· Private foundation
The Carl a Davis and Lois E Davis Foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k15 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $120k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $509k
- $250k+1 grant · $7.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF ST THOMAS | $7,175,000 |
| HOUSTON COALITION FOR LIFE | $175,000 |
| ETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK | $150,000 |
| LET THE CHILDREN LIVE | $75,000 |
| OUR LADY OF WALSINGHAM CATHOLIC CHURCH | $59,300 |
| GUADALUPE RADIO NETWORK | $50,000 |
| ST JOHN PAUL II FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| STAR OF HOPE | $25,000 |
| THOMAS MORE SOCIETY | $20,000 |
| THE PERSONAL ORDINARIATE OF THE CHAIR OF ST PETER | $10,000 |
| HOUSTON METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR LIFE | $10,000 |
| ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM | $10,000 |
| CATHOLIC LITERARY ARTS | $10,000 |
| MISSIONARIES FOR THE POOR | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $323k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 7% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +44% since the first grant, against +40% for those funded once.
55 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2024, 31 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UOUniversity of St Thomas8× · 2017–2024 · $15M · revenue +70%
- EWETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC8× · 2017–2024 · $866k · revenue +98%
- HCHOUSTON COALITION FOR LIFE8× · 2017–2024 · $353k · revenue +77%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $2.5M
- STST THOMAS EPISCOPAL SCHOOLone grant, 2019 · $500k
- MAMISES ACADEMYone grant, 2017 · $35k
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.
South texas college of law houston provides a diverse body of students the opportunity to obtain an exceptional legal education, preparing graduates to serve their community and profession with distinction.
St. marys university, as a catholic marianist university, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence.
Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.
The International Catholic Jurists Forum (ICJF) was established to produce, compile, and share resources on fundamental human rights under attack in the regional and international human rights protection systems. It operates as a forum for…
As a catholic university sponsored by the sisters of divine providence, our lady of the lake university is a community whose members are committed to serve students by: (continued on schedule o).
Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…
The institute's mission is to conduct research on key issues facing society to help both the church and society deal thoughtfully with the major issues they face globally. the institute also sponsors and conducts research and scholarship…
To provide high quality, cost-effective health care that delivers the best value to the people we serve in a spiritual environment of caring in association with internationally recognized teaching and research.
St. Peter Catholic High School empowers students to be models of faith through Catholic spiritual formation, while providing a creative and comprehensive education in career and technical pathways.
The ACLU of Texas works with communities, at the State Capitol, and in the courts to protect and advance civil rights and civil liberties for every Texan, no exceptions.
See Schedule O. See explanation for Form 990, Part I, Line 1 - Organization's Mission above.
Organization's mission loyola marymount university maintains a three-fold mission: 1)the encouragement of learning, 2) the education of the whole person, and 3)the service of faith and the promotion of justice.
How this is measured
40 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. 40 of the 80 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 University of St Thomas ↗
- Who funds THE METHODIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON COALITION FOR LIFE ↗
- Who funds LET THE CHILDREN LIVE INC ↗
- Who funds LA PROMESA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STAR OF HOPE MISSION ↗
- Who funds CPI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE JOHN PAUL II FOUNDATION FOR LIFE AND FAMILY ↗
- Who funds MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds ST DOMINIC VILLAGE ↗
- Who funds THOMAS MORE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR LIFE ↗
- Who funds TEXAS EDUCATION WORKS ↗
- Who funds NORTH HOUSTON CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds OILFIELD CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP OF HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds THOMAS MORE LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds CATH LEAGUE FOR RELIGIOUS & CIVIL RIGHTS ↗
- Who funds Houston Museum of Natural Science ↗
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: Strake Foundation · Scanlan Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Marek Family Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · The HydroPhilanthropy Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Knights of Columbus Charitable Fund Inc · The Warren J and Marylou Hayford Family Foundation · The John G and Marie Stella Kenedy Memorial Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Carl a Davis and Lois E Davis Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Carl a Davis and Lois E Davis Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Museum of Fine Arts: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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