· Private foundation
Sharon S Davis Foundation Inc
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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
95% of Sharon S Davis Foundation Inc’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 31 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Sharon S Davis Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 36 organizations, $122k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
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 · FY2023
- Under $10k46 grants · $107k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THIRD WAY | $15,000 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND | $5,000 |
| WOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL | $5,000 |
| THE MADEIRA SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| CATHEDRAL SAINT JOHN THE DIVINE | $5,000 |
| THE BATTERY CONSERVANCY | $5,000 |
| LINCOLN CENTER THEATRE | $5,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS | $5,000 |
| THE MUNICIPAL ART SOCIETY OF NEW YORK | $5,000 |
| NYAYA HEALTH | $5,000 |
| VAN ALEN INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
| NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL | $5,000 |
| THE ARCHITECTURAL LEAGUE | $5,000 |
| THE PUBLIC THEATER | $3,000 |
| ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY | $3,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 92% of your 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 +38% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
50 repeat relationships — 44 still active in FY2023, 6 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- WIWELLNESS IN THE SCHOOLS INC2× · 2020–2021 · $31k · revenue +339%
- WFWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL5× · 2020–2024 · $30k · revenue +49%
- TWTHIRD WAY2× · 2022–2023 · $30k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- AAAMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROMEone grant, 2022 · $22k · revenue -9%
- NHNatural Health Foundation Incone grant, 2021 · $10k
- TGTHE GARRISON INSTITUTEone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +14%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Center for Architecture Inc and the most unlike its peers is Kids of Kathmandu Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
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 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
49 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. 49 of the 67 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 FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds WELLNESS IN THE SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds THIRD WAY ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME ↗
- Who funds FRESH AIR FUND ↗
- Who funds Municipal Art Society of New York ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds THE BATTERY CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds OPENHOUSENEWYORK INC ↗
- Who funds ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds DIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS OF KATHMANDU INC ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds THE GARRISON INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Museum of Modern Art ↗
- Who funds SOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds DESIGN TRUST FOR PUBLIC SPACE INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS of POOL INC ↗
- Who funds CREATIVE TIME INC ↗
- Who funds The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds NEST INC ↗
- Who funds THE BREARLEY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR ARCHITECTURE INC ↗
- Who funds THE LOWER EAST SIDE GIRLS CLUB OF NEW YORK INC ↗
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: Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · The Ford Foundation · May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Kpf Foundation Co Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates PC · Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation · Arison Arts Foundation · City Parks Foundation Inc · The Bloomberg Family Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation
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 Sharon S Davis Foundation Inc 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.
- Silent Spring Institute Inc — 12% 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.