DARTS 2025-2026 Regular Grant Recipients
Health and Basic Needs
The Transitional Shelter and Supportive Services program ensures low-income, unhoused families with children (nearly 70% are single mothers) have their basic needs met and a safe place to reside while actively working towards economic empowerment and addressing the root cause of what led them to be unhoused.
Shelter
HomeAid Orange County and their Family Care Center is an emergency shelter for families experiencing homelessness. The Family Care Center is an entry point to supportive services to ensure connections to return to stable housing. They provide three meals a day, case management, securing affordable housing or entry into another long-term supportive program.
Provides safe, dignified housing and comprehensive support services to survivors of domestic violence. It is an emergency shelter to transitional housing with rental assistance. Safety Net program provides immediate, short-term housing solutions.
Laura’s House provides shelter and supportive services to women, men and children. Counseling, life skills, education, legal advocacy and resources are also provided. Laura’s House operates on the philosophy that domestic violence is a multi-dimensional and often cyclical in nature, and must be addressed through a range of interventions.
Mary’s Path empowers vulnerable teen mothers in foster care and their babies to create lives of dignity, hope and self-sufficiency.
Project Name: Steps to Independence. Provides service to unaccompanied women, giving them safe housing and a comprehensive suite of wraparound services. Dedicated to serving only unaccompanied women.
Counseling and Support
Boys and Girls Club of Buena Park
Funds the SMART Girls/Jr. SMART Girls Programming, which is a comprehensive health prevention/education and self-esteem enhancement program designed to equip pre-teen and teenage girls with the skills and confidence to be responsible, contributing members of society.
Bright Horizon’s supports resources and services for families and children for comprehensive early developmental screenings while helping them navigate complex systems & services. The program helps assess developmental disabilities that encompass a broad spectrum of biological or neurological conditions resulting in impairments in physical functioning, learning, language or behavior often co-existing with other health problems.
Radiant Futures builds a safer community by providing crisis support, services for all survivors, and education to prevent domestic violence and trafficking.
Education
This organization serves more than 300 children with visual impairments and other disabilities as well as their families. Beyond Blindness looks forward to accelerating its impact into the next 60 years and beyond.
CYC Residential Shelter Care Program is an on-site counseling, shelter program for youth 11-17. Serving approximately 160 OC youth experiencing at home crisis. The program ensures that youth transition into safe and stable housing, establish lasting connections with supportive individuals, experience improved social and emotional well-being, and develop effective future plans for long-term success and independence.
Intervention Center for Early Childhood
For over 30 years, ICEC Ounce of Prevention Program – supports individual and group therapy for children with various needs. This program will provide high-quality, life changing treatment and services including developmental screenings, multidisciplinary evaluations, early intervention, individual and group therapy, and parent support programs.
DARTS 2025-2026 One-Time Grant Recipients
This year DARTS was able to offer five Special One Time Grants in addition to our regular grants.
Funding for a new playground. They will provide services to 300 children, ages 0-5.
Boys and Girls Club of Buena Park
Renovation and construction of their new “calming room” for children who are sensory challenged.
Purchase a long flat bed truck to be used by staff to retrieve youth from their current living situation and transport the children and any belongings they may have to their shelter. The youth also need transportation to and from outside appointments, medical, school, counseling, court hearings.
Funding for “The Market” food pantry new walk-in-freezer which will enable them to increase food distribution indefinitely.
Renovation and repairs for shelter preservations. Renovation of two staircases for an eight unit apartment building.