· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k81 grants · $226k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $92k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $201k
- $250k+1 grant · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE CITADEL | $500,000 |
| GREENWOOD FIRST ARP CHURCH | $85,000 |
| CLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $66,000 |
| CONNIE MAXWELL CHILDRENS HOME | $50,000 |
| MT HOREB CHURCH | $24,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $17,500 |
| BEAUFORT MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $10,800 |
| WATER MISSION INTERNATIONAL | $10,123 |
| HARRY R E HAMPTON MEMORIAL WILDLIFE FUND INC | $10,000 |
| SOUTHEASTERN WILDLIFE EXPOSITION INC | $10,000 |
| THE PARISH CHURCH OF ST HELENA | $10,000 |
| SELF REGIONAL MID-WINTER BALL | $7,500 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS - PIEDMONT AGENCY ON AGING | $7,500 |
| HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE OF THE PIEDMONT | $7,500 |
| LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK | $6,100 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $124k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 81% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
102 repeat relationships — 73 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $62k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CUCLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION7× · 2018–2024 · $261k · revenue +118%
THE CITADEL FOUNDATION3× · 2018–2021 · $90k · revenue +89%- CMConnie Maxwell Children's Ministries7× · 2018–2024 · $60k · revenue +87%
Funded once
- ACARP CHURCHone grant, 2018 · $20k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $10k
- BTBATTLEFIELD TRUSTone grant, 2019 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The greenwood genetic center is a nonprofit institute centered on clinical genetic services, diagnostic laboratory testing, educational programs and resources, and research. with a focus on compassionate patient care and innovative…
Enhancing the quality of life for all south carolinians, achieving global competiteveness and ultimately increasing prosperity for sc citizens.
Providing leadership to enhance the quality of life in greenwood through strategic long-term vision and collaborative community development initiatives.
Charleston waterkeeper's mission it to protect and restore charleston's waterways for our community and future generations. we do that through an effective mix of boots-on-the-water stewardship and data-driven advocacy designed to protect…
Conway hospital community services provides outpatient health care services to horry county and the surrounding community in conjunction with conway hospital, inc., a non-profit acute care hospital system.
To provide South Carolinians an opportunity to advance their leadership skills while broadening their understanding of issues and opportunities facing the State.
To strengthen families, organizations, and communities to prevent child abuse and neglect.
The purpose of the university health systems of eastern carolina foundation (dba ecu health foundation), a non-profit corporation, is to give hope to eastern north carolina and beyond by inspiring philanthropy to improve health, education,…
The south carolina council on competitiveness is a nonpartisan, business-led non-profit organization committed to advancing the long term competitiveness of south carolina through actionable research, support of industry clusters and…
Promoting and protecting the free private and competitive enterprise system through research and education.
The conway hospital foundation is a not-for-profit corporation established in 1988 as a charitable organization to provide support to conway hospital in its effort to fullfill its mission and goals. (see schedule o) description of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Sc Inc and the most unlike its peers is Richland Creek Top Guns. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
108 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 108 of the 192 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds CLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CITADEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Connie Maxwell Children's Ministries ↗
- Who funds American Battlefield Trust ↗
- Who funds LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE OF THE PIEDMONT INC ↗
- Who funds UPPER SAVANNAH LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC CHARLESTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE HOUSE OF GREENVILLE ↗
- Who funds GREENWOOD PERFORMING ARTS INC SANDERS ↗
- Who funds THE MUSEUM - GREENWOOD SC ↗
- Who funds LEAD COLLECTIVE INCCHA ↗
- Who funds GREENWOOD COMMUNITY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREENVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds HARRY HAMPTON WILDLIFE MEMORIAL FUND ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF GREENVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds HARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds One-Eighty Place ↗
- Who funds GREENWOOD PATHWAY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds FAITH HOME INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREENVILLE COUNTY SC INC ↗
- Who funds EPWORTH CHILDREN'S HOME ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Central Carolina Community Foundation · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Countybank Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · Sisters of Charity Foundation of South Carolina · First Citizens Foundation Inc Co First · The Self Foundation · The Leon Levine Foundation · Henry & Sylvia Yaschik Foundation Inc · The Joanna Foundation · Dabo's All in Team Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
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.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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.
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