Texas · Private foundation
Ken W Davis Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $2.5M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 119
- Grants FY2025
- 125
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $17,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $70,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 125 to 187
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 12
- Total assets, FY2025
- $45M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations Ken W Davis Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 24% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $580k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 114 | $2.5M | 8% |
| FY2024 | 125 | $2.5M | 25% |
| FY2023 | 159 | $2.4M | 22% |
| FY2022 | 187 | $2.7M | 19% |
| FY2021 | 186 | $2.5M | 25% |
| FY2020 | 183 | $2.2M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Midland Rape Crisis Center Inc | $330,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Tarrant Area Food Bank | $270,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Centers for Children and Families Inc | $260,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Senior Life Midland Inc | $229,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Freedom Service Dogs Inc | $224,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Community Children's Ministry | $215,000 | 6 | 7% |
| Aphasia Center of West Texas Inc | $186,000 | 6 | 5% |
| Mission Agape | $170,000 | 6 | 6% |
| Recording Library of West Texas | $161,000 | 6 | 11% |
| Permian Basin Gifts of Hope Inc | $160,000 | 6 | 7% |
Show all 250 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 90 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Ken W Davis Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Abell-Hanger Foundation · Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inc · Permian Basin Area Foundation · Helen Greathouse Charitable Trust · Amon G Carter Foundation · Scharbauer Foundation Inc · Sid W Richardson Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Pevehouse Family Foundation · Warren Charitable Foundation · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Wayne & Jo Ann Moore Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
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About Ken W Davis Foundation
- How much does Ken W Davis Foundation give?
- Ken W Davis Foundation reported 119 grants totaling $2,500,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 125 and 187 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Ken W Davis Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (23%), Health (16%), Food & Nutrition (9%).
- Who are Ken W Davis Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Midland Rape Crisis Center Inc ($330k), Tarrant Area Food Bank ($270k), Centers for Children and Families Inc ($260k).
- Does Ken W Davis Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ken W Davis Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Ken W Davis Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Abell-Hanger Foundation, Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inc, Permian Basin Area Foundation.
- Where is Ken W Davis Foundation based?
- Ken W Davis Foundation is based in TX.
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