· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
- SPSAINT PATRICKS CATHEDRAL LANDMARK FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $1k
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.
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
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 21 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 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Davis-Seely Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Davis-Seely Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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