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Davis Family 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.

$6k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$33kCivil Rights$15kHuman Services$7kPublic Benefit$4kRecreation & Sports$3kEducation$3kArts & Culture$1kHealth$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$188k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM$1,900
BAPTIST MID-MISSIONS$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
EL CAMINO BAPTIST CHURCH$1,000
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$800
SOUTHERN ARIZONA ADAPTIVE SPORTS$450
St Jude Children's Research Hospital$200
CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST (CRU)$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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–22, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Family Research Council: $1k → 14%Foster Forward: $200 → 14%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $1k → 14%Family Research Council: $1k → 14%Family Research Council: $200 → 14%Family Research Council: $200 → 14%ANSWERS FOR LIFE PREGNANCY CENTER: $700 → 15%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

IL
NY
MA
SD
OH
PA
RI
CA
CO
VA
AZ
TN
DC
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$66k · 15 repeat orgs$5k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +63% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.

15 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
10

Total granted

$66k
$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+63%
+26%

Still filing today

53%
30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthCivil RightsReligionPublic BenefitRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM
    8× · 2018–2025 · $15k · revenue +117%
  • THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2022 · $4k · revenue +63%
  • FR
    FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL
    5× · 2017–2022 · $3k · revenue +63%

Funded once

  • TS
    The Salvation Army
    one grant, 2018 · $1k
  • FB
    FOOTHILLS BIBLE CHURCH
    one grant, 2017 · $910
  • AF
    Answers For Life
    one grant, 2017 · $700 · revenue +21%
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
Shield of Faith Missions

Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.

Religion
2
Arizona Ecumenical Council

Arizona Ecumenical Council dba Arizona Faith Network invites people into meaningful relationships, shared prayer and dialogue rooted in our faith traditions, and actions that influence public awareness, engagement and policy.

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3
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International
4
Arizona Community Foundation

To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.

Philanthropy
5
Arizona Family Health Partnership

To make sexual and reproductive healthcare accessible to everyone

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6
Faith in Public Life Inc

Faith in public life's mission is to advance the moral imperative for a just, inclusive and equitable country that allows each of us to live into our full humanity. we do this by building power and cultures of belongings among diverse…

Religion
7
Tucson Interfaith Hivaids Network

Tucson Interfaith HIV/AIDS Network offers a compassionate interfaith response to HIV/AIDS, helping people with HIV to live well.

Health
8
Alliance for Transformational Ministry

Enable christian organizations worldwide to initiate and strenghten ministries that lead people to become followers of jesus and transform communities out of cycles of poverty and disease.

Religion
9
Interfaith Works

Social justice and peace through interfaith understanding and cooperation.

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10
Advocates for Faith and Freedom

Organized for religious purposes to promote the gospel of jesus christ by protecting, defending and advocating religious civil liberties

Crime & Legal
11
International Leadership Institute

The international leadership institute (ili) changes history by accelerating the spread of the gospel through training and mobilizing leaders of leaders to reach their nations. ili accomplishes this purpose through cutting edge leadership…

Religion
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Answers for Life. 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
10/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EL CAMINO BAPTIST CHURCH A CORPORATION: $13,160 · OtherEL CAMINO BAPTIST CHURCH A CORPORATIONBAPTIST MID-MISSIONS: $8,660 · OtherBAPTIST MID-MISSIONSIndividual grant recipient: $1,900 · OtherIndividual grant recipientInterfaith Community Services: $1,850 · OtherInterfaith Community ServicesTHE NAVIGATORS: $1,400 · OtherABWE International Inc: $1,200 · Other+10 more: $5,231 · Other+10 moreALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM: $14,985 · Civil RightsALLIANCE DEFENDING FREED…4 TUCSON INC: $8,050 · Religion4 TUCSON INCFAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $3,400 · Human ServicesAnswers For Life: $700 · Human ServicesFOSTER FORWARD: $200 · Human ServicesTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $3,600 · Public BenefitSOUTHERN ARIZONA ADAPTIVE SPORTS: $2,965 · Recreation & SportsSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $2,608 · EducationLEUKEMIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $300 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $200 · Health
Other$33,401Civil Rights$14,985Religion$8,050Human Services$4,300Public Benefit$3,600Recreation & Sports$2,965Education$2,608Health$500

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 budgetALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM: $14,985 over 8y, 0.0% of budget4 TUCSON INC: $8,050 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $3,600 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $3,400 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN ARIZONA ADAPTIVE SPORTS: $2,965 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $2,608 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetInterfaith Community Services: $1,850 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetInterfaith Community Services Inc: $430 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEUKEMIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOSTER FORWARD: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $200 over 1y, 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 ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗
  • Who funds 4 TUCSON INC ↗
  • Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN ARIZONA ADAPTIVE SPORTS ↗
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Interfaith Community Services ↗
  • Who funds Answers For Life ↗
  • Who funds Interfaith Community Services Inc ↗
  • Who funds LEUKEMIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FOSTER FORWARD ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL 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.

The Hs Lopez Family FoundationAZ13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Hs Lopez Family Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Davis Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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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