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The Joshua P & Elizabeth D Darden Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$62k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
2
Grants FY2025
1
Organizations funded FY2022
100%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Median grant, FY2025
$31,194
Largest grant, FY2025
$31,194
Organizations funded a year
1 to 10
FY2017 to FY2022
States reached, FY2025
1
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 100% of the organizations The Joshua P & Elizabeth D Darden Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $67k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’22
EducationEnvironmentOther
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 arriving2$62k100%
FY20221$67k100%
FY20203$102k33%
FY20193$597k67%
FY20183$610k67%
FY201710$1.3Mn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Animals$1.7MEducation$785kEnvironment$381kHealth$50kScience & Tech$50kArts & Culture$10kOther$0

Top grantees

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

Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.9M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Joshua P & Elizabeth D Darden Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Norfolk Academy: $500,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetThe Protestant Episcopal High School in Virginia: $150,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUniversity of the South: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCancer Care Foundation of Tidewater: $25,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetChildren's Hospital of the King's Daughters: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorfolk Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Virginia Arts Festival Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAccess College Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetChesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 9.

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 Barr FoundationVA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Barr Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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.

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About The Joshua P & Elizabeth D Darden Foundation

How much does The Joshua P & Elizabeth D Darden Foundation give?
The Joshua P & Elizabeth D Darden Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $62,388 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 10 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
What does The Joshua P & Elizabeth D Darden Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (57%), Education (26%), Environment (13%).
Who are The Joshua P & Elizabeth D Darden Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Norfolk Academy ($500k), The Protestant Episcopal High School in Virginia ($150k), University of the South ($100k).
Does The Joshua P & Elizabeth D Darden Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Joshua P & Elizabeth D Darden Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Joshua P & Elizabeth D Darden Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Barr Foundation, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, Network for Good.
Where is The Joshua P & Elizabeth D Darden Foundation based?
The Joshua P & Elizabeth D Darden Foundation is based in VA.

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 19 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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