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Diamond Ice Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

show:

Its 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. Its 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
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

ME
VT
MA
PA
CT
KY
MD
NC
FL
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +22% for those 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%
+22%

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
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

  • 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
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bucknell University; 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.
04the grantee network

27 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. 27 of the 39 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/27
Grantees still filing
18/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIDELITY CHARITABLE - DIAMOND ICE FUND: $611,044 · OtherFIDELITY CHARITABLE - DIAMOND ICE FUNDFIDELITY CHARITABLE - JCW PHILANTHROPIC FUND: $611,043 · OtherFIDELITY CHARITABLE - JCW PHILANTHROPIC FUNDFIDELITY CHARITABLE - LANDOVER FUND: $611,043 · OtherFIDELITY CHARITABLE - LANDOVER 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetCHESTER RIVER ASSOCIATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSolutions From The Land: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKieve Wavus Education Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUMMER SEARCH: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREENER PARTNERS: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TANZANIAN CHILDRENS FUND INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

The Philadelphia Foun…E Murdoch Family Foun…Ethel D Colket Founda…Quaker City FoundationHamilton Family Found…Vanguard Charitable E…Renaissance Charitabl…American Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Paypal Charitable Giv…
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

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 Diamond Ice Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Diamond Ice Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Chapel Haven Schleifer Center Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Sea Education Association Inc: 12% of income from government
  • The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 6% of income from government
  • Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: 2% 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, 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.
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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 39 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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who holds foundation money, and what just moved
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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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