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Davey Company Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$195k
Granted FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$45k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2024.

Philanthropy$1.1MEnvironment$112kPublic Safety & Disaster$89kEducation$54kRecreation & Sports$50kYouth Development$35kHealth$28kCommunity Improvement$14kOther$0
02FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k12 grants · $45k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $150k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$16k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED WAY OF PORTAGE COUNTY$45,003
TREE PITTSBURGH$45,000
GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHEAST OHIO$25,000
NORTHERN OHIO GOLF CHARITIES$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
THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY$3,000
UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE$3,000
KEEP OHIO BEAUTIFUL$2,500
ALLEGHENY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$2,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%UMASS AMHERST FOUNDATION: $3k → 12%TREE PITTSBURGH: $45k → 11%ALLEGHENY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $2k → 14%THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $3k → 16%ESF FOUNDATION: $6k → 14%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA: $1k → 17%TOUCHING FUTURE TODAY: $4k → 16%STEPHEN F AUSTIN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $6k → 23%WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN: $550 → 14%MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $3k → 16%GENE BRIDGES MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $1k → 20%GATEWAY TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $4k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF WI STEVEN'S POINT FOUNDATION: $6k → 10%MID-STATE TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $4k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE: $3k → 12%PURDUE FOR LIFE FOUNDATION (PURDUE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION): $3k → 19%COVID-19 ASSISTANCE PAID DIRECTLY TO DAVEY TREE EXPERT COMPANY EMPLOYEES: $62k → 12%NORTHERN OHIO GOLF CHARITIES: $25k → 13%THE COLUMBUS FOUNDATION: $350k → 15%HOCKING COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $2k → 15%CAVALIERS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%BLACK WOMEN LAWYERS' ASSOCIATION SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $8k → 14%AMERICANS IN UKRAINE FOUNDATION: $2k → 6%DABNEY S LANCASTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $5k → 14%HEALING WATERS FLY FISHING: $3k → 8%TREE PITTSBURGH: $45k → 11%RAZOM INC: $1k → 17%UNITED WAY OF PORTAGE COUNTY: $45k → 12%NORTHERN OHIO GOLF CHARITIES: $25k → 13%THE COLUMBUS FOUNDATION: $309k → 15%CLEVELAND CLINIC: $25k → 17%BLACK WOMEN LAWYERS' ASSOCIATION SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $6k → 14%AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL: $50 → 17%UNITED WAY OF PORTAGE COUNTY: $45k → 12%GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHEAST OHIO: $25k → 13%THE COLUMBUS FOUNDATION: $150k → 15%UNITED WAY OF PORTAGE COUNTY: $45k → 12%THE COLUMBUS FOUNDATION: $116k → 15%UNITED WAY OF PORTAGE COUNTY: $42k → 12%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

IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
CO
VA
MD
TN
DC
TX
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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$339k · 5 repeat orgs$224k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
16

Total granted

$339k
$147k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-13%
+13%

Still filing today

100%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $77k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationInternationalCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyHealthOther
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

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF PORTAGE COUNTY INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $178k · revenue +6%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE PITTSBURGH URBAN FOREST
    2× · 2023–2024 · $90k · revenue +88%
  • NO
    NORTHERN OHIO GOLF CHARITIES INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $50k · revenue -58%

Funded once

  • CA
    COVID-19 ASSISTANCE PAID DIRECTLY TO DAVEY TREE EXPERT COMPANY EMPLOYEES
    one grant, 2020 · $62k
  • CA
    COVID-19 ASSISTANCE PAID DIRECTLY T
    one grant, 2021 · $26k
  • CC
    CLEVELAND CLINIC
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
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
Missouri Western State University Foundation Inc

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…

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2
The Northern Michigan University Foundation

The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.

Education
3
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

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).

Education
4
University of Iowa Facilities Corporation

The university of iowa facilities corporation acquires and holds property for the benefit and use of the university of iowa.

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5
The University of Toledo Foundation

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…

Education
6
University of Minnesota Foundation Investment Advisors

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,…

Education
7
Pittsburg State University Foundation Inc

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…

Education
8
University Corporate Research Park I Inc

To hold title and perform related functions in connection with a research park and innovation center in support of michigan state university research foundation.

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9
Miami University Foundation

Support of miami university

Education
10
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
11
Wayne State University 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…

Education
12
Furman University

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.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado State University Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

22 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. 22 of the 35 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
11/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COLUMBUS FOUNDATION: $924,517 · PhilanthropyCOLUMBUS FOUNDATIONUNITED WAY OF PORTAGE COUNTY INC: $177,742 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF PORTAGE COUNTY INCCOVID-19 ASSISTANCE PAID DIRECTLY TO DAVEY TREE EXPERT COMPANY EMPLOYEES: $62,454 · OtherCOVID-19 ASSIST…NORTHERN OHIO GOLF CHARITIES INC: $50,000 · OtherNORTHERN OHIO G…COVID-19 ASSISTANCE PAID DIRECTLY T: $26,224 · OtherCOVID-19 ASSIST…CLEVELAND CLINIC: $25,000 · OtherCLEVELAND CLINI…+11 more: $38,850 · Other+11 moreFRIENDS OF THE PITTSBURGH URBAN FOREST: $90,000 · EnvironmentKENT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $7,000 · EducationCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $6,316 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-STEVENS POINT FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 · EducationSTEPHEN F AUSTIN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 · EducationMID-STATE TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 · EducationPurdue Research Foundation: $3,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 · EducationHOCKING COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · EducationGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTH EAST OHIO: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentCAVALIERS YOUTH FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentBLACK WOMEN LAWYERS ASSOCIATION SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $14,000 · Community ImprovementKEEP OHIO BEAUTIFUL INC: $7,500 · Community ImprovementRAZOM INC: $1,015 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $1,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $550 · International+1 more: $50 · InternationalPROJECT HEALING WATERS FLY FISHING INC: $2,500 · Health
Philanthropy$1,102,259Other$202,528Environment$90,000Education$37,316Youth Development$35,000Community Improvement$21,500International$2,615Health$2,500

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 budgetCOLUMBUS FOUNDATION: $924,517 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF PORTAGE COUNTY INC: $177,742 over 4y, 7.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE PITTSBURGH URBAN FOREST: $90,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetNORTHERN OHIO GOLF CHARITIES INC: $50,000 over 2y, 25% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTH EAST OHIO: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLACK WOMEN LAWYERS ASSOCIATION SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $14,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetCAVALIERS YOUTH FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetKEEP OHIO BEAUTIFUL INC: $7,500 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetKENT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $6,316 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-STEVENS POINT FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPHEN F AUSTIN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGATEWAY TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMID-STATE TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPurdue Research Foundation: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT HEALING WATERS FLY FISHING INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOCKING COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetRAZOM INC: $1,015 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $550 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC: $50 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.

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.

Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA6.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Davey Company Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Davey Company Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 46%
  • Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing Inc: 46% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Davey Company Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Davey Company 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 35 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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