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Carolyn J Davis Charitable Trust at a glance

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Carolyn J Davis Charitable Trust

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.

$24k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Animals$126kEnvironment$1k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $9k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STRAY CAT ALLIANCE$14,500
THE WILDCAT SANCTUARY$5,000
NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION$4,000
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 (FY22–22, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BIG CAT RESCUE: $1k → 13%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
NY
MA
OR
CA
UT
VA
MD
AZ
AR
TN
DC
TX
FL
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$109k · 13 repeat orgs$18k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
9

Total granted

$109k
$18k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+19%

Still filing today

92%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsEnvironmentHuman ServicesOther
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

  • TW
    THE WILDCAT SANCTUARY
    5× · 2021–2025 · $36k · revenue +30%
  • HW
    Humane World for Animals International
    3× · 2021–2023 · $10k · revenue +52%
  • TA
    THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
    3× · 2020–2022 · $9k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • HW
    Humane World for Animals Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue +19%
  • HS
    HUMANE SOCIETY OF UNITED STATES
    one grant, 2021 · $3k
  • CF
    CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +66%
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
Global Animal Partnership
Animals
2
Forever Wild Wildlife Rescue
Animals
3
Cat Tail Farms Feline Sanctuary

Animal rescue and housing

Animals
4
J-Lo's Animal Rescue & Sanctuary in

Animal care and rescue

Animals
5
Saving Saluda Strays
Animals
6
Pom and the Hound Animal Refuge

Animal Welfare

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7
Global Canine and Feline Rescue Association Inc

We rescue cats and dogs suffered on the street and in endangered locations in both new york and china. the mission of our no-kill shelter is to provide stray cats with safe haven and veterinary care before placing them in forever loving…

Animals
8
Wild Souls Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation
Animals
9
Kitten Around Cat Rescue
Animals
10
Paws Claws Exotics

A sanctuary for unfortunate animals

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11
The Animal Rescue League
Animals
12
Realtors to the Rescue

Animal Rescue

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Big Cat Rescue Corp; the most unlike its peers is National Wildlife Federation. 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

20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 22 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
16/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE WILDCAT SANCTUARY: $35,700 · AnimalsTHE WILDCAT SANCTUARYSTRAY CAT ALLIANCE: $21,500 · AnimalsSTRAY CAT ALLIANCEHumane World for Animals International: $10,000 · AnimalsHumane World for Animals InternationalTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $9,000 · AnimalsTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALSNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $9,000 · AnimalsNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATIONHumane World for Animals Inc: $8,000 · AnimalsHumane World for Animals IncINTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC: $7,630 · AnimalsINTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC+11 more: $19,486 · Animals+11 moreHUMANE SOCIETY OF UNITED STATES (HSUS): $3,000 · OtherSOCIETY FOR PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS - LOS ANGELES: $2,000 · OtherTURPENTINE CREEK FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · EnvironmentBIG CAT RESCUE CORP: $1,000 · Human Services
Animals$120,316Other$5,000Environment$1,000Human Services$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE WILDCAT SANCTUARY: $35,700 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetSTRAY CAT ALLIANCE: $21,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHumane World for Animals International: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC: $7,630 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAlley Cat Allies Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWildcat Ridge Sanctuary: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTIGER HAVEN INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPAWS FOR LIFE K9 RESCUE: $1,486 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKITTEN RESCUE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTURPENTINE CREEK FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CAT HOUSE ON THE KINGS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIG CAT RESCUE CORP: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRIDEROCK WILDLIFE REFUGE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKeepers of the Wild: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Marianne H Halle …The Kivowitz Charitab…Paypal Charitable Giv…The Michelson Found A…Thornton S Jr and Kat…Humane World for Anim…Ibm International Fou…The Pfizer Foundation…Verizon FoundationCharities Aid Foundat…The Bank of America C…
Jpmorgan Chase FoundationNY13.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Marianne H Halle Animal Suppor Foundation Inc C/O Mj Porter · The Kivowitz Charitable Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Michelson Found Animals Foundation Inc · Thornton S Jr and Katrina D Glide Foundation · Humane World for Animals Inc · Ibm International Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Verizon Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

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 Carolyn J Davis Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Carolyn J Davis Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%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
    3get no government money at all
    3report 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.

    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 22 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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