Tennessee · Private foundation
Joe C Davis Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $8.2M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 108
- Grants FY2025
- 104
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 10%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $23,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 99 to 118
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $152M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 10% of the organizations Joe C Davis Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $924k 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 | 104 | $5.7M | 10% |
| FY2024 | 104 | $4.2M | 10% |
| FY2023 | 114 | $4.6M | 20% |
| FY2022 | 114 | $4.2M | 20% |
| FY2021 | 118 | $3.0M | 22% |
| FY2020 | 99 | $4.2M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Harpeth Hall School | $1,275,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Montgomery Bell Academy of the University of Nashville | $1,250,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Aventura Community School | $1,053,800 | 3 | 16% |
| Teach for America Inc | $800,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Second Harvest Food Bank of Middle Tn Inc | $690,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Little Wonders Early Learning Center | $655,000 | 3 | 39% |
| Persist Nashville | $550,000 | 6 | 24% |
| Kipp Nashville | $500,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Vanderbilt University | $500,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Habitat for Humanity of Greater Nashville | $475,000 | 5 | 1% |
Show all 155 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 36 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Joe C Davis Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 144 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: Memorial Foundation Inc · Hca Healthcare Foundation · The Frist Foundation · United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · The Healing Trust Formerly Baptist Healing Hospital Trust · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Nashville Predators Foundation · The Dan and Margaret Maddox Fund Inc · Dettwiller Foundation · Carolyn Smith Foundation · Louie M & Betty M Phillips Foundatn
How this is measured
About Joe C Davis Foundation
- How much does Joe C Davis Foundation give?
- Joe C Davis Foundation reported 108 grants totaling $8,209,800 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 99 and 118 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Joe C Davis Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (39%), Education (28%), Human Services (9%).
- Who are Joe C Davis Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The Harpeth Hall School ($1.3M), Montgomery Bell Academy of the University of Nashville ($1.3M), Aventura Community School ($1.1M).
- Does Joe C Davis Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Joe C Davis Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Joe C Davis Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Memorial Foundation Inc, Hca Healthcare Foundation, The Frist Foundation.
- Where is Joe C Davis Foundation based?
- Joe C Davis Foundation is based in TN.
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