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Davis Love III 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.

$810k
Granted FY2025still arriving
32
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$102k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$1.3MHuman Services$1.3MEducation$1.3MYouth Development$1.0MReligion$439kHousing & Shelter$375kHealth$355kPhilanthropy$255kOther$0
02FY2025 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k22 grants · $367k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $417k
$10,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$7.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Boys & Girls Club of Southeast Georgia$102,190
Communities in Schools of Glynn County$76,807
Saint Simons Christian School Inc$70,801
First Tee of the Golden Isles$62,168
Coast Guard Fndn$55,000
Frederica Academy$50,000
SOAR$39,682
Individual grant recipient$37,000
Safe Harbor Childrens Center$35,717
ASGCA Foundation$30,000
Special Olympics Inc$25,000
Southeast GA Health System$20,000
Glynn Academy PTSA$19,303
Oglethorpe Point Elementary PTA$15,661
Under the Roof$15,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $279k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 80% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Veterans Airlift Command: $10k → 11%The Aubri Brown Club: $10k → 8%Under the Roof: $15k → 9%Ferst Readers: $1k → 11%Blessings in a Backpack: $5k → 15%Veterans Airlift Command: $10k → 11%The Aubri Brown Club: $10k → 8%Ferst Readers: $637 → 11%The Aubri Brown Club: $10k → 8%The Aubri Brown Club: $10k → 8%Hospice of the Golden Isles: $12k → 14%Hospice of the Golden Isles: $11k → 14%Hospice of the Golden Isles: $4k → 14%Hospice of the Golden Isles: $4k → 14%Hospice of the Golden Isles: $3k → 14%Hospice of the Golden Isles: $3k → 14%Hospice of the Golden Isles: $2k → 14%Hospice of the Golden Isles: $1k → 14%Coastal Coalition for Children Inc: $20k → 14%Hope 1312 Collective: $20k → 14%Hope 1312 Collective: $10k → 14%Hope 1312 Collective: $10k → 14%Foster Love Ministries: $2k → 14%Foster Love Ministries: $2k → 14%Foster Love Ministries: $2k → 14%Foster Love Ministries: $987 → 14%Coastal Coalition for Children Inc: $592 → 14%Adoption-Share Inc: $548 → 14%Foster Love Ministries: $353 → 14%Coastal Coalition for Children Inc: $145 → 14%The Remedy Project: $50k → 14%The Remedy Project: $10k → 14%The Remedy Project: $9k → 14%House of Hope Refuge of Love: $7k → 14%The Remedy Project: $5k → 14%The Remedy Project: $4k → 14%The Remedy Project: $4k → 14%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

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ID
MN
IL
NY
IA
CT
CA
UT
MO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
AL
GA
TX
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.1M · 84 repeat orgs$706k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.

84 repeat relationships: 27 still active in FY2025, 57 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

84
84

Total granted

$7.1M
$631k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+20%

Still filing today

57%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k 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 ServicesPhilanthropyEducationRecreation & SportsHealthYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SOUTHEAST GEORGIA INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $874k · revenue +36%
  • CI
    Communities in Schools of Glynn County Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $522k · revenue +156%
  • RM
    RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE COASTAL EMPIREINC
    5× · 2019–2024 · $359k · revenue +225%

Funded once

  • SS
    St Simons Island Athletic Assoc
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
  • RM
    Ronald McDonald House Charities
    one grant, 2023 · $68k
  • HI
    HAND IN HAND OF GLYNN INC
    one grant, 2020 · $35k · revenue -51%
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
Girls on the Run Georgia Inc

Girls on the Run Georgia empowers girls with vital social-emotional skills to help them succeed in school, at home, and within friendships. Our programs, Girls on the Run (3rd-5th grade) and Heart & Sole (6th-8th grade) are taught by…

Youth Development
2
Goodwill of the Coastal Empire Inc

Our commitment is to provide the individual support, meaningful training and employment services to people to remove barriers and close skill gaps so that individuals build brighter futures.

Employment
3
Grace House of Brunswick Inc

To provide any woman the opportunity of recovery from addiction.

Human Services
4
Georgia Alliance for Breast Cancer F/K/a It's the Journey

Georgia alliance for breast cancer mission is to engage with georgia's breast cancer community to increase access to care and reduce disparities in cancer outcomes.

Health
5
Gsga Foundation Inc

Provide educational opportunities for employees, or children of employees, of gsga member clubs, through the yates scholarship program and for young people who are in the study of turfgrass and agronomy at the university of georgia and…

Recreation & Sports
6
Georgia Court Appointed Special Advocates Inc

Georgia Court Appointed Special Advocates, Inc. (the Organization) is a nonprofit organization which strengthens and supports court-sanctioned, affiliate CASA programs that empower community volunteers who advocate for abused or neglected…

Civil Rights
7
The Georgia Center for Nonprofits

Our mission is to create thriving communities by helping nonprofits succeed. our work revolves around four primary areas of focus.1. we are a hub for social innovation 2. we are a capacity accelerator for organizations and their people3.…

Community Improvement
8
Georgia Agape Inc

The organization offers social services as a compassionate outreach to abused, neglected and dependent children and families in need. the organization strives to positively impact the lives of children, families and all those who receive…

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9
Enable of Georgia Inc

Supporting people with special needs to lead fulfilled lives.

Housing & Shelter
10
Georgia Charter Schools Inc

Operation of charter school and related support services.

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11
Georgia State Golf Association

Promotion of game/rules of golf throughout the state of georgia

Recreation & Sports
12
Georgia Section Pga of America Inc

To promote the enjoyment & involvement in the game of golf and to contribute to the growth of the golf professional and the golf industry. the georgia section will accomplish this mission by enhancing the skills of the golf professionals…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of the Coastal Empire; the most unlike its peers is The Harris English Foundation Inc. 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

85 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 85 of the 173 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
80/85
Grantees still filing
58/85
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

First Tee of the Golden Isles: $478,347 · OtherFirst Tee of the Golden IslesRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE COASTAL EMPIREINC: $358,698 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE COASTAL EMPIREINCIndividual grant recipient: $276,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientST SIMONS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $230,000 · OtherSOAR: $224,553 · OtherSafe Harbor Childrens Shelter Inc: $207,769 · OtherSoutheast GA Health System: $180,857 · OtherST SIMONS LAND TRUST INC: $180,000 · Other+118 more: $2,213,500 · Other+118 moreCommunities in Schools of Glynn County Inc: $521,543 · EducationCommunities in S…SAINT SIMONS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $256,489 · EducationSAINT SIMONS CHR…FREDERICA ACADEMY INC: $160,000 · EducationFREDERICA ACADEM…THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION: $60,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY O…FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $55,000 · Education+3 more: $50,000 · EducationBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SOUTHEAST GEORGIA INC: $873,876 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS …+3 more: $34,125 · Youth DevelopmentCollege Golf Fellowship: $270,000 · ReligionTHE GATHERING PLACE INC: $173,261 · Religion+2 more: $8,797 · ReligionSafe Harbor Center Inc: $96,323 · Human ServicesTHE REMEDY PROJECT: $81,990 · Human ServicesHOPE 1312 COLLECTIVE INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesTHE AUBRI BROWN CLUB: $40,000 · Human ServicesHOSPICE OF THE GOLDEN ISLES INC: $39,571 · Human ServicesCOASTAL COALITION FOR CHILDREN INC: $20,737 · Human ServicesVETERANS AIRLIFT COMMAND: $20,000 · Human ServicesUNDER ONE ROOF INC: $15,000 · Human Services+6 more: $22,187 · Human ServicesSUNS FOUNDATION INC: $152,000 · PhilanthropyTHE FIREBOX INITIATIVE INC SAPP: $65,300 · PhilanthropyTHE GLOBAL ORPHAN PROJECT INC: $50,000 · PhilanthropyTHE BRUNSWICK-GOLDEN ISLES CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · Philanthropy+6 more: $39,196 · PhilanthropySPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $262,500 · Recreation & SportsGOLDEN ISLES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $13,500 · Recreation & Sports+5 more: $17,750 · Recreation & Sports
Other$4,350,224Education$1,103,032Youth Development$908,001Religion$452,058Human Services$375,808Philanthropy$326,496Recreation & Sports$293,750

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SOUTHEAST GEORGIA INC: $873,876 over 9y, 3.9% of budgetCommunities in Schools of Glynn County Inc: $521,543 over 9y, 9.2% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE COASTAL EMPIREINC: $358,698 over 5y, 6.5% of budgetCollege Golf Fellowship: $270,000 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $262,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT SIMONS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $256,489 over 9y, 5.1% of budgetST SIMONS LAND TRUST INC: $180,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetTHE GATHERING PLACE INC: $173,261 over 8y, 4.7% of budgetFREDERICA ACADEMY INC: $160,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetGEORGIA PGA FOUNDATION INC: $114,397 over 7y, 18% of budgetCOAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC: $105,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSafe Harbor Center Inc: $96,323 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTHE REMEDY PROJECT: $81,990 over 6y, 24% of budgetAMERICA'S SECOND HARVEST OF COASTAL GEORGIA INC: $80,039 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetJUNIOR LEAGUE OF THE GOLDEN ISLES INC: $71,070 over 7y, 42% of budgetTHE FIREBOX INITIATIVE INC SAPP: $65,300 over 5y, 20% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $55,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCARROLL COUNTY CASA INC: $50,000 over 5y, 4.2% of budgetTHE GLOBAL ORPHAN PROJECT INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $41,005 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE 1312 COLLECTIVE INC: $40,000 over 3y, 9.0% of budgetTHE AUBRI BROWN CLUB: $40,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetHOSPICE OF THE GOLDEN ISLES INC: $39,571 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetHAND IN HAND OF GLYNN INC: $35,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GLYNN COUNTY GA INC: $34,121 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetOGLETHORPE POINT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTA: $31,247 over 4y, 13% of budgetMEMPHIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRICHMOND FIRST TEE: $24,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetGLYNN VISUAL ARTS INC: $22,132 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetCOASTAL COALITION FOR CHILDREN INC: $20,737 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetTHE BRUNSWICK-GOLDEN ISLES CHAMBER FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetACHIEVE TAHOE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetVETERANS AIRLIFT COMMAND: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetKEEP GOLDEN ISLES BEAUTIFUL INC: $15,340 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetUNDER ONE ROOF INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF COASTAL GEORGIA INC: $14,410 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetGOLDEN ISLES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $13,500 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetNO KILL GLYNN COUNTY INC: $12,904 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetGolden Isles Arts & Humanities Association Inc: $10,804 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetHEATHER HOUSE OF GLYNN INC: $10,147 over 3y, 5.7% of budgetLEE INITIATIVE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE TOBY KEITH FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSKYLARK CLINIC INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGAMMA PSI FOUNDATION OF SIGMA PI PHI FRATERNITY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetELEVATE PHOENIX: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetEDUCATION FOUNDATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetZACH JOHNSON FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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 BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SOUTHEAST GEORGIA INC ↗
  • Who funds Communities in Schools of Glynn County Inc ↗
  • Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE COASTAL EMPIREINC ↗
  • Who funds College Golf Fellowship ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ↗
  • Who funds SAINT SIMONS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds ST SIMONS LAND TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds THE GATHERING PLACE INC ↗
  • Who funds FREDERICA ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds SUNS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds GEORGIA PGA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds COAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Safe Harbor Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE REMEDY PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds AMERICA'S SECOND HARVEST OF COASTAL GEORGIA INC ↗
  • Who funds JUNIOR LEAGUE OF THE GOLDEN ISLES INC ↗
  • Who funds THE FIREBOX INITIATIVE INC SAPP ↗
  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CARROLL COUNTY CASA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE GLOBAL ORPHAN PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds HOPE 1312 COLLECTIVE 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.

Communities of Coasta…St Marys Methodist Ch…Torras Foundation IncJulia Terrill Thomas …Arthur and Lindee Luc…Georgia Power Foundat…Pga Tour IncThe Benefield Foundat…The Broadfield Founda…Okefenoke Rural Elect…United Way of Coastal…Community Foundation …
Communities of Coastal Georgia Foundation IncGA60.7× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Communities of Coastal Georgia Foundation Inc · St Marys Methodist Church Foundation I · Torras Foundation Inc · Julia Terrill Thomas Foundation Inc · Arthur and Lindee Lucas Family Foundation Inc · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Pga Tour Inc · The Benefield Foundation Inc · The Broadfield Foundation · Okefenoke Rural Electric Membership Corporation Foundation Inc · United Way of Coastal Georgia Inc · Community Foundation of the Chattahoochee Valley Inc

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 Love III Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Davis Love III Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • The Nemours Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 173 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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