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The Hugh and Hazel Darling Foundation at a glance

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The Hugh and Hazel Darling Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
34
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$13MCrime & Legal$1.3MCivil Rights$495kPublic Benefit$455kReligion$280kSocial Science$180kHousing & Shelter$95kArts & Culture$82kOther$0
02FY2024 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $304k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $535k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.0M
$15,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$47M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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 FEDERALIST SOCIETY FOR LAW & PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES$50,000
POINT LOMA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY$50,000
THOMAS AQUINAS COLLEGE$50,000
THE BASIC FUND$50,000
CHRISTIAN LEGAL AID OF LOS ANGELES$49,000
PACIFIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE$45,000
PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY$25,000
LOYOLA LAW SCHOOL$20,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%EXCEPTIONAL CHILDRENS FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%EXCEPTIONAL CHILDRENS FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%EXCEPTIONAL CHILDRENS FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%JUNIOR BLIND OF AMERICA: $8k → 14%WAYFINDER FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 14%WAYFINDER FAMILY SERVICES: $4k → 14%DREAM CENTER FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$15M · 48 repeat orgs$493k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +12% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

48
19

Total granted

$15M
$402k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+12%

Still filing today

71%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $91k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationCrime & LegalHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • SU
    SIMPSON UNIVERSITY
    7× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +79%
  • PU
    PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +51%
  • WC
    WESTMONT COLLEGE
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • CU
    CHAPMAN UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $250k · revenue +62%
  • FT
    FULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -15%
  • WC
    WEST COAST BAPTIST COLLEGE
    one grant, 2020 · $15k
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
Los Angeles Pacific University

Los angeles pacific university exists to deliver high quality, accessible christ-centered education to learners everywhere.

Education
2
California Baptist University

A private institution of higher education, offering both undergraduate and graduate courses to students.

Education
3
President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College

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.

Education
4
Lehigh University

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…

Education
5
Lewis & Clark College

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…

Education
6
Saint Mary's College of California

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…

Education
7
University of La Verne

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…

Education
8
Loyola University

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…

Education
9
John Brown University

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…

Education
10
Augustana College

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…

Education
11
Pacific Coast University School of Law

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.

Education
12
Pitzer College

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.…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fuller Theological Seminary; 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.
04the grantee network

47 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. 47 of the 73 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/47
Grantees still filing
32/47
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $1,450,000 · EducationAZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITYSIMPSON UNIVERSITY: $1,390,000 · EducationSIMPSON UNIVERSITYPEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY: $1,305,000 · EducationPEPPERDINE UNIVERSITYWESTMONT COLLEGE: $1,260,000 · EducationWESTMONT COLLEGECALIFORNIA LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY: $500,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA LUTHERAN UNIVERSITYTHE BASIC FUND: $335,000 · EducationTHOMAS AQUINAS COLLEGE: $310,000 · EducationVANGUARD UNIVERSITY OF SO CAL: $310,000 · Education+15 more: $1,672,500 · Education+15 moreCHAPMAN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW: $1,795,000 · OtherCHAPMAN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAWPEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW: $725,000 · OtherPEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAWWILLIAM JESSUP UNIVERSITY: $710,000 · OtherWILLIAM JESSUP UNIVERSITYTHE FEDERALIST SOCIETY FOR LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES: $485,000 · OtherTHE FEDERALIST SOCIETY FOR LAW AND PUBLI…UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO: $400,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGOWESTMONT UNIVERSITY: $325,000 · OtherWESTMONT UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY SCHOOL OF LAW: $251,250 · Other+33 more: $893,250 · Other+33 morePacific Legal Foundation: $400,000 · Crime & LegalChristian Legal Aid of Los Angeles CO Gary Maeder: $322,000 · Crime & LegalCriminal Justice Legal Foundation: $70,000 · Crime & LegalPacific Research Institute For Public Policy: $395,000 · PhilanthropyTHE FULLER FOUNDATION: $50,000 · PhilanthropyLOS ANGELES MISSION INC: $95,000 · Housing & ShelterMANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC: $70,000 · Public BenefitEXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Human ServicesWayfinder Family Services: $16,000 · Human ServicesDREAM CENTER FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Human Services
Education$8,532,500Other$5,584,500Crime & Legal$792,000Philanthropy$445,000Housing & Shelter$95,000Public Benefit$70,000Human Services$41,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $1,450,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSIMPSON UNIVERSITY: $1,390,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetPEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY: $1,305,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWESTMONT COLLEGE: $1,260,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetWILLIAM JESSUP UNIVERSITY: $710,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCALIFORNIA LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY: $500,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FEDERALIST SOCIETY FOR LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES: $485,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO: $400,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPacific Legal Foundation: $400,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetPacific Research Institute For Public Policy: $395,000 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetTHE BASIC FUND: $335,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetChristian Legal Aid of Los Angeles CO Gary Maeder: $322,000 over 8y, 34% of budgetTHOMAS AQUINAS COLLEGE: $310,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetVANGUARD UNIVERSITY OF SO CAL: $310,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCHAPMAN UNIVERSITY: $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHRIVING CHURCHES INTERNATIONAL INC: $250,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $250,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPOINT LOMA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY: $210,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY IRVINE: $200,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSan Diego Christian College: $135,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE INDEPENDENT INSTITUTE: $110,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetLOS ANGELES MISSION INC: $95,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY: $91,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetDON BOSCO TECHNICAL INSTITUTE: $75,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetCriminal Justice Legal Foundation: $70,000 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetMANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC: $70,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF STATESMANSHIP & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY: $60,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetBIOLA UNIVERSITY INC: $55,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPacific Union College: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FULLER FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWESTERN CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS: $47,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe Blind Childrens Center Inc: $44,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetEXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF VISTA INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetPACIFICA CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWayfinder Family Services: $16,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUND BODY SOUND MIND FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTRIVE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF VENICE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE LEGACY FUNDS OF HOLY NAMES UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDREAM CENTER FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWHITTIER CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLinden Oaks: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • 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 CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THRIVING CHURCHES INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • 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 Criminal Justice Legal Foundation ↗
  • Who funds MANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF STATESMANSHIP & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY ↗
  • Who funds BIOLA UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds Pacific Union College ↗
  • Who funds THE FULLER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗

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.

California Community …The Green FoundationThe Ahmanson Foundati…Christian Community F…The Fletcher Jones Fo…Carrie Estelle Doheny…Henry L Guenther Foun…The Rose Hills Founda…Kayne Anderson Capita…Rite Aid Healthy Futu…Charities Aid Foundat…Gs Donor Advised Phil…
California Community FoundationCA18.8× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.

    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 73 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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