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Belle and Henry Davis Foundation

Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$138
Granted FY2022
1
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$138
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172022.

Education$254kHuman Services$20kArts & Culture$16kCrime & Legal$10k
02FY2022 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$138
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GO PROJECT$138
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%ROOM TO GROW: $5k → 17%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.

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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$259k · 5 repeat orgs$41k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.

5 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2022, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
6

Total granted

$259k
$41k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+15%

Still filing today

80%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22
EducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentOther

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

  • PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY
    2× · 2017–2018 · $100k · revenue +65%
  • TS
    THE SPENCE SCHOOL
    4× · 2017–2021 · $16k · revenue +12%
  • CB
    CARTER BURDEN NETWORK INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $15k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • WC
    WEST CHOP CLUB OF MARTHA'S VINEYARD
    one grant, 2017 · $16k
  • CA
    COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF NYC
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
  • TO
    THE ONE LOVE FOUNDATION IN HONOR OF YEARDLEY LOVE INC
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -68%

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
Darrow School

Darrow school is dedicated to serving students with diverse backgrounds and abilities, building on each student's talents and interests to inspire enduring confidence for success in college and life. this mission is accomplished through…

Education
2
The Peak School

The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…

Education
3
International School of Brooklyn

We develop adventurers. (see schedule o)creative collaborators and intellectual risk takers who are inspired to think critically and seek answers. we create passionate communicators actively connected to their community and the world. we…

Education
4
Mark Day School

Innovative and full of heart, mark day school nurtures each child to pursue their curiosity, think critically, embrace challenge with courage and joy, and work in partnership with others to build more caring and inclusive communities.

5
School One

Creative, collaborative, and college preparatory, school one students write with purpose and participate actively. each student is well-known and valued for their emerging strengths. small by design for 50 years, classes average nine…

Education
6
Ingenuity Prep

Ingenuity prep public charter school was formed to prepare students to succeed in college and beyond as impactful civiic leaders.

Education
7
Garden School Inc

Garden school, in the independent tradition, affirms the primacy of learning. we empower every student in our educationally diverse community to responsibly meet the challenges of everyday life by promoting academic achievement, personal…

Education
8
The School for Global Thinkers

Our mission is to challenge and nurture young women to thrive in future global markets through personalized STEM advanced academics. Through a supportive small school and single-gender environment, project-based learning, and STEM advanced…

Education
9
The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

10
The Ensworth School

The ensworth school (the school), founded in 1958, is a kindergarten through twelfth grade, coeducational independent school located in nashville, tennessee. the mission of the school is to promote academic excellence and inspire students…

Education
11
Oak Hill School

It is the oak hill school mission to build character and integrity in a christian environment for a lifetime of learning and service.

12
St Luke's School

A coeducational episcopal day school, preschool through eighth grade, for students of all faiths.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grace Church School and the most unlike its peers is Carter Burden Network 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

8 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. 8 of the 11 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE GO PROJECT INC — $108,138 · EducationTHE GO PROJECT INCPHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY — $100,000 · EducationPHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMYTHE SPENCE SCHOOL — $16,000 · EducationTHE SPENCE SCHOOL+2 more — $7,500 · EducationST ANDREW'S SCHOOL — $20,000 · OtherST ANDREW'S SCHOOLWEST CHOP CLUB OF MARTHA'S VINEYARD — $16,250 · OtherWEST CHOP CLUB OF MARTH…CARTER BURDEN NETWORK INC — $15,000 · OtherCARTER BURDEN NETWORK I…COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF NYC — $10,000 · OtherCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL…ROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesHURRICANE ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL — $2,500 · Environment
Education$231,638Other$61,250Human Services$5,000Environment$2,500

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE GO PROJECT INC — $108,138 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetPHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY — $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SPENCE SCHOOL — $16,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCARTER BURDEN NETWORK INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ONE LOVE FOUNDATION IN HONOR OF YEARDLEY LOVE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHURRICANE ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGRACE CHURCH SCHOOL — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Select Equity Group FoundationNY13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Select Equity Group Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Belle and Henry Davis Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Belle and Henry Davis Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Belle and Henry Davis 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 11 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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