Massachusetts · Private foundation
Davis Publications Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $16k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 22
- Grants FY2025
- 24
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 20 to 25
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $285k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Davis Publications Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 22 | $16k | 14% |
| FY2024 | 24 | $17k | 13% |
| FY2023 | 24 | $20k | 21% |
| FY2022 | 25 | $19k | 16% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $20k | 17% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $15k | 10% |
| FY2019 | 20 | $28k | 20% |
| FY2018 | 20 | $16k | 15% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Way of Central Massachusetts Inc | $18,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Creative Hub Worcester | $16,250 | 4 | 8% |
| Worcester Historical Museum | $12,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Joy of Music Program Inc | $10,100 | 9 | 0% |
| Artsworcester Inc | $9,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Worcester Animal Rescue League Inc | $9,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Worcester Art Museum | $8,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Worcester Youth Center Inc | $6,750 | 9 | 0% |
| African Community Education Program Inc | $5,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Centro Las Americas Inc | $5,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 25 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($38k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Davis Publications Charitable Trust supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Stoddard Charitable Trust · The Fletcher Foundation · The George I Alden Trust · Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc · Wyman Gordon · The Fred Harris Daniels Foundation · Webster Five Foundation Inc · Schwartz Charitable Foundation · Hoche-Scofield Foundation-Equity · Ruth H & Warren a Ellsworth Foundation · United Way of Central Massachusetts Inc · Coghlin Services Fund
How this is measured
Compare Davis Publications Charitable Trust with peer funders
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About Davis Publications Charitable Trust
- How much does Davis Publications Charitable Trust give?
- Davis Publications Charitable Trust reported 22 grants totaling $15,600 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 25 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Davis Publications Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (52%), Philanthropy (17%), Human Services (10%).
- Who are Davis Publications Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: United Way of Central Massachusetts Inc ($19k), Creative Hub Worcester ($16k), Worcester Historical Museum ($12k).
- Does Davis Publications Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Davis Publications Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Davis Publications Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Stoddard Charitable Trust, The Fletcher Foundation, The George I Alden Trust.
- Where is Davis Publications Charitable Trust based?
- Davis Publications Charitable Trust is based in MA.
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