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John and Miyoko Davey 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.

$539k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
27
Grants FY2024
17
Organizations funded FY2023
53%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$30,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 17
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
12
Total assets, FY2024
$1.4M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 53% of the organizations John and Miyoko Davey Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 50% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $127k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsInternationalArts & CultureHealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving16$442k19%
FY202317$254k53%
FY202212$185k58%
FY202115$183k73%
FY20205$61k60%
FY20199$68k56%
FY20184$71k75%
FY20172$6kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$1.7MArts & Culture$82kInternational$35kHealth$30kReligion$28kPublic Benefit$14kHuman Services$3kYouth Development$3kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MI
NY
MA
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
RI
CA
NE
MO
VA
DC
GA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of Washington$205,0003n/a
Lindenwood Education System$72,00030%
The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College$71,00050%
University of Miami$65,00020%
Swarthmore College$64,50050%
Pitzer College$40,00020%
Earlham College Inc$40,00020%
University of Michigan$30,00016%
Agnes Scott College$30,00030%
Oberlin College$30,00010%
Show all 23 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($549k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget John and Miyoko Davey Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLindenwood Education System: $72,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of Mount Holyoke College: $71,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $65,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSwarthmore College: $64,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPitzer College: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEarlham College Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $30,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetAgnes Scott College: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOberlin College: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJunior Achievement of New York Inc: $25,860 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Asia Foundation: $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPerkiomen School: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJapanese American Social Services Inc: $2,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetJapan Society Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Nippon Club Inc: $960 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe University Club: $728 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Park Conservancy Inc: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHeritage Action for America: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCitizens United: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 21.

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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.

United Way WorldwideVA12× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way Worldwide · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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.

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About John and Miyoko Davey Foundation

How much does John and Miyoko Davey Foundation give?
John and Miyoko Davey Foundation reported 27 grants totaling $538,700 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 17 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does John and Miyoko Davey Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (90%), Arts & Culture (4%), International (2%).
Who are John and Miyoko Davey Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: University of Washington ($205k), Lindenwood Education System ($72k), The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College ($71k).
Does John and Miyoko Davey Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 53% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does John and Miyoko Davey Foundation 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 John and Miyoko Davey Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way Worldwide, Jpmorgan Chase Foundation, The Pfizer Foundation Inc.
Where is John and Miyoko Davey Foundation based?
John and Miyoko Davey Foundation is based in NY.

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 49 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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