Delaware · Private foundation
Shelby Cullom Davis Charitable Fund 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.
- $120M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 118
- Grants FY2024
- 89
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 19%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $200,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $26,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 88 to 96
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 22
- Total assets, FY2024
- $3.1B
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 19% of the organizations Shelby Cullom Davis Charitable Fund Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8.7M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 95 | $117M | 16% |
| FY2023 | 89 | $114M | 19% |
| FY2022 | 88 | $158M | 16% |
| FY2021 | 92 | $148M | 27% |
| FY2020 | 96 | $142M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Armand Hammer United World College of the Amer | $138,310,000 | 5 | 77% |
| Hudson Highlands Fjord Trail Inc | $45,000,000 | 2 | 67% |
| University of Oklahoma Foundation Inc | $40,002,662 | 4 | 6% |
| Santa Fe Preparatory School | $38,154,837 | 5 | 84% |
| Sonoma Academy | $36,780,000 | 5 | 38% |
| Central Park Conservancy Inc | $35,064,500 | 5 | 14% |
| The President and Trustees of Colby College | $22,025,000 | 4 | 2% |
| New York-Presbyterian Fund Inc | $20,125,000 | 5 | 3% |
| College of the Atlantic | $12,507,776 | 5 | 13% |
| Macalester College | $12,474,782 | 3 | 2% |
Show all 153 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($25M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Shelby Cullom Davis Charitable Fund Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 29 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 144 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The New York Community Trust · The Abeles Foundation · Santa Fe Community Foundation · Maine Community Foundation Inc · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Marin Community Foundation · Albuquerque Community Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Garfield Street Foundation · Gale Family Foundation · Ibm International Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Shelby Cullom Davis Charitable Fund Inc with peer funders
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About Shelby Cullom Davis Charitable Fund Inc
- How much does Shelby Cullom Davis Charitable Fund Inc give?
- Shelby Cullom Davis Charitable Fund Inc reported 118 grants totaling $120,240,558 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 88 and 96 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Shelby Cullom Davis Charitable Fund Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (62%), Recreation & Sports (14%), Environment (9%).
- Who are Shelby Cullom Davis Charitable Fund Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: The Armand Hammer United World College of the Amer ($138M), Hudson Highlands Fjord Trail Inc ($45M), University of Oklahoma Foundation Inc ($40M).
- Does Shelby Cullom Davis Charitable Fund Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Shelby Cullom Davis Charitable Fund Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Shelby Cullom Davis Charitable Fund Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The New York Community Trust, The Abeles Foundation, Santa Fe Community Foundation.
- Where is Shelby Cullom Davis Charitable Fund Inc based?
- Shelby Cullom Davis Charitable Fund Inc is based in DE.
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