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The Davis-Molony Fund
Its FY2023 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 FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k10 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BEHIND THE LINE | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| RESCUED PETS MOVEMENT | $10,000 |
| FAMILIES HELPING FAMILIES | $10,000 |
| FAMILY RESOURCES OF NEW ORLEANS INC | $10,000 |
| BOYS HOPE GIRLS HOPE | $7,500 |
| GREEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $7,000 |
| ANIMAL RESCUE NEW ORLEANS | $6,000 |
| ADDIE RAY RACING INC | $6,000 |
| LANTERN LIGHTS | $5,000 |
| ST VINCENT DEPAUL SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| HARRY TOMPSON CENTER | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| CAMP WILDERNESS | $3,000 |
| LYFE OF DANCE | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $59k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 73% 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.
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 +19% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2023, 13 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k 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
- HIHOPE IGNITES NEW ORLEANS7× · 2017–2023 · $42k · revenue +27%
- THTHE HARRY TOMPSON CENTER INC5× · 2017–2023 · $18k · revenue +353%
- SOSPECIAL OLYMPICS LOUISIANA INC2× · 2017–2018 · $15k · revenue +189%
Funded once
- SOSISTERS OF CHRISTIAN CHARITYone grant, 2018 · $20k
- GPGIGI'S PLAYHOUSEone grant, 2018 · $10k
- APANGELS' PLACE INCone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -2%
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 arc of louisiana advocates for and with individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families.
Heroes of New Orleans is a grassroot 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization committed to inspiring and empowering youth and families. Our mission is to elevate underprivileged youth and families who face poverty or its risks, through a…
Offer emotional/financial support to families with CHD.
Primarily in orleans parish, organized to provide informational support and educational services to area families who have family members with special needs (disabilities) through a coordinated network of resources,and support servies.
Crossroads connects children in crisis to the families, individuals, and opportunities they need to thrive primarily through the recruitment, development, and support of foster families in Louisiana.
Provide low cost housing to handicapped adults
Rebuilding together new orleans helps low to moderate income greater new orleans area homeowners repair and rehabilitate their homes. rtno stabilizes and revitalizes neighborhoods and improves health and safety in our communities.
Together Louisiana is a network of faith and community institutions that works to strengthen local leadership and support practical solutions to everyday challenges. Its mission focuses on helping communities work together across race…
Casa - new orleans trains volunteers to become court appointed special advocates for abused and neglected children in the juvenile justice system.
Direct care services to elderly and disabled; independent living care services.
Provide community and family support and parent training for families with family members with special needs in Region 8 in Louisiana.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Unity of Greater New Orleans Inc and the most unlike its peers is Arins Nesting Place. 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 28 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 19% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 71 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 HOPE IGNITES NEW ORLEANS ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA ↗
- Who funds THE HARRY TOMPSON CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH RUN NOLA INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS LOUISIANA INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS LOUISIANA INC ↗
- Who funds THE SUNSHINE KIDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILY RESOURCES OF NEW ORLEANS ↗
- Who funds ANGELS' PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds Arins Nesting Place ↗
- Who funds BEHIND THE LINE ↗
- Who funds PACE GREATER NEW ORLEANS ↗
- Who funds SAULS LIGHT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THOMASMCMAHAN CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHINE YOUR LIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds THE LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND IN NEW ORLEANS INC ↗
- Who funds RESCUED PETS MOVEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds Upside Downs Inc ↗
- Who funds The ARC of St Charles Inc ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOMECOMING INC ↗
- Who funds LANTERN LIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHSHORE FAMILIES HELPING FAMILIES 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: The Greater New Orleans Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Baptist Community Ministries · Goldring Family Foundation · United Way of Southeast Louisiana · Forekids Foundations Inc Dba Zurich Classic of New Orleans · Gayle and Tom Benson Charitable Foundation · New Orleans Community Support Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Network for Good · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America
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 The Davis-Molony Fund 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.
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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