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Davis Family Charitable Trust at a glance

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Davis Family Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$267k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$103k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0192% 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
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $48k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $203k
$3,994
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BELMONT HILL SCHOOL$102,500
INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF B$50,000
PIONEER INSTITUTE$50,000
FRENCH LIBRARY$25,700
ST LOUIS LIFE$22,000
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO$8,777
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY$3,994
CITY ACADEMY$2,500
GATEWAY TROUT UNLIMITED$1,500
MONTANA LAND ALLIANCE$200
MICDS$100
EMMANUEL CHURCH$100
HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL$100
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 67% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BELMONT HILL SCHOOL: $103k → 8%TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $35k → 10%MONTANA LAND RELIANCE: $3k → 9%BIG SKY SKI EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%ST ANNS CHURCH OF: $5k → 28%ST LOUIS LIFE: $22k → 5%MERCY KIDS THERAPY & DEVELOPMENT: $2k → 11%ST LOUIS ZOO ASSOCIATION: $1k → 21%UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $9k → 14%PRINCETON UNIVERSITY: $4k → 11%BELMONT HILL: $50k → 8%ST ANNS CHURCH OF: $5k → 28%ST LOUIS LIFE: $11k → 5%GATEWAY TROUT UNLIMITED: $2k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $6k → 14%PRINCETON UNIVERSITY: $2k → 11%BELMONT HILL: $50k → 8%ST ANN'S CHURCH OF MORRISANIA: $3k → 28%ST LOUIS LIFE: $11k → 5%GATEWAY TROUT UNLIMITED: $2k → 11%CITY ACADEMY: $3k → 21%BELMONT HILL: $50k → 8%ST ANN'S CHURCH OF MORRISANIA: $3k → 28%BELMONT HILL: $20k → 8%NORTH SHORE COMMUNITY DEVT COALITION: $25k → 10%BELMONT HILL: $15k → 8%FRENCH LIBRARY: $26k → 16%ST LOUIS LIFE: $11k → 11%ST LOUIS LIFE: $11k → 11%INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF B: $50k → 16%ST LOUIS LIFE: $11k → 11%INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF B: $49k → 16%INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF B: $44k → 16%INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF BOSTON: $42k → 16%INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF BOSTON: $33k → 16%INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF BOSTON: $30k → 16%ST ANNE'S CHURCH: $10k → 16%INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF BOSTON: $20k → 16%TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $35k → 16%TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $26k → 16%TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $3k → 16%PIONEER INSTITUTE: $50k → 16%PIONEER INSTITUTE: $50k → 16%PIONEER INSTITUTE: $35k → 16%PIONEER INSTITUTE: $25k → 16%PIONEER INSTITUTE: $15k → 16%PIONEER INSTITUTE: $10k → 16%PIONEER INSTITUTE: $8k → 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.
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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$874k · 17 repeat orgs$173k to everyone else

17 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
6

Total granted

$874k
$43k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+83%
+102%

Still filing today

47%
17%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $131k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationEnvironmentHousing & ShelterAnimalsOther
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

  • PI
    PIONEER INSTITUTE INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $193k · revenue +117%
  • THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS
    4× · 2019–2022 · $98k · revenue +36%
  • SL
    ST LOUIS LIFE
    7× · 2019–2025 · $76k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • NS
    NORTH SHORE COMMUNITY DEVT COALITION
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • SA
    ST ANNES CHURCH
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • BS
    BIG SKY SKI EDUCATION FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +102%
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
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
3
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
4
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
5
Marine Biological Laboratory

The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…

Science & Tech
6
Mitchell Hamline School of Law

Mitchell hamline school of law is an independent law school that advances its mission through a combination of legal education, public service, and community engagement. it is dedicated to preparing students to practice law, while also…

Education
7
Vanderbilt University

See Disclosure Above.

Education
8
The Peak School

The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…

Education
9
New England Lawboston

New england law/boston dedicates itself to preparing students to be successful lawyers and leaders in the public and private sectors through integrated practical, theoretical and ethical education of the highest caliber and to contributing…

Education
10
Claremont Lincoln University

Delivers affordable, accessible, and relevant higher education programs.

Education
11
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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12
Saint Anselm College

Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Trustees of Princeton University; the most unlike its peers is Big Sky Ski Education Foundation. 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

12 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. 12 of the 26 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $185,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientINTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF B: $142,220 · OtherINTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF BINTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF BOSTON: $125,535 · OtherINTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF BOSTONFRENCH LIBRARY INC: $25,700 · OtherNORTH SHORE COMMUNITY DEVT COALITION: $25,000 · Other+11 more: $37,800 · Other+11 morePIONEER INSTITUTE INC: $192,500 · EducationPIONEER INSTITUTE INCBELMONT HILL SCHOOL INC: $102,500 · EducationBELMONT HILL SCHOOL INCUniversity of Chicago: $14,345 · Education+3 more: $10,988 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $98,000 · EnvironmentTHE TRUSTEE…THE MONTANA LAND RELIANCE: $10,100 · EnvironmentTHE MONTANA…ST LOUIS LIFE: $76,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE SAINT LOUIS ZOO ASSOCIATION: $2,000 · Animals
Other$541,255Education$320,333Environment$108,100Housing & Shelter$76,000Animals$2,000

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

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
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 PIONEER INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds BELMONT HILL SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS ↗
  • Who funds ST LOUIS LIFE ↗
  • Who funds FRENCH LIBRARY INC ↗
  • Who funds University of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds THE MONTANA LAND RELIANCE ↗
  • Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
  • Who funds BIG SKY SKI EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CITY ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE SAINT LOUIS ZOO ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds Mary Institute and St Louis Country Day School ↗

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 C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Davis Family Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Davis Family Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Reservations: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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 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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