· Private foundation
Mark P & Joyce a Davis Char Tr
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $33k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND | $33,000 |
| EMERSON HOSPITAL | $7,000 |
| FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS | $5,000 |
| CARROLL CENTER FOR THE BLIND INC | $5,000 |
| NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| WBGH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| PBS FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| CONCORD FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY | $1,000 |
| NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC | $1,000 |
| BOSTON UNIVERSITY WBUR | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 93% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
6 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 4 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PSPERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND9× · 2017–2025 · $281k · revenue +49%
- EHEMERSON HOSPITAL6× · 2020–2025 · $33k · revenue +56%
THE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC8× · 2018–2025 · $28k · revenue +47%
Funded once
VERMONT ADAPTIVE SKI AND SPORTSgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $4k · revenue +49%
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.
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.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
Npr international operations, inc. ("nprio") supports the international newsgathering activities of national public radio, inc. through bureaus and offices established locally in foreign countries.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The nber conducts unbiased, non-partisan economic research and communicates the findings of that research to academic researchers, policy-makers, and business professionals. (continued on schedule o)
To foster support, research, and public education of the various effects and benefits of marijuana.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
How this is measured
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 11 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds EMERSON HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC ↗
- Who funds THE CARROLL CENTER FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CONCORD FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds VERMONT ADAPTIVE SKI AND SPORTS ↗
- Who funds PBS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Mark P & Joyce a Davis Char Tr funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mark P & Joyce a Davis Char Tr. Bigger dots raise more.
- Vermont Adaptive Ski and Sports: 11% of income from government
- Perkins School for the Blind: 7% of income from government
- Emerson Hospital: 3% of income from government
- The Carroll Center for the Blind Inc: 3% of income from government
How this is measured
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