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John & Carolyn Davis Family Foundation at a glance

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John & Carolyn Davis Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$22k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Human Services$50kEducation$35kInternational$5kArts & Culture$4kRecreation & Sports$2kAnimals$1kFood & Nutrition$1kHealth$500Other$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
$2,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$308k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INTERFAITH COMMUNITY SERVICES$12,000
AMPHI FOUNDATION$5,000
TREASURES 4 TEACHERS$2,500
MUSEUM OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLE$1,500
NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$1,000
COUSE FOUNDATION$250
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–23, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%MARSHALL HOME FOR MEN: $1k → 15%YOUTH ON THEIR OWN: $6k → 15%HOMICIDE SURVIVORS: $500 → 15%YOUTH ON THEIR OWN: $5k → 15%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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 5% of John & Carolyn Davis Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

John & Carolyn Davis Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 5.0% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$76k · 6 repeat orgs$23k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
14

Total granted

$76k
$20k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+23%

Still filing today

83%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureFood & NutritionInternationalReligionOther
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

  • AP
    Amphitheater Public Schools Foundation Inc
    3× · 2020–2024 · $25k · revenue +25%
  • University of Arizona Foundation
    2× · 2020–2021 · $4k · revenue +54%
  • TM
    THE MUSEUM OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
    3× · 2021–2024 · $3k · revenue +60%

Funded once

  • UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -21%
  • AD
    Arizona Diaper Bank
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +23%
  • PL
    PIMA LIBRARY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $3k
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
Arizona Latin-American Medical Association
Unclassified
2
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
3
Arizona Community Foundation

To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.

Philanthropy
4
American Indian Association of Tucson Inc

Our mission is to lead, serve, empower and advocate for the Tucson urban American Indian community and others by providing culturally appropriate health, wellness and social services.

Human Services
5
Vitalyst Health Foundation

To connect, support and inform efforts to improve the health of individuals and communities in arizona.

Health
6
Arizona Wins

Az wins is a coalition of organizations dedicated to achieving public policies that benefit working arizona families and advancing an inclusive, engaged, just and equitable state for all arizonans. in 2024 az wins substantially reduced its…

Civil Rights
7
Impact of Southern Arizona

Impact of southern arizona is a private non-profit volunteer based organization which empowers southern arizonans with the resources required to pursue a stabilized and enhanced quality of life.

Community Improvement
8
Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizona

The Arts Foundation mission is to advance artistic expression, civic participation, and equitable economic growth of our diverse community by supporting, promoting, and advocating for arts and culture in our region.

Arts & Culture
9
Arizona Healthiest State Foundation
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10
One Arizona

One arizonas mission is to increase civic participation among arizonans

Civil Rights
11
Arizona Food Bank Network

Develop solutions to end hunger through food banking, public policy and innovation.

Food & Nutrition
12
Sahuarita Food Bank

The organization's mission is to feed the hungry in the community through education, advocacy and the acquisition, storage and distribution of food.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Arizona Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Marshall Home for Men Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

17 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. 17 of the 23 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
10/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Interfaith Community Services: $33,000 · OtherInterfaith Community ServicesAmphitheater Public Schools Foundation Inc: $25,000 · OtherAmphitheater Public Schools Foundation IncPIMA LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $2,500 · Other+8 more: $4,676 · Other+8 moreYOUTH ON THEIR OWN: $11,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH ON THEIR…Marshall Home for Men INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesMarshall Home …Homicide Survivors Inc: $500 · Human ServicesUniversity of Arizona Foundation: $3,500 · EducationTREASURES 4 TEACHERS INC: $2,500 · EducationNORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $1,000 · EducationLITERACY CONNECTS: $500 · EducationUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $5,000 · InternationalArizona Diaper Bank: $4,500 · ReligionTHE MUSEUM OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLE: $2,500 · Arts & CultureTHE COUSE FOUNDATION: $250 · Arts & CultureORO VALLEY LACROSSE CLUB INC: $2,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$65,176Human Services$12,500Education$7,500International$5,000Religion$4,500Arts & Culture$2,750Recreation & Sports$2,000

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 budgetInterfaith Community Services: $33,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAmphitheater Public Schools Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetYOUTH ON THEIR OWN: $11,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArizona Diaper Bank: $4,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetUniversity of Arizona Foundation: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTREASURES 4 TEACHERS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MUSEUM OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLE: $2,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetORO VALLEY LACROSSE CLUB INC: $2,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetMarshall Home for Men INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLITERACY CONNECTS: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLIOBLASTOMA FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Primavera Foundation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHomicide Survivors Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COUSE FOUNDATION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Arizona Community Fou…Community Foundation …Zuckerman Community O…Connie Hillman Family…The Hs Lopez Family F…United Way of Tucson …Diamond FoundationFred & Christine Arms…Angel Charity for Chi…Texas Instruments Fou…The Chicago Community…Shell USA Company Fou…
Arizona Community FoundationAZ20.5× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arizona Community Foundation · Community Foundation for Southern Arizona · Zuckerman Community Outreach Foundation · Connie Hillman Family Foundation · The Hs Lopez Family Foundation · United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona Inc · Diamond Foundation · Fred & Christine Armstrong Foundation · Angel Charity for Children Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Shell USA Company 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 John & Carolyn Davis Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John & Carolyn Davis Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.

    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 23 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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