Maine · Public charity
Davis Conservation Foundation
To support the wise utilization, protection and advancement of our physical environment and the different natural forms of life that inhabit it, including wildlife, sea life and mankind as they are impacted by the environment.
- $1.5M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 62
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 61
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 36%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $1.5M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $17,050
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $181,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 51 to 66
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 7
- Total assets, FY2024
- $40M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 36% of the organizations Davis Conservation Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 35% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $354k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 61 | $1.5M | 26% |
| FY2023 | 61 | $1.0M | 36% |
| FY2022 | 66 | $979k | 36% |
| FY2021 | 56 | $753k | 43% |
| FY2020 | 53 | $665k | 47% |
| FY2019 | 52 | $668k | 65% |
| FY2018 | 56 | $627k | 100% |
| FY2017 | 51 | $610k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maine Coast Heritage Trust | $241,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Manomet Inc | $176,443 | 3 | 2% |
| Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests | $157,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Maine Center for Coastal Fisheries | $100,000 | 4 | 4% |
| Friends of Casco Bay | $100,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Northern Forest Center Inc | $100,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Upper Saco Valley Land Trust | $90,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Conservation Law Foundation Inc | $85,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Falmouth Conservation Trust Dba Falmouth Land Trust | $84,000 | 4 | 23% |
| Brunswick-Topsham Land Trust Inc | $80,000 | 3 | 2% |
Show all 249 grantees
Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($26k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Davis Conservation Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Onion Foundation · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Quimby Family Foundation · John Sage Foundation · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Morton-Kelly Charitable Trust · Fields Pond Foundation Inc · The Nature Conservancy · Momentum Conservation · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Horizon Foundation Inc · Maine Coast Heritage Trust
How this is measured
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About Davis Conservation Foundation
- How much does Davis Conservation Foundation give?
- Davis Conservation Foundation reported 62 itemized grants totaling $1,504,783, out of $1,536,283 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 51 and 66 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Davis Conservation Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (79%), Recreation & Sports (8%), Animals (5%).
- Who are Davis Conservation Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Maine Coast Heritage Trust ($241k), Manomet Inc ($176k), Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests ($157k).
- Does Davis Conservation Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Davis Conservation Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Onion Foundation, Maine Community Foundation Inc, Quimby Family Foundation.
- Where is Davis Conservation Foundation based?
- Davis Conservation Foundation is based in ME.
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