· Private foundation
John K and Thirza F Davenport Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| CAPE COD REPERTORY THEATRE COMPANY INC | $10,000 |
| CAPE COD THEATRE CO HARWICH JR THEATRE | $10,000 |
| COTUIT CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $10,000 |
| CAPE COD THEATRE CO HARWICH JR THEATRE | $10,000 |
| COTUIT CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $5,000 |
| ACADEMY OF PERFORMING ARTS | $5,000 |
| EVENTIDE ARTS INC | $5,000 |
| ARTS FOUNDATION OF CAPE COD | $5,000 |
| CAPE COD MUSEUM OF ART | $5,000 |
| LESLEY UNIVERSITY | $3,600 |
| LESLEY UNIVERSITY | $2,700 |
| PROVINCETOWN THEATER FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| YARMOUTH NEW CHURCH PRESERVATION FNDTN | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of your 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 +22% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 3 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
- CACAPE ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT INC5× · 2018–2024 · $42k · revenue +22%
- CCCULTURAL CENTER OF CAPE COD5× · 2018–2024 · $35k · revenue +63%
- TCTHE CAPE COD MUSEUM OF ART INC4× · 2017–2025 · $23k · revenue +56%
Funded once
- TMThe Mark Hennessy Foundation Incone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue -22% · 27% of their budget
- CCCAPE COD CENTER FOR THE ARTS INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +121%
- CCCAPE COD ART CENTERone grant, 2023 · $5k
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.
It is our mission to be the premiere organization for training, exhibiting, and promoting the arts on cape cod.
The college light opera company, inc. is an independent nonprofit educational theatre founded in 1969. the company educates and trains talented university level students in the performing arts and theatre production and brings exceptional…
To present the finest classical and contemporary chamber music by both world-class ensembles and exceptional young emerging artists to cape cod audiences; to develop new and younger audiences for chamber music; to commission new chamber…
250th Town of Cohasset, MA celebrations
Orchestra Performances & Education
Boston center for the arts (bca) is a not-for-profit performing and visual arts campus that supports working artists to create, perform, and exhibit new works; develops new audiences; and connects the arts to the community.
Promoting and encouraging dramatics and theatrical art by producing and sponsoring high quality live theatre and conducting children's workshops, educational outreach programs and intern training programs.
The Saco River Theatres mission is art, culture and the community.
The seacoast repertory theatre is a non-profit, professional regional theater located in historic downtown portsmouth, nh. its mission is to entertain, educate and inspire through the power of live theater. this mission is achieved through…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cultural Center of Cape Cod and the most unlike its peers is Vinegrass Corporation. 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 38 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
20 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. 20 of the 28 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 COTUIT CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds CAPE ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT INC ↗
- Who funds CULTURAL CENTER OF CAPE COD ↗
- Who funds The Mark Hennessy Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ARTS FOUNDATION OF CAPE COD ↗
- Who funds THE CAPE COD MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds CAPE COD REPERTORY THEATRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds CAPE COD CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds LESLEY UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds EVENTIDE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY OF PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds VINEGRASS CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Beyond The Bounds Inc ↗
- Who funds LASELL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WOODS HOLE THEATER COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds WHEATON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CAHOON MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART INC ↗
- Who funds THE PROVINCETOWN THEATER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YARMOUTH NEW CHURCH PRESERVATION 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: Cape Cod Foundation Inc · Bilezikian Family Foundation Inc · Mutual Bancorp Foundation Inc Fka Cape Cod 5 Foundation Inc · Edward Bangs Kelley and Elza Kelley Foundation Inc · Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank Charitable Foundation Trust · Eastern Bank Foundation · Donald C McGraw Foundation Inc · South Shore Playhouse Associates Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 K and Thirza F Davenport 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Arts Foundation of Cape Cod — 6% of income from government
- Lasell University — 4% of income from government
- Academy of Performing Arts Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Cape Cod Museum of Art Inc — 1% of income from government
- Cotuit Center for the Arts Inc — 1% of income from government
- Lesley University — 1% of income from government
- Wheaton College — 0% of income from government
- Cahoon Museum of American Art Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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