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Foster-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.

$527k
Granted FY2025still arriving
32
Grants FY2025still arriving
14
States reached
$100k
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, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$821kHealth$778kEducation$448kEnvironment$153kInternational$127kFood & Nutrition$92kHousing & Shelter$58kCivil Rights$50kOther$0
02FY2025 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k18 grants · $92k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $225k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $210k
$9,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NORWALK HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC$100,000
BARD COLLEGE$60,000
VASSAR COLLEGE$50,000
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC$35,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCORPORATED$25,000
ST CATHERINES SCHOOL FOUNDATION$25,000
NORTHFIELD MOUNT HERMON SCHOOL$25,000
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC$25,000
NORTHWEST HARVEST E M M$22,000
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED$16,000
THE V FOUNDATION$15,000
FRIENDS OF AMBLER FARM INC$15,000
DAVE THOMAS FOUNDATION FOR ADOPTION$12,000
PARTNERSHIP FOR INCLUSIVE DISASTER STRATEGIES$10,000
OCEAN CONSERVANCY INC$9,000
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 (FY23–24, $80k) 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%ALISON BRUNDICK HARAMIS FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%ASMT INC: $75k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
WA
IL
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
DE
AR
TN
NC
DC
OK
LA
AL
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.
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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 76% of Foster-Davis Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 68% of the giving stays in CT; by stated purpose, 16%.

Foster-Davis Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.2% directed abroad (not shown)
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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.0M · 45 repeat orgs$777k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +13% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

45 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

45
31

Total granted

$2.0M
$544k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
0%

Still filing today

69%
81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $233k 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
HealthInternationalEnvironmentEducationAnimalsArts & 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

  • NH
    Norwalk Hospital Foundation
    6× · 2020–2025 · $480k · revenue +6%
  • NORTHFIELD MOUNT HERMON SCHOOL
    6× · 2020–2025 · $105k · revenue +40%
  • SH
    SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TN INC
    2× · 2023–2025 · $35k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT
    one grant, 2021 · $149k
  • AI
    ASMT INC dba AUTISM TENNESSEE
    one grant, 2024 · $75k · revenue 0%
  • TT
    THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE
    one grant, 2023 · $40k · revenue -9%
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
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
2
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
4
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
5
Watttime Corporation

To raise awareness about the potential to reduce environmental harm by shifting electricity use to particular times; to encourage the development and spread of common protocols for this practice.

Science & Tech
6
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
7
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
8
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
9
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
10
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
11
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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12
Oceana Inc

To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Medecins Sans Frontieres Usa Inc; the most unlike its peers is Friends of the Town of Pelham Public Library. 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

66 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 66 of the 88 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)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
66/66
Grantees still filing
37/66
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YALE UNIVERSITY - SCHOOL OF DRAMA: $600,000 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITY - SCHOOL OF DRAMAYALE UNIVERSITY - PEABODY MUSEUM: $200,000 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITY - PEABODY MUSEUMUNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT: $148,673 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUTVASSAR COLLEGE: $50,000 · Other+41 more: $443,500 · Other+41 moreNorwalk Hospital Foundation: $480,000 · HealthNorwalk Hospital FoundationTHE V FOUNDATION: $45,000 · HealthTHE V FOUNDATIONPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $25,000 · HealthNew Disabled South Inc: $25,000 · HealthSTEADMAN PHILIPPON RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $25,000 · Health+9 more: $106,500 · Health+9 moreNORTHFIELD MOUNT HERMON SCHOOL: $105,000 · EducationNORTHFIEL…BARD COLLEGE: $60,000 · EducationBARD COLL…THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE: $40,000 · EducationTHE TRUST…ST CATHERINE'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $25,000 · EducationST CATHER…Grumman Hill Montessori Association Inc: $12,000 · Education+1 more: $500 · EducationWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $40,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $35,000 · InternationalTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $20,000 · InternationalAMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID: $10,000 · InternationalPALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND: $9,000 · InternationalMercy Ships International: $4,500 · International+3 more: $6,500 · InternationalENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $28,000 · EnvironmentOCEAN CONSERVANCY: $26,500 · EnvironmentEARTHPLACE INC: $17,000 · Environment350ORG: $15,000 · EnvironmentCLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC: $10,000 · EnvironmentCENTER FOR CARBON REMOVAL: $7,500 · EnvironmentSustainable Harvest International: $5,000 · Environment+2 more: $4,000 · EnvironmentASMT INC dba AUTISM TENNESSEE: $75,000 · Human ServicesTHE ALLISON BRUNDICK HARAMIS FOUNDA: $5,000 · Human ServicesAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · Civil RightsNEW SANCTUARY MOVEMENT OF PHILADELPHIA: $20,000 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $10,000 · Civil Rights
Other$1,442,173Health$706,500Education$242,500International$125,000Environment$113,000Human Services$80,000Civil Rights$60,000

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 budgetNorwalk Hospital Foundation: $480,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetNORTHFIELD MOUNT HERMON SCHOOL: $105,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetASMT INC dba AUTISM TENNESSEE: $75,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetBARD COLLEGE: $60,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVASSAR COLLEGE: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE V FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TN INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF AMBLER FARM INC: $30,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $28,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOCEAN CONSERVANCY: $26,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST CATHERINE'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNew Disabled South Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSTEADMAN PHILIPPON RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society: $23,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $23,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWEST HARVEST EMM: $22,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOSLIN DIABETES CENTER INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW SANCTUARY MOVEMENT OF PHILADELPHIA: $20,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRAINBOW RAILROAD USA INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE OPEN DOOR SHELTER INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEARTHPLACE INC: $17,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAUTISM SCIENCE FOUNDATION: $17,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetORGANIZATION FOR AUTISM RESEARCH: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budget350ORG: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRAINFOREST ALLIANCE INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEAST COMMUNITY CYCLES INC: $14,000 over 5y, 14% of budgetCOMMITTEE ON TEMPORARY SHELTER INC: $13,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDAVE THOMAS FOUNDATION FOR ADOPTION: $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGrumman Hill Montessori Association Inc: $12,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTROUT UNLIMITED MIANUS CHAPTER: $10,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetPERSON TO PERSON INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ALLIANCE TO END HOMELESSNESS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR CARBON REMOVAL: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $6,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSustainable Harvest International: $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDENVER ART MUSEUM: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ALLISON BRUNDICK HARAMIS FOUNDA: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetALS UNITED GREATER NEW YORK INC: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Ships International: $4,500 over 3y, 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 New York Communit…The Ford FoundationT Rowe Price Program …AbbVie FoundationJewish Communal FundJpmorgan Chase Founda…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Pfizer Foundation…Vanguard Charitable E…The Bank of America C…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…
The New York Community TrustNY12.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The New York Community Trust · The Ford Foundation · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · AbbVie Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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 Foster-Davis Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Foster-Davis Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 14%
  • Committee On Temporary Shelter Inc: 52% of income from government
  • Save the Sound: 37% of income from government
  • Joslin Diabetes Center Inc: 35% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Club of the Lower Naugatuck Valley: 19% of income from government
  • The Open Door Shelter Inc: 14% of income from government
  • Friends of Ambler Farm Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Person to Person Inc: 5% of income from government
  • The Trustees of the Smith College: 1% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Foster-Davis Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Foster-Davis Foundation Inc 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 88 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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