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Davis-Tailer 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.

$191k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
24
Grants FY2025
24
Organizations funded FY2024
13%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$7,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$30,000
Organizations funded a year
24 to 30
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
6
Total assets, FY2025
$2.3M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Davis-Tailer Foundation 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; $15k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsHousing & ShelterEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving24$191k21%
FY202424$176k13%
FY202325$148k4%
FY202226$140k12%
FY202130$141k3%
FY202029$128k7%
FY201928$116k29%
FY201824$88k50%
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What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$338kHealth$180kEducation$164kFood & Nutrition$160kAnimals$136kReligion$51kHousing & Shelter$49kYouth Development$37kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
PA
NJ
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
TN
NC
DC
LA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 27 grantees
All grantees of Davis-Tailer Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Community Food Share Inc$138,00090%
Seeds of Hope$77,0008n/a
Outreach United Resource Center Inc$50,25090%
Boulder Shelter for the Homeless Inc$49,00080%
Thurgood Marshall College Fund$46,50060%
Longmont Humane Society Inc$29,25080%
Colorado Pet Pantry$26,00082%
Defenders of Wildlife$23,00080%
The Lung Transplant Foundation$23,00084%
Little Sisters of the Poor Home for the Aged$21,00050%
Mary's Meals USA Inc$21,00050%
Donate Life America$21,00080%
Archdiocese of Denver$20,0002n/a
Rainforest Alliance Inc$19,00060%
Home Fur Good Animal Rescue and Placement$17,00090%
Lucky Dog Rescue Inc$14,00071%
The Wild Animal Sanctuary$11,00040%
Cross Catholic Outreach Inc$9,0003n/a
Sisters of Life$9,0003n/a
Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart$9,0004n/a
Son of a Saint$7,00030%
Fisher House Foundation Inc$6,00030%
Gary Sinise Foundation$6,00030%
The V Foundation$5,00020%
Desert Botanical Garden Inc$5,00020%
Arizona Humane Society$1,5001n/a
Harvest of Hope Pantry$1,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($502k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Davis-Tailer Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCommunity Food Share Inc: $138,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetOutreach United Resource Center Inc: $50,250 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetBoulder Shelter for the Homeless Inc: $49,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetThurgood Marshall College Fund: $46,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLongmont Humane Society Inc: $29,250 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetColorado Pet Pantry: $26,000 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetDefenders of Wildlife: $23,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe Lung Transplant Foundation: $23,000 over 8y, 3.9% of budgetLittle Sisters of the Poor Home for the Aged: $21,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMary's Meals USA Inc: $21,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetDonate Life America: $21,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetRainforest Alliance Inc: $19,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHome Fur Good Animal Rescue and Placement: $17,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetLucky Dog Rescue Inc: $14,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetThe Wild Animal Sanctuary: $11,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSon of a Saint: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFisher House Foundation Inc: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGary Sinise Foundation: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe V Foundation: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDesert Botanical Garden Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHarvest of Hope Pantry: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 21.

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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.

Colorado Gives FoundationCO16.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Community Foundation Boulder County · The Denver Foundation · Collins Foundation · The Catholic Foundation No Colorado · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Colorado Health Foundation · American Express Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Verizon Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund

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.

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How do I get to Davis-Tailer Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Davis-Tailer Foundation 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.

About Davis-Tailer Foundation

How much does Davis-Tailer Foundation give?
Davis-Tailer Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $190,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 30 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Davis-Tailer Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (29%), Health (15%), Education (14%).
Who are Davis-Tailer Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Community Food Share Inc ($138k), Seeds of Hope ($77k), Outreach United Resource Center Inc ($50k).
Does Davis-Tailer Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Davis-Tailer Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Davis-Tailer Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, Xcel Energy Foundation, Community Foundation Boulder County.
Where is Davis-Tailer Foundation based?
Davis-Tailer Foundation is based in CO.

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 50 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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