GrantmakersTennessee

The Darryl Worley Foundation Inc

Savannah, TN · EIN 22-3860162. Reported 34 grants totalling $281,005 to 25 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

25organizations funded
$4,750median reported grant
$281,005granted, 2021-2024
46%of grantees funded again the next year
37%of dollars to its largest recipient

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For The Darryl Worley Foundation Inc, the IRS classifies it as a fundraising and fund-distribution organization (NTEE T12).
  2. How spread out its giving is. 25 distinct organizations, with 37% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
  3. How much its list changes. 46% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 1 year-to-year transition. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $4,750. Half of what it reported fell between $2,050 and $5,820; the smallest was $170 and the largest $62,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
Under $5,000
17 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
11 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
2 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
3 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
1 grant

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
T a M B of Jackson Tennessee IncJackson, TN$104,000332024
Renaissance CommitteeSavannah, TN$55,000322024
Hardin County Board of EducationSavannah, TN$29,500112024
Hardin County Christian Assistance MinistrySavannah, TN$12,200222023
Alzheimers Tennessee IncKnoxville, TN$10,820222024
Brenda's House of HopeSavannah, TN$6,000112023
Sheltering Tree RanchSavannah, TN$5,650222024
Carl Perkins CenterSavannah, TN$5,170222024
Wreaths Across AmericaColumbia Fls, ME$5,100222024
Levi Miles FoundationParis, TN$5,000112023
Our Daily Bread MinistriesSavannah, TN$5,000112023
Tampa General Hospital Foundation IncTampa, FL$5,000112024
Voices of Savannah TnSavannah, TN$5,000112023
Womens Resource & Rape Assistance ProgramJackson, TN$5,000112023
Pine Vale Childrens Home IncCorinth, MS$4,500112023
Balanced Life MinistriesSavannah, TN$3,350112024
Grace ChapelPickwidk Dam, TN$3,000112024
Savannah House of HopeSavannah, TN$3,000112024
Sisters Impacting SavannahSavannah, TN$2,500112024
Adamsville Police DepartmentAdamsville, TN$1,615112024
City of Savannah TnSavannah, TN$1,100112024
Hardin County Community Andhealthcare Foundation IncSavannah, TN$1,000112024
Tennessee Law Enforcement Memorial Foundation IncSelmer, TN$1,000112024
Working Dogs for VetsLawrenceburg, TN$1,000112024
The Junior Auxiliary of Savannah Tennessee IncSavannah, TN$500112024

7 of 25 (28%) received money in more than one year over the 3 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

It also reported 9 groups of grants to individuals -- scholarships, emergency assistance and similar. Schedule I reports these by category with a headcount and never by name, so there is nothing here we could publish about the recipients even if we wanted to.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 15 of 25 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Human Services
3 orgs
Public & Societal Benefit
3 orgs
Health Care
2 orgs
Diseases & Disorders
1 org
Education
1 org
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
1 org
Food & Nutrition
1 org
Mental Health
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
20212$71,600$35,800
202314$101,370$5,000
202418$108,035$2,750

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

95% of its giving went to organizations in Tennessee. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.

Tennessee
$266K
Maine
$5K
Florida
$5K
Mississippi
$4K

Down to the city

Savannah, TN
$135K
Jackson, TN
$109K
Knoxville, TN
$11K
Columbia Fls, ME
$5K
Paris, TN
$5K
Tampa, FL
$5K

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Funders that support the same organizations

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How to approach this grantmaker

  1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $4,750 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Tennessee.
  4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from The Darryl Worley Foundation Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 0 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 18 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.

Address of record on the latest return: 325 Main Street, Savannah, TN, 38372.

EIN 22-3860162 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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