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Davis H Elliot Company Educational Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k43 grants · $161k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $190k
- $250k+1 grant · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| ASBURY UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE BLUEGRASS | $20,000 |
| TOWN BRANCH PARK | $20,000 |
| ROANOKE CULTURAL ENDOWMENT | $15,000 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $15,000 |
| RAM HOUSE | $15,000 |
| THE HEARING & SPEECH CENTER | $15,000 |
| BAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE BLUEGRASS | $15,000 |
| TULSA AREA UNITED WAY | $10,000 |
| LEXINGTON RESCUE MISSION | $10,000 |
| THURSDAY'S CHILD | $10,000 |
| CHI SAIT JOSEPH HEALTH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $7,500 |
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 (FY23–24, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
30 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 32 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 22% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $666k 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
- RMRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE BLUEGRASS INC2× · 2023–2024 · $35k · revenue +111%
TULSA AREA UNITED WAY2× · 2022–2024 · $35k · revenue +10%- TCTHURSDAYS CHILD3× · 2022–2024 · $30k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- GSGOOD SAMARITAN HOSPICE INCone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -3%
- ULURBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER OKLAHOMA CITY INCone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -39%
- SASALVATION ARMY OF ROANOKEone grant, 2018 · $5k
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.
To represent our members, creating the environment and opportunity for economic prosperity and quality living in central kentucky.
True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.
The Roanoke Symphony Orchestra provides a professional symphony orchestra of artistic excellence and integrity to enrich lives, to educate, and to entertain diverse audiences in western Virginia with the highest quality instrumental and…
Trade association for electric cooperatives
Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
To improve the quality of life for all kentuckians through research, education and advocacy on important policy issues facing the commonwealth.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
To provide investment and investment management and related services to the rector and the board of visitors of virginia commonwealth university (vcu), and/or to the private and independent foundations and other entities affiliated with…
To provide effective advocacy for the financial services industry both in kentucky and on a national level; to serve as a reliable and responsive source of information and education about areas of interest to the industry; and to provide a…
The mission of the lehigh valley economic development corporation is to market the economic assets of the lehigh valley and to create partnerships to support the recruitment, growth and retention of employers, and the creation of jobs for…
Providing leadership, advocacy and member services that foster growth and economic prosperity for our region.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of the Bluegrass Inc and the most unlike its peers is Thursdays Child. 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 42 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
36 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. 36 of the 73 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 UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TOWN BRANCH PARK INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE BLUEGRASS INC ↗
- Who funds TULSA AREA UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds THURSDAYS CHILD ↗
- Who funds ROANOKE CULTURAL ENDOWMENT ↗
- Who funds FERRUM COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds MILL MOUNTAIN PLAYHOUSE CO INC DBA MILL MOUNTAIN THEATRE ↗
- Who funds Junior Achievement of the Bluegrass Inc ↗
- Who funds ASBURY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON CENTER FOUNDATION LTD ↗
- Who funds LEXINGTON HEARING & SPEECH CENTER INC DBA THE HEARING & SPEECH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HOLLINS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PIKEVILLE ↗
- Who funds BLUEGRASS CRIME STOPPERS INC ↗
- Who funds LEXINGTON RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL AGRICULTURE PROJECT LEAP ↗
- Who funds LEXINGTON HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER OKLAHOMA CITY 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: Community Foundation Serving Western Virginia · Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Tulsa Community Foundation · Christian Word Ministries Inc · Keeneland Foundation Inc · Robertson Family Foundation Inc · American Electric Power Foundation · Nisource Charitable Foundation · Cp & Mg Lunsford Tuw · Logan III Charitable Fund 610001380 · Farrell 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 Davis H Elliot Company Educational 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.
- Southern Nazarene University — 1% 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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