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The Davis Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$18k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Health$33kCrime & Legal$10kHuman Services$3kReligion$3kEducation$968Food & Nutrition$825Recreation & Sports$600International$517Other$0
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$511
Median grant
6
States reached
$461k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ACPMP RESEARCH FOUNDATION$5,000
PREVENT CHILD ABSUE NORTH CAROLINA$3,172
FAMILY PROMISE OF THE TRIANGLE$2,060
GRACE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$2,044
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$1,000
HUNGER & HEALTH COALITION$825
WATER MISSION$517
CHILLDREN'S CORNER PRESCHOOL$511
VALLE CRUCIS PARK$500
WATAUGA COUNTY RESCUE SQAUD$500
MARIE SELBY BOTANICAL GARDENS$500
BABIES NEED BOTTOMS INC$270
BLOWING ROCK SCHOOL PTO$257
Individual grant recipient$250
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION$250
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 (FY22–22, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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%ShelterBox: $1k → 14%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

IL
MA
PA
CA
CO
NC
LA
FL
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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$40k · 6 repeat orgs$14k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +133% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
7

Total granted

$40k
$7k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+133%
0%

Still filing today

67%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesFood & NutritionInternationalRecreation & SportsEnvironmentOther
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

  • CR
    Care Ring Inc
    2× · 2019–2021 · $14k · revenue +133%
  • (C
    (ACPMP)APPENDIX CANCERPSEUDOMYXOMA PERITONEI RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $12k · revenue +64%
  • PC
    Positive Childhood Alliance North Carolina
    3× · 2022–2024 · $10k · revenue +158%

Funded once

  • NP
    NURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIP
    one grant, 2022 · $4k · revenue -64%
  • MC
    Manton Center For Orphan Disease Re
    one grant, 2023 · $1k
  • SU
    SHELTERBOX USA INC
    one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue 0%
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
Coastal Carolinas Health Alliance

Facilitate networking among hospitals

Health
2
MaineGeneral Health

To enhance, every day, the health of our patients, our families and our communities. We do that through a range of health care services for people of all ages, in a variety of care settings.

Health
3
Arbor Research Collaborative for Health

Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…

Health
4
National Health Council Inc

To provide a united voice for people with chronic diseases and disabilities.

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5
American Productivity & Quality Center Inc

See Schedule O. The mission of the American Productivity & Quality Center (APQC) is to educate and broadly share information with people and organizations around the world to improve productivity and quality by:- Discovering, researching…

Community Improvement
6
National Coalition On Health Care

The mission of the national coalition on health care (nchc) is to support research and analysis, develop and promote policy solutions, build consensus, and engage the public in order to ensure that america has a high quality health system…

Health
7
Mercy Health

Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…

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8
Cumberland Medical Center

Cumberland Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.

Health
9
Personal Care Products Council Foundation Inc

The foundation is set up to deliver one program - look good feel better. the mission of this nationwide program is to improve the quality of life of women, men, and teens undergoing cancer treatment by offering advice on how to cope with…

Health
10
Covenant HomeCare

Covenant HomeCare provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health, regardless of the patient's ability to pay.

Health
11
Commonwealth Care Alliance Inc

Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.

Health
12
Saratoga Care Inc

To serve the people of the Saratoga region by providing them access to excellence in healthcare in a supportive and caring environment.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Water Missions International; the most unlike its peers is Valle Crucis Park Inc. 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 23 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
7/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Care Ring Inc: $14,000 · HealthCare Ring Inc(ACPMP)APPENDIX CANCERPSEUDOMYXOMA PERITONEI RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $12,000 · Health(ACPMP)APPENDIX CANCERPSEUDOMYXOMA PERITONEI RESEARCH FOUNDATIONNURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIP: $4,000 · HealthNURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIP+2 more: $1,750 · Health+2 morePositive Childhood Alliance North Carolina: $10,172 · OtherPositive Childhood Alliance North Carol…GRACE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $2,544 · OtherGRACE UNITED METHODIST CHURCHFAMILY PROMISE OF THE TRIANGLE: $2,060 · OtherFAMILY PROMISE OF THE TRIANGLEManton Center For Orphan Disease Re: $1,000 · OtherManton Center For Orphan Disease ReIndividual grant recipient: $650 · Other+7 more: $2,168 · Other+7 moreSHELTERBOX USA INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesBabies Need Bottoms Inc: $270 · Human ServicesTHE HUNGER AND HEALTH COALITION INC: $825 · Food & NutritionWATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL: $517 · InternationalVALLE CRUCIS PARK INC: $500 · Recreation & SportsThe Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc: $500 · Environment
Health$31,750Other$18,594Human Services$1,270Food & Nutrition$825International$517Recreation & Sports$500Environment$500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCare Ring Inc: $14,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budget(ACPMP)APPENDIX CANCERPSEUDOMYXOMA PERITONEI RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $12,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetPositive Childhood Alliance North Carolina: $10,172 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIP: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHELTERBOX USA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HUNGER AND HEALTH COALITION INC: $825 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL: $517 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVALLE CRUCIS PARK INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBabies Need Bottoms Inc: $270 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 The Davis Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Davis Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Davis Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Davis Family Foundation 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.

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 23 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.

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