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Elizabeth Bond Davis Foundation Inc at a glance

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Elizabeth Bond Davis Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$67k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$22k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Housing & Shelter$41kEducation$31kHuman Services$23kInternational$22kHealth$21kArts & Culture$21kEnvironment$10kCommunity Improvement$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $32k
$7,350
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Raphael House$22,100
Mercy Learning Center$10,000
Voices Jackson Hole$7,350
Feet in 2 Worlds$7,350
Consejo Hispano$7,350
Immigrants Rising$5,517
Bridgeport Hospital Foundation$5,000
Fairfield Theater Company$2,050
02The need
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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 (FY21–25, $58k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 87% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%National Indigenous Womans Resource Center: $3k → 18%Consejo Hispano: $7k → 13%Voices Jackson Hole: $7k → 5%Immigrants Rising: $6k → 10%Raphael House: $22k → 10%Raphael House: $7k → 10%Raphael House: $4k → 10%Raphael House: $3k → 10%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

WA
MT
NY
OR
WY
SD
NJ
CT
CA
WV
TN
OK
LA
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 22% of Elizabeth Bond Davis Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 30% of the giving stays in CT; by stated purpose, 8%.

Elizabeth Bond Davis Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

54%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$106k · 5 repeat orgs$89k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
18

Total granted

$106k
$62k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
+33%

Still filing today

100%
72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationHealthPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • RH
    RAPHAEL HOUSE OF SAN FRANCISCO INC
    4× · 2021–2025 · $35k · revenue +6%
  • ML
    MERCY LEARNING CENTER OF BRIDGEPORT INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $28k · revenue +31%
  • BH
    BRIDGEPORT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $20k · revenue +15%

Funded once

  • THE IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION
    one grant, 2023 · $6k · revenue +23%
  • COMMUNITY INITIATIVESgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $6k · revenue +46%
  • RH
    Rafael House
    one grant, 2023 · $6k
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
Center for Immigrant Progress

The organizations primary exempt purpose is charitable and educational.

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2
La Comunidad Inc

Legal, immigration and community organizing

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3
California Immigrant Policy Center

The california immigrant policy center upholds the humanity of immigrant communities in california by transforming systems to achieve racial, social, and economic justice.

Civil Rights
4
Greater Portland Immigrant Welcome Center

The Greater Portland Immigrant Welcome Center serves as a hub of collaboration that strengthens the immigrant community through language acquisition, economic integration and civic engagement.

Human Services
5
Coop Careers Inc

Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.

Education
6
Asian Immigrant Women Advocates Inc

Asian Immigrant Women Advocates empowers low-income, limited English speaking immigrant women and youth through education, leadership development and civic participation programs.

Human Services
7
Refugee & Immigrant Center for Education & Legal Services

To deliver legal and social services to people and families who want to put down roots in the u.s. and cultivate welcoming communities that uphold our collective freedoms.

Civil Rights
8
Institute for Community Research Inc

To conduct research in collaboration with community partners to promote justice and equity in a diverse, multiethnic, multicultural world.

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9
The International Center

The International Center is a District of Columbia 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization founded in 1977, has as its principal purpose the promotion of greater international understanding and the lessening of international frictions and…

International
10
Jewish Coalition for Immigrant Justice Northwest

The jewish coalition builds a jewish voice in the pacific northwest advancing immigrant justice and domestic policy, following the leadership of impacted community.

Human Services
11
Asylee Women Enterprise Inc

Asylee Women Enterprise (AWE), journeys with asylum seekers and other forced migrants as they navigate the immigration legal process, begin to heal from past trauma, and rebuild their lives in Baltimore.

International
12
Inner City Law Center

In 2024, Inner City Law Center, ICLC, served over 3,400 people, helping vulnerable Angelenos to remain in their homes and recover nearly $20.5 million in financial benefits.

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Initiatives; the most unlike its peers is David and Eunice Bigelow Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

22 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. 22 of the 27 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
14/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RAPHAEL HOUSE OF SAN FRANCISCO INC: $35,317 · Human ServicesRAPHAEL HOUSE OF SAN FRANCISCO IN…Consejo Hispano: $7,350 · Human ServicesConsejo HispanoVoices Jackson Hole: $7,350 · Human ServicesVoices Jackson HoleImmigrants Rising: $5,517 · Human ServicesImmigrants RisingNATIONAL INDIGENOUS WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER INC: $2,500 · Human ServicesMERCY LEARNING CENTER OF BRIDGEPORT INC: $27,550 · EducationMERCY LEARNING CE…EQUITY IN EDUCATION COALITION: $2,000 · EducationEQUITY IN EDUCATI…+1 more: $1,000 · EducationTHE IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION: $6,000 · OtherTHE IMMIGRANT AND REFUGE…Rafael House: $6,000 · OtherRafael HouseFUTURES WITHOUT VIOLENCE: $5,517 · OtherFUTURES WITHOUT VIOLENCEAnother Gulf is Possible: $5,517 · OtherAnother Gulf is PossibleNorth Carolina Environmental Justice Network: $2,500 · OtherNorth Carolina Environme…Thrive: $2,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $2,000 · OtherBACKFIELD IN MOTION: $5,000 · OtherBACKFIELD IN MOTIONThe Guardsmen: $4,167 · OtherThe GuardsmenDEEP SOUTH CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL: $2,333 · OtherDEEP SOUTH CENTER FOR EN…OKLAHOMA NATIVE ASSETS COALITION INC: $2,000 · OtherBRIDGEPORT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $19,650 · HealthBRIDGEPORT …THE CANCER COUCH FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · HealthFAIRFIELD THEATRE COMPANY INC: $7,700 · Arts & CultureFAIRFIELD T…FEET IN 2 WORLDS INC: $7,350 · Arts & CultureFEET IN 2 W…THE 100 HORSES WOMEN'S SOCIETY INC: $5,516 · Arts & CultureTHE 100 HOR…CONCERN WORLDWIDE (US) INC: $16,000 · InternationalCONCERN W…COMMUNITY INITIATIVES: $6,000 · PhilanthropyDAVID AND EUNICE BIGELOW FOUNDATION: $500 · Philanthropy
Human Services$58,034Education$30,550Other$43,034Health$20,650Arts & Culture$20,566International$16,000Philanthropy$6,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRAPHAEL HOUSE OF SAN FRANCISCO INC: $35,317 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetMERCY LEARNING CENTER OF BRIDGEPORT INC: $27,550 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetBRIDGEPORT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $19,650 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCONCERN WORLDWIDE (US) INC: $16,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFAIRFIELD THEATRE COMPANY INC: $7,700 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetVoices Jackson Hole: $7,350 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetTHE IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFUTURES WITHOUT VIOLENCE: $5,517 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetImmigrants Rising: $5,517 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE 100 HORSES WOMEN'S SOCIETY INC: $5,516 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetBACKFIELD IN MOTION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Guardsmen: $4,167 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL INDIGENOUS WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDEEP SOUTH CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL: $2,333 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOKLAHOMA NATIVE ASSETS COALITION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEQUITY IN EDUCATION COALITION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HARPETH HALL SCHOOL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CANCER COUCH FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDAVID AND EUNICE BIGELOW FOUNDATION: $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.

Silicon Valley Commun…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…Paypal Charitable Giv…Network for GoodThe Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA12.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Elizabeth Bond Davis Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Elizabeth Bond Davis Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Mercy Learning Center of Bridgeport Inc: 4% of income from government
  • The Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization: 4% of income from government
  • Fairfield Theatre Company Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 27 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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