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Chuck and Marna Davis Foundation FKA Charles A & Marna Davis 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.

$1.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
27
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$536k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0193% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Education$2.4MHealth$1.2MRecreation & Sports$521kPhilanthropy$299kArts & Culture$199kHuman Services$97kYouth Development$56kEnvironment$41kOther$0
02FY2024 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 27 grants below total $1,515,972 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,755,997 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $240,025 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k12 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $105k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $530k
  • $250k+2 grants · $856k
$10,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$82M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSTIY OF VERMONT$536,025
FIBROLAMELLAR CANCER FOUNDATION$320,121
FIBROLAMELLAR CANCER FOUNDATION$240,776
BOSTON COLLEGE$97,000
FIBROLAMELLAR CANCER FOUNDATION$92,500
THE CLASSICE MIKE LOYER FOUNDATION$50,000
OCEAN REEF COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$50,000
SPECTRUM YOUTH FAMILY SERVICES$25,000
FRIENDS OF DERBY TOWNSHIP$20,000
EVERGLADES FOUNDATION$10,000
PMC JIMMY FUND$10,000
VT YOUTH CONSERVATION CORPS$10,000
HAGEN HISTORY CENTER$10,000
THRIVE FOR LIFE FOUNDATION$10,000
SHELBURNE MUSEUM$10,000
02Your edge
repeat funding

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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.4M · 22 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +73% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.

22 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
31

Total granted

$3.4M
$961k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+73%
+7%

Still filing today

64%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $189k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’23’24
EducationHealthHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentArts & CultureOther

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

  • TF
    THE FIBROLAMELLAR CANCER FOUNDATION
    4× · 2020–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +85%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2020–2023 · $731k · revenue +73%
  • GOVERNOR DUMMER ACADEMY THE GOVERNOR'S ACADEMY
    2× · 2020–2021 · $114k · revenue +83%

Funded once

  • LC
    LAKE CHAMPLAIN COMMUNITY SAILING CENTER INC
    one grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue -9%
  • UO
    UNIVERSIITY OF VERMONT
    one grant, 2021 · $204k
  • RM
    RONALD MCDONALD HOME NEW YORK
    one grant, 2020 · $43k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

03Your field

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.

1
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
2
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
3
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
4
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
5
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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6
Mitchell College

Mitchell college educates students through a highly individualized educational approach that brings forward each student's potential, reveals their strengths, and fosters personal growth.

Education
7
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
8
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
11
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
12
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc and the most unlike its peers is Call-a-Ride of Greenwich Inc. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…College Foundation SupportChildhood Cancer SupportChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Community Hospital SystemsUrban Agriculture EducationPublic Library SupportVolunteer Fire & RescueSenior Support ServicesFaith-Based Senior LivingYouth Development CentersAddiction & Mental Health T…Local History MuseumsCharter and Independent Sch…Environmental Advocacy and …
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 43 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%6%5–10yr19%21%10–20yr16%21%20–35yr13%32%35–55yr16%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%67%10–20yr16%12%20–35yr13%9%35–55yr16%11%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/38
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,527

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.

03the grantee network

38 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. 38 of the 63 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/38
Grantees still filing
26/38
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIVERSTIY OF VERMONT — $835,448 · OtherUNIVERSTIY OF VERMONTUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT — $293,365 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF VERMONTUNIVERSIITY OF VERMONT — $204,200 · OtherUNIVERSIITY OF VERMONT+32 more — $349,208 · Other+32 moreUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $730,692 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGR…LAKE CHAMPLAIN COMMUNITY SAILING CENTER INC — $500,000 · EducationLAKE CHAMPLAIN COMMUNITY SAILING CE…GOVERNOR DUMMER ACADEMY THE GOVERNOR'S ACADEMY — $114,400 · EducationGOVERNOR DUMMER ACADEMY THE GOVERNO…TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE — $97,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGEST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY — $63,500 · Education+3 more — $1,750 · EducationTHE FIBROLAMELLAR CANCER FOUNDATION — $1,045,897 · HealthTHE FIBROLAMELLAR CANCER F…+6 more — $96,628 · Health+6 moreOCEAN REEF COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $293,800 · Philanthropy+2 more — $5,500 · PhilanthropySHELBURNE MUSEUM INC — $113,000 · Arts & CultureWORLD TRADE CENTER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC — $25,000 · Arts & CultureSPECTRUM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesMOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC — $25,000 · Human Services+3 more — $1,850 · Human ServicesSHELBURNE FARMS — $12,000 · EnvironmentVERMONT YOUTH CONSERVATION CORPS INC — $10,000 · EnvironmentTHE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · Environment
Other$1,682,221Education$1,507,342Health$1,142,525Philanthropy$299,300Arts & Culture$138,000Human Services$51,850Environment$32,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE FIBROLAMELLAR CANCER FOUNDATION — $1,045,897 over 4y, 19% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $730,692 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetLAKE CHAMPLAIN COMMUNITY SAILING CENTER INC — $500,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetOCEAN REEF COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $293,800 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetGOVERNOR DUMMER ACADEMY THE GOVERNOR'S ACADEMY — $114,400 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSHELBURNE MUSEUM INC — $113,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE — $97,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY — $63,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF NEW YORK INC — $33,333 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEAST HARLEM TUTORIAL PROGRAM INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC — $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSPECTRUM YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD TRADE CENTER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHORDOMA FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHRIVE FOR LIFE FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetGREENWICH TOWN PARTY INC — $12,600 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSHELBURNE FARMS — $12,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPATHWAYS INC — $10,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLUPUS RESEARCH ALLIANCE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVERMONT YOUTH CONSERVATION CORPS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPKD Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBELLPORT VILLAGE PROGRAM FUND INC — $7,000 over 3y, 7.3% of budgetJonas Philanthropies Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc — $2,795 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GREENWICH LIBRARY — $1,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INNER-CITY FOUNDATION FOR CHARITY & EDUCATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BURLINGTON INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREENWICH ADULT DAY CARE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPATHWAYS INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EMERIL LAGASSE FOUNDATION — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWATERSIDE SCHOOL INC — $400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKEYS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC — $350 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGREENWICH EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREENWICH — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College — $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Dalio Family Fund IncThe Goldman Sachs Cha…Panwy Foundation IncJewish Communal FundRaymond James Charita…Morgan Stanley Global…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Ayco Charitable F…American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Gs Donor Advised Phil…
Dalio Family Fund IncCT17.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Dalio Family Fund Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Panwy Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc

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.

04Through Plinth

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How do I get to Chuck and Marna Davis Foundation FKA Charles A & Marna Davis Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Chuck and Marna Davis Foundation FKA Charles A & Marna Davis 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 63 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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