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The Davis Family 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.

$350k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
22
Grants FY2024
11
Organizations funded FY2023
55%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$2,787
Largest grant, FY2024
$200,000
Organizations funded a year
8 to 20
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
4
Total assets, FY2024
$2.5M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 55% of the organizations The Davis Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
PhilanthropyHealthHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureReligionOther
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
FY2024still arriving16$345k63%
FY202311$252k55%
FY202211$123k36%
FY20219$81k44%
FY20208$91k38%
FY201920$174k50%
FY201818$177k67%
FY201717$373kn/a
95% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$479kEducation$313kYouth Development$308kPhilanthropy$108kArts & Culture$78kPublic Benefit$64kRecreation & Sports$16kReligion$14kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
NY
MA
NJ
CA
VA
MD
DE

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 39 grantees
All grantees of The Davis Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Rivers School Corporation$305,16071%
Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc$219,19071%
Team Impact Inc$90,00031%
Joeys Fund Inc$45,0001n/a
The New England Patriots Charitable Foundation Inc$45,00040%
Navy Seal Foundation Inc$40,00020%
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation$37,98850%
Camp Harbor View Foundation Inc$35,00040%
Museum of Fine Arts$30,00010%
Ron Burton Training Village Inc$24,60030%
Big Brotherbig Sister Foundation Inc$18,40020%
Martha's Vineyard Cerebral Palsy Camp Inc$13,00050%
Teen Impact Inc$12,50528%
Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc$10,00010%
Scholar Athletes Inc$10,00010%
Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc$6,00010%
Fresh Start Furniture Bank Inc$5,00011%
Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound Inc$3,50020%
Boston College High School$2,5001n/a
Three Bays Preservation Inc$2,50010%
Edith Wharton Restoration Inc$2,5001n/a
Friends of Bass River Inc$2,5001n/a
The Oyster Harbors Club Scholarship Fund Inc$1,50020%
Murphy Sisters Foundation Inc$1,35027%
Children's Hospital Corporation$1,00010%
Winthrop Charities Trust$1,00012%
Catholic Schools Foundation Inc$1,00010%
Caritas Communities Inc$1,00010%
Council 1869 Inc$1,00010%
Trinity Boston Connects Inc$1,00010%
Cranberry Sunset Farm Inc$50010%
Rosie's Place Inc$35010%
Gallatin River Task Force$30010%
National Multiple Sclerosis Society$25010%
Mass General Brigham Incorporated$2501n/a
Martin W Richard Charitable Foundation Inc$25010%
Falmouth Road Race Inc$11010%
Employment Options Inc$10410%
The Francis Ouimet Scholarship Fund Inc$10310%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($643k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Rivers School Corporation: $305,160 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetBridge Over Troubled Waters Inc: $219,190 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetTeam Impact Inc: $90,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetThe New England Patriots Charitable Foundation Inc: $45,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetNavy Seal Foundation Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCystic Fibrosis Foundation: $37,988 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCamp Harbor View Foundation Inc: $35,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMuseum of Fine Arts: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRon Burton Training Village Inc: $24,600 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBig Brotherbig Sister Foundation Inc: $18,400 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMartha's Vineyard Cerebral Palsy Camp Inc: $13,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTeen Impact Inc: $12,505 over 2y, 7.6% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetScholar Athletes Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFresh Start Furniture Bank Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetAlliance to Protect Nantucket Sound Inc: $3,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThree Bays Preservation Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Oyster Harbors Club Scholarship Fund Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMurphy Sisters Foundation Inc: $1,350 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWinthrop Charities Trust: $1,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCatholic Schools Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCaritas Communities Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCouncil 1869 Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTrinity Boston Connects Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCranberry Sunset Farm Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRosie's Place Inc: $350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGallatin River Task Force: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Multiple Sclerosis Society: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMartin W Richard Charitable Foundation Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFalmouth Road Race Inc: $110 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEmployment Options Inc: $104 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Francis Ouimet Scholarship Fund Inc: $103 over 1y, 0.0% 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 34.

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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.

Boston Foundation IncMA22.2× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Citizens Charitable Foundation · The Baker Family Trust · O'Donnell Family Charitable Trust Joseph Matzkin Esq Trustee · Paul & Phyllis Fireman Charitable Foundation · Suffolk Cares Charitable Foundation Inc · Boston Bruins Charitable Foundation Inc · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Arizona Community 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 Davis Family Foundation

How much does The Davis Family Foundation give?
The Davis Family Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $349,817 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 20 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Davis Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (29%), Education (19%), Youth Development (19%).
Who are The Davis Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Rivers School Corporation ($305k), Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc ($219k), Team Impact Inc ($90k).
Does The Davis Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 55% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Davis 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 Davis Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, Citizens Charitable Foundation, The Baker Family Trust.
Where is The Davis Family Foundation based?
The Davis Family Foundation is based in MA.

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 68 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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