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Dorothy and William Davila Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Dorothy and William Davila Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$70k
Granted FY2023
22
Grants FY2023
7
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2023.

Health$156kEducation$30kInternational$13kYouth Development$12kPhilanthropy$10kFood & Nutrition$6kHuman Services$4kHousing & Shelter$2kOther$0
02FY2023 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k21 grants · $45k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
$2,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
USC ARCADIA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$25,000
LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY$5,000
ALZHEIMER'S GREATER LOS ANGELES$5,000
MAYO CLINIC$5,000
DOHENY EYE INSTITUTE$4,000
HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES$4,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$3,000
PHOENIX CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$3,000
CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION$2,000
CITY OF HOPE$2,000
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$2,000
PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK$1,000
LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY$1,000
MAUI HUMANE SOCIETY$1,000
USC ADVANCEMENT GIFT SERVICES$1,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–20, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $2k → 14%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.
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.
$211k · 21 repeat orgs$7k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against -1% for those funded once.

21 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2023, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
3

Total granted

$211k
$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
-1%

Still filing today

62%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
HealthEducationYouth DevelopmentInternationalPublic Safety & DisasterHuman ServicesOther
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

  • LM
    LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2020–2023 · $24k · revenue +40%
  • AG
    ALZHEIMERS GREATER LOS ANGELES
    4× · 2020–2023 · $20k · revenue +21%
  • DE
    DOHENY EYE INSTITUTE
    4× · 2020–2023 · $13k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • TR
    TEAM RUBICON INC
    one grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue -17%
  • US
    UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICESgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +94%
  • LA
    LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK
    one grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue -1%
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
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
2
Children's Hospital & Research Center At Oakland

The mission of children's hospital & research center at oakland is to protect and advance the health and well-being of children through clinical care, teaching and research.

Health
3
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

As a leading academic healthcare organization, our mission is to elevate the health status of the communities we serve.(see schedule o for continuation)(continued)-we deliver exceptional healthcare enhanced by research and education-we…

Health
4
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
5
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
6
The Translational Genomics Research Institute

Please see schedule o

Health
7
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
8
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
9
University of Minnesota Physicians

University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…

Health
10
Truman Medical Center Incorporated

University health is an academic health center providing accessible, state-of-the-art quality healthcare to our community regardless of the ability to pay.

Health
11
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
12
University of Chicago Medical Center

Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc; the most unlike its peers is Doheny Eye Institute. 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

20 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. 20 of the 28 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
14/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

USC ARCADIA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $50,000 · HealthUSC ARCADIA HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONALZHEIMERS GREATER LOS ANGELES: $20,000 · HealthALZHEIMERS GREATER LOS ANGELESMAYO CLINIC: $17,000 · HealthMAYO CLINICST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $7,500 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INCCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $7,000 · HealthCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATIONPhoenix Children's Hospital Foundation: $6,000 · HealthPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $4,000 · Health+3 more: $6,000 · HealthARCADIA METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $25,000 · OtherARCADIA METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUND…DOHENY EYE INSTITUTE: $13,000 · OtherDOHENY EYE INSTITUTECITY OF HOPE: $9,000 · OtherCITY OF HOPEST VINCENT MEALS ON WHEELS: $4,000 · OtherST VINCENT MEALS ON WHEELSTHE SALVATION ARMY: $4,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYST RITA'S CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $3,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $2,500 · Other+5 more: $7,000 · Other+5 moreLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $24,000 · EducationLOYOLA MARY…UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $1,000 · EducationHOMEBOY INDUSTRIES: $12,000 · Youth DevelopmentMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $11,000 · InternationalTEAM RUBICON INC: $2,000 · Public Safety & DisasterUNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $2,000 · Human Services
Health$117,500Other$67,500Education$25,000Youth Development$12,000International$11,000Public Safety & Disaster$2,000Human Services$2,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUSC ARCADIA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $24,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMERS GREATER LOS ANGELES: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $17,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDOHENY EYE INSTITUTE: $13,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHOMEBOY INDUSTRIES: $12,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $11,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $7,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPhoenix Children's Hospital Foundation: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTEAM RUBICON INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPhoenix Children's Hospital: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHOC FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAUI HUMANE SOCIETY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,000 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Dorothy and William Davila Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dorothy and William Davila Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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.

    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 28 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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