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· Private foundation
DAVID GRAHAM FOUNDATION
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$374k
Granted FY2019
20
Grants
9
Communities
$110k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 73% of DAVID GRAHAM FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02FY2019 · 20 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k4 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $203k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $160k
$10,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
- ST COLUMBA'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH$110,000
- COMMUNITY BIBLE STUDY$50,000
- NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY$35,000
- CHIARAVALLE MONTESSORI SCHOOL$30,000
- ST COLUMBA'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH$28,000
- WINONA HEALTH$10,000
- AMERICAN RED CROSS$10,000
- THE LAWRENCEBILLE SCHOOL$10,000
- REBUILDING TOGETHER DC$10,000
- BARKER FOUNDATION$10,000
- SALVATION ARMY$10,000
- IVYMOUNT$10,000
- ST ANDREWS EPISCIPAL SCHOOL$10,000
- THE CITI GOSPEL MISSION$10,000
- FORTY PLUS OF GREATER WASHINGTON$10,000
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 (FY17–19, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8% — the area typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.
72%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$286k · 10 repeat orgs$109k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against -4% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2019, 0 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
10
4
Total granted
$286k
$3k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+37%
-4%
Still filing today
30%
25%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2019, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $106k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EducationReligionRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesOther
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
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY2× · 2017–2019 · $36k · revenue +33%- CMCHIARAVALLE MONTESSORI SCHOOL2× · 2017–2019 · $32k · revenue +37%
- HUHAVEN UNIVERSE INC2× · 2017–2019 · $5k · revenue +74%
Funded once
- CCCBS COMMUNITY BIBLE STUDYone grant, 2017 · $2k
- RTREBULDING TOGETHER DCone grant, 2017 · $500
LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $500 · revenue -4%
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
Evangel University
Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god.
Education
2
The Cambridge School
Operate a classical school from pre-K through 12th grade education.
Education
3
The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago
Moody exists to proclaim the gospel and equip people to be biblically grounded, practically trained, and to engage the world through gospel-centered living. In short, we prepare people for their purpose and calling!
Education
4
The Harvey School
A coeducational college-preparatory school for students in grades 6-12.
Education
5
Northeastern Seminary
Rooted in biblical and historic christian faith, northeastern seminary prepares christ-centered men and women for faithful, effective ministry to the church and world.
Education
6
Calvin University
To equip students to think deeply, to act justly, and to live wholeheartedly as christ's agents of renewal in the world. calvin university is a christian academic community dedicated to rigorous intellectual inquiry. students study the…
Education
7
Excelsior University
Excelsior University provides educational opportunity to adult learners with an emphasis on those historically underrepresented in higher education. The University meets students where they are - academically and geographically, offering…
Education
8
Mount Vernon Nazarene University
Mount Vernon Nazarene University is an accredited four year liberal arts University that confers two and four year degrees and graduate degrees in a variety of academic disciplines. In addition, it provides logistical support for the…
Education
9
Fuller Theological Seminary
Provides graduate degrees in Theology,Psychology,Intercultural Studies & operates Psych Center.
Education
10
Trinity Bible College and Graduate School
Trinity Bible College & Graduate School is an institution of higher education that strives to educate its students with theological reflections and missional effectiveness.
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11
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute
Provide high quality educational opportunities for active adults. the foundation offers over 150 courses annually at minimal cost to its approximately 1,000 members in the central va area. the foundation utilizes a 250+ volunteer base to…
Education
12
Westminster University
Offer undergraduate and graduate degrees in liberal arts and professional programs.
Education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Bible Study and the most unlike its peers is The Lawrenceville School. 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
7 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/7
Grantees still filing
5/7
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$288,167Religion$55,000Recreation & Sports$36,000Education$10,500Human Services$5,300
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Amazonsmile FoundationWA2.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: 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 organisation DAVID GRAHAM 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.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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. 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
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: FORTY PLUS OF GREATER WASHINGTON.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
high risk
3 years of Form 990 filings, no recent filing.
Legal standing
medium risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 526054861 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on FORTY PLUS OF GREATER WASHINGTON, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- FlagSustained operations— No recent filing on record.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 27% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to David Graham Foundation?
Find your warmest path to David Graham Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines