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The Darmac Foundation at a glance

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The Darmac 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.

$8k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Public Benefit$31kCivil Rights$26kPublic Safety & Disaster$12kCrime & Legal$9kYouth Development$6kEnvironment$3k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$7,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$104k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INDIVISIBLE CIVICS$7,500
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–18, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%CENTRAL AMERICAN LEGAL ASSISTANCE: $3k → 20%CENTRAL AMERICAN LEGAL ASSISTANCE: $2k → 20%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
SD
RI
CA
AZ
DC
HI
AL
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.

47%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$41k · 6 repeat orgs$46k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
7

Total granted

$41k
$38k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+137%

Still filing today

83%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Civil RightsCrime & LegalYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentHuman ServicesOther
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

  • PY
    PROVIDENCE YOUTH STUDENT MOVEMENT
    2× · 2019–2021 · $6k · revenue +24%
  • CENTRAL AMERICAN LEGAL ASSISTANCE
    2× · 2017–2018 · $5k · revenue +103%
  • SP
    SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $5k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • TT
    THE TIDES FOUNDATION 356
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • AV
    America Votes Education Fund
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • NN
    NAVAJO NATION
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
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
American Civil Liberties Union Fund of the District of Columbia

Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.

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2
American Civil Liberties Union

To promote advocacy on legislative issues in support of civil rights and liberties. to advance the organization's civil rights and civil liberties agenda in the state of louisiana legislature.

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3
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Louisiana

To support the work of the amercian civil liberties union of louisiana through litigation, public education and limited lobbying in support of civil liberties.

Civil Rights
4
American Civil Liberties Union - Nj Foundation Inc

Promote and defend civil liberties principles.

Civil Rights
5
American Civil Liberties Union of Delaware Inc

The organization monitors legislation that could impact civil liberties and takes the necessary action to support or oppose such legislation.

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6
Volunteer Legal Advocates

To advocate for domestic violence victims, at-risk children, and other vulnerable individuals by providing over $22.8m in pro bono legal services, social service referrals, and on-going support; to train and support a strong network of…

Housing & Shelter
7
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Oregon Inc

The aclu foundation of oregon is dedicated to preserving and defending civil liberties and civil rights.

Civil Rights
8
American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri

Our non-profit, non-partisan law firm's mission is to defend and extend civil liberties, to achieve the promise of equality and liberty for all in missouri, through impact litigation and campaigns, narrative and legislative advocacy, and…

Crime & Legal
9
American Civil Liberties Union Inc

As noted in its articles of incorporation, the mission of the aclu is "to maintain and advance civil liberties, including, without limitation, the freedoms of association, press, religion and speech, and the rights to the franchise, to due…

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10
American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey Inc

To promote an defend civil liberties principles.

Civil Rights
11
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Vermont Inc

The ACLU Foundation of Vermont is an organization that protects civil liberties. It provides legal representation, communication, and advocacy with regards to rights guaranteed by the U.S. and Vermont Constitutions.

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12
American Civil Liberties Union of Vermont Inc

The ACLU of Vermont is a membership organization that protects civil liberties. Its work includes communication and advocacy with regards to rights guaranteed by the U.S. and State Constitutions.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is America Votes Education Fund. 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

9 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. 9 of the 14 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RI GUN VIOLENCE EDUCATION: $17,700 · OtherRI GUN VIOLENCE EDUCATIONTHE TIDES FOUNDATION 356: $10,000 · OtherTHE TIDES FOUNDATION 356NAVAJO NATION: $5,000 · OtherNAVAJO NATIONIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientOGLALA SIOUX TRIBE: $2,000 · OtherAmerica Votes Education Fund: $10,000 · Civil RightsAmerica Votes Education FundINDIVISIBLE CIVICS: $7,500 · Civil RightsINDIVISIBLE CIVICSAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $3,500 · Civil RightsAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION …VOTO LATINO FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 · Civil RightsVOTO LATINO FOUNDATION INCSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $4,500 · Crime & LegalSOUTHERN P…BROOKLYN COMMUNITY BAIL FUND INC: $3,600 · Crime & LegalBROOKLYN C…PROVIDENCE YOUTH STUDENT MOVEMENT: $6,000 · Youth DevelopmentCENTRAL AMERICAN LEGAL ASSISTANCE: $5,400 · Human ServicesCLIMATE EMERGENCY FUND: $3,000 · Environment
Other$39,700Civil Rights$24,000Crime & Legal$8,100Youth Development$6,000Human Services$5,400Environment$3,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAmerica Votes Education Fund: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROVIDENCE YOUTH STUDENT MOVEMENT: $6,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCENTRAL AMERICAN LEGAL ASSISTANCE: $5,400 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKLYN COMMUNITY BAIL FUND INC: $3,600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCLIMATE EMERGENCY FUND: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVOTO LATINO FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 14 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-PF 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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