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Davis Construction Foundation

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.

$87k
Granted FY2025still arriving
23
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Health$81kEducation$28kRecreation & Sports$26kYouth Development$24kCommunity Improvement$23kPublic Safety & Disaster$22kCivil Rights$21kInternational$21kOther$0
02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k20 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
$1,800
Median grant
11
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ENGINEERS IN ACTION$20,000
WARRINGTON SOCCER CLUB$20,000
LAWS$20,000
BRIGHT MINDS FOUNDATION$1,800
ADAPTIVE FITNESS LEGION$1,800
CANINE LIFESAVERS INC$1,800
TAKE HEART$1,800
PARADISE RESCUE$1,800
PSYBRIETY$1,800
ALL FOR LUNCH$1,800
DUCKS UNLIMITED$1,800
STARS BASEBALL$1,800
THE SMITH FOUNDATION$1,000
LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY MID-ATLANTIC$1,000
PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK$1,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY22–23, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 33% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%TREE OF LIFE MINISTRIES: $1k → 4%COMFORT CASES: $1k → 8%GREATER DC DIAPER BANK: $1k → 14%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

WA
IL
NY
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CA
CO
KY
VA
MD
DC
OK
GA
FL
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 99% of Davis Construction Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 31% of the giving stays in MD; by stated purpose, 1%.

Davis Construction Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

17%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$48k · 5 repeat orgs$233k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
53

Total granted

$48k
$148k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+1%
+9%

Still filing today

100%
66%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 2% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyAnimalsOther
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

  • CY
    CITY YOUTH MATRIX
    2× · 2023–2024 · $21k · revenue +21%
  • NT
    NORTHSTAR TUTORING
    2× · 2023–2024 · $21k · revenue +1%
  • WH
    WOODLEY HOUSE INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $2k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • FA
    FRIEDREICH'S ATAXIA RESEARCH ALLIANCE
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue 0%
  • THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCHgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +124%
  • TR
    TERRA RUBRA LIONS CLUB CHARITIES INC
    one grant, 2024 · $20k
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
Foundation for Sarcoidosis Research

The foundation for sarcoidosis research (fsr) is the leading international organization dedicated to finding a cure for sarcoidosis and improving care for sarcoidosis patients through research, education, and support. since its…

Philanthropy
2
The National Fragile X Foundation

The national fragile x foundation serves the entire fragile x community to live their best lives by providing the knowledge, resources, and tools until, and even after, more effective treatments and a cure are achieved.

Health
3
Curesearch for Children's Cancer

Curesearch's mission is to fund & support targeted & innovative cancer research with measurable results, & to be the authoritative source of information & resources for all those affected by children's cancer. see schedule o for…

Health
4
Afe Foundation

We are committed to identifying the cause, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of amniotic fluid embolism and bring our information and resources to healthcare providers and impacted families through our education and support programs.We…

Health
5
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
6
Fajr Scientific

To provide multi-specialty surgical care, humanitarian aid and educational support to people in low- and middle-income countries.

Science & Tech
7
CancerFree Kids

CancerFree KIDS exists to raise awareness of the need for more funding for pediatric cancer research and to raise funds that are invested in early stage, potentially game-changing research focused on gentler treatments and cures for…

Health
8
Als One Inc

The organization is a partnership of world leaders in als research and care focused on expediting breakthrough treatments and ultimately a cure for als while providing resources and equipment to those living with the disease now. the team…

Health
9
The Arc Baltimore Inc

The arc baltimore supports people with developmental disabilities to lead fulfilling lives with a sense of belonging, purpose, and meaningful relationships.

Human Services
10
Cure Rare Disease Inc

Our mission is to enable and finance the development of life-saving genetic medicines for ultra-rare patient populations previously deemed too rare to treat. to realize this, our unique ecosystems facilitates collaboration between…

Health
11
Girls on the Run of Nova

Girls on the Run of Northern Virginia (GOTR NOVA) is a non-profit 501(c)3 Organization with a mission of inspiring girls to be joyful, healthy and confident using a fun, experience-based curriculum which creatively integrates running.

Youth Development
12
Polybio Research Foundation Inc

We are a 501(c)3 transforming how complex chronic conditions like longcovid, me/cfs & post treatment lyme disease are studied, diagnosed, and treated. polybio was founded by three scientists with complementary expertise (neuroscience,…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Girls On the Run of Montgomery County Inc; the most unlike its peers is Frederick Rugby. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

50 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. 50 of the 80 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/50
Grantees still filing
27/50
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TERRA RUBRA LIONS CLUB CHARITIES INC: $20,000 · OtherTERRA RUBRA LIONS CLUB CHARITIES INCINOVA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION LIFE WITH CANCER: $20,000 · OtherINOVA HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION LIFE WITH CANCERLAWS: $20,000 · OtherLAWSROCKVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $20,000 · OtherROCKVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT+40 more: $44,000 · Other+40 moreCITY YOUTH MATRIX: $21,000 · EducationCITY YOUTH MATRIXNORTHSTAR TUTORING: $21,000 · EducationNORTHSTAR TUTORINGENGINEERS IN ACTION INC: $20,000 · EducationENGINEERS IN ACTION INC+3 more: $3,000 · EducationFRIEDREICH'S ATAXIA RESEARCH ALLIANCE: $20,000 · HealthFRIEDREICH'S ATAXIA …THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $20,000 · HealthTHE MICHAEL J FOX FO…ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $2,000 · HealthPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $2,000 · HealthWOODLEY HOUSE INC: $2,000 · Health+6 more: $6,000 · Health+6 moreWARRINGTON SOCCER CLUB INC: $20,000 · Recreation & SportsWARRINGTON…STARS BASEBALL INC: $1,800 · Recreation & SportsSTARS BASE…ADAPTIVE FITNESS LEGION: $1,800 · Recreation & SportsADAPTIVE F…FREDERICK RUGBY: $1,000 · Recreation & SportsBALTIMORE AREA SPECIAL HOCKEY: $1,000 · Recreation & SportsGIRLS ON THE RUN OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY INC: $1,000 · Recreation & SportsNo One Left Behind: $1,000 · Human ServicesGIVEDIRECTLY INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesCOMFORT CASES INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesTHE SAFE CHILDREN FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Human ServicesGREATER DC DIAPER BANK: $1,000 · Human ServicesTOL Ministries Inc: $1,000 · Human ServicesAll for Lunch Inc: $1,800 · PhilanthropyKIDS CHANCE OF MARYLAND INC: $1,000 · PhilanthropyDRAVET SYNDROME FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · PhilanthropyTHE FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $1,000 · PhilanthropyCANINE LIFESAVERS INC: $1,800 · AnimalsWASHINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY: $1,000 · AnimalsTHE SENIOR DOG SANCTUARY: $1,000 · Animals
Other$124,000Education$65,000Health$52,000Recreation & Sports$26,600Human Services$6,000Philanthropy$4,800Animals$3,800

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCITY YOUTH MATRIX: $21,000 over 2y, 8.8% of budgetNORTHSTAR TUTORING: $21,000 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetFRIEDREICH'S ATAXIA RESEARCH ALLIANCE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWARRINGTON SOCCER CLUB INC: $20,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOODLEY HOUSE INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAll for Lunch Inc: $1,800 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTAKE HEART INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetADAPTIVE FITNESS LEGION: $1,800 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTALISMAN THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FORKLIFT: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEROES Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNo One Left Behind: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALPHA-1 FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFREDERICK RUGBY: $1,000 over 1y, 74% of budgetGRASSROOTS HEALTH: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRULING OUR EXPERIENCES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKenneth Dorsey Jr Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetWASHINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIVEDIRECTLY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA PLACE TO BE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMFORT CASES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS CHANCE OF MARYLAND INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAUTISM SPEAKS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SENIOR DOG SANCTUARY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetABC CRAFTMASTERS TRAINING TRUST: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEMERGE GLOBAL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SAFE CHILDREN FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKAMRYN LAMBERT FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetDRAVET SYNDROME FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Law Enforcement and Firefighters Childrens Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROCKVILLE SCIENCE CENTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSILVER SPRING NURSERY SCHOOL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGREATER DC DIAPER BANK: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTOL Ministries Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIVE KIDS THE WORLD INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBALTIMORE AREA SPECIAL HOCKEY: $1,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALEXS LEMONADE STAND FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEADFAST STANDING FIRM AGAINST YOUTH HOMELESSNESS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBORDER KINDNESS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetQUEER WOMEN OF ESPORTS: $1,000 over 1y, 1.1% 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.

Greater Washington Co…Duke Energy FoundationVerizon FoundationJpmorgan Chase Founda…American Online Givin…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Paypal Charitable Giv…Morgan Stanley Global…Network for GoodThe Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…
Greater Washington Community FoundationDC16.4× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Washington Community Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Verizon Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 120%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 25%
  • Talisman Therapeutic Riding Inc: 25% of income from government
  • Comfort Cases Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
12get no government money at all
10report 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.

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 80 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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