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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.

$851k
Granted FY2024still arriving
57
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$733kHealth$93kArts & Culture$92kHuman Services$91kPhilanthropy$44kRecreation & Sports$41kHousing & Shelter$28kInternational$22kOther$0
02FY2024 · 57 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k43 grants · $161k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $190k
  • $250k+1 grant · $500k
$5,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE BLUEGRASS$15,000
RAM HOUSE$15,000
THE HEARING & SPEECH CENTER$15,000
BAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATION$15,000
CHI SAIT JOSEPH HEALTH FOUNDATION$10,000
THURSDAY'S CHILD$10,000
TULSA AREA UNITED WAY$10,000
LEXINGTON RESCUE MISSION$10,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$7,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%BROKEN ARROW NEIGHBORS: $5k → 15%URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER OKLAHOMA CITY: $5k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

IN
OH
CA
MO
KY
VA
MD
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
GA
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

41%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$509k · 30 repeat orgs$721k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
10

Total granted

$509k
$56k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+11%

Still filing today

47%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 22% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $666k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterAnimalsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • RM
    RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE BLUEGRASS INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $35k · revenue +111%
  • TULSA AREA UNITED WAY
    2× · 2022–2024 · $35k · revenue +10%
  • RC
    ROANOKE CULTURAL ENDOWMENT
    2× · 2023–2024 · $30k · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • GS
    GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPICE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -3%
  • JE
    JACKSON ENERGY COOPERATIVE
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +10%
  • SA
    SALVATION ARMY OF ROANOKE
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Commerce Lexington Inc

To represent our members, creating the environment and opportunity for economic prosperity and quality living in central kentucky.

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2
University of the Ozarks

True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.

Education
3
Roanoke Symphony Orchestra

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…

Arts & Culture
4
Virginia Maryland and Delaware Association of Electric Cooperatives

Trade association for electric cooperatives

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5
Nashville Public Radio

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.

Arts & Culture
6
Furman University

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.

Education
7
Kentucky Center for Economic Policy Inc

To improve the quality of life for all kentuckians through research, education and advocacy on important policy issues facing the commonwealth.

Public Benefit
8
Lehigh University

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…

Education
9
Vcu Investment Management Company

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…

Education
10
Kentucky Bankers Association

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…

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11
Lehigh Valley Economic Development Corporation (Lvedc)

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…

Community Improvement
12
Greater Owensboro Chamber of Commerce Inc

Providing leadership, advocacy and member services that foster growth and economic prosperity for our region.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of the Bluegrass Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

36 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. 36 of the 73 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/36
Grantees still filing
15/36
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS FOUNDATION INC: $500,000 · PhilanthropyUNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS FOUNDATION INC+1 more: $5,000 · PhilanthropyTULSA AREA UNITED WAY: $35,000 · OtherTULSA AREA UNITED WAYTHURSDAYS CHILD: $30,000 · OtherTHURSDAYS CHILDUNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA: $25,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMANORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY: $20,000 · OtherEASTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY: $20,000 · OtherBAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATION: $15,000 · OtherRAM HOUSE: $15,000 · OtherLEXINGTON HEARING & SPEECH CENTER INC DBA THE HEARING & SPEECH CENTER INC: $15,000 · Other+46 more: $255,900 · Other+46 moreRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE BLUEGRASS INC: $35,000 · HealthGOOD SAMARITAN HOSPICE INC: $25,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $20,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $5,000 · Health+2 more: $3,000 · HealthROANOKE CULTURAL ENDOWMENT: $30,000 · Arts & CultureMILL MOUNTAIN PLAYHOUSE CO INC DBA MILL MOUNTAIN THEATRE: $25,000 · Arts & CultureJEFFERSON CENTER FOUNDATION LTD: $15,000 · Arts & CultureFUND FOR THE ARTS INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureFERRUM COLLEGE: $25,000 · EducationASBURY COLLEGE: $20,000 · EducationHOLLINS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION: $15,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PIKEVILLE: $12,500 · EducationSOUTHERN NAZARENE UNIVERSITY: $2,500 · EducationTOWN BRANCH PARK INC: $40,000 · Recreation & SportsJunior Achievement of the Bluegrass Inc: $21,750 · International
Philanthropy$505,000Other$430,900Health$88,000Arts & Culture$75,000Education$75,000Recreation & Sports$40,000International$21,750

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS FOUNDATION INC: $500,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetTOWN BRANCH PARK INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE BLUEGRASS INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTULSA AREA UNITED WAY: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetROANOKE CULTURAL ENDOWMENT: $30,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetTHURSDAYS CHILD: $30,000 over 3y, 20% of budgetMILL MOUNTAIN PLAYHOUSE CO INC DBA MILL MOUNTAIN THEATRE: $25,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetGOOD SAMARITAN HOSPICE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFERRUM COLLEGE: $25,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJunior Achievement of the Bluegrass Inc: $21,750 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetASBURY COLLEGE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEFFERSON CENTER FOUNDATION LTD: $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHOLLINS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION: $15,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLEXINGTON HEARING & SPEECH CENTER INC DBA THE HEARING & SPEECH CENTER INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PIKEVILLE: $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBLUEGRASS CRIME STOPPERS INC: $10,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetLOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL AGRICULTURE PROJECT LEAP: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLEXINGTON RESCUE MISSION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLEXINGTON HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJACKSON ENERGY COOPERATIVE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROKEN ARROW NEIGHBORS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBroken Arrow Chamber of Commerce: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHOPEHOUSE SUPPORTIVE & TRANSITIONAL LIVING INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFUND FOR THE ARTS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTULSA REGIONAL CHAMBER (FKA METROPOLITAN TULSA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE): $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER OKLAHOMA CITY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTHERN NAZARENE UNIVERSITY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHEPHERD'S HOUSE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBLUE RIDGE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF VIRGINIA INC DBA MILL MOUNTAIN ZOO: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROANOKE REGIONAL PARTNERSHIP: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ROANOKE VALLEY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRESTORATION HOUSING INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAVENUES FOR WOMEN INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 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 ROANOKE CULTURAL ENDOWMENT ↗
  • Who funds THURSDAYS CHILD ↗
  • Who funds MILL MOUNTAIN PLAYHOUSE CO INC DBA MILL MOUNTAIN THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN HOSPICE INC ↗
  • Who funds FERRUM COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Junior Achievement of the Bluegrass Inc ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds ASBURY COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds JEFFERSON CENTER FOUNDATION LTD ↗
  • Who funds HOLLINS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds LEXINGTON HEARING & SPEECH CENTER INC DBA THE HEARING & SPEECH CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PIKEVILLE ↗
  • Who funds BLUEGRASS CRIME STOPPERS INC ↗
  • Who funds LOCAL ENVIRONMENTAL AGRICULTURE PROJECT LEAP ↗
  • Who funds LEXINGTON RESCUE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds LEXINGTON HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY INC ↗

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.

Community Foundation …Blue Grass Community …Baird Foundation IncTulsa Community Found…Christian Word Minist…Keeneland Foundation …Robertson Family Foun…American Electric Pow…Nisource Charitable F…Cp & Mg Lunsford TuwLogan III Charitable …Farrell Foundation
Community Foundation Serving Western VirginiaVA23.7× affinity9 shared granteesties to 7 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Davis H Elliot Company Educational Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Davis H Elliot Company Educational Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Southern Nazarene University: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Davis H Elliot Company Educational 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 73 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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