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Elkins Davis Fdn Charitable Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $265k
- $50k–250k17 grants · $1.6M
- $250k+2 grants · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GROVE CITY COLLEGE | $250,000 |
| JALEN ROSE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY | $250,000 |
| NATIVITY CATHOLIC CHURCH | $187,000 |
| SAVE OUR ALLIES | $150,000 |
| WYOMING CATHOLIC COLLEGE | $136,400 |
| CHRISTENDOM EDUCATIONAL CORPORATION | $115,000 |
| FOOD FOR THE POOR INC | $108,138 |
| HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC | $100,000 |
| GARY SINISE FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| THE INDEPENDENCE FUND INC | $100,000 |
| OUR MILITARY KIDS INC | $100,000 |
| COLLEGE OF THE OZARKS | $100,000 |
| MOUNT OLIVE MINISTRY INC | $75,000 |
| AERIAL RECOVERY | $75,000 |
| SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS INC | $50,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $850k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 78% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +65% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
38 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $440k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- WCWyoming Catholic College5× · 2020–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +56%
- GCGROVE CITY COLLEGE5× · 2020–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +48%
- CECHRISTENDOM EDUCATIONAL CORPORATION5× · 2020–2024 · $815k · revenue +81%
Funded once
- MHMOST HOLY TRINITY SCHOOL & ACADEMYone grant, 2020 · $100k
- CFCENTER FOR NEUROLOGICAL STUDIESone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue 0%
- OROUTDOOR RECREATION HERITAGE FUNDone grant, 2020 · $50k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Special ops survivors advances the mission "to embrace and empower surviving spouses of fallen special operations heroes to build healthy post-loss futures as they transition and rebuild their new lives." the foundation provides programs…
The Special Operations Fund (the "Fund") is a nonprofit organization that provides educational grants and support to the families of special mission unit warriors killed in action, killed in training, died in the line of duty, suicide, and…
The special operators transition foundation ("sotf") assists special operation forces veterans transition from the military into their next successful career.
Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.
Army ranger lead the way fund is an active duty, casualty assistance, recovery, transition and veterans organization that provides financial support to u.s. army rangers and the families of those who have died, have been disabled or who…
To provide scuba instruction for veterans with ptsd. the weightlessness of scuba provides a peaceful respite from the pressures and trauma of military service. scuba for amputees provides a freedom of movement not experienced for years…
The mission of the uso foundation (foundation) is to support uso inc.'s (uso) mission to strengthen the well-being of the people serving in america's military and their families.
To ensure comprehensive educational support including, but not limited to, academic advocacy, preschool and private school grants, tutoring, support for students with disabilities, college readiness programs, full financial assistance for…
To send care and comfort packages to deployed american military heroes who are stationed in active duty theaters around the world, as well as to facilitate activities that elevate morale of all veterans
Support recovering combat veterans & their families utilizing service dog training/placement.
To develop, operate, and support a synergistic group of wellness, quality of life, and event-based initiatives in support of today's combat-wounded military personnel and their families, while facilitating a greater recognition and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Homes for Our Troops Inc and the most unlike its peers is 21 Roots Farm. 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 18 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 19% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
42 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. 42 of the 63 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 Wyoming Catholic College ↗
- Who funds GROVE CITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds OPERATION GRADUATION ↗
- Who funds CHRISTENDOM EDUCATIONAL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE OF THE OZARKS ↗
- Who funds OUR MILITARY KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds The Independence Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC ↗
- Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Save Our Allies ↗
- Who funds MOUNT OLIVE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROTEZ FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHALICE OF MERCY INC ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds RICHMOND COMMUNITY TOOLBANK ↗
- Who funds Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc ↗
- Who funds Veterans Fishing Adventure Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICA SALUTES YOU LLC DBA AMERICA SAL ↗
- Who funds Lewy Body Dementia Association Inc ↗
- Who funds THANKS USA ↗
- Who funds GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds TIP OF THE SPEAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IZAAK WALTON LEAGUE OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds AERIAL RECOVERY ↗
- Who funds Divinum Auxilium Academy ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR NEUROLOGICAL STUDIES ↗
- Who funds Wreaths Across America ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN RICHMOND SPORTS BACKERS ↗
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: William J Cammack Foundation Co William D Cammack · Others First Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Verizon Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Elkins Davis Fdn Charitable Trust 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Children's Inn at Nih Inc — 10% of income from government
- Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc — 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.