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Arthur Vining Davis Foundation #2

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$4.2M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
51
Grants FY2024
44
Organizations funded FY2023
57%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$500,000
Organizations funded a year
13 to 57
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
16
Total assets, FY2024
$117M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 57% of the organizations Arthur Vining Davis Foundation #2 funded were first-time grantees, receiving 58% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.7M went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationArts & CultureEnvironmentHealthPhilanthropyInternationalOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving50$4.2M48%
FY202344$4.6M57%
FY202229$4.4M62%
FY202123$3.7M83%
FY202029$3.7M79%
FY201941$3.9M80%
FY201857$3.0M91%
FY201713$188kn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$9.7MArts & Culture$5.9MHealth$3.3MReligion$2.6MEnvironment$2.1MPhilanthropy$1.3MHuman Services$852kPublic Benefit$832kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
NH
WA
MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
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CA
UT
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KY
VA
MD
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NC
SC
DC
GA
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FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 178 grantees
All grantees of Arthur Vining Davis Foundation #2 by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association Inc$2,250,00051%
The Rita and Alex Hillman Foundation$1,150,000417%
The Fred Rogers Company$900,00031%
WGBH Educational Foundation$800,00020%
Braver AngelsInc$681,932312%
Constructive Dialogue Institute Inc$608,393413%
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai$600,00010%
Solutions Journalism Network Inc$500,00025%
InterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA$404,0003n/a
Aquifer Inc$396,24023%
American Council of Learned Societies$355,00021%
Interfaith America$350,00021%
The Kuhn Foundation$325,000211%
Bethune-Cookman University$312,90020%
Skidmore College$302,00010%
Northwestern University$300,00020%
Rare$300,00011%
The Pew Charitable Trusts$300,00010%
Window to the World Communications Inc$300,00011%
Stetson University Inc$299,64710%
Marine Conservation Biology Institute$295,000124%
World Wildlife Fund Inc$295,00010%
Trustees of Boston University$290,06510%
Dickinson College$277,29620%
Trinity University$275,00010%
Denison University$275,00010%
Ocean Conservancy$272,00011%
Muhlenberg College$266,28010%
University of Michigan$262,776180%
Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc$259,00032%
Children's Hospital Los Angeles$256,79010%
Cornell University$253,00010%
Pomona College$250,00010%
Lincoln University$250,00010%
The Groundtruth Project Inc$250,00013%
Oglala Lakota College$250,00011%
Hebrew College$250,00013%
Trustees of Clark University$250,00010%
Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc$250,00011%
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute$250,00010%
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution$242,62130%
President and Trustees of Bates College$225,00010%
Trustees of Tufts College$223,96510%
Dominican University$205,35010%
Freedom Forum Institute Inc$200,00012%
Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life$200,00010%
New York Public Radio$200,00010%
Minnesota Private College Fund$199,20026%
Heterodox Academy$180,00012%
Va Foundation for Independent Colleges$175,00018%
Neighborly Faith Inc$175,000150%
Council of Independent Colleges$175,00021%
Campus Compact$171,00022%
Brigham Young University$166,0631n/a
Duke University$153,30010%
Zaytuna College Inc$150,00011%
The Aspen Institute Inc$150,00010%
Bryn Mawr College$150,00010%
Illinois Wesleyan University$150,00010%
Christianity Today International$150,00021%
El-Hibri Foundation$150,00024%
Michigan Community College Foundation$137,500114%
Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding$128,00019%
Independent Colleges of Washington$125,00017%
Ohio State University Foundation$120,00010%
Johnson C Smith University$119,20010%
Mass General Brigham Incorporated$108,8871n/a
HBCU Career Development Marketplace$100,000212%
Appalachian College Association Inc$100,0001n/a
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc$100,00010%
McMurry University$100,00010%
Associated Colleges of the South Inc$100,000111%
Unity Productions Foundation$100,00014%
Wake Forest University$98,03410%
Drake University$93,00010%
Hebrew Rehabilitation Center$76,65010%
Tusculum University$52,75010%
Natural Resources Council of Maine Inc$51,00021%
Union Theological Seminary$50,00010%
Ithaka Harbors Inc$50,00020%
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc$50,00010%
Higher Education Leadership Foundation$50,0001n/a
Ethics and Public Policy Center Inc$40,00020%
Children's Health System of Texas$33,33410%
Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas Inc$33,33310%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$33,33310%
Wjct Inc$32,50030%
Museum of Science and History of Jacksonville Inc$30,00030%
The Center for Effective Philanthropy Inc$28,00010%
National Center for Family Philanthropy Inc$25,00020%
Coalition To Transform Advanced Car$25,00011%
Independent Media Institute$25,00012%
Edward Waters University Inc$22,50030%
White Oak Conservation Foundation Inc$20,00012%
Grantmakers in Aging Inc$20,00021%
Jacksonville Area Legal Aid Inc$20,00010%
Climate Conservation Dba Center for Large Landscape Conservation$20,00011%
United Way of Northeast Florida Inc$20,0001n/a
North Texas Public Broadcasting Inc$19,00040%
North Anoka County Emergency Food Shelf$18,00040%
American Association of Colleges and Universities$18,00010%
The Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation Inc$18,00020%
St Johns Riverkeeper Inc$17,50032%
Hospice Foundation of America Inc$16,47411%
Literacy Alliance of Northeast Florida Inc$15,00021%
Communities in Schools of Jacksonville Inc$15,00020%
Institute for Social Policy and Understanding$15,00021%
Groundwork Jacksonville Inc$15,00011%
Jacksonville Zoological Society Inc$15,00020%
Jacksonville Riverfront Alliance Inc$15,000113%
Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Crippled Children$13,00040%
World Affairs Council of Jacksonville Inc$12,50021%
Xeroderma Pigmentosum Family Support Group$12,000213%
Philanthropy Southeast Inc$10,60010%
Family Foundations of Northeast Florida Inc$10,00011%
Kipp Jacksonville Inc$10,00010%
Local Initiatives Support Corporation$10,00010%
National Trust for the Humanities$10,00015%
World Affairs Council$10,00011%
Institute for Nonprofit News$10,00010%
University of Vermont and State Agricultural College Foundation Inc$10,00030%
The Cambridge School of Weston Inc$10,00030%
Jacksonville Symphony Association Inc$10,00010%
International Rescue Committee INC$7,00020%
North Texas Food Bank$7,00020%
Dakota Wicohan$7,00011%
Visiting Nurse Association of Texas$6,00020%
Billion Oyster Project Inc$5,50020%
President and Fellows of Middlebury College$5,0001n/a
The Seattle Aquarium Society$5,00010%
Jacksonville Public Education Fund Inc$5,00010%
Jacksonville Speech & Hearing Center Inc$5,00011%
Simmering Pot$5,0001n/a
Minnesota Indian Women's Resource Center$5,00010%
Jacksonville Alliance for Kipp Schools Inc$5,00010%
Nonprofit Center of Northeast Florida Inc$5,00010%
Jacksonville Humane Society Inc$5,00010%
The Brain Tumor Network Inc$5,00010%
New Mexico Humanities Council$4,00010%
Children's Inn at Nih Inc$4,00010%
The Rivers School Corporation$4,00010%
Humanities Texas$4,00010%
Good Shepherd Food Bank$4,00020%
Spartanburg Methodist College$4,00010%
Charlottesville Women in Tech$4,0001n/a
The Finger Lakes Land Trust Inc$4,00020%
Tioga County Rural Ministry Inc$3,00011%
Planned Parenthood South Atlantic Inc$3,00010%
Global Health Ministries$3,00010%
The Catholic Charities Food Bank of the Southern Tier$3,0001n/a
St Stephens Episcopal Church$3,0001n/a
Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting$3,00010%
Minnesota Public Radio American Public Media$3,00010%
Legacy of Care Health Center Inc$2,500110%
The Young Men's Christian Association of Florida's First Coast Inc$2,50010%
Friends of the Library-Ponte Vedra$2,50012%
Ivy Elementary School Parent Teacher Organization$2,00014%
One-Eighty Place$2,00010%
Middlesex School$2,00010%
A Place To Turn Inc$2,00011%
Jerusalem Peacebuilders Inc$2,00010%
Seeds of Peace Inc$2,00010%
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation$2,00010%
Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc$2,00010%
Pilgrim Church Inc$2,0001n/a
The Piedmont Environmental Council$2,00010%
Maine Public Broadcasting Corporation$2,00010%
Friends of Acadia$2,00010%
Bainbridge Island Land Trust$1,00010%
Planned Parenthood of the Southern Finger Lakes Inc$1,00010%
The Preservation Society of Charleston Inc$1,00010%
Jefferson Land Trust$1,00010%
Natural Resources Defense Council Inc$1,00010%
ETV Endowment of South Carolina Inc$1,00010%
Sherborn Community Center Foundation Inc$1,0001n/a
Climate Central Inc$1,00010%
Indian Lake Theater Inc$1,00011%
Beth C Wright Cancer Resource Center$1,0001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 29 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.4M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Arthur Vining Davis Foundation #2 supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 164 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGreater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association Inc: $2,250,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetThe Rita and Alex Hillman Foundation: $1,150,000 over 4y, 17% of budgetThe Fred Rogers Company: $900,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetWGBH Educational Foundation: $800,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBraver AngelsInc: $681,932 over 3y, 12% of budgetConstructive Dialogue Institute Inc: $608,393 over 4y, 13% of budgetIcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai: $600,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSolutions Journalism Network Inc: $500,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetAquifer Inc: $396,240 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetAmerican Council of Learned Societies: $355,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetInterfaith America: $350,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetThe Kuhn Foundation: $325,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetBethune-Cookman University: $312,900 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSkidmore College: $302,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNorthwestern University: $300,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRare: $300,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetThe Pew Charitable Trusts: $300,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWindow to the World Communications Inc: $300,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetStetson University Inc: $299,647 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMarine Conservation Biology Institute: $295,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetWorld Wildlife Fund Inc: $295,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTrustees of Boston University: $290,065 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDickinson College: $277,296 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTrinity University: $275,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDenison University: $275,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOcean Conservancy: $272,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMuhlenberg College: $266,280 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $262,776 over 1y, 80% of budgetWoodwell Climate Research Center Inc: $259,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $256,790 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University: $253,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPomona College: $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLincoln University: $250,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Groundtruth Project Inc: $250,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetOglala Lakota College: $250,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHebrew College: $250,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetTrustees of Clark University: $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: $250,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMonterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute: $250,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWoods Hole Oceanographic Institution: $242,621 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPresident and Trustees of Bates College: $225,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $223,965 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDominican University: $205,350 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFreedom Forum Institute Inc: $200,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetHillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life: $200,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNew York Public Radio: $200,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMinnesota Private College Fund: $199,200 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetHeterodox Academy: $180,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 164.

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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 V Davis Foundation Pf #3FL83.2× affinity38 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arthur V Davis Foundation Pf #3 · The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida Inc · Jacksonville Jaguars Foundation Inc · Pga Tour Inc · Winston Family Foundation · VyStar Credit Union · The Maryellen S Willis Charitable Trust · Mayo Clinic Group Return · United Way of Northeast Florida Inc · The Teagle Foundation · Csx Foundation Inc · Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida Foundation

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.

Compare Arthur Vining Davis Foundation #2 with peer funders

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How do I get to Arthur Vining Davis Foundation #2?

Find your warmest path to Arthur Vining Davis Foundation #2 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.

About Arthur Vining Davis Foundation #2

How much does Arthur Vining Davis Foundation #2 give?
Arthur Vining Davis Foundation #2 reported 51 grants totaling $4,211,339 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 57 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Arthur Vining Davis Foundation #2 fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (33%), Arts & Culture (20%), Health (11%).
Who are Arthur Vining Davis Foundation #2's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association Inc ($2.3M), The Rita and Alex Hillman Foundation ($1.1M), The Fred Rogers Company ($900k).
Does Arthur Vining Davis Foundation #2 fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 57% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Arthur Vining Davis Foundation #2 accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Arthur Vining Davis Foundation #2?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Arthur V Davis Foundation Pf #3, The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida Inc, Jacksonville Jaguars Foundation Inc.
Where is Arthur Vining Davis Foundation #2 based?
Arthur Vining Davis Foundation #2 is based in PA.

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 216 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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