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The Joe & Hellen Darion Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$405k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
43
Grants FY2025
55
Organizations funded FY2024
9%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$35,000
Organizations funded a year
39 to 61
FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
17
Total assets, FY2025
$7.2M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 9% of the organizations The Joe & Hellen Darion Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’22’23’24
HealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentEducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving43$405k21%
FY202455$391k9%
FY202355$386k25%
FY202261$390k44%
FY202060$192k12%
FY201949$159k43%
FY201847$215k43%
FY201739$197kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$642kHealth$554kHuman Services$414kPublic Safety & Disaster$149kEducation$135kEnvironment$93kCommunity Improvement$55kInternational$54kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NH
WA
IL
NY
MA
OR
IA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
VA
MD
TN
DC
LA
AL
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 84 grantees
All grantees of The Joe & Hellen Darion Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Nassau Pops Symphony Orchestra$122,500882%
National Yiddish Book Center Inc$92,50080%
Barry & Florence Friedberg Jewish Community Center Inc$75,00070%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$60,00080%
World Central Kitchen Inc$58,00050%
Vermont Jazz Center Inc$55,50072%
The Space on Main$55,00076%
Children's Tumor Foundation$55,00030%
Broadway Caresequity Fights AIDS Inc$52,50070%
Village Center for the Arts Inc$50,00046%
Shriners Hospitals for Children$47,50070%
The Sydne Jacoby Foundation Inc$40,0004n/a
Southold Fire Department$40,00047%
Sunrise Day Camps Association Inc$37,50060%
National Alliance on Mental Illness of Massachusetts Inc$35,00041%
Charity Works$32,00081%
Ronald McDonald House of New York Inc$30,00080%
Upper Valley Land Trust Inc$30,00021%
Peconic Land Trust Inc$27,50070%
Dorot Inc$25,50070%
Southern Poverty Law Center Inc$23,00070%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$22,50060%
Rockaway Five-Towns Symphony Society Inc$22,5003n/a
Pen American Center Inc$21,50050%
Citymeals-On-Wheels$20,50060%
Landcraft Garden Foundation Inc$20,00042%
Crohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc$20,00040%
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum$20,00040%
Brooklyn Book Festival Inc$20,00041%
North Fork Audubon Society$20,00048%
American Friends of Israel Philharmonic Orchestra$20,00050%
Southold Free Library$20,00040%
Manhattan Theatre Club Inc$19,00030%
American Macular Degeneration Goehring$17,00050%
Lyme Congregational Church$15,0003n/a
Shaker Bridge Theatre Inc$15,00043%
Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation$15,00010%
The Lyme Foundation Inc$15,00035%
Enroot Inc$15,00031%
The Animal Medical Center$12,50030%
American Society for Yad Vashem Inc$12,50040%
American Heart Association Inc$12,00050%
The Storm Theatre Inc$12,00046%
Museum of Jewish Heritage a Living Memorial to the Holocaust$10,00030%
Group for the East End Inc$10,00020%
Operation International Ltd$10,00020%
National Psoriasis Foundation$10,00010%
Young Audiences New York Inc$10,00040%
The Foundation for AIDS Research$10,00020%
Raising Hope Inc$10,00011%
The Shelter for Abused Women & Children Inc$10,00020%
American Kidney Fund Inc$10,00010%
Larger Than Life USA Inc$10,00011%
Families and Friends Supporting Cystic Fibrosis Care$8,50031%
Brave New World Repertory Theatre Inc$8,500211%
Guide Dog Foundation for the Blind Inc$8,00030%
Community Action of Southold Town Inc$7,50031%
Longhouse Reserve$5,00010%
Teachers & Writers Collaborative Inc$5,00011%
Dramatists Legal Defense Fund Inc$5,00016%
Friends of the Frost Place Inc$5,0001n/a
Cambridge Insight Meditation Center Inc$5,0001n/a
Peconic Green Growth Inc$5,0001n/a
Songwriting Works Educational Foundation$5,0001n/a
The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum$5,00010%
Marine Toys for Tots Foundation$5,00010%
Ny Writers Coalition Inc$5,00012%
Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc$5,00010%
Anti-Defamation League$5,00010%
Humane World for Animals Inc$4,50020%
The Seeing Eye Inc$3,50020%
Special Olympics New York Inc$3,50020%
Upbeat NYC Inc$3,00030%
The Doe Fund Inc$3,00020%
Food Bank for New York City$3,00030%
Torah Academy of Boca Raton Inc$2,50010%
American Cancer Society Inc$2,50010%
Calvary Hospital Inc$2,50010%
Hias Inc$2,00020%
One Simple Wish Inc$1,00010%
Farm Sanctuary Inc$1,00010%
The Silver Shield Foundation Inc$1,00010%
Wonderwork Inc$1,0001n/a
Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc$1,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 58 recipients with no EIN on record ($673k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Joe & Hellen Darion Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 76 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNassau Pops Symphony Orchestra: $122,500 over 8y, 82% of budgetNational Yiddish Book Center Inc: $92,500 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetBarry & Florence Friedberg Jewish Community Center Inc: $75,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $60,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $58,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetVermont Jazz Center Inc: $55,500 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetThe Space on Main: $55,000 over 7y, 5.5% of budgetChildren's Tumor Foundation: $55,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBroadway Caresequity Fights AIDS Inc: $52,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetVillage Center for the Arts Inc: $50,000 over 4y, 6.3% of budgetShriners Hospitals for Children: $47,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSouthold Fire Department: $40,000 over 4y, 6.7% of budgetSunrise Day Camps Association Inc: $37,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNational Alliance on Mental Illness of Massachusetts Inc: $35,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetCharity Works: $32,000 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetRonald McDonald House of New York Inc: $30,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUpper Valley Land Trust Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetPeconic Land Trust Inc: $27,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetDorot Inc: $25,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSouthern Poverty Law Center Inc: $23,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $22,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPen American Center Inc: $21,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCitymeals-On-Wheels: $20,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLandcraft Garden Foundation Inc: $20,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetCrohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBrooklyn Book Festival Inc: $20,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetNorth Fork Audubon Society: $20,000 over 4y, 7.7% of budgetAmerican Friends of Israel Philharmonic Orchestra: $20,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSouthold Free Library: $20,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetManhattan Theatre Club Inc: $19,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Macular Degeneration Goehring: $17,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetShaker Bridge Theatre Inc: $15,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetPulmonary Fibrosis Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Lyme Foundation Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetEnroot Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetThe Animal Medical Center: $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Society for Yad Vashem Inc: $12,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $12,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Storm Theatre Inc: $12,000 over 4y, 6.3% of budgetMuseum of Jewish Heritage a Living Memorial to the Holocaust: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGroup for the East End Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetOperation International Ltd: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNational Psoriasis Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYoung Audiences New York Inc: $10,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Foundation for AIDS Research: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRaising Hope Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetThe Shelter for Abused Women & Children Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 76.

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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.

The New York Community TrustNY17.2× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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About The Joe & Hellen Darion Foundation Inc

How much does The Joe & Hellen Darion Foundation Inc give?
The Joe & Hellen Darion Foundation Inc reported 43 grants totaling $405,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 39 and 61 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does The Joe & Hellen Darion Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (28%), Health (24%), Human Services (18%).
Who are The Joe & Hellen Darion Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Nassau Pops Symphony Orchestra ($123k), National Yiddish Book Center Inc ($93k), Barry & Florence Friedberg Jewish Community Center Inc ($75k).
Does The Joe & Hellen Darion Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Joe & Hellen Darion Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Joe & Hellen Darion Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The New York Community Trust, Jewish Communal Fund, The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is The Joe & Hellen Darion Foundation Inc based?
The Joe & Hellen Darion Foundation Inc is based in NY.

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 142 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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