· Private foundation
Kathryn Davis Grado Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $65k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $130k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY | $12,975 |
| AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION | $12,975 |
| NEW ROOTS INSTITUTE | $12,975 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF CHITTENDEN COUNTY | $12,975 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC | $12,975 |
| BAT CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL INC | $12,975 |
| LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY INC | $12,975 |
| MUSICIAN TREATMENT FOUNDATION OF AUSTIN TEXAS | $12,975 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $12,975 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC | $12,974 |
| HOPEFUL HORIZONS | $5,000 |
| STEADFAST LA FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| ASHVILLE AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $5,000 |
| FAMILY PROMISE OF BEAUFORT COUNTY | $5,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE LOWCOUNTRY | $5,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $75k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 11% of Kathryn Davis Grado Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +36% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $93k 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
- HHHILTON HEAD PREPARATORY SCHOOL6× · 2019–2024 · $78k · revenue +42%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC4× · 2020–2025 · $71k · revenue +39%- AWANIMAL WELFARE INSTITUTE3× · 2018–2022 · $62k · revenue +25%
Funded once
GIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCEone grant, 2022 · $44k · revenue +1%- SOSPECIAL OLYMPICS INCone grant, 2023 · $29k · revenue +22%
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATEDgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $29k · revenue +79%
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.
The primary mission of the humane society is to end animal cruelty, neglect and overpopulation in south carolina.
Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.
The connecticut humane society is the leading resource in the state for companion animal welfare, enriching the lives of families and communities through adoption services, medical care, education, and prevention of cruelty.
The washington humane society protects animals, supports families, and advocates for positive change to create a world where all animals can thrive. we enrich the humanity of our communities by promoting compassion and encouraging people…
Our goal is to sustainably improve animal welfare, provide veterinary care, and improve veterinary education globally. in order to achieve this goal, we work in over 10 countries, across 5 continents, supporting local people and animals,…
Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…
Reduce the euthanasia rate of healthy and adoptable animals and improve the lives of companion animals by finding permanent homes for animals in need, providing support to communities who do not have access to humane organizations,…
Food & water watch conducts extensive research and public education to ensure the food and water we consume is safe, accessible and sustainably produced. so we can all enjoy and trust in what we eat and drink, we help people take charge of…
To maximize programs intended to stop killing of adoptable animals.
As america's first animal shelter, founded in 1869, women's humane society dba women's animal center (wac), assists people in the community, saves the lives of animals, and improves the health of pets through its shelter and adoptions…
Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bluffton Youth Theatre. 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 35 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
59 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. 59 of the 65 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 TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HILTON HEAD PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL WELFARE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE LOWCOUNTRY INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF THE LOWCOUNTRY ↗
- Who funds HOPEFUL HORIZONS ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds SHATTERPROOF A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds STONELEIGH-BURNHAM SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NORTH COUNTRY ANIMAL LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds PERFORMING ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds VETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds WILDAID INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds SMILE MASS INC ↗
- Who funds BLUFFTON SELF HELP INC ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds New Roots Institute ↗
- Who funds MUSICIAN TREATMENT FOUNDATION OF AUSTIN TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds BAT CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF CHITTENDEN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION ↗
- Who funds OCEAN CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NEADS INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC BLUFFTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Fistula Foundation ↗
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: Community Foundation of the Lowcountry · Heritage Classic Foundation · Wexford Foundation · The Bargain Box · The Berkeley Hall Charitable Foundation · United Way of the Lowcountry · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · John L Clendenin & Margaret Clendenin F · The Thorpe Family Foundation Inc · Palmetto Project Inc · Worldwide Small Change Foundation Co Roy Kaufmann · Dan and Merrie Boone Foundation 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 Kathryn Davis Grado Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Central Massachusetts Housing Alliance Inc — 27% of income from government
- Whale and Dolphin Conservationinc — 3% of income from government
- Shatterproof a Nonprofit Corporation — 2% of income from government
- Animal Shelter Inc — 1% of income from government
- Neads Inc — 1% of income from government
- Worcester County Food Bank Inc — 1% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project 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.
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