· Private foundation
John and Christine Davis Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 60% of JOHN AND CHRISTINE DAVIS FAMILY FOUNDATION’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.
Largely a single collection — about 100% of reported assets are Museum Collection.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VENTURE CHRISTIAN CHURCH | $6,600 |
| DS MINISTRIES | $5,500 |
| CITY TEAM | $5,450 |
| CITY TEAM | $5,450 |
| ITALY FOR CHRIST | $5,400 |
| SUMMIT LEAGUE | $2,500 |
| AIR SYSTEMS FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| ROOTED WORSHIP MINISTRIES | $700 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $500 |
| BUCK CARDINAL CLUB-STANFORD | $500 |
| STANFORD FUND | $250 |
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 (FY19–19, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +117% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $700 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
- DMDS Ministries Inc7× · 2019–2025 · $38k · revenue +75%
- IFItaly For Christ Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $37k · revenue +117%
- ASAIR SYSTEMS FOUNDATION INC5× · 2020–2025 · $20k · revenue +210%
Funded once
- SJSAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY-TRACK & FIELDone grant, 2023 · $5k
- HFH2H FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $3k
- CCCANCER CAREPOINT INCone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +11%
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.
To garner funds in support of research at the UCSF Helen Diller Comprehensive Cancer Research Center. To aid doctors in finding a cure and provide financial assistance for innovation and progressive research. To provide scholarships to…
We believe that sports have the power to unite individuals from diverse backgrounds, promote physical fitness and well-being, and cultivate a spirit of camaraderie and sportsmanship.
Providing professional training of Chinese Medicine (TCM), including acupuncture, Chinese herbology, acupressure, Qigong and so on, granting the students Masters degree. Its a three to four years teaching program.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cityteam Ministries and the most unlike its peers is H2H Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 23 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 CITYTEAM MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds DS Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds Italy For Christ Inc ↗
- Who funds AIR SYSTEMS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE SUMMIT LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 55 SILICON VALLEY MONTEREY BAY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CANCER CAREPOINT INC ↗
- Who funds Cupertino Rotary Endowment Foundation ↗
- Who funds TRI VALLEY QUARTER MIDGET ASSOCIATI ↗
- Who funds NOTABLE MUSIC AND ARTS ORGANIZATION ↗
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: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 John and Christine Davis Family 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.
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.