Skip to content
Foundation Dossiers

New York · Private foundation

Sadie and Harry Davis Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.5M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
18
Grants FY2024
15
Organizations funded FY2023
93%
First-time grantees FY2023
Read the full brief
Median grant, FY2024
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$1,050,000
Organizations funded a year
13 to 18
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$31M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 93% of the organizations Sadie and Harry Davis Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesHealthFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentEducationPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving18$1.5M83%
FY202315$1.3M93%
FY202218$1.3M56%
FY202116$518k63%
FY202015$108k87%
FY201913$101k92%
FY201815$107k100%
FY201715$264kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$4.1MHealth$3.7MArts & Culture$221kHuman Services$189kFood & Nutrition$181kYouth Development$177kPublic Benefit$81kCrime & Legal$70kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Harry E Davis Partnership for Children's Oral Health$1,050,000158%
Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting$200,000119%
MaineHealth Services$125,17210%
University of New England$33,33310%
SafeBae Org Inc$25,000110%
LifeFlight Foundation$25,00011%
Viles Arboretum$25,00017%
Maine Equal Justice Partners$25,00011%
Androscoggin Land Trust Inc$25,000113%
Foundation for Portland Public Schools$22,00021%
Show all 72 grantees
All grantees of Sadie and Harry Davis Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Harry E Davis Partnership for Children's Oral Health$1,050,000158%
Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting$200,000119%
MaineHealth Services$125,17210%
University of New England$33,33310%
SafeBae Org Inc$25,000110%
LifeFlight Foundation$25,00011%
Viles Arboretum$25,00017%
Maine Equal Justice Partners$25,00011%
Androscoggin Land Trust Inc$25,000113%
Foundation for Portland Public Schools$22,00021%
My Place Teen Center Inc$20,00021%
Full Plates Full Potential$20,00021%
Augusta Food Bank$20,00021%
Hardy Girls Healthy Women Inc$20,00018%
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Mid-Maine$20,0001n/a
Locker Project$20,00021%
Patient Airlift Services Inc$20,00021%
Robbie Foundation$20,000211%
United Way of Aroostook$18,00031%
Kids First Center$17,50032%
Consumers for Affordable Health Care Foundation$16,00021%
Bangor Young Men's Christian Association$16,00020%
MIDCOAST YOUTH CENTER & skatepark$15,36011%
Hand in Hand Mano en Mano$15,00011%
Maine Boys to Men$15,00015%
Maine Access Immigrant Network$15,00014%
Tree Street Youth Inc$15,00011%
Sandcastle Clinical & Educational Services$15,00011%
Oxford Hills Community Gardens$15,00017%
Heart of Maine United Way$15,00011%
Maine Inside Out$15,00011%
Grahamtastic Connection$14,00016%
Community Clinical Services Inc$14,00010%
Defend Our Health$13,00011%
Community Youth Services$11,00018%
Women for Healthy Rural Living$10,50022%
Aroostook County Action Program$10,00010%
Harrington Family Health Center Inc$10,00010%
Uplift Center for Grieving Children$10,0001n/a
Piscataquis Regional Food Center$10,00015%
Young Mens Christian Association Sanford-Springvale$10,00010%
Sunrise County Economic Council$10,00010%
Kismet Rock Foundation$10,00014%
Camp Capella Inc$10,00012%
YWCA Central Maine$10,0001n/a
Restorative Justice Project Maine$10,00011%
American Academy of Pediatrics Maine Chapter Inc$10,00013%
Downeast Community Partners Inc$10,00010%
Jackson Food Pantry$10,0001n/a
Dunk The Junk$9,000118%
Maine Children's Home for Little Wanderers$9,00010%
Kidspeace Corporation$9,00010%
Furniture Friends$8,50014%
Shaw House$8,00011%
Good Shepherd Food Bank$7,5001n/a
Midcoast Maine Community Action$7,50010%
The Center for Entrepreneurial Studies$7,50012%
Healthy Acadia$7,50010%
Washington County Council of Governments$6,25013%
Maine Philanthropy Center$6,04070%
Young Men's Christian Association Boothbay Region$6,00010%
Waldo County General Hospital$5,25010%
Safe Families for Children Alliance$5,00010%
Maine Youth Thriving$5,00011%
Freeport Community Services$5,00010%
Maine Immigrants' Rights Coalition$5,00010%
Rosati Leadership Academy$5,00014%
Greater Bay Area Ministerium Food Cupboard Inc$5,0001n/a
The Center for Grieving Children$5,00010%
Broadreach Family & Community Services$5,0001n/a
Fit Girls of Wilton Maine$4,3001n/a
United Way Inc$3,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 32 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.0M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Sadie and Harry Davis Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 64 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Harry E Davis Partnership for Children's Oral Health: $1,050,000 over 1y, 58% of budgetMaine Center for Public Interest Reporting: $200,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetMaineHealth Services: $125,172 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity of New England: $33,333 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSafeBae Org Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetLifeFlight Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetViles Arboretum: $25,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetMaine Equal Justice Partners: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAndroscoggin Land Trust Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetFoundation for Portland Public Schools: $22,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetMy Place Teen Center Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetFull Plates Full Potential: $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetAugusta Food Bank: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHardy Girls Healthy Women Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetLocker Project: $20,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetPatient Airlift Services Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetRobbie Foundation: $20,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetUnited Way of Aroostook: $18,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetKids First Center: $17,500 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetConsumers for Affordable Health Care Foundation: $16,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetBangor Young Men's Christian Association: $16,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMIDCOAST YOUTH CENTER & skatepark: $15,360 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetHand in Hand Mano en Mano: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMaine Boys to Men: $15,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetMaine Access Immigrant Network: $15,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetTree Street Youth Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSandcastle Clinical & Educational Services: $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetOxford Hills Community Gardens: $15,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetHeart of Maine United Way: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMaine Inside Out: $15,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetGrahamtastic Connection: $14,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetCommunity Clinical Services Inc: $14,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDefend Our Health: $13,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCommunity Youth Services: $11,000 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetWomen for Healthy Rural Living: $10,500 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetAroostook County Action Program: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHarrington Family Health Center Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPiscataquis Regional Food Center: $10,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetYoung Mens Christian Association Sanford-Springvale: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSunrise County Economic Council: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetKismet Rock Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetCamp Capella Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetRestorative Justice Project Maine: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAmerican Academy of Pediatrics Maine Chapter Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetDowneast Community Partners Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDunk The Junk: $9,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetMaine Children's Home for Little Wanderers: $9,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetKidspeace Corporation: $9,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

Tap a dot to name the grantee.

How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 64.

Nonprofits that may fit its grantmaking

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.

Maine Community Found…Elmina B Sewall Found…Stephen & Tabitha Kin…John T Gorman Foundat…Bangor Savings Bank F…Maine Health Access F…Fisher Charitable Fou…Agnes M Lindsay TrustOnion FoundationSam L Cohen FoundationUnited Way IncSimmons Foundation - …
Maine Community Foundation IncME86.5× affinity51 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc · John T Gorman Foundation · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Maine Health Access Foundation Inc · Fisher Charitable Foundation · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Onion Foundation · Sam L Cohen Foundation · United Way Inc · Simmons Foundation - PerkinsThompson

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Compare Sadie and Harry Davis Foundation Inc with peer funders

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Sadie and Harry Davis Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Sadie and Harry Davis Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Sadie and Harry Davis Foundation Inc

How much does Sadie and Harry Davis Foundation Inc give?
Sadie and Harry Davis Foundation Inc reported 18 grants totaling $1,517,555 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 18 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Sadie and Harry Davis Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (44%), Health (39%), Arts & Culture (2%).
Who are Sadie and Harry Davis Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Harry E Davis Partnership for Children's Oral Health ($1.1M), Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting ($200k), MaineHealth Services ($125k).
Does Sadie and Harry Davis Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 93% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Sadie and Harry Davis Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Sadie and Harry Davis Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Maine Community Foundation Inc, Elmina B Sewall Foundation, Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc.
Where is Sadie and Harry Davis Foundation Inc based?
Sadie and Harry Davis Foundation Inc is based in NY.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 105 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

Play a game based on Sadie and Harry Davis’ filings →

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home