· Private foundation
Randy and Barbara Davies Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 68% of RANDY AND BARBARA DAVIES FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $80k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST JUDES CHIDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $20,000 |
| UPMC CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PGH FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| UPMC CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PGH FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE ALLEGHENIES | $10,000 |
| NEXT STEP CENTER | $10,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE ALLEGHENIES | $6,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS | $5,000 |
| SOMERSET COUNTY MOBILE FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| SOMERSET AREA MINISTRIES | $3,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| SOMERSET COUNTY FLAG COMMITTEE | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $112k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
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.
20 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- TNTHE NEXT STEP CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $85k · revenue +37%
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH3× · 2022–2024 · $30k · revenue +11%- SCSOMERSET COUNTY MOBILE FOOD BANK5× · 2021–2025 · $23k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- SCSOMERSET COUNTY 4-H DEV FUND INCone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +12%
- CAChildrens Aid Society Foundationone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue -11%
- SVSOMERSET VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENTgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +25%
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.
The system was formed to coordinate the efforts of three public libraries for collections and reference materials and provide library services for all three libraries in a cooperative fashion.
The somerset county chamber of commerce is a non-profit corporation dedicated to promoting the somerset county, pennsylvania region as a superior locale in which to live, work, vacation and conduct business.
Home of somerset county inc. is a homeless shelter and assistance agency for homeless families and single women in the county. empowering homeless families to achieve and maintain independence.
The organizaton operates daily and weekly food pantries in bridgewater, bound brook, somerville, manville, north plainfield and the va in lyons(all in somerest county, new jersey). the organization meets emergency food needs on a daily…
The organization was created for the economic development of somerset county, pennsylvania, with it's mission to promote industrial, commercial and retail growth in the county by recruiting and assisting new firms to locate in the county,…
Provide quality treatment and prevention services to all persons suffering from the consequences of substance abuse or HIV illnesses.
Providing meals to the elderly and needy
Provide transportation and meals and additional assistance to elderly
To support the 4-h program (rutgers cooperative development - youth development program, somerset county, nj) in somerset county by providing a building for meeting space, sponsoring the annual 4-h fair, and providing other program support.
Distribution of emergency food
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Somerset County Foundation for Higher Education and the most unlike its peers is Somerset County Mobile Food Bank. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 28 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 THE NEXT STEP CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER JOHNSTOWN ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds SOMERSET COUNTY MOBILE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds SOMERSET AREA MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds The Childrens Aid Home Programs of Somerset County Inc ↗
- Who funds SOMERSET COUNTY 4-H DEV FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Childrens Aid Society Foundation ↗
- Who funds SOMERSET VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds SOMERSET COUNTY FOUNDATION FOR HIGHER EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds MARY S BIESECKER PUBLIC LIBARY ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SOMERSET COUNTY 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: Community Foundation of Greater Johnstown · The Wheeler Family Charitable Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Randy and Barbara Davies Family 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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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