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Davis Family Foundation Inc

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.

$39k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What you fund
0190% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192024.

Education$104kScience & Tech$11kArts & Culture$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 14 grants below total $26,200 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $38,700 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $12,500 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

$2,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$63k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Kennesaw State University Foundation Inc$2,200
Louisiana State University$2,000
University of Kansas$2,000
Clemson University Foundation$2,000
Agnes Scott College$2,000
Campbell University$2,000
University of North Carolina Foundation Inc$2,000
Spelman College$2,000
Georgia State University Foundation$2,000
Kennesaw State University Foundation Inc$2,000
Georgia Institute of Technology$2,000
Clemson University Foundation$1,500
Georgia State University Foundation$1,500
Ohio University Foundation$1,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 91% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%See Attached List: $35k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS: $1k → 22%TRUSTEES OF GRINNELL COLLEGE: $2k → 9%NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $2k → 8%GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $2k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION: $2k → 27%HAMPTON UNIVERSITY: $2k → 14%TRUSTEES OF GRINNELL COLLEGE: $2k → 9%GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $2k → 13%HAMPTON UNIVERSITY: $2k → 14%GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $2k → 13%HAMPTON UNIVERSITY: $2k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$80k · 12 repeat orgs$37k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
13

Total granted

$80k
$31k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+46%

Still filing today

75%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

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

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

  • GS
    Georgia State University Foundation Inc
    4× · 2021–2024 · $18k · revenue +77%
  • CU
    CLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $9k · revenue +48%
  • The Ohio University Foundation
    3× · 2022–2024 · $6k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • RM
    ROBERT MORRIS UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · $9k · revenue +5%
  • HU
    HAMPTON UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • AC
    Allegheny County Community College
    one grant, 2022 · $2k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
2
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
3
University of the South

The College of Arts and Sciences is committed to the development of the whole person through a liberal arts education of the highest quality. The School of Theology educates women and men to serve the broad whole of the Episcopal Church in…

Education
4
George Fox University

George fox university, a christ centered community, prepares students spiritually, academically, and professionally to think with clarity, act with integrity, and serve with passion.

Education
5
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
6
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
7
Trinity University

Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.

Education
8
Columbia College

Columbia college provides educational opportunities that develop students' capacity for critical thought and expression, life-long learning, acceptance of personal responsibilty, and commitment to service and social justice.

Education
9
Manhattan University

Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…

Education
10
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
11
Greenville College

Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.

Education
12
Wingate University

The mission of wingate university is to develop educated, ethical, and productive global citizens. following its judeo-christian heritage, the university seeks to cultivate the following in its students: knowledge, faith, and service.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgia State University Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Trustees of Grinnell College. 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

15 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 27 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
11/15
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Georgia State University Foundation Inc — $17,500 · EducationGeorgia State University Foundation IncCLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $9,000 · EducationCLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONThe Ohio University Foundation — $6,000 · EducationThe Ohio University FoundationXAVIER UNIVERSITY — $6,000 · EducationXAVIER UNIVERSITYSpelman College — $6,000 · EducationSpelman CollegeTHE TRUSTEES OF GRINNELL COLLEGE — $4,500 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF GRINNELL COLLEGEKENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $4,200 · EducationKENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCCAMPBELL UNIVERSITY — $4,000 · EducationCAMPBELL UNIVERSITY+5 more — $8,500 · Education+5 moreGEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY — $11,000 · OtherGEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYROBERT MORRIS UNIVERSITY — $8,655 · OtherROBERT MORRIS UNIVERSITYAgnes Scott College — $6,000 · OtherAgnes Scott CollegeHAMPTON UNIVERSITY — $4,500 · OtherHAMPTON UNIVERSITYLouisiana State University — $4,000 · OtherLouisiana State UniversityUniversity of Kansas — $4,000 · OtherUniversity of KansasAllegheny County Community College — $2,000 · OtherThe Faculty Club of Louisiana State University — $2,000 · Other+6 more — $9,000 · Other+6 more
Education$65,700Other$51,155

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGeorgia State University Foundation Inc — $17,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetROBERT MORRIS UNIVERSITY — $8,655 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Ohio University Foundation — $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAgnes Scott College — $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetXAVIER UNIVERSITY — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSpelman College — $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF GRINNELL COLLEGE — $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $4,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMPBELL UNIVERSITY — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOREHOUSE COLLEGE — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Davis Family Foundation Inc 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Davis Family Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Davis Family Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 27 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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