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Arthur V Davis Foundation Pf #3 at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

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

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
DIVISION OF HOMELAND MINISTRY$300,000
AMERICAN CNCL ENERGY-EFFICIENT ECONOMY$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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its 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 its 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%American National Red Cross: $15k → 14%RETHREADED: $10k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

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VT
NH
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IL
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MI
NY
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OR
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
NE
MO
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MD
DE
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
GA
TX
FL
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.

43%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$21M · 108 repeat orgs$28M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.

108 repeat relationships: 41 still active in FY2024, 67 since wound down; 31 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

108
294

Total granted

$21M
$25M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+20%

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
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

  • IA
    INTERFAITH AMERICA
    4× · 2018–2023 · $1.3M · revenue +400%
  • Potential Energy Coalition Inc
    2× · 2023–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +38%
  • WI
    WJCT INC
    5× · 2017–2024 · $950k · revenue +184%

Funded once

  • WT
    WETA TV 26 & Classical 909 FM
    one grant, 2019 · $800k
  • WGBH Educational Foundation
    one grant, 2019 · $600k · revenue +5%
  • WT
    WETA - Telling America's Stories
    one grant, 2017 · $500k
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
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.

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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…

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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.

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Center for Family Philanthropy Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

275 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. 275 of the 446 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
39
Early backer (in before they grew)
269/275
Grantees still filing
205/275
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $1,107,500 · OtherWGBH: $1,100,000 · OtherPotential Energy Coalition Inc: $1,000,000 · OtherWJCT INC: $950,120 · OtherBridgeUSA: $845,300 · OtherWETA TV 26 & Classical 909 FM: $800,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $750,000 · Other+85 more: $15,633,765 · Other+85 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+60 more: $11,569,223 · Education+60 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…WNET: $500,000 · Arts & CultureWNETAMERICAN JOURNALISM PROJECT INC: $500,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN JOURN…THE 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…WINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC: $300,000 · Arts & CultureINTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC: $300,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MEDIA AND POLICY CENTER FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA: $300,000 · Arts & CultureCITY LORE INC: $250,000 · Arts & CultureSOUTH FLORIDA PBS 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 · ReligionUNITY PRODUCTIONS FOUNDATION: $150,000 · ReligionRELIGION NEWS 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 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC: $50,000 · PhilanthropySEATTLE FOUNDATION: $50,000 · PhilanthropyCAPE AND ISLANDS UNITED WAY INC: $50,000 · PhilanthropyPhilanthropy Southeast Inc: $49,160 · Philanthropy+1 more: $25,000 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION: $350,000 · AnimalsCONSERVATION X LABS INC: $350,000 · AnimalsGULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $250,000 · Animals
Other$22,186,685Education$14,609,107Arts & Culture$6,095,902Religion$2,460,450Environment$1,526,000Philanthropy$957,493Animals$950,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 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 budgetWNET: $500,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN JOURNALISM PROJECT INC: $500,000 over 2y, 1.0% 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 budgetNATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION: $350,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC: $350,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetRARE: $350,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE NANTUCKET PROJECT ACADEMY INC: $350,000 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetCONSERVATION X LABS INC: $350,000 over 1y, 7.2% 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 budgetWARREN WILSON COLLEGE: $300,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWINDOW TO THE WORLD COMMUNICATIONS INC: $300,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWhittier College: $300,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPROJECT PERICLES INC: $300,000 over 1y, 54% of budgetLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $300,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Partnership Project: $300,000 over 2y, 70% of budgetINTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC: $300,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetBARNARD COLLEGE: $300,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MEDIA AND POLICY CENTER FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA: $300,000 over 1y, 35% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $300,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $300,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY: $275,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY: $275,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRIPON COLLEGE: $275,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHENDRIX COLLEGE: $267,225 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

Arthur Vining Davis F…The Community Foundat…Csx Foundation IncJacksonville Jaguars …Ibm International Fou…Winston Family Founda…The Teagle FoundationPga Tour IncVyStar Credit UnionHolbrook R & Sarah M …The Maryellen S Willi…Council of Independen…
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

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 Arthur V Davis Foundation Pf #3 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Arthur V Davis Foundation Pf #3. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 190%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: 63% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Marine Biological Laboratory: 20% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc: 11% of income from government
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
  • Children's Inn at Nih Inc: 10% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Kipp Jacksonville Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Jerusalem Peacebuilders Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Mote Marine Laboratory Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Linfield University: 4% of income from government
  • Jacksonville University: 3% of income from government
  • United Way of Northeast Florida Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Cathedral Arts Project Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Willamette University: 1% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Middlebury College: 1% of income from government
  • Wesleyan University: 1% of income from government
  • Wgbh Educational Foundation: 1% of income from government
  • Campus Compact: 1% of income from government
  • The Filmmakers Collaborative Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Eckerd College: 0% of income from government
  • Rollins College: 0% of income from government
  • Jacksonville Zoological Society Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Amherst College Trustees: 0% of income from government
  • Ceres Inc: 0% of income from government
  • South Florida Pbs Inc: 0% 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, 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 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 446 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home