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Davis-Seely 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 placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $33k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAN DIEGO SYMPHONY | $33,000 |
| VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| ELIZABETH COALITION TO HOUSE THE HOMELESS | $5,000 |
| UNBROKEN SPIRIT | $1,250 |
| LEXINGTON CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| CATHEDRAL OF CHRIST THE KING | $1,000 |
| OPERATION GAME ON | $625 |
| TATES CREEK BASEBALL BOOSTERS | $400 |
| RANCHO SANTA FE LITTLE LEAGUE | $398 |
| CHURCH OF THE NATIVITY | $350 |
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 (FY24–24, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
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.
8 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 6 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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
- TSTHE SAN DIEGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION8× · 2017–2024 · $244k · revenue +38%
- VUVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY6× · 2017–2024 · $20k · revenue +50%
- LALIBRARY ASSOCIATION OF LA JOLLA6× · 2017–2023 · $7k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- SSSOLANA SANTE FE SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $3k
- SOSISTERS OF CHARITY OF ST ELIZABETH CONVENT OF ST ELIZABETHone grant, 2022 · $2k
- LCLA COSTA HEIGHTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $1k
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 baltimore symphony orchestra's (bso) mission is to promote, organize, manage and maintain a symphony orchestra for the city of baltimore and the state of maryland and to hold, sponsor, and present musical concerts by the baltimore…
Lead, serve, and grow all areas of the sport of volleyball - including beach, indoor, and sitting. foster and conduct area, regional, state, and national amateur instructional and competitive volleyball programs and to represent the…
Provide symphony concerts for the public and support the local musiccommunity
To support the little league program in Aliso Viejo, California.
League player fees and tournament fees
Organize and administer youth baseball league on public grounds.
Los Gatos Little League operates a chartered little league baseball program for youths aged 5-15 where the youths develop fundamental baseball skills while positively being reinforced with lessons in teamwork, respect & sportmanship, both…
War veterans organization
This organization is an instructional and recreational softball league serving girls from the ages of 5 - 16, in the vicinity of mission viejo, ca. the number of player/members benefitting from this organization is approximately 800
Youth sports programs - this organization is an instructional and recreational softball league serving girls from the ages of 5 - 15, in the vicinity of rancho santa margarita, ca. the number of player/members benefitting from this…
To provide services and education to its members.
Little League Baseball and Softball
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The San Diego Symphony Orchestra Association and the most unlike its peers is Elizabeth Coalition to House the Homeless Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 21 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 THE SAN DIEGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LIBRARY ASSOCIATION OF LA JOLLA ↗
- Who funds Elizabeth Coalition to House the Homeless Inc ↗
- Who funds UNBROKEN SPIRIT ↗
- Who funds Operation Game On ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION ↗
- Who funds TATES CREEK BASEBALL BOOSTER CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds Rancho Santa Fe California Little League ↗
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 Ayco Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 organization Davis-Seely 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.
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.