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The Darrin-McHone Charitable Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$44k
Granted FY2026(still arriving)
9
Grants FY2026
6
Organizations funded FY2025
0%
First-time grantees FY2025
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Median grant, FY2026
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2026
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 24
FY2019 to FY2025
States reached, FY2026
1
Total assets, FY2026
$1.1M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2025, 0% of the organizations The Darrin-McHone Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2026still arriving9$44k33%
FY20256$13k0%
FY20249$17k56%
FY20237$25k14%
FY20223$16k0%
FY20213$6k0%
FY20207$9k0%
FY201924$48k58%
89% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$94kArts & Culture$79kEducation$30kReligion$25kHuman Services$7kHealth$4kHousing & Shelter$4kEnvironment$2kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
James Madison University Foundation Inc$29,50050%
Harrisonburg Children's Museum Inc$21,00051%
Virginia Quilt Museum$8,00023%
American Frontier Culture Foundation$6,50050%
Community Counseling Center Inc$6,06020%
Denton Family Charitable Foundation$4,00013%
Linville United Methodist Church$4,0002n/a
Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival$3,8502n/a
Arts Council of the Valley$3,00011%
Sentara Rmh Medical Center$3,00010%
Show all 21 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($113k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Darrin-McHone Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJames Madison University Foundation Inc: $29,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHarrisonburg Children's Museum Inc: $21,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetVirginia Quilt Museum: $8,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetAmerican Frontier Culture Foundation: $6,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCommunity Counseling Center Inc: $6,060 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetDenton Family Charitable Foundation: $4,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetArts Council of the Valley: $3,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSentara Rmh Medical Center: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRoberta Webb Child Care Center Inc: $2,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSkyline Literacy Inc: $2,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetHarrisonburg-Rockingham Historical Society: $2,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetShenandoah National Park Trust: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetShenandoah Arts Council Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetHistoric Staunton Foundation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetShenandoah Council of the Arts: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRockingham Educational Foundation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOur Community Place: $400 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRockingham Ballet Theatre Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.5% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 18.

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 Community Foundation of Harrisonburg & Rockingham CountyVA32.3× affinity13 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Harrisonburg & Rockingham County · Denton Family Charitable Foundation · United Way of Central Shenandoah Valley Inc · Sentara Health · Truist Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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.

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About The Darrin-McHone Charitable Foundation

How much does The Darrin-McHone Charitable Foundation give?
The Darrin-McHone Charitable Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $43,500 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 24 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2025.
What does The Darrin-McHone Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2026, its largest causes are Philanthropy (37%), Arts & Culture (31%), Education (12%).
Who are The Darrin-McHone Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2026: James Madison University Foundation Inc ($30k), Harrisonburg Children's Museum Inc ($21k), Virginia Quilt Museum ($8k).
Does The Darrin-McHone Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2025, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Darrin-McHone Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Darrin-McHone Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Harrisonburg & Rockingham County, Denton Family Charitable Foundation, United Way of Central Shenandoah Valley Inc.
Where is The Darrin-McHone Charitable Foundation based?
The Darrin-McHone Charitable Foundation is based in VA.

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 45 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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