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Joe Davis Foundation - Defined
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 you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 44% of JOE DAVIS FOUNDATION - DEFINED’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BELTWAY PARK CHURCH | $20,000 |
| FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES | $15,000 |
| HENDRICK HOME FOR CHILDREN | $10,000 |
| DISABILITY RESOURCES INC | $10,000 |
| TURNING POINT USA NFP | $10,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $10,000 |
| BEN RICHEY BOYS RANCH & FAMILY PROGRAM | $6,400 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS LONE STAR | $6,400 |
| ABILENE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS | $6,400 |
| ALLIANCE FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN | $6,400 |
| NOAH PROJECT INC | $6,400 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $6,000 |
| AMERICAN DIABETES ASSOC | $5,000 |
| MOSAIC CHRUCH OF ABILENE | $1,000 |
| TAYLOR COUNTY VETERANS SERVICE OFFICE | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $81k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein 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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
31 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 4 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- FOFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES8× · 2018–2025 · $90k · revenue +100%
- KSKenley School Inc6× · 2018–2023 · $82k · revenue +12%
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE8× · 2018–2025 · $57k · revenue +163%
Funded once
- AOABILENE OPEN DOOR INCone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -46%
- PTPRAISE TEMPLE CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $5k
- HFHabitat for Humanity Abilene Incone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +2%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The mission of Abilene Christian School, Inc. is to equip students to excel academically, serve meaningfully, and walk faithfully with God.
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
Our mission is to help the underemployed, through personal, career, academic and spiritual development, acquire the confidence and skills for gainful and long-term employment.
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
Committed to supporting displaced single mothers in Fort Bend County by providing housing assistance and wraparound services.
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.
The purpose of the Organization is to provide knowledge and understanding of economics, matters of public concern, finance, education and training, and problems of minority groups therby promoting the economy and quality of life in Abilene…
We provide affordable quality child care for a diverse community. Our four licensed facilities deliver quality child care programming for children ages birth to 10 years, so that parents can work, attend school, and/or receive job training…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Abilene Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. 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 45 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 18% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
31 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 31 of the 44 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds Kenley School Inc ↗
- Who funds Disability Resources Inc ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds Alliance for Women and Children ↗
- Who funds NOAH PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds HENDRICK HOME FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Boys and Girls Club of Abilene Inc ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS LONE STAR ↗
- Who funds Abilene Boys Ranch Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF ABILENE INC ↗
- Who funds Hendrick Hospice Care ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
- Who funds METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME ↗
- Who funds Love & Care Ministries ↗
- Who funds THE SALVATION ARMY WORLD SERVICE OFFICE ↗
- Who funds ABILENE GOODWILL INDUSTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ABILENE OPEN DOOR INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS SENTINELS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity Abilene Inc ↗
- Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
- Who funds ECCA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds Texas Heart Institute ↗
- Who funds Abilene Womans Club Foundation ↗
- Who funds Tarrant Area Food Bank ↗
- Who funds Mulberry Canyon Volunteer Fire Dept ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Abilene · Shelton Family Foundation · Dian Graves Owen Foundation · Barber Foundation · Greathouse Foundation · Directors Foundation · The Massey Family Charitable Trust · Food Bank of West Central Texas · The Legett Foundation · Moss Adamson Spalding Charities · Kickapoo Springs Foundation · The Karakin 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 organization Joe Davis Foundation - Defined 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.
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: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. 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.
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