New Jersey · Private foundation
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.
- $120k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2025
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $6,400
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 24
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Joe Davis Foundation - Defined funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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 | 15 | $120k | 27% |
| FY2024 | 12 | $96k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $121k | 44% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $115k | 7% |
| FY2021 | 22 | $108k | 5% |
| FY2020 | 24 | $97k | 25% |
| FY2019 | 22 | $95k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 23 | $81k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fellowship of Christian Athletes | $90,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Kenley School Inc | $82,200 | 6 | 3% |
| Beltway Park Baptist Church | $71,700 | 8 | n/a |
| Disability Resources Inc | $58,400 | 8 | 0% |
| Samaritan's Purse | $57,200 | 8 | 0% |
| Alliance for Women and Children | $45,050 | 8 | 1% |
| Noah Project Inc | $42,100 | 8 | 1% |
| Hendrick Home for Children | $36,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Boys and Girls Club of Abilene Inc | $33,200 | 5 | 1% |
| Pioneer Drive Baptist Church | $31,000 | 2 | n/a |
Show all 34 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($105k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Joe Davis Foundation - Defined supplied at peak.
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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.
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How this is measured
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About Joe Davis Foundation - Defined
- How much does Joe Davis Foundation - Defined give?
- Joe Davis Foundation - Defined reported 15 grants totaling $120,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 24 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Joe Davis Foundation - Defined fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (22%), Religion (17%), Health (12%).
- Who are Joe Davis Foundation - Defined's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Fellowship of Christian Athletes ($90k), Kenley School Inc ($82k), Beltway Park Baptist Church ($72k).
- Does Joe Davis Foundation - Defined fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Joe Davis Foundation - Defined 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 Joe Davis Foundation - Defined?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Abilene, Shelton Family Foundation, Dian Graves Owen Foundation.
- Where is Joe Davis Foundation - Defined based?
- Joe Davis Foundation - Defined is based in NJ.
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