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Davis Family Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$267k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
13
Grants FY2025
10
Organizations funded FY2024
30%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$3,994
Largest grant, FY2025
$102,500
Organizations funded a year
9 to 15
FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$1.0M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 30% of the organizations Davis Family Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving13$267k23%
FY202410$102k30%
FY20239$157k11%
FY202210$133k10%
FY202111$161k18%
FY202012$110k8%
FY201915$115kn/a
92% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$588kEnvironment$108kHealth$78kReligion$26kArts & Culture$26kCommunity Improvement$25kAnimals$5kRecreation & Sports$5kOther$0

Top grantees

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

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Pioneer Institute Inc$192,50071%
Belmont Hill School Inc$102,50010%
The Trustees of Reservations$98,00040%
St Louis Life$76,00071%
French Library Inc$25,70011%
University of Chicago$14,34520%
The Montana Land Reliance$10,10070%
St Annes Church$10,0001n/a
The Trustees of Princeton University$8,08840%
Big Sky Ski Education Foundation$5,00011%
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All grantees of Davis Family Charitable Trust by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Pioneer Institute Inc$192,50071%
Belmont Hill School Inc$102,50010%
The Trustees of Reservations$98,00040%
St Louis Life$76,00071%
French Library Inc$25,70011%
University of Chicago$14,34520%
The Montana Land Reliance$10,10070%
St Annes Church$10,0001n/a
The Trustees of Princeton University$8,08840%
Big Sky Ski Education Foundation$5,00011%
City Academy Inc$2,50010%
The Saint Louis Zoo Association$2,00020%
Mary Institute and St Louis Country Day School$40040%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($501k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPioneer Institute Inc: $192,500 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetBelmont Hill School Inc: $102,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Trustees of Reservations: $98,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSt Louis Life: $76,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetFrench Library Inc: $25,700 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $14,345 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Montana Land Reliance: $10,100 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $8,088 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBig Sky Ski Education Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCity Academy Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Saint Louis Zoo Association: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMary Institute and St Louis Country Day School: $400 over 4y, 0.0% of budget

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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 12.

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.

The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC8.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Family Charitable Trust

How much does Davis Family Charitable Trust give?
Davis Family Charitable Trust reported 13 grants totaling $267,471 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 15 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does Davis Family Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (56%), Environment (10%), Health (7%).
Who are Davis Family Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Pioneer Institute Inc ($193k), Belmont Hill School Inc ($103k), The Trustees of Reservations ($98k).
Does Davis Family Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Davis Family Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Davis Family Charitable Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Davis Family Charitable Trust based?
Davis Family Charitable Trust is based in MO.

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 26 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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