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The Davis Hill 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.

$496k
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$496k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$508kEducation$117kHealth$69kArts & Culture$21kCrime & Legal$1kCivil Rights$750Youth Development$750Animals$550Other$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$495,579
Median grant
1
States reached
$2k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MS GIFT DAVIS HILL FUND$495,579
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 (FY24–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%RXART: $4k → 17%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

MN
IL
NY
PA
CT
RI
CA
VA
DE
AZ
TN
DC
AL
TX
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.

28%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$205k · 25 repeat orgs$519k to everyone else

25 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
44

Total granted

$205k
$24k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+25%

Still filing today

64%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $496k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHealthInternationalCrime & LegalFood & NutritionOther
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

  • CM
    CHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $41k · revenue +409%
  • BARNARD COLLEGE
    4× · 2017–2020 · $40k · revenue +60%
  • TC
    THE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD
    3× · 2021–2024 · $20k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
  • RA
    RX ART INC
    one grant, 2024 · $4k · revenue +4%
  • WH
    WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENTS' ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2024 · $4k · revenue +19%
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.

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American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
2
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
3
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
4
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture
5
Museum of the City of New York

The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…

Arts & Culture
6
Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)

Arts & Culture
7
Columbia University Press

Enhance Columbia University's education mission by acquiring and publishing outstanding original works by scholars and others that contribute to an understanding of global human concerns. Columbia University Press became part of the…

Arts & Culture
8
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
9
Manhattan University

Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…

Education
10
National September 11 Memorial and Museum At the World Trade Center

The national september 11 memorial & museum at the world trade center bears solemn witness to the terrorist attacks of september 11, 2001, and february 26, 1993. located at a site made sacred through loss, the memorial & museum remembers…

Arts & Culture
11
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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12
The Architectural League of New York

The architectural league of new york supports critically transformative work in the allied fields that shape the built environment. as a vital, independent forum, the league stimulates thinking, debate, and action on today's (continued on…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations; the most unlike its peers is Feeding America. 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

44 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. 44 of the 71 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
44/44
Grantees still filing
38/44
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MS GIFT DAVIS HILL FUND: $495,579 · OtherMS GIFT DAVIS HILL FUNDBARNARD ANNUAL FUND: $40,000 · OtherBARNARD ANNUAL FUNDMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING: $20,300 · Other+40 more: $26,153 · OtherBARNARD COLLEGE: $40,000 · EducationBARNARD COLLE…THE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD: $20,100 · EducationTHE CHAPIN SC…Trevor Day School: $20,000 · EducationTrevor Day Sc…WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENTS' ASSOCIATION: $4,100 · Education+3 more: $1,100 · EducationCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC: $40,994 · Health+3 more: $1,315 · HealthSALON DE VIRTUOSI INC: $1,550 · Arts & CultureRED HEN PRESS INC: $1,250 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $1,100 · Arts & CulturePBS FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Arts & CultureWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $600 · Arts & CulturePOETRY SOCIETY OF AMERICA: $500 · Arts & CultureThe Forward Association Inc: $500 · Arts & CultureTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $342 · Arts & CultureTHE CENTER FOR JEWISH HISTORY INC: $300 · Arts & CultureThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $300 · Arts & CultureSOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION: $300 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $325 · Arts & CultureRX ART INC: $4,350 · Human ServicesUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $2,000 · PhilanthropyEQUAL JUSTICE AMERICA INC: $500 · Crime & LegalSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $50 · Crime & Legal
Other$582,032Education$85,300Health$42,309Arts & Culture$8,067Human Services$4,350Philanthropy$2,000Crime & Legal$550

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC: $40,994 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBARNARD COLLEGE: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD: $20,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTrevor Day School: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AUTHORS GUILD FOUNDATION INC: $10,900 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetRX ART INC: $4,350 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENTS' ASSOCIATION: $4,100 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSALON DE VIRTUOSI INC: $1,550 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetRED HEN PRESS INC: $1,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION: $1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $1,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPBS FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBeit T'Shuvah: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AUTHORS GUILD INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRIVERDALE COUNTRY SCHOOL INC: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPOETRY SOCIETY OF AMERICA: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE AMERICA INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Forward Association Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $342 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR JEWISH HISTORY INC: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE A LIVING MEMORIAL TO THE HOLOCAUST: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $172 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Pierpont Morgan Library: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $125 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Association for UNHCR: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRESH AIR FUND: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFARM SANCTUARY INC: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC: $30 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $15 over 1y, 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.

American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Endowment FoundationOH8.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 The Davis Hill Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Davis Hill Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Davis Hill Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Davis Hill 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 71 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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