Maine · Nonprofit
Darrowby Farm Sanctuary
Darrowby Farm Sanctuary (Maine) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,987,036 to it, the largest being LESHER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,684,825). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Darrowby Farm Sanctuary runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,424 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,424 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Palmer Walbridge Foundationlocal
- Young Future Foundationportfolio match
- Winley Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
98% of Darrowby Farm Sanctuary’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $2k → $400k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Darrowby Farm Sanctuary’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Darrowby Farm Sanctuary leans on a few funders — its largest provides 85% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Darrowby Farm Sanctuary.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of Darrowby Farm Sanctuary's grant income comes from Maine funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $276k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Palmer Walbridge FoundationlocalNJ · funds 21 organizations near you
- Young Future Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Winley Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Burt Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- PC Fund for Animals Charitable Trportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Duncans and Tuquis Legacy Organization Dba Datloportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Folke H Peterson Charitable Foundation TW 920-041275201496portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Janice Spencer Calkin Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Harris Mathews Charitable Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Dts Charitable Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Brooks Institute for Animal Rights Law and Policy Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like Darrowby Farm Sanctuary
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Maine
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Darrowby Farm Sanctuary: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Darrowby Farm Sanctuary?
- Darrowby Farm Sanctuary (Maine) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,987,036 to it, the largest being LESHER FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,684,825). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Darrowby Farm Sanctuary have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $1,987,036 in grants to Darrowby Farm Sanctuary, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Darrowby Farm Sanctuary?
- LESHER FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,684,825 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Darrowby Farm Sanctuary find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maine. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 6funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing