California · Private foundation
The Hugh and Hazel Darling Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.9M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 34
- Grants FY2024
- 28
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 7%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 27 to 38
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Total assets, FY2024
- $47M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 7% of the organizations The Hugh and Hazel Darling Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 29 | $1.8M | 14% |
| FY2023 | 28 | $2.1M | 7% |
| FY2022 | 37 | $2.1M | 22% |
| FY2021 | 27 | $2.0M | 11% |
| FY2020 | 34 | $1.9M | 21% |
| FY2019 | 38 | $1.9M | 16% |
| FY2018 | 28 | $1.9M | 18% |
| FY2017 | 36 | $1.7M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Azusa Pacific University | $1,450,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Simpson University | $1,390,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Pepperdine University | $1,305,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Westmont College | $1,260,000 | 5 | 1% |
| William Jessup University | $710,000 | 5 | 0% |
| California Lutheran University | $500,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies | $485,000 | 8 | 0% |
| University of San Diego | $400,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Pacific Legal Foundation | $400,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Pacific Research Institute For Public Policy | $395,000 | 8 | 1% |
Show all 49 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Hugh and Hazel Darling Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 44 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · The Green Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · The Fletcher Jones Foundation · Carrie Estelle Doheny Foundation · Henry L Guenther Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors Foundation · Rite Aid Healthy Futures · Charities Aid Foundation America · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc
How this is measured
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About The Hugh and Hazel Darling Foundation
- How much does The Hugh and Hazel Darling Foundation give?
- The Hugh and Hazel Darling Foundation reported 34 grants totaling $1,860,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 27 and 38 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Hugh and Hazel Darling Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (81%), Crime & Legal (8%), Civil Rights (3%).
- Who are The Hugh and Hazel Darling Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Azusa Pacific University ($1.4M), Simpson University ($1.4M), Pepperdine University ($1.3M).
- Does The Hugh and Hazel Darling Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Hugh and Hazel Darling Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Hugh and Hazel Darling Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include California Community Foundation, The Green Foundation, The Ahmanson Foundation.
- Where is The Hugh and Hazel Darling Foundation based?
- The Hugh and Hazel Darling Foundation is based in CA.
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