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Maben-Davis Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$186k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Health$450kInternational$126kFood & Nutrition$100kHuman Services$41kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kEducation$8kArts & Culture$5kHousing & Shelter$2k
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $73k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY INC$100,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$25,000
CLARK COUNTY FOOD BANK$25,000
FREE CLINIC OF SW WA$12,500
SHARED HOPE INTERNATIONAL$10,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$5,000
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION OREGON AND$2,000
LINFIELD UNIVERSITY$2,000
PORTLAND SYMPHONIC GIRLCHOIR$2,000
YWCA CLARK COUNTY$1,000
SALVATION ARMY$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $37k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%YWCA CLARK COUNTY: $1k → 9%YWCA CLARK COUNTY: $1k → 9%YWCA CLARK COUNTY: $1k → 9%NEW HEIGHTS FOUNDATION: $13k → 9%NEW HEIGHTS FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%NEW HEIGHTS FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%SHARED HOPE INTERNATIONAL: $1k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$740k · 13 repeat orgs$1k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
1

Total granted

$740k
$1k

Still filing today

69%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesInternationalEducationArts & CultureOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $100k · revenue +1%
  • CC
    CLARK COUNTY FOOD BANK
    4× · 2022–2025 · $100k · revenue +64%
  • SH
    SHARED HOPE INTERNATIONAL
    4× · 2022–2025 · $26k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • YO
    YWCA OF COLUMBIA-WILLIAMETTE
    one grant, 2022 · $1k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities

Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities accredits institutions of higher education by applying evidence-informed standards and processes to support continuous improvements and promote equitable student achievement and success.

Education
2
Young Womens Christian Association

The ywca is dedicated to eliminating racism and empowering women.

Human Services
3
Women in Global Health Inc

Women in global health (wgh) is a global movement and organization that brings together all genders and backgrounds to achieve gender equality in global health leadership.

Public Benefit
4
Northwestern Health Sciences University

Northwestern health sciences university prepares and serves the next generation of professionals and leaders to become vital contributors to the delivery and advancement of health care. our mission is accomplished through educational…

Education
5
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
6
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
7
National Committee for Quality Assurance

Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.

Health
8
Girl Scouts of Western Washington

Girl scouting builds girls* of courage, confidence and character who make the world a better place.

Youth Development
9
Partners in Food Solutions

Improve the food value chain in developing countries by mobilizing corporate volunteers to share knowledge and expertise with small and growing food processors.

International
10
Planned Parenthood North Central States Foundation

To build and maintain financial support for planned parenthood north central states to advance and protect sexual and reproductive health care for all.

Human Services
11
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
12
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Medecins Sans Frontieres Usa Inc; the most unlike its peers is New Heights Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 14 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY INC: $400,000 · OtherNATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY INCCLARK COUNTY FOOD BANK: $100,000 · OtherCLARK COUNTY FOOD BANKFREE CLINIC OF SW WA: $45,000 · OtherFREE CLINIC OF SW WA+4 more: $12,000 · OtherMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $100,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FR…WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $10,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KI…NEW HEIGHTS FOUNDATION: $32,500 · Human ServicesNEW HEIGH…SHARED HOPE INTERNATIONAL: $26,000 · Human ServicesSHARED HO…YWCA CLARK COUNTY: $3,000 · Human ServicesLinfield University: $8,000 · EducationPORTLAND SYMPHONIC GIRLCHOIR: $4,750 · Arts & Culture
Other$557,000International$110,000Human Services$61,500Education$8,000Arts & Culture$4,750

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY INC: $400,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $100,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCLARK COUNTY FOOD BANK: $100,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNEW HEIGHTS FOUNDATION: $32,500 over 3y, 6.9% of budgetSHARED HOPE INTERNATIONAL: $26,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLinfield University: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPORTLAND SYMPHONIC GIRLCHOIR: $4,750 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetYWCA CLARK COUNTY: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds NATIONAL BRAIN TUMOR SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds CLARK COUNTY FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds NEW HEIGHTS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SHARED HOPE INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds Linfield University ↗
  • Who funds PORTLAND SYMPHONIC GIRLCHOIR ↗
  • Who funds YWCA CLARK COUNTY ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

American Online Giving Foundation IncDE8.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Maben-Davis Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Maben-Davis Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Linfield University: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 14 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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