· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| FREEDOM FARM | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| UMS WRIGHT | $6,000 |
| HELEN JAMES FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUND OF BIRMINGHAM | $5,000 |
| LIGHT OF THE VILLAGE | $3,000 |
| CIRCLE OF LOVE FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,720 |
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 (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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 11% of Ruth Q Davis Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
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 +32% since the first grant, against +0% for those 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
How this is measured
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 +234% · 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
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.
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
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 33 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 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 THE LIGHT OF THE VILLAGE A NONPROF CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds OUR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds PLANT THE SEED ↗
- Who funds FIRST LIGHT COMMUNITY OF MOBILE INC ↗
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: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ruth Q Davis Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ruth Q Davis Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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