· Private foundation
Davey Company Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF PORTAGE COUNTY | $45,003 |
| TREE PITTSBURGH | $45,000 |
| NORTHERN OHIO GOLF CHARITIES | $25,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHEAST OHIO | $25,000 |
| CAVALIERS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WI STEVEN'S POINT FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| ESF FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| EMERGENCY EMPLOYEE EAP GRANTS | $6,000 |
| KENT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| GATEWAY TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| UMASS AMHERST FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE | $3,000 |
| THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY | $3,000 |
| KEEP OHIO BEAUTIFUL | $2,500 |
| ALLEGHENY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of your 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.
5 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $77k 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
- UWUNITED WAY OF PORTAGE COUNTY INC4× · 2021–2024 · $178k · revenue +6%
- FOFRIENDS OF THE PITTSBURGH URBAN FOREST2× · 2023–2024 · $90k · revenue +18%
- NONORTHERN OHIO GOLF CHARITIES INC2× · 2023–2024 · $50k · revenue -58%
Funded once
- CACOVID-19 ASSISTANCE PAID DIRECTLY TO DAVEY TREE EXPERT COMPANY EMPLOYEESone grant, 2020 · $62k
- CACOVID-19 ASSISTANCE PAID DIRECTLY Tone grant, 2021 · $26k
- CCCLEVELAND CLINICone grant, 2022 · $25k
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 missouri western state university foundation is a not-for-profit charitable organization that functions solely to support the mission of missouri western state university, as stated in the university's mission statement. the foundation…
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).
The university of iowa facilities corporation acquires and holds property for the benefit and use of the university of iowa.
The mission of the university of toledo foundation is to secure the future for the university of toledo, through prudent asset management and philanthropy. we build strong linkages between alumni and the university, fostering a spirit of…
To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…
To maximize private gift support for pittsburg state university, exercise proper management of foundation assets, lay the groundwork for future fundraising success in support of the university's teaching, research and service/civic…
To hold title and perform related functions in connection with a research park and innovation center in support of michigan state university research foundation.
Support of miami university
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
Wayne state university foundation was established to be a centralized means of encouraging and managing financial support to wayne state university. this support allows wayne state university to provide its students, faculty, and…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado State University Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Girl Scouts of North East Ohio. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 35 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 COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF PORTAGE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE PITTSBURGH URBAN FOREST ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN OHIO GOLF CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTH EAST OHIO ↗
- Who funds BLACK WOMEN LAWYERS ASSOCIATION SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds CAVALIERS YOUTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KEEP OHIO BEAUTIFUL INC ↗
- Who funds KENT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-STEVENS POINT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN F AUSTIN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MID-STATE TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Purdue Research Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HEALING WATERS FLY FISHING INC ↗
- Who funds HOCKING COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RAZOM INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA 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.
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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 Davey Company Foundation 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.
- Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing Inc — 46% of income from government
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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