· Private foundation
Robert & Mary Davis Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OHIO MASONIC TEMPLE FOUNDATION | $895,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–21, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those 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
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 Robert & Mary Davis Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in OH; by stated purpose, 69%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +149% since the first grant, against +89% for those funded once.
15 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 1 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, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $895k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- DMDAYTON MASONIC FOUNDATION4× · 2020–2023 · $1.2M · revenue +218% · 66% of their budget
- KIKids in New Directions5× · 2017–2024 · $33k · revenue +77%
- HOHOUSE OF BREAD3× · 2017–2023 · $11k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- DCDAYTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITALgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $137k · revenue +27%
- TOTHE OHIO MASONIC HOMEgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +60%
- FCFAIRMONT CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $10k
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 mission of the Foundation is to enhance and expand the capacity of the Dayton Metro Library to accomplish its mission and goals.
The dayton art institute is committed to enriching the community by creating meaningful experiences with art that are available to all.
To build broad based private/public partnerships supporting the conservation and enhancement of our City's parks and greenspaces.
To lead and equip ohio philanthropy to be effective partners for change in our communities.
None
Dayton children's hospital foundation (the foundation) exists solely to benefit dayton children's hospital, dayton, ohio (dch), and to assist dch in performing its charitable mission.
The hospice of dayton, inc. is committed to making quality hospice care available and accessible to terminally ill persons and their families, regardless of ability to pay, and in a manner consistent with the highest hospice standards. our…
Perform fundraising functions, provide financial support, carryout the purpose and otherwise operating for the benefit of the zoological society of cincinnati.
We advance the health, welfare and safety of animals and people.
We connect your life to wildlife while inspiring lifelong learning and conservation action.
The intent is for the ohio masonic home benevolent endowment foundation to follow the mission of the ohio masonic home. the ohio masonic home's adopted mission is to be the trusted partner to help our communities thrive.
Ronald mcdonald house charities of dayton's mission is to provide community, comfort, and hope to families of seriously ill children.
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 29 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 DAYTON MASONIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DAYTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds Kids in New Directions ↗
- Who funds THE OHIO MASONIC HOME ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF BREAD ↗
- Who funds ANTIOCH SHRINE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Greater Dayton Public Television dba Think TV ↗
- Who funds KNIGHTS TEMPLAR EYE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOMEFULL ↗
- Who funds DAYTON HISTORY ↗
- Who funds Wegerzyn Gardens Foundation ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Robert & Mary Davis Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert & Mary Davis Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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