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Aaron Lee Davis Memorial Foundation at a glance

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Aaron Lee Davis Memorial Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$17k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

International$54kEducation$50kHealth$9kAnimals$9kFood & Nutrition$2kRecreation & Sports$2kCivil Rights$2kHuman Services$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$221k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Chesterton Academy$8,000
Doctors without Borders$2,000
St Jude Childrens Hospital$2,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
Rescueorg$2,000
Met School$500
American Cancer Society$300
Academy Science$150
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 21% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Boston Scores: $250 → 16%Women for Afghanistan: $10k → 13%Doctors without Borders: $5k → 17%Ukraine Aid Intl: $25k → 9%Salvation Army: $1k → 11%St Jude Childrens Hospital: $2k → 17%Friends of Animals in Need: $2k → 7%Chesterton Academy: $16k → 7%Meals on Wheels: $2k → 14%Cholangiocarcinoma Foundation: $500 → 8%Rescueorg: $2k → 17%Stamford Hospital: $6k → 9%Friends of Exeter Animals: $5k → 7%Chesterton Academy: $8k → 7%RI ACLU: $2k → 14%Chesterton Academy: $8k → 7%Met School: $500 → 14%American Cancer Society: $300 → 7%Bishop Hendricken High School: $10k → 7%Bishop Hendricken High School: $7k → 7%Bishop Hendricken High School: $1k → 7%Academy Science: $150 → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

53%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$69k · 3 repeat orgs$60k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
10

Total granted

$69k
$53k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+76%

Still filing today

33%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthPublic Safety & DisasterAnimalsInternationalYouth 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

  • CA
    Chesterton Academy
    3× · 2023–2025 · $32k
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    4× · 2021–2025 · $19k · revenue +20%
  • BH
    BISHOP HENDRICKEN HIGH SCHOOL CORP
    3× · 2020–2022 · $18k

Funded once

  • UA
    UKRAINE AID INTERNATIONAL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +46%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • TS
    The Stamford Hospitalgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue +38%
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.

04Its 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
Asco Association

Asco association promotes the common business interests of its members by: (1) advocating for policies that improve the quality of cancer care; (2) maintaining the highest standards of oncology medical care through programs supporting…

Community Improvement
2
American Society of Clinical Oncology Inc

See schedule o:asco is a professional oncology society committed to conquering cancer through research, education, and promotion of the highest quality patient care.

Health
3
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
4
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International
5
American College of Radiology Association

The purpose of the association is the promotion of educational and professional association interests including but not limited to the promotion of the interests of radiology and the interests and study of the socioeconomic aspects of the…

Community Improvement
6
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
7
American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network Inc

Driven by a vision to end cancer as we know it for everyone, the american cancer society cancer action network, inc. (acs can) advocates for evidence-based public policies to reduce the cancer burden by engaging advocates across the…

Health
8
City of Hope

City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION

Health
9
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
American Society for Radiation Oncology

To advance the practice of radiation oncology by promoting excellence in patient care, providing opportunities for educational and professional develpoment, promoting research and disseminating research results and representing radiation…

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11
Acadia General Hospital Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
12
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Cancer Society Inc; the most unlike its peers is Friends of Animals in Need. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

8 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. 8 of the 19 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)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Chesterton Academy: $32,000 · OtherChesterton AcademyBISHOP HENDRICKEN HIGH SCHOOL CORP: $17,600 · OtherBISHOP HENDRICKEN HIGH SCHOOL CORPIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientFRIENDS OF EXETER ANIMALS INC: $4,500 · OtherFRIENDS OF EXETER ANIMALS INC+7 more: $9,650 · Other+7 moreUKRAINE AID INTERNATIONAL INC: $25,000 · Public Safety & DisasterUKRAINE AID INTERNATI…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $19,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FR…The Stamford Hospital: $6,103 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $2,000 · HealthTHE CHOLANGIOCARCINOMA FOUNDATION: $500 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $300 · HealthFRIENDS OF ANIMALS IN NEED: $2,000 · AnimalsAmerica Scores New England DBA Boston Scores: $250 · Youth Development
Other$73,750Public Safety & Disaster$25,000International$19,000Health$8,903Animals$2,000Youth Development$250

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 budgetUKRAINE AID INTERNATIONAL INC: $25,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $19,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Stamford Hospital: $6,103 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF ANIMALS IN NEED: $2,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHOLANGIOCARCINOMA FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerica Scores New England DBA Boston Scores: $250 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.

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.

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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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Aaron Lee Davis Memorial Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Aaron Lee Davis Memorial Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • America Scores New England Dba Boston Scores: 30% of income from government
  • The Stamford Hospital: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Aaron Lee Davis Memorial Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Aaron Lee Davis Memorial Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 19 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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