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Palmer and Jane D Davenport Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Palmer and Jane D Davenport Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$173k
Granted FY2025still arriving
24
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$593kPhilanthropy$300kEducation$78kHousing & Shelter$58kReligion$49kHuman Services$37kFood & Nutrition$22kYouth Development$22kOther$0
02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k21 grants · $88k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SEASIDE LEMANS FUND$50,000
CAPE ABILITIES INC$25,000
OUTER CAPE HEALTH SERVICES$10,000
DUFFY HEALTH CENTER$7,500
CAPE COD TIMES NEIGHBORS FUND$7,500
CAPE WELLNESS COLLABORATIVE$5,000
BRAZILIAN RESOURCE CENTER INC$5,000
YMCA CAPE COD$5,000
CAPE COD VILLAGE CENTER FOR DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES INC$5,000
THE CAPE COD FOUNDATION$5,000
CAPE KID MEALS$5,000
CAPE COD COUNCIL OF CHURCHES INC$5,000
CAPE WELLNESS COLLABORATIVE$5,000
CAPE WELLNESS COLLABORATIVE$5,000
CHAMP HOMES INC$5,000
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%KENNEDY DONOVAN CENTER: $5k → 7%KENNEDY-DONOVAN CENTER INC: $3k → 8%CAPE ABILITIES INC: $25k → 8%CAPE ABILITIES INC: $15k → 8%CAPE ABILITIES INC: $10k → 8%LOWER CAPE OUTREACH COUNCIL INC: $5k → 8%ELDER SERVICES OF CAPE COD & THE ISLANDS: $8k → 8%ELDER SERVICES OF CAPE COD & THE ISLANDS: $5k → 8%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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 31% of Palmer and Jane D Davenport Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Palmer and Jane D Davenport Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 9.4% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

47%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$471k · 20 repeat orgs$534k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +30% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
18

Total granted

$471k
$506k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+30%

Still filing today

80%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyFood & NutritionPublic BenefitHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • CW
    CAPE WELLNESS COLLABORATIVE INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $55k · revenue +80%
  • CC
    CAPE COD TIMES NEIGHBORS FUND INC
    6× · 2017–2025 · $30k · revenue +48%
  • CH
    CHAMP HOMES INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $28k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • CC
    CAPE COD HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION (SEE STMT 12)
    one grant, 2017 · $249k
  • CC
    CAPE COD HEALTHCARE INC
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
  • CC
    CAPE COD HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
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
Community Action Committee of Cape Cod & Islands Inc

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…

Community Improvement
2
Cape Cod Healthcare Inc

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…

Health
3
Cape Counseling Services

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.

—
4
Cape and Islands United Way Inc

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.

Philanthropy
5
Cape Cod Village Inc

Creating housing for adults on the autism spectrum

Housing & Shelter
6
Homehealth & Child Care Services Inc

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

—
7
Nami Cape Cod Inc

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.

—
8
Housing Assistance Corporation

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,…

Housing & Shelter
9
Cape Cod Healthcare Inc & Affiliates

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…

Health
10
Seacoast Mental Health Center Inc

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.

Health
11
Lower Cape Communications Inc

To provide public broadcasting to lower cape cod massachusetts

Arts & Culture
12
Coastline Elderly Services Inc

Enhance the lives of seniors, caregivers and those with similar needs by assisting them to remain independent through a range of quality services.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Cape and Islands Veterans Outreach Center Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

33 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. 33 of the 46 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/33
Grantees still filing
23/33
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CAPE COD HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION (SEE STMT 12): $248,797 · OtherCAPE COD HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION (SEE STMT 12)CAPE COD HEALTHCARE INC: $100,000 · OtherCAPE COD HEALTHCARE INCSEASIDE LEMANS FUND: $100,000 · OtherSEASIDE LEMANS FUNDCAPE COD HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $50,000 · OtherCAPE COD HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONCAPE COD COUNCIL OF CHURCHES INC: $48,000 · OtherCAPE COD COUNCIL OF CHURCHES INC+19 more: $102,000 · Other+19 moreCape Cod Foundation Inc: $170,000 · EducationCape Cod Foundation I…CAPE AREA PILOTS ASSOCIATION: $50,000 · EducationCAPE AREA PILOTS ASSO…CAPE WELLNESS COLLABORATIVE INC: $55,000 · HealthCAPE WELLNES…DUFFY HEALTH CENTER INC: $17,500 · HealthDUFFY HEALTH…COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER OF CAPE COD INC: $10,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY HE…OUTER CAPE HEALTH SERVICES INC: $10,000 · HealthOUTER CAPE H…SHARING KINDNESS INC: $7,500 · HealthSHARING KIND…BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INNOVATORS INC: $6,000 · HealthHARBOR HEALTH SERVICES INC: $5,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S FAMILY CAREGIVER SUPPORT CENTER INC: $5,000 · HealthTEDY'S TEAM INC: $5,000 · HealthCAPE COD VILLAGE CENTER FOR DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES INC: $5,000 · Health+1 more: $3,000 · HealthCAPE ABILITIES INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesELDER SERVICES OF CAPE COD AND THE ISLANDS INC: $12,500 · Human ServicesKENNEDY-DONOVAN CENTER INC: $7,500 · Human ServicesLOWER CAPE OUTREACH COUNCILINC: $5,000 · Human ServicesCHAMP HOMES INC: $27,500 · Housing & ShelterBELONGING TO EACH OTHER INC: $12,500 · Housing & ShelterCAPE COD TIMES NEIGHBORS FUND INC: $30,000 · PhilanthropyADA Forsyth Institute Inc: $5,000 · PhilanthropyPENIKESE ISLAND SCHOOL INC: $27,500 · Crime & Legal
Other$648,797Education$220,000Health$129,000Human Services$75,000Housing & Shelter$40,000Philanthropy$35,000Crime & Legal$27,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCape Cod Foundation Inc: $170,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetCAPE WELLNESS COLLABORATIVE INC: $55,000 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetCAPE ABILITIES INC: $50,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCAPE COD TIMES NEIGHBORS FUND INC: $30,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetCHAMP HOMES INC: $27,500 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetPENIKESE ISLAND SCHOOL INC: $27,500 over 4y, 4.1% of budgetDUFFY HEALTH CENTER INC: $17,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBRAZILIAN RESOURCE CENTER INC: $15,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetELDER SERVICES OF CAPE COD AND THE ISLANDS INC: $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBELONGING TO EACH OTHER INC: $12,500 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER OF CAPE COD INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FAMILY PANTRY OF CAPE COD CORP: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOUTER CAPE HEALTH SERVICES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAPE KID MEALS INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetKENNEDY-DONOVAN CENTER INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHARING KINDNESS INC: $7,500 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetBEHAVIORAL HEALTH INNOVATORS INC: $6,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetDREAM DAY ON CAPE COD INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetHARBOR HEALTH SERVICES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOSNOLD INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetADA Forsyth Institute Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S FAMILY CAREGIVER SUPPORT CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTEDY'S TEAM INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CAPE AND ISLANDS VETERANS OUTREACH CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCAPE COD VILLAGE CENTER FOR DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CAPE COD INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS MILITARY SUPPORT FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAB COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFALMOUTH SERVICE CENTER INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF OLD YARMOUTH INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetHARWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $1,000 over 1y, 1.4% 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.

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.

Mutual Bancorp Founda…Cape Cod Foundation I…Lyndon Paul Lorusso C…Cape Cod Five Cents S…Cape Cod Healthcare I…Cape & Coast Bank Fou…Eastern Bank Foundati…Cape and Islands Unit…Bilezikian Family Fou…Edward Bangs Kelley a…Rockland Trust Charit…First Citizens Charit…
Mutual Bancorp Foundation Inc Fka Cape Cod 5 Foundation IncMA59.3× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Palmer and Jane D Davenport Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Palmer and Jane D Davenport Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 130%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 38%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
13get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
5rely on government for over half their income
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Palmer and Jane D Davenport Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Palmer and Jane D Davenport Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 46 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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