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The Darwin Foundation Inc

Its FY2019 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$102k
Granted FY2019
28
Grants FY2019
27
Organizations funded FY2019
7%
First-time grantees FY2019
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Median grant, FY2019
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2019
$20,000
Organizations funded a year
25 to 27
FY2017 to FY2019
States reached, FY2019
10
Total assets, FY2019
$1.0M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2019, 7% of the organizations The Darwin Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19
EducationOther
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
FY201927$97k7%
FY201825$88k16%
FY201726$105kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.

Education$101kPublic Benefit$43kEnvironment$41kHealth$38kCrime & Legal$32kInternational$23kAnimals$15kSocial Science$6kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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NY
OH
PA
NJ
CA
CO
MO
VA
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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2019, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 23 grantees

Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($59k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Darwin Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWashington University: $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Reason Foundation: $37,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCompassion & Choices: $18,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDrug Policy Alliance: $18,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Carter Center Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSave a Friend to Homeless Animals: $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Princeton Open Space: $7,500 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetNew Jersey Seeds Inc: $7,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWikimedia Foundation Inc: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCato Institute: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGeorge Mason University Foundation Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Seeing Eye Inc: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetIsles Inc: $1,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMoravian Academy: $900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetD&R Greenway Land Trust Inc: $800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPeters Valley School of Craft Inc: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTASK Inc Trenton Area Soup Kitchen Inc: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHomefront Inc: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAlley Cat Allies Inc: $150 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLawrenceville Fire Company Inc: $50 over 1y, 0.0% 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 21.

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.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation IncNJ13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Darwin Foundation Inc

How much does The Darwin Foundation Inc give?
The Darwin Foundation Inc reported 28 grants totaling $101,600 in its FY2019 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 27 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2019.
What does The Darwin Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2019, its largest causes are Education (33%), Public Benefit (14%), Environment (14%).
Who are The Darwin Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2019: Washington University ($60k), The Reason Foundation ($37k), Downsizedc Org Inc ($24k).
Does The Darwin Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2019, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Darwin Foundation Inc 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 Darwin Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc, Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Where is The Darwin Foundation Inc based?
The Darwin Foundation Inc is based in NJ.

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 33 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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