Pennsylvania · Private foundation
The Davenport Family Foundation
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.
- $2.9M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 33
- Grants FY2025
- 34
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $60,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $435,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 25 to 34
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $67M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations The Davenport Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 24% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $640k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 33 | $2.9M | 6% |
| FY2024 | 34 | $2.6M | 29% |
| FY2023 | 28 | $2.4M | 18% |
| FY2022 | 31 | $2.5M | 19% |
| FY2021 | 27 | $2.7M | 30% |
| FY2020 | 31 | $2.3M | 26% |
| FY2019 | 25 | $1.9M | 48% |
| FY2018 | 31 | $2.6M | 48% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sanford School | $2,410,014 | 9 | 3% |
| University of Richmond | $1,350,792 | 5 | 0% |
| Trustees of Tufts College | $1,195,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Malvern Preparatory School | $1,004,700 | 1 | 4% |
| Philadelphia Museum of Art | $951,000 | 8 | 0% |
| High Point University | $825,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Vanderbilt University | $820,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Thomas Jefferson University | $815,902 | 7 | 0% |
| Chester County Food Bank | $800,819 | 8 | 2% |
| Zoological Society of Philadelphia | $550,000 | 4 | 1% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Davenport Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: The Philadelphia Foundation · Chester County Community Foundation · Wsfs Cares Foundation · Welfare Foundation Inc · Delaware Community Foundation Inc · Crestlea Foundation Inc · Longwood Foundation Inc · The Dansko Foundation Inc · Hamilton Family Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Cabot-Kjellerup Foundation · The Smith Foundation Aka the Hoxie Harrison Smith Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Davenport Family Foundation
- How much does The Davenport Family Foundation give?
- The Davenport Family Foundation reported 33 grants totaling $2,893,341 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 34 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Davenport Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (50%), Arts & Culture (16%), Recreation & Sports (8%).
- Who are The Davenport Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Sanford School ($2.4M), University of Richmond ($1.4M), Trustees of Tufts College ($1.2M).
- Does The Davenport Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Davenport Family Foundation 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 The Davenport Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Philadelphia Foundation, Chester County Community Foundation, Wsfs Cares Foundation.
- Where is The Davenport Family Foundation based?
- The Davenport Family Foundation is based in PA.
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