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Davis Family Charitable Foundation Jonathan G Davis Et Al Ttee at a glance

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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.

$2.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
56
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$275k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Youth Development$3.5MEducation$2.4MHousing & Shelter$1.5MInternational$1.4MHealth$1.3MPhilanthropy$1.1MArts & Culture$593kEnvironment$560kOther$0
02FY2024 · 56 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k14 grants · $57k
  • $10k–50k23 grants · $482k
  • $50k–250k17 grants · $1.2M
  • $250k+2 grants · $525k
$25,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$37M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%PRIME COALITION INC: $25k → 8%PINE STREET INN: $100k → 16%JCC GREATER BOSTON: $3k → 8%PINE STREET INN: $50k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $50k → 16%MASS HOUSING & SHELTER ALLIANCE: $5k → 16%MASS HOUSING & SHELTER ALLIANCE: $5k → 16%THE MADARO FAMILY COMMUNITY FUND: $3k → 16%SOCIAL INNOVATION FORUM: $5k → 16%SOCIAL INNOVATION FORUM: $5k → 16%SOCIAL INNOVATION FORUM: $5k → 16%CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF ROXBURY: $50k → 16%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

NH
IL
NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MD
DC
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12M · 44 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +7% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
31

Total granted

$12M
$620k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+7%

Still filing today

80%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $402k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentHealthEducationHuman ServicesInternationalArts & CultureOther
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

  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +34%
  • Save The Children Federation Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +21%
  • HH
    HEADING HOME INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $950k · revenue +282%

Funded once

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF MASS
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • IW
    INNERCITY WEIGHTLIFTING INC
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -54%
  • MG
    MASS GENERAL HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2018 · $40k
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
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
3
Trustees of Boston University

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.…

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4
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
5
Mass General Brigham Health Plan Inc

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.

Health
6
The Bridgespan Group Inc

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.

Community Improvement
7
Massachusetts Business Roundtable Inc

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…

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8
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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9
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
10
Brighton Marine Inc

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.

Health
11
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

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…

Education
12
University of New Haven

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

73 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. 73 of the 96 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
73/73
Grantees still filing
51/73
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $1,930,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBOYS & GIRLS CLUB BOSTON: $850,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUB BOSTONBOSTON CHILDRENS HOSPITAL: $521,500 · OtherBOSTON CHILDRENS HOSPITALBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF MASSACHUSETTS: $400,000 · OtherFAMILYAID BOSTON INC: $375,000 · OtherJEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE INC: $365,000 · Other+64 more: $3,134,500 · Other+64 moreBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC: $2,026,272 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CL…BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF ST HELENA AND CALISTOGA INC: $180,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CL…BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $1,900,000 · EducationBRANDEIS UNIVE…+8 more: $160,500 · Education+8 moreSave The Children Federation Inc: $1,303,500 · InternationalSave The C…+5 more: $107,000 · International+5 moreCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc: $878,500 · PhilanthropyBoston Foundation Inc: $130,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $20,000 · PhilanthropyHEADING HOME INC: $950,000 · Housing & ShelterCOOLIDGE CORNER THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $575,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $28,334 · Arts & Culture
Other$7,576,000Youth Development$2,206,272Education$2,060,500International$1,410,500Philanthropy$1,028,500Housing & Shelter$950,000Arts & Culture$603,334

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC: $2,026,272 over 6y, 4.1% of budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $1,900,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $1,303,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHEADING HOME INC: $950,000 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc: $878,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCOOLIDGE CORNER THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $575,000 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetFAMILYAID BOSTON INC: $375,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetJEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE INC: $365,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetCAMBRIDGE HEALTH ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC: $235,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetPINE STREET INN INC: $200,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF ST HELENA AND CALISTOGA INC: $180,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION: $175,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC: $150,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBoston Foundation Inc: $130,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE SUNAPEE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION: $120,000 over 7y, 2.3% of budgetBOSTON HARBOR NOW INC: $100,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $90,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLESLEY UNIVERSITY: $87,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSPOONFULS: $75,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC: $70,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $50,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOUR CHILDREN'S TRUST: $50,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetINNERCITY WEIGHTLIFTING INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetKIND INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER BOSTON LEGAL SERVICES INC: $50,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOTTOM LINE INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S SERVICES OF ROXBURY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEMERSON HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetThe Partnership Project Inc: $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAUSBON SARGENT LAND PRESERVATION TRUST: $40,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetHIAS INC: $33,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $33,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEMERALD NECKLACE CONSERVANCY INC: $33,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPARK SCHOOL CORPORATION: $30,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetIRCS CENTER FOR ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNEIGHBORHEALTH CORPORATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENGLISH FOR NEW BOSTONIANS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPRIME COALITION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEmerald Cities Collaborative Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUrban College Of Boston: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBOSTON COMMUNITY PEDIATRICS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWESTOVER SCHOOL INC: $21,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD VILLAGES INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $20,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKLINE COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC DBA THE BROOKLINE CENTER: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • 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 OUR CHILDREN'S TRUST ↗
  • Who funds INNERCITY WEIGHTLIFTING INC ↗
  • Who funds KIND INC ↗
  • Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER BOSTON LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BOTTOM LINE INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF ROXBURY INC ↗
  • Who funds EMERSON HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC ↗

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.

Boston Foundation IncEastern Bank Foundati…Combined Jewish Phila…Liberty Mutual Founda…Fidelity FoundationHighland Street Conne…Cummings Foundation G…Barr FoundationUnited Way Of Massach…The Hamilton Company …Eastern Cambridge Fou…Mass General Brigham …
Boston Foundation IncMA48.3× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Family Charitable Foundation Jonathan G Davis Et Al Ttee funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Davis Family Charitable Foundation Jonathan G Davis Et Al Ttee. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 160%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
16get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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 96 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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The unnamed billions
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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