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The Darwood Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k3 grants · $52k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
- $250k+3 grants · $2.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITY OF BRYAN | $2,000,000 |
| BRAZOS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | $400,000 |
| SOS MINISTRIES | $300,000 |
| BRYAN INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT | $50,000 |
| ELIZABETH HOUSE MATERNITY HOME | $27,240 |
| DIFFERENT DAY FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $184k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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.
6 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.1M 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
- OIOnRamp Inc2× · 2022–2023 · $154k · revenue +10%
- TEThe Elizabeth House Maternity Home2× · 2023–2024 · $82k · revenue +10%
- SISLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- TBTHE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF BVone grant, 2022 · $115k
UNBOUND NOWgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +26%- ODOUR DAUGHTER'S HOUSEgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $40k · revenue +111% · 28% of their budget
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.
The Lullaby House missionis ot strengthen families by providing programs and services to teenage parents and familites in need which will inspire and promote generational change.
Rescue Hill helps survivors of human trafficking with recovery services and resources in a safe environment. Rescue Hill offers a stabilization home for survivors and their small children as well as advocacy services.
Sojourn House exists to defend, restore, and liberate women who have been trafficked or exploited.
The bridge 2 home is a safe and loving home for young girls and young women who were victimized by sex trafficking. at the bridge they can find healing and growth and can experience the love of a perfect heavenly father who pursues them.
Assisting and housing females in recovery
Provide a home for children who have been abandoned and abused.
Serve, equip and empower first time, expectant moms who have chosen life for their babies.
We equip and empower women transitioning out of incarceration by providing stable employment and housing, life skills, and mentors to walk alongside them. Through this, we inspire hope, disrupt cycles of incarceration, and restore families.
A state of texas licensed foster care and adoption agency that identifies and provides approved healing foster homes for children.
Hannahs Home is a Christ-centered life-affirming maternity home for women who are in crisis.
Transitional shelter for women, men and children for central oregon. to provide shelter and a safe place for hope.
We are a Christ-centered residential care facility for pregnant women in crisis. We offer a safe home that provides shelter, food, prenatal/postpartum care, spiritual, mental, financial, rides to medical appointments, educational and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Unbound Now and the most unlike its peers is The Elizabeth House Maternity Home. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 17 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 S O S Ministries INC ↗
- Who funds BRAZOS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Fort Cavazos Community Habitat for Humanity Inc ↗
- Who funds OnRamp Inc ↗
- Who funds The Elizabeth House Maternity Home ↗
- Who funds UNBOUND NOW ↗
- Who funds OUR DAUGHTER'S HOUSE ↗
- Who funds The Reach Project ↗
- Who funds SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC ↗
- Who funds Health for All Inc ↗
- Who funds DIFFERENT DAY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Refuge Place ↗
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: Once Upon a Time Foundation · Lucille and John B Dougherty Trust · Edge Eugene III Charitable Trust · United Way of the Brazos Valley · Winkler Nina Astin Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Darwood Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.
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