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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.

$120k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Human Services$180kReligion$145kHealth$101kRecreation & Sports$90kEducation$87kYouth Development$77kInternational$64kAnimals$16kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $45k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $75k
$6,400
Median grant
6
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BELTWAY PARK CHURCH$20,000
FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES$15,000
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$10,000
TURNING POINT USA NFP$10,000
DISABILITY RESOURCES INC$10,000
HENDRICK HOME FOR CHILDREN$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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME: $4k → 16%ALLIANCE FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN: $9k → 22%METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME: $4k → 16%ALLIANCE FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN: $9k → 22%METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME: $2k → 16%ALLIANCE FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN: $7k → 22%METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME: $500 → 16%ALLIANCE FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN: $6k → 22%ABILENE BOYS RANCH: $9k → 16%ALLIANCE FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN: $5k → 22%ALLIANCE FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN: $5k → 22%ALLIANCE FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN: $3k → 22%ABILENE BOYS RANCH: $5k → 16%ALLIANCE FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN: $2k → 22%ABILENE BOYS RANCH: $4k → 16%ABILENE BOYS RANCH: $2k → 16%ABILENE BOYS RANCH: $500 → 16%LOVE & CARE MINISTRIES: $3k → 16%LOVE & CARE MINISTRIES: $2k → 16%LOVE & CARE MINISTRIES: $2k → 16%LOVE & CARE MINISTRIES: $1k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$790k · 31 repeat orgs$42k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
9

Total granted

$790k
$25k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+14%

Still filing today

71%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesPublic Safety & DisasterHealthYouth DevelopmentEducationReligionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • FO
    FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES
    8× · 2018–2025 · $90k · revenue +100%
  • KS
    Kenley School Inc
    6× · 2018–2023 · $82k · revenue +12%
  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSE
    8× · 2018–2025 · $57k · revenue +163%

Funded once

  • HF
    Habitat for Humanity Abilene Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +2%
  • PT
    PRAISE TEMPLE CHURCH
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
  • AO
    ABILENE OPEN DOOR INC
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -46%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Abilene Christian School Inc

The mission of Abilene Christian School, Inc. is to equip students to excel academically, serve meaningfully, and walk faithfully with God.

Education
2
Baylor Medical Center at Irving

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
3
Faithworks of Abilene Inc

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.

Education
4
Baylor All Saints Medical Center

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
5
Baylor Scott & White Medical Centers - Greater North Texas

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
6
Scott & White Hospital-Taylor

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
7
Baylor University Medical Center

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
8
Abigail's Place

Committed to supporting displaced single mothers in Fort Bend County by providing housing assistance and wraparound services.

Housing & Shelter
9
Baylor Scott & White Medical Centers- Capitol Area

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
10
Baylor Regional Medical Center at Grapevine

Founded as a Christian ministry of healing, Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) promotes the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.

Health
11
Abilene Chamber of Commerce Foundation

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…

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12
Day Nursery of Abilene Inc

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…

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Abilene Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

31 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. 31 of the 44 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/31
Grantees still filing
22/31
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BELTWAY PARK BAPTIST CHURCH: $71,700 · OtherBELTWAY PARK BAPTIST CHURCHNOAH PROJECT INC: $42,100 · OtherNOAH PROJECT INCHENDRICK HOME FOR CHILDREN: $36,500 · OtherHENDRICK HOME FOR CHILDRENBoys and Girls Club of Abilene Inc: $33,200 · OtherBoys and Girls Club of Abilene IncPIONEER DRIVE BAPTIST CHURCH: $31,000 · OtherPIONEER DRIVE BAPTIST CHURCHMINISTERS MENTORING & COUNSELING SERVICE: $30,000 · OtherMINISTERS MENTORING & COUNSELING SERVICEIndividual grant recipient: $24,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientABILENE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS: $16,400 · OtherUNITED WAY OF ABILENE INC: $15,000 · OtherBEN RICHEY BOYS RANCH & FAMILY PROGRAM: $13,400 · Other+19 more: $70,250 · Other+19 moreDisability Resources Inc: $58,400 · Human ServicesDisability Resources…Alliance for Women and Children: $45,050 · Human ServicesAlliance for Women a…Abilene Boys Ranch Inc: $19,400 · Human ServicesAbilene Boys Ranch I…Hendrick Hospice Care: $11,500 · Human ServicesHendrick Hospice Car…METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME: $9,500 · Human ServicesMETHODIST CHILDREN'S…Love & Care Ministries: $7,500 · Human ServicesFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $90,000 · Youth DevelopmentFELLOWSHIP OF CH…BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS LONE STAR: $30,600 · Youth DevelopmentBIG BROTHERS BIG…Kenley School Inc: $82,200 · EducationKenley Scho…SAMARITAN'S PURSE: $57,200 · ReligionAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $16,000 · HealthAmerican Diabetes Association: $5,000 · HealthABILENE OPEN DOOR INC: $5,000 · HealthTexas Heart Institute: $4,000 · HealthTHE SALVATION ARMY WORLD SERVICE OFFICE: $7,000 · International
Other$383,550Human Services$151,350Youth Development$120,600Education$82,200Religion$57,200Health$30,000International$7,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $90,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetKenley School Inc: $82,200 over 6y, 2.7% of budgetDisability Resources Inc: $58,400 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $57,200 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAlliance for Women and Children: $45,050 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetNOAH PROJECT INC: $42,100 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetHENDRICK HOME FOR CHILDREN: $36,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBoys and Girls Club of Abilene Inc: $33,200 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS LONE STAR: $30,600 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAbilene Boys Ranch Inc: $19,400 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $16,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF ABILENE INC: $15,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetHendrick Hospice Care: $11,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMETHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME: $9,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLove & Care Ministries: $7,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SALVATION ARMY WORLD SERVICE OFFICE: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetABILENE GOODWILL INDUSTRIES INC: $5,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHabitat for Humanity Abilene Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTEXAS SENTINELS FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetABILENE OPEN DOOR INC: $5,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetECCA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $4,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetTexas Heart Institute: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAbilene Womans Club Foundation: $3,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTarrant Area Food Bank: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMulberry Canyon Volunteer Fire Dept: $2,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF NORTH TEXAS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVIEW VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT: $500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPOTOSI VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 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 Habitat for Humanity Abilene Inc ↗
  • Who funds TEXAS SENTINELS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ABILENE OPEN DOOR INC ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

Community Foundation …Shelton Family Founda…Dian Graves Owen Foun…Barber FoundationGreathouse FoundationDirectors FoundationThe Massey Family Cha…Food Bank of West Cen…The Legett FoundationMoss Adamson Spalding…Kickapoo Springs Foun…The Karakin Foundation
Community Foundation of AbileneTX34× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Joe Davis Foundation - Defined funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Joe Davis Foundation - Defined. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    Find your warmest path to Joe Davis Foundation - Defined through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 44 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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