· Private foundation
David Novak Leadership Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k38 grants · $152k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $94k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TONGANOXIE MIDDLE SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| GWYNEDD MERCY ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL | $14,418 |
| G6PD DEFICIENCY FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| INDIANA CONNECTIONS ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| BUSHLAND HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| TEEN DAY ITHACA | $10,000 |
| AL-FURQAN ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| UNLIMITED SOUNDSCAPE INC | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION | $9,300 |
| LESLEY & RHYAN PRATHER FOUNDATION | $8,640 |
| BLECKLEY COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL | $8,498 |
| ACCOMPSETT MIDDLE SCHOOL | $8,200 |
| POSITIVE EDUCATION PROGRAM | $8,000 |
| SPARC HOPE | $8,000 |
| HIS BLESSINGS BOX | $8,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY23–25, $57k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 51% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +7% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 34 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $191k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- DCDOUGLAS COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION3× · 2023–2025 · $27k · revenue +86%
- CFCENTER FOR HUMAN SERVICES2× · 2023–2024 · $15k · revenue +20%
- PEPOSITIVE EDUCATION PROGRAM2× · 2024–2025 · $11k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- CCCONNECTICUT CHILDRENS FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2024 · $10k
- NANORTH AMERICA WORLD LITERACY FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +309%
- TWTHE WORLD IN USone grant, 2023 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The christmas box international partners with local, national and international communities and groups to prevent child abuse and to improve the quality of life for children, teens and young adults who have been abused, neglected or are…
The mission of bonner community food center is to assist people in our community with supplemental foods in a time of personal crisis. vision: helping families help themselves. guiding principles: to provide food assistance to qualifying…
See schedule o description of our mission and vision.
Mission: we listen, care and help. every day. vision: a community where anyone can achieve their full potential. programs: our services treat mental health issues; reduce substance use; shelter, feed, educate and seek permanent housing for…
The mission of women's center & shelter of greater pittsburgh is to strengthen our ability to meet the individual and evolving needs of those affected by domestic violence by investing in the growth of our people, deepening community…
The mission of the cheyenne animal shelter is to enhance the quality of life for animals and people through compassion, respect and education.
Empowering individuals to build stronger families and communities.
Mission: to protect animals and build connections between pets and people through advocacy and education. vision: leading and guiding a humane lake county core values: compassion for pets and people. engagement through innovative programs,…
The food bank purchases food and obtains donations of food from the united states department of agriculture, manufacturers, distributors, retailers, growers and community members for distribution to people in need in 25 counties and eight…
Lucky dog animal rescue is a volunteer-powered nonprofit dedicated to rescuing homeless, neglected, and abandoned animals from certain euthanasia and finding them loving forever homes. we educate the community and all pet owners on…
Safehouse denver assists adult, children, and youth in reclaiming their right to a life free from domestic violence. the agency provides a broad spectrum of culturally competent, trauma-informed services, including but not limited to,…
Humane fort wayne is a trusted partner providing comprehensive, lifesaving resources to pets and their people.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Center for Children & Young Adults and the most unlike its peers is American Lung Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
41 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 41 of the 110 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds DOUGLAS COUNTY EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR HUMAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds WARREN EAST HIGH SCHOOL BOOSTERS INC ↗
- Who funds POSITIVE EDUCATION PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS AREA HOLIDAY SPIRIT INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH AMERICA WORLD LITERACY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds USD 464 Education Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds G6PD DEFICIENCY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ZAMAN INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LESLEY & RHYAN PRATHER FOUNDATION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN VIEW COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds MOMS CLOSET RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HIS BLESSINGS BOX INC ↗
- Who funds Shelter House Inc ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · The Albertsons Companies Foundation · Assurant Foundation · Share Our Strength · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Aetna Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Verizon Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
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 David Novak Leadership Inc 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.
- Farm Aid Inc — 100% of income from government
- LOVE146 Inc — 49% of income from government
- Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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