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C Michael Davenport Chapel Charities Foundation

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.

$73k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it funds
0176% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$143kAnimals$114kEducation$34kArts & Culture$26kRecreation & Sports$22kFood & Nutrition$19kHuman Services$17kPublic Benefit$16kOther$0
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k10 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $60k
$1,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE POINT COMMUNITY CHURCH$25,000
KY NATIONAL GUARD MEMORIAL FUND$15,000
SPECIAL OLYMPICS$10,000
FRANKFORT INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL$10,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
NATIONAL ALPACA FOUDNATION INC$3,500
Individual grant recipient$1,000
FRANKFORT CO BASEBALL BOOSTERS$1,000
FRANKLIN CO HIGH SCHOOL$500
FRANKLIN CO HIGH SCHOOL FLYER SOFTBALL$500
AVENUES FOR WOMEN$500
Individual grant recipient$500
Individual grant recipient$320
WESTERN HILLS HIGH SCHOOL FFA$200
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 (FY17–21, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 51% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $1k → 14%HOPE'S CLOSET: $1k → 4%AWAKE MINISTRIES: $1k → 9%FRANKLIN COUNTY COUNCIL OF AGING INC: $1k → 14%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.
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.

31%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$151k · 14 repeat orgs$340k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
60

Total granted

$151k
$299k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-3%
+65%

Still filing today

21%
23%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureHealthPublic Safety & DisasterFood & 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

  • PC
    POINT COMMUNITY CHURCH INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $117k
  • SA
    SALVATION ARMY
    2× · 2020–2021 · $7k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    2× · 2023–2024 · $5k

Funded once

  • LH
    LIFE HOUSE FOR ANIMALS
    one grant, 2022 · $110k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $29k
  • FO
    FORKS OF ELKHORN BAPTIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2021 · $14k
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.

1
Hope Spay Neuter Clinic

High quality and low cost spay/neuter services for companion animals and feral cats in central kentucky and beyond.

Animals
2
Faith Christian School of Rocky Mount Inc

Faith christian school challenges students to learn, lead and serve in order to explore god's divine calling in their lives. faith christian school guides students on their spiritual journeys by providing excellent instruction, practice,…

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3
Jefferson County Christian School Inc

To provide quality education

Education
4
Christian Academy of Knoxville

The mission of christian academy knoxville is to partner with christian families to provide a comprehensive college preparatory education from a biblical worldview in a christ-centered environment.

Education
5
Christian Academy of Louisville Inc

The mission of christian academy school system is to develop students with a heart for god who grow as jesus did in wisdom, stature, and in favor with god and men.

Education
6
Appomattox Christian Academy

They are the oldest christian school in the county of appomattox. we boast small class sizes at all stages of academics with individualized instruction from passionate, classically-trained teachers. we strive to educate the whole child.

Education
7
Not Alone Pregnancy Center

Christian ministry offereing prolife support

Human Services
8
Lancaster County Christian School

Education - private christian school that glorifies god as a community of faith and learning.

Religion
9
Lotts Creek Community School

The mission of lotts creek school, through the cooperative efforts of students, parents, teachers, and community is to assure that all students will learn to the best of their ability, developing in academic, vocational, physical,…

Education
10
Knoxville Christian School

Educate preschool through twelfth grade children in a Christian environment while developing them spiritually,academically, emotionally, and physically with Jesus Christ as their standard and the Bible as their foundation.

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11
Rowan County Christmas Inc
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12
Kentucky Humane Society - Animal Rescue

The kentucky humane society is a champion for companion animals, through leadership, education and proactive solutions, we are creating more compassionate communities.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Frankfort Christian Academy Inc; the most unlike its peers is Franklin County Humane Society. 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

18 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. 18 of the 81 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
11/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

POINT COMMUNITY CHURCH INC: $116,522 · OtherPOINT COMMUNITY CHURCH INCLIFE HOUSE FOR ANIMALS: $110,000 · OtherLIFE HOUSE FOR ANIMALSIndividual grant recipient: $29,304 · OtherIndividual grant recipientKY NATIONAL GUARD MEMORIAL FUND: $15,000 · Other+62 more: $177,005 · Other+62 moreFRANKFORT CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC: $10,000 · EducationTHORNHILL EDUCATION CENTER INC: $1,000 · EducationMIDWAY UNIVERSITY INC FKA MIDWAY COLLEGE: $500 · Education+1 more: $210 · EducationWANDA JOYCE ROBINSON FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentJARRETT'S JOY CART INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $1,100 · Human ServicesHOPE S CLOSET INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesFRANKLIN COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesOPEN DOOR OF HOPE INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesKENTUCKY HISTORICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureJOSEPHINE SCULPTURE PARK INC: $500 · Arts & CultureAVENUES FOR WOMEN INC: $2,600 · HealthCAPITAL OVARIAN CANCER ORGANIZATION: $1,000 · HealthNATIONAL ALPACA FOUNDATION: $3,500 · Food & Nutrition
Other$447,831Education$11,710Youth Development$10,000Human Services$9,100Arts & Culture$5,500Health$3,600Food & Nutrition$3,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWANDA JOYCE ROBINSON FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetJARRETT'S JOY CART INC: $5,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetKENTUCKY HISTORICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNATIONAL ALPACA FOUNDATION: $3,500 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetAVENUES FOR WOMEN INC: $2,600 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetNATIONAL CHILD SAFETY COUNCIL: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $1,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE S CLOSET INC: $1,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetOPEN DOOR OF HOPE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRED BIRD MISSION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOSEPHINE SCULPTURE PARK INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMIDWAY UNIVERSITY INC FKA MIDWAY COLLEGE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChristian Academy of Lawrenceburg: $210 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.

  • Who funds FRANKFORT CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds WANDA JOYCE ROBINSON FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds JARRETT'S JOY CART INC ↗
  • Who funds KENTUCKY HISTORICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL ALPACA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AVENUES FOR WOMEN INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL CHILD SAFETY COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds HOPE S CLOSET INC ↗

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.

Blue Grass Community Foundation IncKY19.4× affinity7 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 C Michael Davenport Chapel Charities Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from C Michael Davenport Chapel Charities Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%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
    5report 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

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    Find your warmest path to C Michael Davenport Chapel Charities Foundation 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 81 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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