Funding search · EIN 843215732 · Bethesda, MD

The Daba Fund

Name: The Daba Fund grants, 2022–2025
Creator: PaperOrbit
License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

42
grants reported: $1.9M
total given: 2022–2025
filing years: $45,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2025. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

award berry farming house plenitud seneca village wendell

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Funding pattern

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Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

Sterling College5 grants · $355,000
Soul Fire Farm Institute4 grants · $172,500
Black and Pink4 grants · $172,500
Gays and Lesbians Living in a Transgender Society4 grants · $172,500
The Okra Project3 grants · $145,000
Loveland Foundation3 grants · $122,500
Darkness Rising Project3 grants · $102,500
Plenitud2 grants · $80,000
Possibility Labs2 grants · $60,000
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation1 grant · $50,000

Giving over time

$315,000

2022

$485,000

2023

$480,000

2024

$580,000

2025

Grant history

All 42 reported grants, largest first.

$150,000
Sterling College · Craftsbury Common, VT · 2023
General operating support
$125,000
Sterling College · Craftsbury Common, VT · 2022
General operating support
$50,000
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation · Washington, DC · 2025
Emergent fund unrestricted grant award
$50,000
Black and Pink · Omaha, NE · 2025
Unrestricted grant award
$50,000
For the Gworls · Brooklyn, NY · 2025
Unrestricted grant award
$50,000
Gays and Lesbians Living in a Transgender Society · Ozone Park, NY · 2025
Unrestricted grant award
$50,000
Griffin-Gracy Educational Retreat & Historical Center · Little Rock, AR · 2025
House of gg/the oasis unrestricted award
$50,000
Plenitud · Las Marias, PR · 2025
Unrestricted grant for plenitud vt
$50,000
Sisterreach · Memphis, TN · 2025
My sistah's house unrestricted award
$50,000
Soul Fire Farm Institute · Petersburg, NY · 2025
Unrestricted grant award
$50,000
Susu Community Farm · Newfane, VT · 2025
Unrestricted grant award
$50,000
The Center for An Agricultural Economy · Hardwick, VT · 2025
Hardwick food hub unrestricted award
$50,000
The Okra Project · Brooklyn, NY · 2025
Unrestricted grant award
$50,000
Black and Pink · Omaha, NE · 2024
Unrestricted grant award
$50,000
Borealis Philanthropy · Minneapolis, MN · 2024
Fund for trans generations
$50,000
Gays and Lesbians Living in a Transgender Society · Ozone Park, NY · 2024
Unrestricted grant award
$50,000
Loveland Foundation · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
Unrestricted grant award
$50,000
Soul Fire Farm Institute · Petersburg, NY · 2024
Unrestricted grant award
$50,000
The Okra Project · Brooklyn, NY · 2024
Unrestricted grant award
$45,000
Black and Pink · Omaha, NE · 2023
General operating support
$45,000
Darkness Rising Project · Raleigh, NC · 2023
General operating support
$45,000
Gays and Lesbians Living in a Transgender Society · Ozone Park, NY · 2023
General operating support
$45,000
Loveland Foundation · Brooklyn, NY · 2023
General operating support
$45,000
Soul Fire Farm Institute · Petersburg, NY · 2023
General operating support
$45,000
The Okra Project · Brooklyn, NY · 2023
General operating support
$30,000
Possibility Labs · San Francisco, CA · 2025
New seneca village unrestricted grant
$30,000
Darkness Rising Project · Raleigh, NC · 2024
Unrestricted grant award
$30,000
Niweskok · Milford, ME · 2024
Unrestricted grant award
$30,000
Plenitud · Las Marias, PR · 2024
Unrestricted grant for plenitud vt
$30,000
Possibility Labs · San Francisco, CA · 2024
New seneca village unrestricted grant
$30,000
Presente Maine · Portland, ME · 2024
Unrestricted grant award
$30,000
Sterling College · Craftsbury Common, VT · 2024
Operating fund grant
$27,500
Arts Business Collaborative · Woodside, NY · 2022
The okra project/general operating support
$27,500
Black and Pink · Omaha, NE · 2022
General operating support
$27,500
Darkness Rising Project · Raleigh, NC · 2022
General operating support
$27,500
Gays and Lesbians Living in a Transgender Society · Ozone Park, NY · 2022
General operating support
$27,500
Loveland Foundation · Brooklyn, NY · 2022
General operating support
$27,500
Soul Fire Farm Institute · Petersburg, NY · 2022
General operating support
$25,000
Sterling College · Craftsbury Common, VT · 2023
Wendell berry farming program
$25,000
Sterling College · Craftsbury Common, VT · 2022
Wendell berry farming program
$20,000
American Near East Refugee Aid · Washington, DC · 2023
General operating support
$20,000
Middle East Childrens Alliance · Berkeley, CA · 2023
General operating support

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