· Private foundation
The Hugh and Hazel Darling Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $304k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $535k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY | $500,000 |
| SIMPSON UNIVERSITY | $250,000 |
| CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW | $250,000 |
| LIFE PACIFIC UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| USD SCHOOL OF LAW | $75,000 |
| PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| THE BASIC FUND | $50,000 |
| POINT LOMA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| THOMAS AQUINAS COLLEGE | $50,000 |
| THE FEDERALIST SOCIETY FOR LAW & PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES | $50,000 |
| CHRISTIAN LEGAL AID OF LOS ANGELES | $49,000 |
| PACIFIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $45,000 |
| PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| LOYOLA LAW SCHOOL | $20,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $41k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
48 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 4 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $91k 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
- SUSIMPSON UNIVERSITY7× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +79%
- PUPEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY6× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +51%
- WCWESTMONT COLLEGE5× · 2020–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +14%
Funded once
- CUCHAPMAN UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $250k · revenue +62%
- FTFULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARYone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -15%
- SBSOUND BODY SOUND MIND FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue 0%
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.
Los angeles pacific university exists to deliver high quality, accessible christ-centered education to learners everywhere.
A private institution of higher education, offering both undergraduate and graduate courses to students.
Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…
Saint mary's college of california invites you to passionately embrace knowledge, the challenges of scholarship, and the capacity to make lasting change in the world. the foundation for this is our mission. to probe deeply the mystery of…
The university of la verne offers a distinctive and relevant educational experience to a diverse population of traditional-age, adult, and graduate learners, preparing them for successful careers and a commitment to lifelong learning…
Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…
John brown university (jbu) provides christ-centered education that prepares students to honor god and serve others by developing their intellectual, spiritual, and professional lives. (continued on schedule o)jbu serves traditional…
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
With its long history of education, affordable tuition, flexible schedule, and small class sizes, pacific coast university school of law is the perfect law school choice for working professionals who seek a law degree program.
Pitzer College produces engaged socially responsible citizens of the world through an academically rigorous, interdisciplinary liberal arts education emphasizing social justice, intercultural understanding and environmental sensitivity.…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fuller Theological Seminary and the most unlike its peers is Wayfinder Family Services. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 62 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
47 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. 47 of the 73 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 AZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SIMPSON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WESTMONT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM JESSUP UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE FEDERALIST SOCIETY FOR LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds Pacific Legal Foundation ↗
- Who funds Pacific Research Institute For Public Policy ↗
- Who funds THE BASIC FUND ↗
- Who funds Christian Legal Aid of Los Angeles CO Gary Maeder ↗
- Who funds THOMAS AQUINAS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds VANGUARD UNIVERSITY OF SO CAL ↗
- Who funds THRIVING CHURCHES INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds POINT LOMA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY IRVINE ↗
- Who funds San Diego Christian College ↗
- Who funds THE INDEPENDENT INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DON BOSCO TECHNICAL INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds Criminal Justice Legal Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF STATESMANSHIP & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY ↗
- Who funds BIOLA UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds FULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
- Who funds THE FULLER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Pacific Union College ↗
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: 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
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 Hugh and Hazel Darling 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.