· Private foundation
David Graham Foundation
Its FY2019 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k4 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $203k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $160k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| THE CITI GOSPEL MISSION | $10,000 |
| ST ANDREWS EPISCIPAL SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| SHERIDAN SCHOOL ANNUAL FUND | $10,000 |
| IVYMOUNT | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $10,000 |
| FORTY PLUS OF GREATER WASHINGTON | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| BARKER FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $10,000 |
| THE LAWRENCEBILLE SCHOOL | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–19, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
13 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2019, 0 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2019, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CBCommunity Bible Study2× · 2017–2019 · $52k · revenue +20%
Northwestern University2× · 2017–2019 · $36k · revenue +41%- CMChiaravalle Montessori School2× · 2017–2019 · $32k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $500
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.
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.
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…
Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.
The Master's University and Seminary (TMUS) exists to advance the Kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ through education. This is accomplished through unreserved commitment to worshipping God, authority of Scripture, personal holiness, serving…
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.
Erskine College exists to glorify God as a Christian academic community where students are equipped to flourish as whole persons for lives of service through the pursuit of undergraduate liberal arts and graduate theological education.
Union university provides christ-centered education that promotes excellence and character development in service to church and society.
Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…
Arborbrook Christian Academy partners with parents to equip, empower, and encourage students to cultivate godly character, pursue life-long learning, and love the Lord Jesus Christ.
Providing guality Christian education to the network generation
Northeastern seminary strives to be a vibrant source for christian theological formation whose students are formed in a biblical vision of gracious christianity and impact wholeness to the world in an expansive array of vocations and…
Education
Nonprofit organization that provides educational programs and therapeutic services that invest in the abilities of neurodivergent children and young adults with unique learning needs including special education.
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 20 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Community Bible Study ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds Chiaravalle Montessori School ↗
- Who funds 40PLUS OF GREATER WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CITY GOSPEL MISSION AND AFFILIATES ↗
- Who funds The Barker Adoption Foundation ↗
- Who funds ST ANDREW'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds HAVEN UNIVERSE INC ↗
- Who funds FOCUS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN PARKINSON DISEASE ASSOC ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization David Graham Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from David Graham Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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