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Davis Family Charitable Foundation Jonathan G Davis Et Al Ttee
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $57k
- $10k–50k23 grants · $482k
- $50k–250k17 grants · $1.2M
- $250k+2 grants · $525k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HEADING HOME | $275,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $250,000 |
| SAVE THE CHILDREN FEDERATION | $150,000 |
| BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY | $125,000 |
| FAMILY AID BOSTON INC | $100,000 |
| CAMBRIDGE HEALTH ALLIANCE FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER | $75,000 |
| BOSTON CHILDRENS HOSPITAL | $70,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS BOSTON | $61,272 |
| LAKE SUNAPEE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION | $60,000 |
| JVS | $60,000 |
| OUR CHILDREN'S TRUST | $50,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF MASSACHUSETTS | $50,000 |
| CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF ROXBURY | $50,000 |
| COMBINED JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES | $50,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $305k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 91% of those 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
44 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 17 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $402k 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
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC6× · 2019–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +34%
Save The Children Federation Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +21%- HHHEADING HOME INC8× · 2017–2024 · $950k · revenue +282%
Funded once
- IWINNERCITY WEIGHTLIFTING INCone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -54%
- UWUNITED WAY OF MASSone grant, 2021 · $50k
- MGMASS GENERAL HOSPITALone grant, 2018 · $40k
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 bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
Mass general brigham health plan's mission is to promote the health and wellness of our members, and to help ensure equitable, affordbale health care for the diverse communities we serve.
Bridgespan's mission is to build a better world by strengthening the ability of mission-driven organizations and philanthropists to achieve breakthrough results in addressing society's most important challenges and opportunities.
The mission of the roundtable is to make massachusetts the most desirable place to live, work and do business by engaging private sector executives and public leaders to ensure access to a robust, diverse and talented workforce that…
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Brighton marine, inc. provides military and veteran families with comprehensive campus-based quality health care, as well as affordable and supportive housing for at-risk veterans and their families.
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc and the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% 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.
73 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. 73 of the 96 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 BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds HEADING HOME INC ↗
- Who funds Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc ↗
- Who funds COOLIDGE CORNER THEATRE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILYAID BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds CAMBRIDGE HEALTH ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF ST HELENA AND CALISTOGA INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds PROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC ↗
- Who funds Boston Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds LAKE SUNAPEE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BOSTON HARBOR NOW INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS ↗
- Who funds LESLEY UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SPOONFULS ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds INNERCITY WEIGHTLIFTING INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds KIND INC ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF ROXBURY INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOTTOM LINE INC ↗
- Who funds OUR CHILDREN'S TRUST ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK 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.
Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Fidelity Foundation · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Barr Foundation · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · The Hamilton Company Charitable Foundation · Eastern Cambridge Foundation · Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return
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 Davis Family Charitable Foundation Jonathan G Davis Et Al Ttee 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- Boston Harbor Now Inc — 45% of income from government
- Jewish Vocational Service Inc — 39% of income from government
- Children's Services of Roxbury Inc — 35% of income from government
- Neighborhood Villages Inc — 33% of income from government
- Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc — 32% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Boston Medical Center Corporation — 23% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Heading Home Inc — 17% of income from government
- English for New Bostonians Inc — 11% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
- The Wang Center for the Performing Arts Inc — 10% of income from government
- Boston Community Pediatrics Inc — 10% of income from government
- Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
- Zumix Inc — 5% of income from government
- Neighborhealth Corporation — 4% of income from government
- Familyaid Boston Inc — 4% of income from government
- Greater Boston Legal Services Inc — 3% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
- Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc — 1% of income from government
- Breaktime United Inc — 1% of income from government
- Lesley University — 1% of income from government
- The Bottom Line Inc — 0% of income from government
- Emerald Necklace Conservancy Inc — 0% of income from government
- Coolidge Corner Theatre Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Boston Foundation Inc — 0% 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.