· Private foundation
Davlin Foundation Inc
Its FY2017 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2017
- Under $10k33 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $32k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HANDS TOGETHER INC | $11,300 |
| NATIONAL MARINE LIFE CENTER INC | $10,200 |
| MOUNTAIN TOP ARBORETUM | $10,000 |
| EARTHWATCH EXPEDITIONS INC ALSO KNOWN EARTHWATCH INSTITUTE | $8,400 |
| ST GEORGE'S SCHOOL | $7,800 |
| PARMENTER FOUNDATION | $3,100 |
| BOSTON HARBOR ISLAND ALLIANCE INC | $2,900 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $2,700 |
| ST HUBERT'S ANIMAL WELFARE CENTER | $2,100 |
| BIG BROTHER BIG SISTER OF MASS BAY | $2,000 |
| TANZANIAN CHILDREN'S FUND | $2,000 |
| MARCH OF DIMES BIRTH DEFECTS FOUNDATION | $1,600 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $1,600 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA | $1,600 |
| YEAR UP | $1,500 |
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 (FY17–17, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
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The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Education and Research
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Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc and the most unlike its peers is The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. 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 45 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 17% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 36 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 Hands Together Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MARINE LIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN TOP ARBORETUM INC ↗
- Who funds ST GEORGE'S SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE PARMENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE TANZANIAN CHILDRENS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
- Who funds YEAR UP INC ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Middlebury College ↗
- Who funds TRINITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ESTUARY COUNCIL OF SENIORS INC ↗
- Who funds North Bennet Street School ↗
- Who funds MIDDLESEX SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CELIAC DISEASE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BAY COVE HUMAN SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds HEIFER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds THE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ACCESSPORTSAMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds STUTTERING ASSOCIATION FOR THE YOUNG INC ↗
- Who funds BELMONT HILL SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
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 Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · 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 Davlin Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Bay Cove Human Services Inc — 70% of income from government
- National Marine Life Center Inc — 16% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College — 1% of income from government
- Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
- Trinity College — 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.