· Private foundation
Palmer and Jane D 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 $10k21 grants · $88k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SEASIDE LEMANS FUND | $50,000 |
| CAPE ABILITIES INC | $25,000 |
| OUTER CAPE HEALTH SERVICES | $10,000 |
| CAPE COD TIMES NEIGHBORS FUND | $7,500 |
| DUFFY HEALTH CENTER | $7,500 |
| CAPE WELLNESS COLLABORATIVE | $5,000 |
| CAPE WELLNESS COLLABORATIVE | $5,000 |
| BRAZILIAN RESOURCE CENTER INC | $5,000 |
| YMCA CAPE COD | $5,000 |
| CHAMP HOMES INC | $5,000 |
| THE CAPE COD FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| LOWER CAPE OUTREACH COUNCIL INC | $5,000 |
| CAPE COD VILLAGE CENTER FOR DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES INC | $5,000 |
| CAPE WELLNESS COLLABORATIVE | $5,000 |
| CAPE KID MEALS | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $75k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 93% 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 31% of Palmer and Jane D Davenport 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 +40% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 7 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k 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
- CWCAPE WELLNESS COLLABORATIVE INC5× · 2020–2025 · $55k · revenue +80%
- CCCAPE COD TIMES NEIGHBORS FUND INC6× · 2017–2025 · $30k · revenue +48%
- CHCHAMP HOMES INC6× · 2020–2025 · $28k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- CCCAPE COD HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION (SEE STMT 12)one grant, 2017 · $249k
- CCCAPE COD HEALTHCARE INCone grant, 2022 · $100k
- CACAPE AREA PILOTS ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2024 · $50k
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.
Provide resources and skills to individuals and families in the cape and islands to attain and retain independence and economic stability and self-sufficiency through personal growth, family stabilization, life skills and employment…
Cape cod healthcare, the leading provider of healthcare services on cape cod, coordinates and delivers the highest quality, accessible health services which enhance the health of all cape cod residents and visitors. the mission of cape cod…
To partner with individuals, families and the community to provide recovery-focused, trauma-informed, integrated primary and behavioral healthcare and to promote wellness, resiliency and hope for positive change.
The mission of the cape and islands united way inc is to increase the organized capacity for people on cape cod and the islands to care for one another and to improve the human condition of the region.
Creating housing for adults on the autism spectrum
Committed to the healthy development,education,childcare,respectful eldercare, and to provide support & empowerment of all families of southeastern massachusetts, cape cod and the islands
Nami cape cod & the islands serves individuals and their families who are affected by the broad spectrum of mental illnesses and neurological disorders through support, education and advocacy, and promotes mental awareness for all.
Hac's mission is to promote and implement the right of all people on cape cod and the islands to occupy safe and affordable housing. to achieve this goal, hac has concentrated its major programs around rental subsidies, shelter services,…
Cape cod healthcare, the leading provider of healthcare services on cape cod, coordinates and delivers the highest quality, accessible health services which enhance the health of all cape cod residents and visitors. the mission of cape cod…
The mission of seacoast mental health center is to provide a broad comprehensive array of high quality, effective and accessible mental health services to residents of the eastern half of rockingham county.
To provide public broadcasting to lower cape cod massachusetts
Enhance the lives of seniors, caregivers and those with similar needs by assisting them to remain independent through a range of quality services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Cape and Islands Veterans Outreach Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Behavioral Health Innovators Inc. 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 37 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 46 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 Cape Cod Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CAPE WELLNESS COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds CAPE AREA PILOTS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CAPE ABILITIES INC ↗
- Who funds CAPE COD TIMES NEIGHBORS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds PENIKESE ISLAND SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CHAMP HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds DUFFY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BRAZILIAN RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ELDER SERVICES OF CAPE COD AND THE ISLANDS INC ↗
- Who funds BELONGING TO EACH OTHER INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER OF CAPE COD INC ↗
- Who funds OUTER CAPE HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY PANTRY OF CAPE COD CORP ↗
- Who funds CAPE KID MEALS INC ↗
- Who funds SHARING KINDNESS INC ↗
- Who funds KENNEDY-DONOVAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INNOVATORS INC ↗
- Who funds CAPE COD VILLAGE CENTER FOR DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES INC ↗
- Who funds TEDY'S TEAM INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CAPE COD INC ↗
- Who funds DREAM DAY ON CAPE COD INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S FAMILY CAREGIVER SUPPORT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LOWER CAPE OUTREACH COUNCILINC ↗
- Who funds GOSNOLD INC ↗
- Who funds THE CAPE AND ISLANDS VETERANS OUTREACH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HARBOR HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds ADA Forsyth Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds MAB COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS MILITARY SUPPORT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FALMOUTH SERVICE CENTER INC ↗
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: Mutual Bancorp Foundation Inc Fka Cape Cod 5 Foundation Inc · Cape Cod Foundation Inc · Lyndon Paul Lorusso Charitable Foundatio · Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank Charitable Foundation Trust · Cape Cod Healthcare Inc & Affiliates · Cape & Coast Bank Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · Cape and Islands United Way Inc · Bilezikian Family Foundation Inc · Edward Bangs Kelley and Elza Kelley Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · First Citizens Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Palmer and Jane D 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.
- Cape Abilities Inc — 81% of income from government
- Mab Community Services Inc — 69% of income from government
- Kennedy-Donovan Center Inc — 62% of income from government
- Alzheimer's Family Caregiver Support Center Inc — 57% of income from government
- Duffy Health Center Inc — 51% of income from government
- Harbor Health Services Inc — 39% of income from government
- Ada Forsyth Institute Inc — 38% of income from government
- Outer Cape Health Services Inc — 18% of income from government
- Community Health Center of Cape Cod Inc — 9% of income from government
- Lower Cape Outreach Councilinc — 6% of income from government
- Gosnold Inc — 5% of income from government
- Cape Cod Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Sharing Kindness Inc — 1% 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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