How much does Davis Charitable Trust give?

Davis Charitable Trust reported 10 grants totaling $3,769,830 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 10 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.

What does Davis Charitable Trust fund?

By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (46%), Education (45%), Public Safety & Disaster (3%).

Who are Davis Charitable Trust's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: University of Texas System Medical Foundation ($2.0M), University of Oklahoma Foundation Inc ($2.0M), American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ($149k).

Does Davis Charitable Trust fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Davis Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Davis Charitable Trust?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Shell USA Company Foundation, The Moody Foundation, United Way Worldwide.

Where is Davis Charitable Trust based?

Davis Charitable Trust is based in TX.

Foundation Dossiers

Texas · Private foundation

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.

$3.8M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 10
Grants FY2025: 10
Organizations funded FY2024: 20%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $612
Largest grant, FY2025: $1,882,620
Organizations funded a year: 9 to 10; FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 3
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 20% of the organizations Davis Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 40% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $134k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

PhilanthropyEducationOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	10	$3.8M	0%
FY2024	10	$336k	20%
FY2023	9	$91k	33%
FY2022	10	$67k	10%
FY2021	9	$76k	0%
FY2020	9	$149k	0%
FY2019	9	$120k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Health$2.1MEducation$2.1MPublic Safety & Disaster$149kReligion$131kPhilanthropy$72kHuman Services$60kFood & Nutrition$6k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
University of Texas System Medical Foundation	$2,015,166	3	n/a
University of Oklahoma Foundation Inc	$2,005,907	2	0%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches	$149,274	7	0%
University United Methodist Church	$90,619	4	n/a
Shivers Cancer Foundation	$61,365	7	2%
Austin Community College Foundation	$58,052	7	1%
Utmd Anderson	$19,412	4	n/a
Alzheimers Texas Inc	$11,401	4	1%
United Way for Greater Austin	$11,279	2	0%
Capital Area United Way	$10,944	1	0%

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All grantees of Davis Charitable Trust by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
University of Texas System Medical Foundation	$2,015,166	3	n/a
University of Oklahoma Foundation Inc	$2,005,907	2	0%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches	$149,274	7	0%
University United Methodist Church	$90,619	4	n/a
Shivers Cancer Foundation	$61,365	7	2%
Austin Community College Foundation	$58,052	7	1%
Utmd Anderson	$19,412	4	n/a
Alzheimers Texas Inc	$11,401	4	1%
United Way for Greater Austin	$11,279	2	0%
Capital Area United Way	$10,944	1	0%
Meals on Wheels and More Inc	$5,970	7	0%

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($170k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Davis Charitable Trust supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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.

Shell USA Company FoundationTX15.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Shell USA Company Foundation · The Moody Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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.

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About Davis Charitable Trust

How much does Davis Charitable Trust give?: Davis Charitable Trust reported 10 grants totaling $3,769,830 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 10 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does Davis Charitable Trust fund?: By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (46%), Education (45%), Public Safety & Disaster (3%).
Who are Davis Charitable Trust's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: University of Texas System Medical Foundation ($2.0M), University of Oklahoma Foundation Inc ($2.0M), American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ($149k).
Does Davis Charitable Trust fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Davis Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Davis Charitable Trust?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Shell USA Company Foundation, The Moody Foundation, United Way Worldwide.
Where is Davis Charitable Trust based?: Davis Charitable Trust is based in TX.