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Diamond Ice Foundation

Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$314k
Granted FY2020
4
Grants FY2020
1
States reached
$79k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172020.

Philanthropy$2.5MEducation$198kReligion$110kHealth$43kEnvironment$42kFood & Nutrition$36kArts & Culture$13kPublic Safety & Disaster$11kOther$0
02FY2020 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$78,543
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FIDELITY CHARITABLE - DIAMOND ICE FUND$78,544
FIDELITY CHARITABLE - JCW PHILANTHROPIC FUND$78,543
FIDELITY CHARITABLE - ELKINS FAMILY FUND$78,543
FIDELITY CHARITABLE - LANDOVER FUND$78,543
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–18, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 34% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%TANZANIAN CHILDREN'S FUND: $500 → 8%PERC: $6k → 9%PERC: $5k → 9%KIEVE-WAVUS EDUCATION INC: $1k → 9%EDUCATING COMMUNITIES FOR PARENTING: $5k → 22%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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VT
MA
PA
CT
KY
MD
NC
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.8M · 23 repeat orgs$79k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.

23 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2020, 19 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
16

Total granted

$2.8M
$79k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+25%

Still filing today

65%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20
EducationEnvironmentHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther

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

  • HS
    HAVERFORD SCHOOL
    3× · 2017–2019 · $137k · revenue +31%
  • WC
    Willistown Conservation Trust Inc
    2× · 2017–2018 · $14k · revenue +51%
  • CV
    COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE
    2× · 2017–2018 · $10k · revenue +120%

Funded once

  • UC
    URSINUS COLLEGE
    one grant, 2017 · $55k · revenue +20%
  • EC
    EDUCATING COMMUNITIES FOR PARENTING INC
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +22%
  • JJ
    JOHN JAMES AUDUBON CENTER OF PA
    one grant, 2018 · $3k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
University of New Haven

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…

Education
2
Gettysburg College

Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.

Education
3
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
4
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
5
University Cooperative School

We take a joyful, community-oriented approach to raising engaged citizens, deep learners, and brave adventurers with the skills, creativity, and heart needed to better the world.

6
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

7
Vanderbilt University

See Disclosure Above.

Education
8
Chapel Hill-Chauncy Hall School

We engage a diverse community of learners in a collaborative educational experience, preparing them for college success and a lifetime of meaningful engagement with the broader world.

9
The Seed Public Charter School of Washington Dc

The seed public charter school of washington, dc is a public college-preparatory boarding school whose primary mission is to provide an outstanding intensive educational program that prepares children, both academically and socially, for…

Education
10
Delaware Valley University

See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…

11
Harvard Conservation Trust

To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.

Environment
12
Williams College

Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bucknell University and the most unlike its peers is Historic Sugartown Incorporated. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyIndependent K-8 SchoolsLand Conservation Organizat…Urban Agriculture & Food Ac…United Way FederationsCommunity Arts OrganizationsChristian Missionary Organi…Classical Music EnsemblesEducation Equity LeadershipDevelopmental Disabilities …Community Health CentersFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 52 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr18%12%10–20yr16%19%20–35yr14%31%35–55yr18%39%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr18%8%10–20yr16%8%20–35yr14%9%35–55yr18%75%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/28
the rest of the field
12%
2,432/20,290

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.

04the grantee network

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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 39 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
26/27
Grantees still filing
19/27
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FIDELITY CHARITABLE - DIAMOND ICE FUND — $611,044 · OtherFIDELITY CHARITABLE - DIAMOND ICE FUNDFIDELITY CHARITABLE - LANDOVER FUND — $611,043 · OtherFIDELITY CHARITABLE - LANDOVER FUNDFIDELITY CHARITABLE - JCW PHILANTHROPIC FUND — $611,043 · OtherFIDELITY CHARITABLE - JCW PHILANTHROPIC FUNDFIDELITY CHARITABLE - ELKINS FAMILY FUND — $611,043 · OtherFIDELITY CHARITABLE - ELKINS FAMILY FUNDCHURCH OF THE GOOD SAMARITAN — $100,000 · Other+13 more — $39,000 · OtherHAVERFORD SCHOOL — $137,000 · EducationURSINUS COLLEGE — $55,000 · Education+3 more — $6,000 · EducationNatural Lands Trust Inc — $22,500 · EnvironmentWillistown Conservation Trust Inc — $13,500 · Environment+3 more — $2,000 · EnvironmentCOMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE — $10,000 · HealthCHESTER COUNTY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $10,000 · HealthTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN — $9,000 · HealthCHAPEL HAVEN SCHLEIFER CENTER INC — $7,000 · HealthCARTERET LOCAL FOOD NETWORK — $35,000 · Food & NutritionP E R C INC — $11,000 · Human ServicesEDUCATING COMMUNITIES FOR PARENTING INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesKieve Wavus Education Inc — $1,000 · Human Services+1 more — $500 · Human ServicesUNITED WAY OF KENT COUNTY INC — $10,000 · PhilanthropySPEAKUP — $2,000 · Philanthropy
Other$2,583,173Education$198,000Environment$38,000Health$36,000Food & Nutrition$35,000Human Services$17,500Philanthropy$12,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHAVERFORD SCHOOL — $137,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetURSINUS COLLEGE — $55,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNatural Lands Trust Inc — $22,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWillistown Conservation Trust Inc — $13,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHESTER COUNTY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF KENT COUNTY INC — $10,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN — $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ACADEMY OF VOCAL ARTS — $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHAPEL HAVEN SCHLEIFER CENTER INC — $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEDUCATING COMMUNITIES FOR PARENTING INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBucknell University — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNURTURING MINDS INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSPEAKUP — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEpiscopal Academy — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSUMMER SEARCH — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKieve Wavus Education Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSolutions From The Land — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHESTER RIVER ASSOCIATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREENER PARTNERS — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TANZANIAN CHILDRENS FUND INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Philadelphia FoundationPA16.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Foundation · E Murdoch Family Foundation · Ethel D Colket Foundation · Quaker City Foundation · Hamilton Family Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund

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 Diamond Ice 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 12%
  • Chapel Haven Schleifer Center Inc13% of income from government
  • Sea Education Association Inc12% of income from government
  • The Shriners' Hospital for Children6% of income from government
  • Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Diamond Ice Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Diamond Ice 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 39 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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