How much did JOE C DAVIS FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 67% of JOE C DAVIS FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2020

scouts middle

2021

scouts middlewestcounselinghabitat humanityhumanity greatergreater nashville

2022

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2023

recoverybuildingeducators

2024

buildingearlyeducatorscounseling

2025

buildinggreater nashvillecollaborativecounseling

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 107 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k24 grants · $106k
$10k–50k56 grants · $1.1M
$50k–250k24 grants · $2.4M
$250k+3 grants · $3.5M

$20,000

Median grant

States reached

$194M

Total assets

Largest grants

VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM$2,750,000
VOLUNTEER SCHOOLS DBA NASHVILLE INCUBATOR$500,000
KIPP NASHVILLE FOUNDATION$250,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER NASHVILLE$245,000
FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES$175,000
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE$153,000
MARY PARRISH CENTER$132,500
NASHVILLE CHARTER COLLABORATIVE$125,000
MONTGOMERY BELL ACADEMY$125,000
THE NEXT DOOR INC$125,000
NASHVILLE YWCA$120,000
THISTLE FARMS INC$110,000
FRIENDS OF WARNER PARKS$105,000
PERSIST NASHVILLE$100,000
TENNESSEE CHARTER SCHOOL CENTER$100,000

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$31M · 115 repeat orgs$3.2M to everyone else

115 repeat relationships — 95 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

115

Total granted

$31M

$2.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+62%

+166%

Still filing today

64%

65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $974k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

HH
HARPETH HALL SCHOOL
5× · 2020–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +51%
AC
AVENTURA COMMUNITY SCHOOL
2× · 2021–2023 · $550k · revenue +415%
HF
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER NASHVILLE
4× · 2021–2024 · $455k · revenue +60%

Funded once

KA
KIPP ACADEMY NASHVILLE
one grant, 2022 · $500k
VM
VANDERBILT MEDICAL CENTER
one grant, 2022 · $150k
VU
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTERgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $115k · revenue +67%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Stars Nashville

Supports young people through the social and emotional barriers they face. our five evidence-based school and community programs address issues like bullying prevention, substance misuse, violence and other mental health issues. in…

Health

Nashville Academy Theatre and

Nashville children's theatre is a professional theatre company providing the children, families, and educators of middle tennessee with extraordinary shared theatrical experiences that inspire imagination, develop creativity, and build…

Arts & Culture

Oasis Center Inc

Oasis center is one of the nation's leading youthserving organizations, offering safety and intervention to nashville's most vulnerable youth, while seeking to also teach young people how to transform the conditions that create problems…

Community Improvement

Nashville Inner City Ministry Inc

Nashville inner city ministry is a christ-centered community organization dedicated to empowering the spiritual, educational and vocational development of at-risk youth and their families.

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Nashville Technology Council

Leading voice & advocate for middle tn's information technology ecosystem & tech professionals.

Community Improvement

Episcopal School of Nashville

The episcopal school of nashville, a diverse urban independent school, is dedicated to nurturing the joy of learning and the spirit of discovery in each of its students.

Education

Nashville Safe Haven Family Shelter Inc

Lead our community's efforts to house, support, empower and advocate for families experiencing homelessness.

Housing & Shelter

Tennessee Justice Center Inc

Tjc uses the law and advocacy to ensure that tennesseans can meet their most basic needs.

Crime & Legal

Park Center Inc

Park center has been serving nashville for over 40 years, providing a place for hope and recovery for people experiencing serious mental illness, homelessness, and addiction. we meet people where they are and provide support through…

Employment

New Level Community Development Corporation

New level community development corporation advocates for low-to-moderate income community by working with legislators, other non-profits, and private developers to create more affordable homes in nashville.

Community Improvement

Opportunity Nashville

Our mission is to ensure that every child in nashville has access to a high-quality education.

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Nashville Software School Inc

Nashville software school's mission is to expand the technology workforce in middle tennessee by providing motivated individuals with access to a career in technology through training, mentorship, and learning by doing.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nashville Rescue Mission and the most unlike its peers is Fannie Battle Day Home for. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 21 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.8%1/121

the rest of the field

12%

533/4,565

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

118 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

118/118

Grantees still filing

101/118

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$23,409,500Education$6,491,000Human Services$1,467,500Health$1,355,000Housing & Shelter$365,000Recreation & Sports$330,000Environment$319,300

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Memorial Foundation IncTN150.8× affinity72 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Memorial Foundation Inc · Hca Healthcare Foundation · The Frist Foundation · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · The Community Foundation of Middle · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist · The Healing Trust · Nashville Predators Foundation · The Dan and Margaret Maddox Fund Inc · Louie M & Betty M Phillips Foundatn · The Steven & Laurie Eskind · Carolyn Smith Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation JOE C DAVIS FOUNDATION funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: LITTLE WONDERS EARLY LEARNING CENTER.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~2 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 2 filed years.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

2 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 3.7× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 920399361 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on LITTLE WONDERS EARLY LEARNING CENTER, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 2 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 39% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Joe C Davis Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Joe C Davis Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

JOE C DAVIS FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

118 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Joe C Davis Foundation?

More from the funding graph

JOE C DAVIS FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

118 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Joe C Davis Foundation?

More from the funding graph