· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 64% of JOHN & CAROLYN 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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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 (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 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 5% of John & Carolyn Davis Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +25% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- APAmphitheater Public Schools Foundation Inc3× · 2020–2024 · $25k · revenue +25%
University of Arizona Foundation2× · 2020–2021 · $4k · revenue +54%- TMTHE MUSEUM OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLE3× · 2021–2024 · $3k · revenue +60%
Funded once
UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEFone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -21%- ADArizona Diaper Bankone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +23%
- PLPIMA LIBRARY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $3k
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.
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.
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.
To connect, support and inform efforts to improve the health of individuals and communities in arizona.
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…
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.
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.
One arizonas mission is to increase civic participation among arizonans
Develop solutions to end hunger through food banking, public policy and innovation.
The organization's mission is to feed the hungry in the community through education, advocacy and the acquisition, storage and distribution of food.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Arizona Foundation and 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.
17 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. 17 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 Interfaith Community Services ↗
- Who funds Amphitheater Public Schools Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUTH ON THEIR OWN ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds Arizona Diaper Bank ↗
- Who funds University of Arizona Foundation ↗
- Who funds TREASURES 4 TEACHERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE MUSEUM OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLE ↗
- Who funds ORO VALLEY LACROSSE CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds Community Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds Marshall Home for Men INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LITERACY CONNECTS ↗
- Who funds GLIOBLASTOMA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Primavera Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Homicide Survivors Inc ↗
- Who funds THE COUSE FOUNDATION ↗
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: 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
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 & Carolyn 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.