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Arthur V Davis Foundation Pf #3

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$7.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
74
Grants FY2024still arriving
19
States reached
$800k
Largest
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Education$19MArts & Culture$9.8MEnvironment$3.9MReligion$3.0MPublic Benefit$2.9MScience & Tech$1.7MHealth$1.3MCommunity Improvement$675kOther$0
02FY2024 · 74 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k22 grants · $66k
  • $10k–50k19 grants · $393k
  • $50k–250k25 grants · $3.6M
  • $250k+8 grants · $3.2M
$25,000
Median grant
19
States reached
$193M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$800,000
POTENTIAL ENERGY COALITION$500,000
WJCT$375,000
CERES$375,000
AMERICAN CNCL ENERGY-EFFICIENT ECONOMY$300,000
DIVISION OF HOMELAND MINISTRY$300,000
YALE UNIVERSITY$298,057
BRIDGEUSA$250,000
CHRISTIANITY TODAY INTERNATIONAL$225,000
FELLOWSHIP CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY STUDENTS$200,000
PBS FOUNDATION$194,250
AUGSBURG UNIVERSITY$189,630
COUNCIL OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES$180,000
UNIVERSITY OF DENVER$175,000
NC INDEPENDENT COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES$174,438
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $202k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 71% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%National Council of the United States Society of St Vincent de Paul Inc: $250 → 11%Shelter for Help in Emergency: $3k → 8%FREEKIND: $3k → 14%GRANTMAKERS IN AGING: $5k → 7%ECHO ORPHANCARE PARTNERS: $3k → 14%VILLAGES OF HOPE: $40k → 14%VILLAGES OF HOPE: $10k → 14%Northern Virginia Family Service: $50k → 6%MORE IN COMMON: $50k → 17%Philippine Medical Society of Florida Inc East Coast Chapter: $250 → 14%RETHREADED: $12k → 14%RETHREADED: $10k → 14%American National Red Cross: $15k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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VT
NH
WA
MT
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IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
NE
MO
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DE
AR
TN
NC
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DC
GA
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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

42%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$20M · 107 repeat orgs$28M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.

107 repeat relationships — 41 still active in FY2024, 66 since wound down; 31 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

107
298

Total granted

$20M
$26M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+19%

Still filing today

80%
49%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.5M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureEnvironmentHealthHuman ServicesAnimalsOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • IA
    INTERFAITH AMERICA
    4× · 2018–2023 · $1.3M · revenue +400%
  • WI
    WJCT INC
    5× · 2017–2024 · $950k · revenue +184%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF DENVER
    4× · 2018–2024 · $750k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • WT
    WETA TV 26 & Classical 909 FM
    one grant, 2019 · $800k
  • WGBH Educational Foundation
    one grant, 2019 · $600k · revenue +5%
  • WF
    Windward Fund
    one grant, 2022 · $500k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
2
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
3
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
4
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

5
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
6
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
7
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
8
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
9
Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education
10
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

11
Fielding Graduate University

We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.

12
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Center for Family Philanthropy Inc and the most unlike its peers is White Oak Conservation Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsPolicy Research and AdvocacyEnvironmental Conservation …Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Women & Girls Leadership De…Christian Missionary Organi…Food Banks and PantriesUnited Way AffiliatesDomestic Violence ServicesIndependent K-12 SchoolsCancer Support ServicesChristian Youth CampsAddiction Recovery ServicesAnimal Rescue and ShelterCommunity College Foundatio…Jewish Community Organizati…Health Access Advocacy and …Community Arts CentersPublic Library OperationsCommunity Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%1%<5yr14%8%5–10yr19%9%10–20yr16%20%20–35yr13%27%35–55yr16%36%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%9%5–10yr19%7%10–20yr16%17%20–35yr13%18%35–55yr16%49%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.3%1/290
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,275

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

275 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 275 of the 449 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
39
Early backer (in before they grew)
269/275
Grantees still filing
204/275
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $1,107,500 · OtherWGBH — $1,100,000 · OtherPotential Energy Coalition Inc — $1,000,000 · OtherWJCT INC — $950,120 · OtherWETA TV 26 & Classical 909 FM — $800,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $750,000 · Other+87 more — $16,399,065 · Other+87 moreUNIVERSITY OF DENVER — $750,000 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITY — $678,800 · EducationICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI — $600,000 · EducationMarquette University — $518,341 · EducationUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac — $492,743 · Education+59 more — $11,544,223 · Education+59 morePBS FOUNDATION — $688,500 · Arts & CulturePBS FOUNDATIONWGBH Educational Foundation — $600,000 · Arts & CultureWGBH Education…GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC — $600,000 · Arts & CultureGREATER WASHIN…AMERICAN JOURNALISM PROJECT INC — $500,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN JOURN…WNET — $500,000 · Arts & CultureWNETTHE FRED ROGERS COMPANY — $400,000 · Arts & CultureTHE FRED ROGER…Independent Media Institute — $375,000 · Arts & CultureIndependent Me…TWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC — $350,000 · Arts & CultureTWIN CITIES PU…INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC — $300,000 · Arts & CultureWINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC — $300,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MEDIA AND POLICY CENTER FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA — $300,000 · Arts & CultureSOUTH FLORIDA PBS INC — $250,000 · Arts & CultureCITY LORE INC — $250,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICA ABROAD MEDIA INC — $250,000 · Arts & Culture+7 more — $432,402 · Arts & Culture+7 moreINTERFAITH AMERICA — $1,300,000 · ReligionTHE VERITAS FORUM INC — $282,450 · ReligionChristianity Today International — $225,000 · ReligionHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE — $200,000 · ReligionZaytuna College Inc — $153,000 · ReligionRELIGION NEWS FOUNDATION — $150,000 · ReligionUNITY PRODUCTIONS FOUNDATION — $150,000 · ReligionCERES INC — $625,000 · EnvironmentRARE — $350,000 · EnvironmentWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $301,000 · EnvironmentCE BUYERS INSTITUTE — $250,000 · EnvironmentThe Pew Charitable Trusts — $333,333 · PhilanthropyPROJECT PERICLES INC — $300,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF NORTHEAST FLORIDA INC — $100,000 · PhilanthropyCAPE AND ISLANDS UNITED WAY INC — $50,000 · PhilanthropySEATTLE FOUNDATION — $50,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC — $50,000 · PhilanthropyPhilanthropy Southeast Inc — $49,160 · Philanthropy+1 more — $25,000 · PhilanthropyCONSERVATION X LABS INC — $350,000 · AnimalsNATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION — $350,000 · AnimalsGULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $250,000 · Animals
Other$22,106,685Education$14,584,107Arts & Culture$6,095,902Religion$2,460,450Environment$1,526,000Philanthropy$957,493Animals$950,000

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetINTERFAITH AMERICA — $1,300,000 over 4y, 6.8% of budgetPotential Energy Coalition Inc — $1,000,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetWJCT INC — $950,120 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DENVER — $750,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPBS FOUNDATION — $688,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY — $678,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCERES INC — $625,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetWGBH Educational Foundation — $600,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI — $600,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC — $600,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMarquette University — $518,341 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOUNCIL OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES — $510,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetAMERICAN JOURNALISM PROJECT INC — $500,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetWNET — $500,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac — $492,743 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES — $430,182 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetWilliam Marsh Rice University — $408,269 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FRED ROGERS COMPANY — $400,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetIndependent Media Institute — $375,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetCONSERVATION X LABS INC — $350,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetTHE NANTUCKET PROJECT ACADEMY INC — $350,000 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetNATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION — $350,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRARE — $350,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC — $350,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetThe Pew Charitable Trusts — $333,333 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN COUNCIL ON EDUCATION — $308,820 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College — $305,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY — $304,968 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $301,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT PERICLES INC — $300,000 over 1y, 54% of budgetINTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC — $300,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetWINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC — $300,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $300,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Partnership Project — $300,000 over 2y, 70% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University — $300,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBARNARD COLLEGE — $300,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWhittier College — $300,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO — $300,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MEDIA AND POLICY CENTER FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA — $300,000 over 1y, 35% of budgetWARREN WILSON COLLEGE — $300,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetDRAKE UNIVERSITY — $287,280 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $284,814 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE VERITAS FORUM INC — $282,450 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetDavidson College — $281,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY — $275,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY — $275,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRIPON COLLEGE — $275,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHENDRIX COLLEGE — $267,225 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Arthur Vining Davis Foundation #2PA83.2× affinity38 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arthur Vining Davis Foundation #2 · The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida Inc · Csx Foundation Inc · Jacksonville Jaguars Foundation Inc · Ibm International Foundation · Winston Family Foundation · The Teagle Foundation · Pga Tour Inc · VyStar Credit Union · Holbrook R & Sarah M Davis Foundation Inc · The Maryellen S Willis Charitable Trust · Council of Independent Colleges

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Arthur V Davis Foundation Pf #3 funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 190%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 3%
  • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution63% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc22% of income from government
  • Marine Biological Laboratory20% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University12% of income from government
  • Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc11% of income from government
  • City Year Inc11% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Princeton University11% of income from government
  • Children's Inn at Nih Inc10% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College7% of income from government
  • Kipp Jacksonville Inc7% of income from government
  • Jerusalem Peacebuilders Inc5% of income from government
  • Mote Marine Laboratory Inc4% of income from government
  • Linfield University4% of income from government
  • Jacksonville University3% of income from government
  • United Way of Northeast Florida Inc2% of income from government
  • Cathedral Arts Project Inc1% of income from government
  • Willamette University1% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Middlebury College1% of income from government
  • Wesleyan University1% of income from government
  • Wgbh Educational Foundation1% of income from government
  • Campus Compact1% of income from government
  • The Filmmakers Collaborative Inc1% of income from government
  • Eckerd College0% of income from government
  • Rollins College0% of income from government
  • Jacksonville Zoological Society Inc0% of income from government
  • Amherst College Trustees0% of income from government
  • Ceres Inc0% of income from government
  • South Florida Pbs Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
19get no government money at all
41report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

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How do I get to Arthur V Davis Foundation Pf #3?

Find your warmest path to Arthur V Davis Foundation Pf #3 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 449 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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