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Suc Tua Evelyn Davis Foundation at a glance

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Suc Tua Evelyn Davis Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$17M
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$4.6M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$14MArts & Culture$8.4MRecreation & Sports$2.0MPhilanthropy$250kHuman Services$100k
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TRINITY COLLEGE OF WASHINGTON DC$4,600,000
PBS NEWSHOUR STUDENT REPORTING - WETA$4,050,000
HAMPTON ROADS EDUCATIONAL TELCOM SVCS$2,500,000
WOMEN'S SPORTS FOUNDATION$2,000,000
XAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA$1,750,000
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY$1,275,000
NATIONAL WOMEN'S HISTORY MUSEUM$1,000,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY23–23, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CASH CAMPAIGN OF MARYLAND INC: $100k → 19%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
NY
MA
CT
KY
VA
MD
NC
DC
LA
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

54%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$13M · 6 repeat orgs$11M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +8% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
13

Total granted

$13M
$4.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
+5%

Still filing today

50%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7.0M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsEmploymentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • TC
    TRINITY COLLEGE OF WASHINGTON DC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $4.8M
  • HR
    HAMPTON ROADS EDUCATIONAL TELCOM SVCS
    2× · 2023–2024 · $3.5M
  • XU
    XAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA
    2× · 2023–2024 · $2.5M · revenue -1%

Funded once

  • GW
    GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $2.0M · revenue +5%
  • HR
    HAMPTON ROADS EDUCATIONAL SERVICES
    one grant, 2021 · $300k
  • NS
    NAT'L SOC'TY COLONIAL DAMES OF AMERICA
    one grant, 2023 · $300k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education
2
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
3
Nashville Public Radio

Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.

Arts & Culture
4
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
5
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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6
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
7
Open Campus Media Inc

Higher education shapes the future of every community in america-determining who moves up the economic ladder, where good jobs develop, and how regions prosper. this promise depends on the public's ability to see and understand how their…

Arts & Culture
8
Thomas Jefferson School of Law

The mission of the school is to provide outstanding legal education in a collegial and supportive environment with attention to newly emerging areas of law, particularly those related to technological development, globalization and the…

Education
9
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
10
George Fox University

George fox university, a christ centered community, prepares students spiritually, academically, and professionally to think with clarity, act with integrity, and serve with passion.

Education
11
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
12
Kqed Inc

See schedule okqed serves the people of northern california with a community-supported alternative to commercial media, providing the knowledge needed to make informed decisions; convening community dialogue; bringing the arts to everyone;…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Borealis Philanthropy; the most unlike its peers is American University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

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 22 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
6/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TRINITY COLLEGE OF WASHINGTON DC: $4,800,000 · OtherTRINITY COLLEGE OF WASHINGTON DCPBS NEWSHOUR STUDENT REPORTING - WETA: $4,050,000 · OtherPBS NEWSHOUR STUDENT REPORTING - WETAHAMPTON ROADS EDUCATIONAL TELCOM SVCS: $3,500,000 · OtherHAMPTON ROADS EDUCATIONAL TELCOM SVCS+9 more: $2,034,774 · Other+9 moreXAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA: $2,500,000 · EducationXAVIER UNIVERSITY OF …AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $1,925,000 · EducationAMERICAN UNIVERSITYTRINITY COLLEGE: $200,000 · EducationGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC: $2,000,000 · Arts & CultureGREATER WASHING…NATIONAL WOMEN'S HISTORY MUSEUM: $1,000,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL WOMEN'…BOREALIS PHILANTHROPY: $250,000 · Arts & CultureBOREALIS PHILAN…+1 more: $75,000 · Arts & CultureWomens Sports Foundation: $2,000,000 · Recreation & SportsWomens Sp…THE GROUNDTRUTH PROJECT INC: $285,000 · EmploymentCASH CAMPAIGN OF MARYLAND INC: $100,000 · Human Services
Other$14,384,774Education$4,625,000Arts & Culture$3,325,000Recreation & Sports$2,000,000Employment$285,000Human Services$100,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetXAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA: $2,500,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetWomens Sports Foundation: $2,000,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC: $2,000,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $1,925,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL WOMEN'S HISTORY MUSEUM: $1,000,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetTHE GROUNDTRUTH PROJECT INC: $285,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetThe National Press Foundation Inc: $250,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetTHE GET SCHOOLED FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetBOREALIS PHILANTHROPY: $250,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTRINITY COLLEGE: $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCASH CAMPAIGN OF MARYLAND INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetKENTUCKY PUBLIC RADIO INC: $75,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budget
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.

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.

American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Online Giving Foundation IncDE7.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Suc Tua Evelyn Davis Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Suc Tua Evelyn Davis Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Cash Campaign of Maryland Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Trinity College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 22 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.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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