· Private foundation
Ruth Q Davis Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $47k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $51k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COASTAL ALABAMA COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $16,000 |
| ARC OF CALHOUN & CLEBURNE COUNTIES | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUND OF BIRMINGHAM | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| FREEDOM FARM | $6,000 |
| UMS WRIGHT | $6,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUND OF BIRMINGHAM | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| HELEN JAMES FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| LIGHT OF THE VILLAGE | $3,000 |
| CIRCLE OF LOVE FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,720 |
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 (FY18–22, $141k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 53% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 11% of Ruth Q Davis Foundation Inc’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 +32% since the first grant, against +0% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 3 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- UMUrban Ministry Inc3× · 2020–2022 · $75k · revenue +32%
YOUTH VILLAGES INC2× · 2018–2019 · $65k · revenue +124%- HJHELEN JAMES FOUNDATION7× · 2019–2025 · $35k · revenue +194% · 65% of their budget
Funded once
- PHPINE HILL ARLIINGTON METHODISTone grant, 2023 · $6k
- PPPHILLIPS PREPARATORY SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $5k
- FUFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
Nashville inner city ministry is a christ-centered community organization dedicated to empowering the spiritual, educational and vocational development of at-risk youth and their families.
Operation of a daycare program for children.
To create a community to support the potential of children, youth, and families through educational success, healthy living, and community engagement.
Provide financial and support services for youth villages, inc.
Operation of a public charter school in Mobile Alabama.
Ensuring the safety and well-being of children entrusted to our care while empowering them to prepare for the future.
Harding academy of memphis, inc. is a private school providing education from pre kindergarten through grade twelve.
Methodist children's home equips children, youth, and families to flourish by offering hope through christian-centered relationships, services, and support.
Child care services
Little Lights Urban Ministries empowers underserved youth and families in Washington, DC with the love of Christ. We seek to develop their God-given potential spiritually, socially and intellectually through academics, life skills, the…
Lilyfield is a christ-centered ministry devoted to providing healthy families for at-risk children and youth.
The Home was organized to provide for the health, welfare and benefit of children whose parents or guardians are unable to care for them. The Home offers residential care and onsite academic
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Our Kids Inc and the most unlike its peers is Helen James Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 33 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 Urban Ministry Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUTH VILLAGES INC ↗
- Who funds ARC OF CALHOUN AND CLEBURNE COUNTIES INC ↗
- Who funds HELEN JAMES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UMS-WRIGHT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM FARM INC ↗
- Who funds OUR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE LIGHT OF THE VILLAGE A NONPROF CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds FIRST LIGHT COMMUNITY OF MOBILE INC ↗
- Who funds PLANT THE SEED ↗
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.
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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 Ruth Q Davis Foundation Inc 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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