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The Robert M Darby Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Robert M Darby Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$13k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$9k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02Its granteesRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0187% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$14kPhilanthropy$10kEducation$9kHealth$6kHousing & Shelter$2kFood & Nutrition$2kReligion$1kHuman Services$1kOther$0
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$8,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$227k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$8,500
Individual grant recipient$4,033
02Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$99k · 22 repeat orgs$18k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +97% since the first grant, against +47% for those funded once.

22 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
13

Total granted

$99k
$18k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+97%
+47%

Still filing today

36%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthInternationalAnimalsEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • HF
    Habitat for Humanity of Pinellas County Inc & Subsidiaries
    2× · 2018–2019 · $1k · revenue +145%
  • SV
    SPERRYVILLE VOLUNTEER RESCUE SQUAD INC
    3× · 2018–2021 · $850 · revenue +159%
  • HO
    HOSPICE OF THE PIEDMONT INC
    3× · 2018–2021 · $750 · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $14k
  • RF
    Rappahannock Food Pantry
    one grant, 2019 · $1k
  • WP
    Warrenton Presbyterian Church
    one grant, 2018 · $500
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.

03Its 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
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
2
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
3
The Presbyterian Hospital

In the spirit of keeping our focus on patient-centered, equitable and compassionate care while ensuring our organization is sustainable for future generations, we have restated our mission, vision and values and are now guided by our…

Health
4
Sentara Health

We improve health every day through coordinating, promoting and planning for the provision of health services and the promotion of health, medical education, and the social, cultural, educational, and economic development of the community.

Health
5
Health Quality Partners

To improve the quality & experience of healthcare for patients, their families & healthcare providers through applied research and design of new systems of advanced preventive care that improve population health outcomes, enhance patient &…

Health
6
San Francisco Food Bank

To end hunger in san francisco and marin counties by soliciting food donations nationally, distributing this food to qualifying public service agencies and neighborhood pantries, advocating for improved government food programs, and…

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7
Sentara Medical Group

See schedule o.as part of sentara health's integrated health care system, we improve health every day through the establishment and operation of programs and services for the provision of health care and for health related purposes; the…

Health
8
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Wake County Inc

Located in raleigh, nc, the spca of wake county works in over half the state of north carolina through collaborative partnerships that save pets and help people. significant activities include: decreasing the number of animals entering…

Animals
9
Martha Jefferson Hospital

As part of sentara health's integrated delivery system, we improve health every day.

Health
10
Wellstar Sylvan Grove Hospital

Vision: deliver world-class healthcare to every person, every time. mission: to enhance the health and well-being of every person we serve. values: we serve with compassion. we pursue excellence. we honor every voice. form 990, part iii,…

Health
11
Food Bank of the Albemarle

To fight hunger and poverty in northeastern north carolina.

Food & Nutrition
12
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Tampa Bay Florida Inc

Spca tampa bay is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that operates pinellas county's only nonprofit for-all animal shelter assisting all animals in need, regardless of species or circumstance, at its 10-acre campus in largo. (continued on…

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Homeless Emergency Project Inc; the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

17 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. 17 of the 37 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
13/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $50,750 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $20,825 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $13,850 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHarrison School for the Arts: $12,000 · OtherHarrison School for the Arts+24 more: $16,350 · Other+24 moreNORTHERN PIEDMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyHEADWATERS THE RAPPAHANNOCK COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 · EducationMETROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC: $700 · Human ServicesCharity Navigator: $300 · Human ServicesCHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC: $200 · Human ServicesFOOD FOR THE POOR INC: $900 · InternationalST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $600 · HealthAmerican Diabetes Association: $200 · HealthFlorida Sheriffs Youth Ranches Inc: $500 · Youth Development
Other$113,775Philanthropy$10,000Education$7,000Human Services$1,200International$900Health$800Youth Development$500

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 budgetNORTHERN PIEDMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEADWATERS THE RAPPAHANNOCK COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetHabitat for Humanity of Pinellas County Inc & Subsidiaries: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD FOR THE POOR INC: $900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSPERRYVILLE VOLUNTEER RESCUE SQUAD INC: $850 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHOSPICE OF THE PIEDMONT INC: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBARTER FOUNDATION INC STATE THEATRE OF VIRGINIA: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC: $700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFlorida Sheriffs Youth Ranches Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOMELESS EMERGENCY PROJECT INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEASTER SEALS INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCharity Navigator: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $50 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 NORTHERN PIEDMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HEADWATERS THE RAPPAHANNOCK COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Habitat for Humanity of Pinellas County Inc & Subsidiaries ↗
  • Who funds FOOD FOR THE POOR INC ↗
  • Who funds SPERRYVILLE VOLUNTEER RESCUE SQUAD INC ↗
  • Who funds HOSPICE OF THE PIEDMONT INC ↗
  • Who funds BARTER FOUNDATION INC STATE THEATRE OF VIRGINIA ↗
  • Who funds METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds Florida Sheriffs Youth Ranches Inc ↗
  • Who funds HOMELESS EMERGENCY PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds EASTER SEALS INC ↗
  • Who funds Charity Navigator ↗
  • Who funds CHRISTIAN APPALACHIAN PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
  • Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
  • Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗

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.

Mightycause Charitabl…The Jesse and Rose Lo…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Network for GoodThe Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Mightycause Charitable FoundationFL14.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Jesse and Rose Loeb Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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.

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 37 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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