How much did JOE E DAVIS FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 48% of JOE E 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

2018

caremethodistchurch

2019

caremethodistchurch

2020

volunteer firecaremethodist

2021

methodistcare

2022

—

2023

—

2024

—

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

03FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k8 grants · $41k
$10k–50k4 grants · $55k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.6M

Total assets

Largest grants

BELTWAY PARK CHURCH$20,000
FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES$15,000
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$10,000
DISABILITY RESOURCES INC$10,000
ALLIANCE FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN$6,750
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS LONE STAR$5,000
HENDRICK HOME FOR CHILDREN$5,000
ABILENE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS$5,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ABILENE$5,000
PRAISE TEMPLE CHURCH$5,000
NOAH PROJECT INC$5,000
BEN RICHEY BOYS RANCH & FAMILY PROGRAM$4,000

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 (FY18–24, $75k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19% — the area typically sits at 11%. 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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$677k · 30 repeat orgs$35k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.

30 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$677k

$25k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%

+17%

Still filing today

63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesPublic Safety & DisasterHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentReligionOther

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

KS
KENLEY SCHOOL
6× · 2018–2023 · $82k · revenue +12%
FO
FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES
7× · 2018–2024 · $75k · revenue +99%
SP
SAMARITAN'S PURSE
7× · 2018–2024 · $47k · revenue +134%

Funded once

AC
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY
one grant, 2023 · $10k
AO
ABILENE OPEN DOOR INC
one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +17%
SA
SALVATION ARMY OF NORTH TEXAS
one grant, 2023 · $5k

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.

Christian Homes of Abilene Inc

To change lives and build Christian families through maternity, foster, and adoption services.

Human Services

Texas Health Physicians Group

A FAITH-BASED ORGANIZATION WHOSE MISSION IS TO IMPROVE THE HEALTH OF the people in the communities it serves, regarless of thier ability to pay.

Health

Baylor Health Care System

Faith based supporting organization providing services to a network of acute care hospitals and related health care entities that provide patient care, medical education, medical research and community services.

Health

Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital

A faith-based organization whose mission is to improve the health of the people in the communities it serves regardless of their ability to pay.

Health

Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital

A faith-based organization whose mission is to improve the health of the people in the communities it serves regardless of their ability to pay.

Health

Trinity Broadcasting of Texas

To spread the gospel of jesus christ to the world

Religion

Ascension Texas

To improve the health and well-being of all people in the communities we serve.

Health

Baylor All Saints Medical Center

Faith based acute care hospital providing exemplary patient care, medical education, medical research and community service to the residents of Tarrant County and the surrounding communities for more than 100 years.

Health

Abilene Zoological Society

To provide an animal-oriented educational/recreational resource for the citizen's of Abilene and surrounding communities in order to promote environmental awareness, conservation, and research.

Animals

Baptist Hospitals of Southeast Texas

Not-for-profit, community owned, health care facilities with spiritual values, dedicated to providing high quality health services in a christian environment.

Health

Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas

A faith-based organization whose mission is to improve the health of the people in the communities it serves regardless of their ability to pay.

Health

Baylor University Medical Center

Faith based acute care hospital providing exemplary patient care, medical education, medical research and community service to residents of the Dallas/Fort Worth twelve county region since 1903.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Abilene Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hendrick Hospice Care. 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 44 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 29% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

4%1/27

the rest of the field

15%

3,424/22,637

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

26 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)

25/26

Grantees still filing

20/26

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$356,800Human Services$134,950Education$82,200Youth Development$75,000Religion$47,200Health$9,000Public Safety & Disaster$6,750

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.

Community Foundation of AbileneTX43.3× affinity18 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 · Barber Foundation · Dian Graves Owen Foundation · Greathouse Foundation · The Legett Foundation · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · The Massey Family Charitable Trust · Food Bank of West Central Texas · Kickapoo Springs Foundation · Directors Foundation · United Way of Abilene Inc

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 E 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

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%

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: ABILENE OPEN DOOR INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 751693394 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 ABILENE OPEN DOOR INC, 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

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 4% 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 E Davis Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Joe E 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 E 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

26 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Joe E Davis Foundation?

More from the funding graph

JOE E 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

26 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Joe E Davis Foundation?

More from the funding graph