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The Bob & Cathleen Davis Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$49k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
9
Grants FY2025
12
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
10 to 16
FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$806k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations The Bob & Cathleen Davis Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’22’23’24
Arts & CultureCivil RightsOther
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
FY2025still arriving9$49k22%
FY202412$58k0%
FY202313$52k38%
FY202210$39k40%
FY202011$54k18%
FY201912$78k50%
FY201716$71kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Animals$117kEducation$85kArts & Culture$66kYouth Development$57kHuman Services$23kCrime & Legal$17kFood & Nutrition$10kRecreation & Sports$10kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WI
NY
CT
VA
AR
TN
DC
LA
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 16 grantees
All grantees of The Bob & Cathleen Davis Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Animal Friends of Washington County$78,50063%
Chappell Hill Historical Society$41,50066%
Camp For All Foundation$40,00031%
Miracle Farm Inc$14,50060%
4 Paws Farm$10,0006n/a
Child Advocates Inc$10,00010%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$5,00010%
Chimp Haven Inc$5,00010%
Justin J Watt Foundation Inc$5,00010%
CASA For Kids Inc$4,00020%
Here I Am Orphan Ministries Inc$4,00031%
Unity Theatre Co$4,00040%
National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame Inc$3,50020%
The Arbor School$2,50010%
Swag to College$2,0001n/a
Brenham Childrens Chorus Inc$1,00011%

Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($168k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Bob & Cathleen Davis Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAnimal Friends of Washington County: $78,500 over 6y, 3.5% of budgetChappell Hill Historical Society: $41,500 over 6y, 5.7% of budgetCamp For All Foundation: $40,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetMiracle Farm Inc: $14,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetChild Advocates Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChimp Haven Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJustin J Watt Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCASA For Kids Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHere I Am Orphan Ministries Inc: $4,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetUnity Theatre Co: $4,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetNational Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame Inc: $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Arbor School: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBrenham Childrens Chorus Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budget

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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 14.

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.

BetsWest FoundationTX15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: BetsWest Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · 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.

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About The Bob & Cathleen Davis Foundation

How much does The Bob & Cathleen Davis Foundation give?
The Bob & Cathleen Davis Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $48,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 16 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does The Bob & Cathleen Davis Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (29%), Education (21%), Arts & Culture (17%).
Who are The Bob & Cathleen Davis Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Animal Friends of Washington County ($79k), Chappell Hill Historical Society ($42k), Camp For All Foundation ($40k).
Does The Bob & Cathleen Davis Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Bob & Cathleen Davis Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Bob & Cathleen Davis Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include BetsWest Foundation, Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, American Online Giving Foundation Inc.
Where is The Bob & Cathleen Davis Foundation based?
The Bob & Cathleen Davis Foundation is based in TX.

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 35 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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