Maryland · Private foundation
The Davis Family Foundation Inc
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.
- $72M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 48
- Grants FY2024
- 37
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 24%
- First-time grantees FY2023
Read this first · the figures below need context
78% of The Davis Family Foundation Inc’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 38 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $56,300,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 25 to 37
- FY2018 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 11
- Total assets, FY2024
- $1.6B
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 24% of the organizations The Davis Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.0M 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 44 | $16M | 32% |
| FY2023 | 37 | $18M | 24% |
| FY2022 | 29 | $11M | 21% |
| FY2021 | 34 | $15M | 32% |
| FY2020 | 34 | $8.0M | 44% |
| FY2019 | 28 | $12M | 39% |
| FY2018 | 25 | $4.0M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
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, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| National Senior Communities Inc | $11,618,000 | 4 | 88% |
| Villanova University | $10,850,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Associated Catholic Charities Inc | $6,150,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Per Scholas Inc | $5,700,000 | 3 | 5% |
| The Boys and Girls Clubs of Metropolitan Baltimore | $3,250,000 | 3 | 10% |
| Helping Up Mission Inc | $2,185,000 | 6 | 7% |
| Cristo Rey Jesuit High School | $2,051,000 | 7 | n/a |
| University of Maryland Medical System Corporation | $2,000,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Malvern Preparatory School | $1,900,000 | 6 | 3% |
| The First Tee of Greater Philadelphia Inc | $1,265,000 | 4 | 60% |
Show all 77 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($19M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Davis Family Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 7 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 68 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · Fund for Educational Excellence Inc · The Marion I & Henry J Knott Foundation Inc · Allegis Group Foundation Inc · The Abell Foundation Inc · The O'Neil Family Foundation Inc · The Stephen & Renee Bisciotti Foundation · Middendorf Foundation Inc · Edward St John Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About The Davis Family Foundation Inc
- How much does The Davis Family Foundation Inc give?
- The Davis Family Foundation Inc reported 48 grants totaling $72,013,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 37 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
- What does The Davis Family Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (78%), Education (9%), Health (5%).
- Who are The Davis Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: National Senior Communities Inc ($12M), Villanova University ($11M), Associated Catholic Charities Inc ($6.2M).
- Does The Davis Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Davis Family Foundation Inc 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 Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Baltimore Community Foundation Inc, The United Way of Central Maryland Inc, T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc.
- Where is The Davis Family Foundation Inc based?
- The Davis Family Foundation Inc is based in MD.
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