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Elkins Davis Fdn Charitable Trust at a glance

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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.

$2.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
34
Grants FY2024still arriving
18
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$5.8MHuman Services$1.6MReligion$966kYouth Development$950kHealth$855kPhilanthropy$800kFood & Nutrition$685kHousing & Shelter$495kOther$0
02FY2024 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $265k
  • $50k–250k17 grants · $1.6M
  • $250k+2 grants · $500k
$50,000
Median grant
18
States reached
$36M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
OUR MILITARY KIDS INC$100,000
HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC$100,000
GARY SINISE FOUNDATION$100,000
THE INDEPENDENCE FUND INC$100,000
COLLEGE OF THE OZARKS$100,000
MOUNT OLIVE MINISTRY INC$75,000
AERIAL RECOVERY$75,000
TOOLBANK USA INC$50,000
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $40k → 9%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS INC: $50k → 10%SAVE OUR ALLIES: $150k → 11%VETERANS FISHING ADVENTURE: $50k → 6%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $25k → 9%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS INC: $40k → 10%SAVE OUR ALLIES: $150k → 11%VETERANS FISHING ADVENTURE: $50k → 6%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $25k → 9%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS INC: $35k → 10%SAVE OUR ALLIES: $50k → 11%VETERANS FISHING ADVENTURE: $25k → 6%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $10k → 9%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS INC: $30k → 10%VETERANS FISHING ADVENTURE: $25k → 6%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $10k → 9%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS INC: $25k → 10%VETERANS FISHING ADVENTURE: $10k → 6%UNITED HELP UKRAINE: $20k → 8%VIGILANT TORCH FOUNDATION: $30k → 6%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
WA
MN
WI
MI
NY
MA
WY
IN
OH
PA
CA
UT
MO
VA
MD
TN
NC
DC
OK
MS
GA
TX
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12M · 38 repeat orgs$881k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +65% since the first grant, against +23% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
18

Total granted

$12M
$442k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+65%
+23%

Still filing today

76%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $440k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyPublic BenefitHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • WC
    Wyoming Catholic College
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +56%
  • GC
    GROVE CITY COLLEGE
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +48%
  • CE
    CHRISTENDOM EDUCATIONAL CORPORATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $815k · revenue +81%

Funded once

  • MH
    MOST HOLY TRINITY SCHOOL & ACADEMY
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
  • OR
    OUTDOOR RECREATION HERITAGE FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • CF
    CENTER FOR NEUROLOGICAL STUDIES
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue 0%
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
Special Ops Survivors

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…

Human Services
2
Special Operations Fund

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…

Education
3
Special Operators Transition Foundation Inc

The special operators transition foundation ("sotf") assists special operation forces veterans transition from the military into their next successful career.

Public Benefit
4
Shield of Faith Missions

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.

Religion
5
Soldiers of America
Human Services
6
Lead the Way Fund Inc

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…

Human Services
7
Warfighter Scuba

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…

Public Benefit
8
Uso Foundation

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.

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9
Special Operations Warrior Foundation

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…

Education
10
Packages From Home

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

Philanthropy
11
Warrior Canine Connection Inc

Support recovering combat veterans & their families utilizing service dog training/placement.

Human Services
12
Troops First Foundation Incorporated

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…

Public Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Homes for Our Troops Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

42 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. 42 of the 63 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/42
Grantees still filing
30/42
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Wyoming Catholic College: $1,486,399 · EducationWyoming Catholic CollegeGROVE CITY COLLEGE: $1,250,000 · EducationGROVE CITY COLLEGEOPERATION GRADUATION: $950,000 · EducationOPERATION GRADUATIONCHRISTENDOM EDUCATIONAL CORPORATION: $815,000 · EducationCHRISTENDOM EDUCATIONAL CORPORATIONCOLLEGE OF THE OZARKS: $650,000 · EducationCOLLEGE OF THE OZARKSSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $650,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATIONFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $300,000 · Education+2 more: $61,000 · EducationFOOD FOR THE POOR INC: $665,442 · OtherFOOD FOR THE POOR INCNATIVITY CATHOLIC CHURCH: $336,028 · OtherNATIVITY CATHOLIC CHURCHJALEN ROSE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY: $250,000 · OtherJALEN ROSE LEADERSHIP ACADEMYCHURCH OF THE NATIVITY: $230,000 · OtherCHURCH OF THE NATIVITYSMILE TRAIN INC: $225,000 · OtherSMILE TRAIN INCTHANKS USA: $125,000 · OtherMOUNT OLIVE MINISTRIES INC: $300,000 · OtherMOUNT OLIVE MINISTRIES INCCHALICE OF MERCY INC: $235,000 · OtherCHALICE OF MERCY INCRICHMOND COMMUNITY TOOLBANK: $190,000 · OtherRICHMOND COMMUNITY TOOLBANK+26 more: $887,760 · Other+26 moreOUR MILITARY KIDS INC: $580,000 · PhilanthropyOUR MILIT…GARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $400,000 · PhilanthropyGARY SINI…TIP OF THE SPEAR FOUNDATION: $100,000 · PhilanthropyTIP OF TH…+1 more: $20,000 · PhilanthropySave Our Allies: $350,000 · Human ServicesSoutheastern Guide Dogs Inc: $180,000 · Human ServicesVeterans Fishing Adventure Inc: $160,000 · Human ServicesGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $110,000 · Human ServicesVIGILANT TORCH FOUNDATION: $30,000 · Human Services+1 more: $20,000 · Human ServicesThe Independence Fund Inc: $520,000 · Public BenefitAMERICA SALUTES YOU LLC DBA AMERICA SAL: $155,000 · Public BenefitWreaths Across America: $40,000 · Public BenefitHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC: $495,000 · Housing & ShelterPROTEZ FOUNDATION: $260,000 · HealthLewy Body Dementia Association Inc: $150,000 · HealthMIRACLEFEET: $25,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S INN AT NIH INC: $25,000 · Health+1 more: $10,000 · Health
Education$6,162,399Other$3,444,230Philanthropy$1,100,000Human Services$850,000Public Benefit$715,000Housing & Shelter$495,000Health$470,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWyoming Catholic College: $1,486,399 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetGROVE CITY COLLEGE: $1,250,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetOPERATION GRADUATION: $950,000 over 4y, 42% of budgetCHRISTENDOM EDUCATIONAL CORPORATION: $815,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetCOLLEGE OF THE OZARKS: $650,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $650,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetOUR MILITARY KIDS INC: $580,000 over 5y, 6.5% of budgetThe Independence Fund Inc: $520,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC: $495,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $400,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetSave Our Allies: $350,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $300,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMOUNT OLIVE MINISTRIES INC: $300,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetPROTEZ FOUNDATION: $260,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetCHALICE OF MERCY INC: $235,000 over 3y, 20% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $225,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetRICHMOND COMMUNITY TOOLBANK: $190,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetSoutheastern Guide Dogs Inc: $180,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetVeterans Fishing Adventure Inc: $160,000 over 5y, 27% of budgetAMERICA SALUTES YOU LLC DBA AMERICA SAL: $155,000 over 5y, 18% of budgetLewy Body Dementia Association Inc: $150,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $110,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTIP OF THE SPEAR FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetIZAAK WALTON LEAGUE OF AMERICA INC: $88,308 over 4y, 75% of budgetAERIAL RECOVERY: $75,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetDivinum Auxilium Academy: $60,000 over 5y, 5.7% of budgetCENTER FOR NEUROLOGICAL STUDIES: $50,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetMETROPOLITAN RICHMOND SPORTS BACKERS: $40,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWreaths Across America: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVIGILANT TORCH FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMIRACLEFEET: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetARLINGTON FAIRFAX CHAPTER INC OF THE IZAAK WALLTON LEAGUE OF AMERIC: $25,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetCHILDREN'S INN AT NIH INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWarrior Rising: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetUnited Help Ukraine Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPoor Roberts Mission: $20,000 over 1y, 8.9% of budget6 8 FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budget21 Roots Farm: $10,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetWT WOODSON HIGH SCHOOL PTSO INC: $1,000 over 1y, 1.6% 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.

  • Who funds Wyoming Catholic College ↗
  • Who funds GROVE CITY COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds OPERATION GRADUATION ↗
  • Who funds CHRISTENDOM EDUCATIONAL CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE OF THE OZARKS ↗
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • 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 FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MOUNT OLIVE MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • 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 METROPOLITAN RICHMOND SPORTS BACKERS ↗
  • Who funds Wreaths Across America ↗

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.

William J Cammack Fou…Others First IncThe Ayco Charitable F…Baird Foundation IncAmerican Endowment Fo…Verizon FoundationCharities Aid Foundat…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…The Pfizer Foundation…The Blackbaud Giving …Donor Advised Charita…
William J Cammack Foundation Co William D CammackVA15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Elkins Davis Fdn Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Elkins Davis Fdn Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Children's Inn at Nih Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
5report 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 63 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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