· Private foundation
Holbrook R & Sarah M Davis Foundation Inc
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DUBLIN SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF THE SOUTHERN TIER | $3,000 |
| CURE ALZHEIMERS FUND | $2,000 |
| TIOGA COUNTY RURAL MINISTRY | $2,000 |
| CAPE ABILITIES INC | $2,000 |
| BARNSTABLE CLEAN WATER COALITION | $2,000 |
| CAPE COD TIMES NEIGHBORS FUND INC | $1,500 |
| CAPE COD HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| WSKG | $1,500 |
| NORTH COUNTY PUBLIC RADIO | $1,250 |
| REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK | $1,250 |
| HUDSON HEADWATERS HEALTH NETWORK | $1,000 |
| CHAMP HOMES | $1,000 |
| PATHFINDER INTERNATIONAL | $1,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA BREAST CARE PROGRAM | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.
73 repeat relationships: 56 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- DSDUBLIN SCHOOL INC5× · 2021–2025 · $18k · revenue +21%
- TBTHREE BAYS PRESERVATION INC4× · 2022–2025 · $10k · revenue +11%
- CACAPE ABILITIES INC6× · 2020–2025 · $8k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- MMMARSTONS MILLS HISTORICAL SOCIETY INCone grant, 2020 · $5k
- CCCAPE COD ACADEMYone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +23%
- OBOsterville Business Prof Assnone grant, 2020 · $3k
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.
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.
The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…
The mission of the atlantic coast conservancy is to provide 21st century solutions and sound scientific applications for conservation of critical natural resources in the face of a changing climate, focusing on the southeasthern united…
Overview - founded in boston by pioneering landscape architect and open space visionary charles eliot in 1891, the trustees is the nation's first and the commonwealth's largest conservation and preservation nonprofit.
To inspire appreciation, understanding and stewardship of our natural environment through discovery and learning.
To preserve and steward aquidneck island's open spaces for the lasting benefit of the community while connecting people with the land that defines the island's natural character.
The adirondack council ensures the ecological integrity (clean water and air, wildlife habitat, etc.), wild character (solitude, scenic beauty, etc.), and vibrant communities of new york's six-million-acre adirondack park. the adirondack…
To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.
The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.
The mission of Islesboro Islands Trust is to enhance the quality of residents' lives through the preservation of open space, educate all residents as to the value of the island's natural ecosystems, and act as an environmental advocate on…
The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
The mission of wildcoast is to conserve coastal and marine ecosystems and address climate change through natural solutions. our staff is dedicated to conserving threatened and endangered coastlines and wildlife in california and mexico.…
How this is measured
79 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 79 of the 137 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 DUBLIN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THREE BAYS PRESERVATION INC ↗
- Who funds CAPE ABILITIES INC ↗
- Who funds PLIMOTH PATUXET MUSEUMS INC ↗
- Who funds PATHFINDER INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds CAPE COD TIMES NEIGHBORS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Tioga County Rural Ministry Inc ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OSTERVILLE FREE LIBRARY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds The Finger Lakes Land Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds CAPE COD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds COTUIT LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BARNSTABLE LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF THE ADIRONDACKS ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENCE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds ADIRONDACK FOLK SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA'S FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR TOMPOTIKA CONSERVATION ↗
- Who funds SEA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds COLLIE RESCUE LEAGUE OF NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN ↗
- Who funds HUDSON HEADWATERS HEALTH NETWORK ↗
- Who funds WOODEN CANOE HERITAGE ASSOCIATION LTD ↗
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: Cape Cod Foundation Inc · Mutual Bancorp Foundation Inc Fka Cape Cod 5 Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Charlottesville Area Community Foundation · Bilezikian Family Foundation Inc · Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank Charitable Foundation Trust · Donald C McGraw Foundation Inc · Arthur V Davis Foundation Pf #3 · Eastern Bank Foundation · Perry Foundation Inc · The Genan Foundation · The Vela Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Holbrook R & Sarah M Davis Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Holbrook R & Sarah M Davis Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Independence House Inc: 85% of income from government
- Cape Abilities Inc: 81% of income from government
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: 63% of income from government
- Center for Coastal Studies Inc: 26% of income from government
- Three Bays Preservation Inc: 18% of income from government
- The Coral Restoration Foundation Inc: 16% of income from government
- Sea Education Association Inc: 12% of income from government
- Housing Assistance Corporation: 10% of income from government
- Barnstable Land Trust Inc: 4% of income from government
- Mote Marine Laboratory Inc: 4% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
- Cape Cod Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
- Plimoth Patuxet Museums Inc: 1% of income from government
- Cotuit Library Association: 1% of income from government
- Osterville Historical Society Inc: 1% of income from government
- Cape Cod Academy: 0% of income from government
- The Sturgis Library: 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
- Milton Academy: 0% of income from government
- Boston Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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