN CARES: $172,683 · OtherCORBIN CARESIndividual grant recipient: $124,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $110,662 · OtherDARIEN FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $100,553 · OtherPERSON TO PERSON INC: $103,000 · OtherDARIEN NATURE CENTER INC: $100,000 · Other+4 more: $129,772 · Other+4 moreDarien Athletic Foundation Inc: $445,000 · Recreation & SportsDarien Athlet…MATHER HOMESTEAD FOUNDATION: $236,600 · Arts & CultureMATHER HOME…DARIEN ARTS CENTER INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureDARIEN ARTS…DARIEN HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $32,000 · Arts & CultureDARIEN HIST…ANDREW SHAW MEMORIAL TRUST: $200,000 · Youth DevelopmentNOROTON HEIGHTS DEPOT INC: $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE TINY MIRACLES FOUNDATION INC: $102,452 · HealthDARIEN EMS POST 53 INC: $81,669 · HealthABILIS INC: $65,839 · HealthAT HOME IN DARIENINC: $121,380 · Human ServicesSTAR FOUNDATION INC: $80,707 · Human ServicesDARIEN LIBRARY INC: $109,555 · Education
Other$2,120,248Recreation & Sports$445,000Arts & Culture$368,600Youth Development$300,000Health$249,960Human Services$202,087Education$109,555

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDarien Athletic Foundation Inc: $445,000 over 6y, 51% of budgetMATHER HOMESTEAD FOUNDATION: $236,600 over 2y, 25% of budgetANDREW SHAW MEMORIAL TRUST: $200,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetAT HOME IN DARIENINC: $121,380 over 2y, 31% of budgetDARIEN LIBRARY INC: $109,555 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetPERSON TO PERSON INC: $103,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE TINY MIRACLES FOUNDATION INC: $102,452 over 1y, 15% of budgetDARIEN FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $100,553 over 1y, 28% of budgetDARIEN NATURE CENTER INC: $100,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetDARIEN ARTS CENTER INC: $100,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetNOROTON HEIGHTS DEPOT INC: $100,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetDARIEN EMS POST 53 INC: $81,669 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetSTAR FOUNDATION INC: $80,707 over 2y, 18% of budgetABILIS INC: $65,839 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDarien Community Association Inc: $18,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budget
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.

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.

The Goodnow FundThe Meredith and Whit…522 Foundation IncThe Rogers Family Fou…The Sosnow Foundation…The Edward E Hood Jr …Fairfield County's Co…Schaefer-Phillips Fou…The Stuart L Higley F…Chuza FoundationAlexandra FoundationThe Weatherstone Fami…
The Goodnow FundCT22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Darien Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Darien Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 25 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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