Wisconsin · Private foundation
Dwight and Linda Davis Foundation
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.
- $3.3M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 41
- Grants FY2024
- 35
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 34%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 35
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Total assets, FY2024
- $117M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 34% of the organizations Dwight and Linda Davis Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 42% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 36 | $3.3M | 28% |
| FY2023 | 35 | $3.1M | 34% |
| FY2022 | 28 | $2.1M | 43% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $1.1M | 35% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $1.3M | 10% |
| FY2019 | 32 | $1.4M | 50% |
| FY2018 | 23 | $1.1M | 35% |
| FY2017 | 21 | $914k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wausau YMCA Foundation Inc | $1,540,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Woodson YMCA Inc | $1,033,198 | 6 | 3% |
| DC Everest Education Foundation Inc | $1,000,000 | 1 | 91% |
| Door County YMCA INC | $528,299 | 3 | 6% |
| Door County Maritime Museum & Lighthouse Preservation Society Inc | $425,000 | 5 | 7% |
| Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum Inc | $371,700 | 8 | 4% |
| Children's Imaginarium Inc | $340,575 | 2 | 32% |
| Greater Wausau Prosperity Partnership L Partnership Ltd | $337,500 | 4 | 90% |
| Peninsula Players Theatre Foundation Inc | $308,700 | 3 | 10% |
| City of Wausau | $304,000 | 2 | n/a |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Dwight and Linda Davis Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 50 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Ba & Esther Greenheck Foundation · Judd S Alexander Foundation · Community Foundation of North Central Wisconsin Inc · Dudley Foundation Inc · Incrediblebank Foundation Inc · Wisconsin Public Service Foundation · George Kress Foundation Inc · Bell Family Charitable Foundation I · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Abbybank Foundation Inc · Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · Dan Storey Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Dwight and Linda Davis Foundation
- How much does Dwight and Linda Davis Foundation give?
- Dwight and Linda Davis Foundation reported 41 grants totaling $3,348,866 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 35 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Dwight and Linda Davis Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (36%), Arts & Culture (16%), Education (10%).
- Who are Dwight and Linda Davis Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Wausau YMCA Foundation Inc ($1.5M), Woodson YMCA Inc ($1.0M), DC Everest Education Foundation Inc ($1.0M).
- Does Dwight and Linda Davis Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 34% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Dwight and Linda Davis 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 Dwight and Linda Davis Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ba & Esther Greenheck Foundation, Judd S Alexander Foundation, Community Foundation of North Central Wisconsin Inc.
- Where is Dwight and Linda Davis Foundation based?
- Dwight and Linda Davis Foundation is based in WI.
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