Ohio · Private foundation
Robert & Mary Davis Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $895k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 1
- Grants FY2025
- 3
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $895,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $895,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 19
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.2M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Robert & Mary Davis Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 1 | $895k | 100% |
| FY2024 | 3 | $2.0M | 33% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $1.1M | 25% |
| FY2022 | 6 | $122k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $110k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $74k | 42% |
| FY2019 | 8 | $42k | 50% |
| FY2017 | 12 | $48k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dayton Masonic Foundation | $1,215,000 | 4 | 66% |
| Dayton Children's Hospital | $137,460 | 1 | 0% |
| Kids in New Directions | $33,000 | 5 | 9% |
| The Ohio Masonic Home | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Fairmont Presbyterian Church | $15,000 | 3 | n/a |
| House of Bread | $11,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Antioch Shrine Foundation | $7,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Bellbrook Presbyterian Church | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Greater Dayton Public Television dba Think TV | $5,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Knights Templar Eye Foundation | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 14 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dayton Masonic Foundation | $1,215,000 | 4 | 66% |
| Dayton Children's Hospital | $137,460 | 1 | 0% |
| Kids in New Directions | $33,000 | 5 | 9% |
| The Ohio Masonic Home | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Fairmont Presbyterian Church | $15,000 | 3 | n/a |
| House of Bread | $11,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Antioch Shrine Foundation | $7,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Bellbrook Presbyterian Church | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Greater Dayton Public Television dba Think TV | $5,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Knights Templar Eye Foundation | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Homefull | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Dayton History | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Wegerzyn Gardens Foundation | $250 | 1 | 1% |
| National Park Foundation | $250 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Robert & Mary Davis Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 12 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Dayton Foundation · Dayton Foundation Depository · Dayton Foundation Plus Inc · Virginia W Kettering Foundation Xxxxx3003 · Levin Family Foundation · Mathile Family Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Robert & Mary Davis Foundation
- How much does Robert & Mary Davis Foundation give?
- Robert & Mary Davis Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $895,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 19 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Robert & Mary Davis Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (46%), Education (27%), Community Improvement (20%).
- Who are Robert & Mary Davis Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Dayton Masonic Foundation ($1.2M), Dayton Children's Hospital ($137k), Kids in New Directions ($33k).
- Does Robert & Mary Davis Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Robert & Mary Davis Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Robert & Mary Davis Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Dayton Foundation, Dayton Foundation Depository, Dayton Foundation Plus Inc.
- Where is Robert & Mary Davis Foundation based?
- Robert & Mary Davis Foundation is based in OH.
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