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The Darwood Foundation at a glance

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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.

$2.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$2.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Public Benefit$2.0MYouth Development$2.0MEducation$1.9MHousing & Shelter$630kHuman Services$214kHealth$97k
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $52k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
  • $250k+3 grants · $2.7M
$50,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 15%REFUGE PLACE: $15k → 22%DIFFERENT DAY FOUNDATION: $15k → 22%ONRAMP: $89k → 22%ONRAMP: $65k → 22%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.
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.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.4M · 6 repeat orgs$2.3M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
8

Total granted

$4.4M
$272k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+26%

Still filing today

100%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterReligionEducationYouth DevelopmentHealthOther
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

  • OI
    OnRamp Inc
    2× · 2022–2023 · $154k · revenue +10%
  • TE
    The Elizabeth House Maternity Home
    2× · 2023–2024 · $82k · revenue +10%
  • SI
    SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • TB
    THE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF BV
    one grant, 2022 · $115k
  • UNBOUND NOWgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +26%
  • OD
    OUR DAUGHTER'S HOUSEgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $40k · revenue +111% · 28% of their budget
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 Lullaby House

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.

Youth Development
2
Rescue Hill Nazarene Compassionate Ministry Center

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.

Human Services
3
Sojourn House Inc

Sojourn House exists to defend, restore, and liberate women who have been trafficked or exploited.

Human Services
4
The Bridge 2 Home

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.

Human Services
5
House of Hope

Assisting and housing females in recovery

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6
House of Hope Ministries

Provide a home for children who have been abandoned and abused.

International
7
His Hope House Corp

Serve, equip and empower first time, expectant moms who have chosen life for their babies.

Human Services
8
His House Outreach Ministries Inc Dba She Brews Coffee & Transition Prog

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.

Housing & Shelter
9
Texas Foster Care & Adoption Serv

A state of texas licensed foster care and adoption agency that identifies and provides approved healing foster homes for children.

Human Services
10
Hannahs Home

Hannahs Home is a Christ-centered life-affirming maternity home for women who are in crisis.

Human Services
11
Redemption House Ministries

Transitional shelter for women, men and children for central oregon. to provide shelter and a safe place for hope.

Human Services
12
The Sparrows Nest Maternity Home

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…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Unbound Now; 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.
04the grantee network

12 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. 12 of the 17 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
6/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CITY OF BRYAN: $2,000,000 · OtherCITY OF BRYANTHE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF BV: $115,000 · Other+3 more: $65,000 · OtherS O S Ministries INC: $1,810,000 · ReligionS O S Ministries INCBRAZOS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC: $1,810,000 · EducationBRAZOS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INCFort Cavazos Community Habitat for Humanity Inc: $568,000 · Housing & ShelterFort Cavaz…OUR DAUGHTER'S HOUSE: $40,000 · Housing & ShelterOUR DAUGHT…The Reach Project: $22,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterOnRamp Inc: $154,000 · Human ServicesThe Elizabeth House Maternity Home: $81,720 · Human ServicesDIFFERENT DAY FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Human ServicesRefuge Place: $15,000 · Human ServicesUNBOUND NOW: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentHealth for All Inc: $15,000 · Health
Other$2,180,000Religion$1,810,000Education$1,810,000Housing & Shelter$650,000Human Services$265,720Youth Development$50,000Health$15,000

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 budgetS O S Ministries INC: $1,810,000 over 3y, 58% of budgetBRAZOS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC: $1,810,000 over 3y, 19% of budgetFort Cavazos Community Habitat for Humanity Inc: $568,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetOnRamp Inc: $154,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetThe Elizabeth House Maternity Home: $81,720 over 2y, 19% of budgetUNBOUND NOW: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetOUR DAUGHTER'S HOUSE: $40,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetThe Reach Project: $22,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHealth for All Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetDIFFERENT DAY FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% 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.

Once Upon a Time Foun…Lucille and John B Do…Edge Eugene III Chari…United Way of the Bra…Winkler Nina Astin Tr…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Once Upon a Time FoundationTX17.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Darwood Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Darwood Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Darwood Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Darwood Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 17 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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