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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.
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $321k
- $50k–250k13 grants · $1.2M
- $250k+16 grants · $71M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM | $56,300,000 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS MEDICINE | $2,500,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $2,000,000 |
| THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO BALTIMORE | $2,000,000 |
| WEST PALM GOLF COMMUNITY TRUST INC | $1,000,000 |
| CHANEY FOUNDATION LTD | $1,000,000 |
| THE TOPPER FOUNDATION | $1,000,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND MEDICAL SYSTEM CORPORATION | $1,000,000 |
| MALVERN PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $1,000,000 |
| NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC | $500,000 |
| AMIGOS DE JESUS | $500,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500,000 |
| CENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES INC | $400,000 |
| THE BOYS LATIN SCHOOL OF MARYLAND INC | $300,000 |
| SHEPPARD AND ENOCH PRATT FOUNDATION INC | $250,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $9.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 84% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
48 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 14 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, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.8M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- VUVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY5× · 2019–2024 · $11M · revenue +37%
- ACASSOCIATED CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC6× · 2018–2024 · $6.2M · revenue +26%
- PSPER SCHOLAS INC3× · 2020–2022 · $5.7M · revenue +178%
Funded once
- NPNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1.0M · revenue +208%
- NENORTHBAY EDUCATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $1.0M · revenue +37%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINEone grant, 2021 · $1.0M
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Charlestown Benevolent Care Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Topper Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
75 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 75 of the 97 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL SENIOR COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATED CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds PER SCHOLAS INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METROPOLITAN BALTIMORE ↗
- Who funds HELPING UP MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds University of Maryland Medical System Corporation ↗
- Who funds MALVERN PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE FIRST TEE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds Amigos de Jesus ↗
- Who funds THE TOPPER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHANEY FOUNDATION LTD ↗
- Who funds WEST PALM GOLF COMMUNITY TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHBAY EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds SHEPPARD AND ENOCH PRATT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLESTOWN BENEVOLENT CARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND BALTIMORE ↗
- Who funds NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ENTITLEMENTS HOW INC ↗
- Who funds THE BALTIMORE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF INDUSTRY INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOYS' LATIN SCHOOL OF MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds CAVES VALLEY GOLF CLUB FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WIND CREST INC ↗
- Who funds Congaree Foundation ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Davis Family Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Chesapeake Bay Trust — 100% of income from government
- Land Preservation Trust Inc — 64% of income from government
- Center for Urban Families Inc — 36% of income from government
- The Baltimore Children's Museum Inc — 33% of income from government
- Northbay Education Inc — 28% of income from government
- Baltimore Squashwise Inc — 23% of income from government
- Young Men's Christian Association of Central Maryland Inc — 22% of income from government
- The Lord's Place Inc — 12% of income from government
- Associated Catholic Charities Inc — 10% of income from government
- Baltimore Museum of Industry Inc — 7% of income from government
- Goodwill Industries of the Chesapeake Inc — 7% of income from government
- Helping Up Mission Inc — 6% of income from government
- The Boys and Girls Clubs of Metropolitan Baltimore — 2% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- University of Maryland Medical System Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Charlestown Community Inc — 0% of income from government
- Mcdonogh School Incorporated — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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