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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.

$72M
Granted FY2024still arriving
48
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$56M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

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

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’18
22
’19
30
’20
27
’21
25
’22
34
’23
38
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Philanthropy$287MEducation$35MHealth$19MHuman Services$9.1MEmployment$5.8MYouth Development$5.3MRecreation & Sports$1.8MEnvironment$1.6MOther$0
02FY2024 · 48 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $321k
  • $50k–250k13 grants · $1.2M
  • $250k+16 grants · $71M
$50,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$1.6B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND MEDICAL SYSTEM CORPORATION$1,000,000
MALVERN PREPARATORY SCHOOL$1,000,000
THE TOPPER FOUNDATION$1,000,000
WEST PALM GOLF COMMUNITY TRUST INC$1,000,000
CHANEY FOUNDATION LTD$1,000,000
NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC$500,000
Individual grant recipient$500,000
AMIGOS DE JESUS$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
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WIND CREST INC: $250k → 3%AMIGOS DE JESUS: $500k → 6%AMIGOS DE JESUS: $400k → 6%AMIGOS DE JESUS: $100k → 6%AMIGOS DE JESUS: $100k → 6%AMIGOS DE JESUS: $100k → 6%YMCA OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC: $250k → 11%CENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES INC: $400k → 19%CENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES INC: $400k → 19%CENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES INC: $400k → 19%FAMILY LEAGUE OF BALTIMORE CITY INC: $25k → 19%FAMILY LEAGUE OF BALTIMORE CITY INC: $10k → 19%CENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES INC: $50k → 19%FAMILY LEAGUE OF BALTIMORE CITY INC: $10k → 19%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $2.0M → 19%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $2.0M → 19%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $2.0M → 19%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $50k → 19%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $50k → 19%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $50k → 19%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

WA
IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
TN
NC
DC
OK
AL
GA
TX
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$73M · 48 repeat orgs$10M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +18% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

48
29

Total granted

$73M
$5.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+18%

Still filing today

67%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.8M went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureOther
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

  • VU
    VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2019–2024 · $11M · revenue +37%
  • AC
    ASSOCIATED CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC
    6× · 2018–2024 · $6.2M · revenue +26%
  • PS
    PER SCHOLAS INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $5.7M · revenue +178%

Funded once

  • NP
    NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $1.0M · revenue +95%
  • NE
    NORTHBAY EDUCATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $1.0M · revenue +37%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
    one grant, 2021 · $1.0M
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.

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University of Maryland Physicians Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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2
Cfa Society Baltimore Inc

The cfa society baltimore, inc. was founded in 1948. the cfa society baltimore, inc. was established to provide the financial community with information and knowledge, while advocating ethical conduct with regard to investments and…

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3
University of Maryland Oncology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
4
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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5
University of Maryland Pediatric Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
6
University of Maryland Surgical Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
7
University of Maryland Anesthesiology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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8
University of Maryland Dermatologists Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
9
University of Maryland Neurosurgeryassociates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Education
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University of Maryland Family Medicine Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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11
University of Maryland Neurology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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12
University of Maryland Eye Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Charlestown Benevolent Care Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

75 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
74/75
Grantees still filing
52/75
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM: $285,410,000 · PhilanthropyVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM+5 more: $1,650,000 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL SENIOR COMMUNITIES INC: $11,618,000 · OtherNATIONAL SENI…JOHNS HOPKINS MEDICINE: $11,000,000 · OtherJOHNS HOPKINS…NATIONAL SENIOR CAMPUSES INC: $3,800,000 · OtherNATIONAL SENI…HELPING UP MISSION INC: $2,185,000 · OtherCRISTO REY JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL: $2,051,000 · Other+50 more: $13,622,248 · Other+50 moreVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $10,850,000 · EducationMALVERN PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $1,900,000 · EducationCHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND BALTIMORE: $600,000 · Education+12 more: $2,535,000 · EducationASSOCIATED CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $6,150,000 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES INC: $1,250,000 · Human ServicesAmigos de Jesus: $1,200,000 · Human Services+3 more: $545,000 · Human ServicesPER SCHOLAS INC: $5,700,000 · EmploymentTHE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METROPOLITAN BALTIMORE: $3,250,000 · Youth DevelopmentCongaree Foundation: $250,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG LIFE: $225,000 · Youth Development+2 more: $200,000 · Youth DevelopmentUniversity of Maryland Medical System Corporation: $2,000,000 · HealthNORTHBAY EDUCATION INC: $1,000,000 · HealthCHARLESTOWN COMMUNITY INC: $203,000 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 · Health+5 more: $110,000 · Health
Philanthropy$287,060,000Other$44,276,248Education$15,885,000Human Services$9,145,000Employment$5,700,000Youth Development$3,925,000Health$3,513,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM: $285,410,000 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetNATIONAL SENIOR COMMUNITIES INC: $11,618,000 over 4y, 88% of budgetVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $10,850,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetASSOCIATED CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $6,150,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetPER SCHOLAS INC: $5,700,000 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetTHE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METROPOLITAN BALTIMORE: $3,250,000 over 3y, 9.6% of budgetHELPING UP MISSION INC: $2,185,000 over 6y, 7.0% of budgetUniversity of Maryland Medical System Corporation: $2,000,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMALVERN PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $1,900,000 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetTHE FIRST TEE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA INC: $1,265,000 over 4y, 60% of budgetCENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES INC: $1,250,000 over 4y, 9.3% of budgetAmigos de Jesus: $1,200,000 over 5y, 20% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE TOPPER FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetCHANEY FOUNDATION LTD: $1,000,000 over 1y, 38% of budgetWEST PALM GOLF COMMUNITY TRUST INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetNORTHBAY EDUCATION INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetSHEPPARD AND ENOCH PRATT FOUNDATION INC: $750,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetCHARLESTOWN BENEVOLENT CARE FOUNDATION INC: $675,000 over 6y, 52% of budgetCHILDREN'S SCHOLARSHIP FUND BALTIMORE: $600,000 over 7y, 14% of budgetENTITLEMENTS HOW INC: $500,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetNAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC: $500,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetTHE BALTIMORE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $450,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC: $400,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetBALTIMORE MUSEUM OF INDUSTRY INC: $382,248 over 3y, 7.2% of budgetBALTIMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $325,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $300,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOYS' LATIN SCHOOL OF MARYLAND INC: $300,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCAVES VALLEY GOLF CLUB FOUNDATION INC: $260,000 over 4y, 62% of budgetWIND CREST INC: $250,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Central Maryland Inc: $250,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCongaree Foundation: $250,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $225,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHARLESTOWN COMMUNITY INC: $203,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetIndian River County Habitat for Humanity Inc: $200,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC: $150,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY TRUST: $150,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMAXIM CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $120,000 over 6y, 17% of budgetNEXT ONE UP FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetFrank J Battaglia Signal 13 Foundation Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetMCDONOGH SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMONTEREY PENINSULA FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLaw Enforcement Legal Defense Fund: $100,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBALTIMORE SQUASHWISE INC: $100,000 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetJ WOOD PLATT CADDIE SCHOLARSHIP TRUST: $70,000 over 4y, 1.2% 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.

Baltimore Community F…The United Way of Cen…T Rowe Price Program …France-Merrick Founda…Fund for Educational …The Marion I & Henry …Allegis Group Foundat…The Abell Foundation …The O'Neil Family Fou…The Stephen & Renee B…Middendorf Foundation…Edward St John Founda…
Baltimore Community Foundation IncMD49.7× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Davis Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 190%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
19get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
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.
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Find your warmest path to The Davis Family Foundation Inc 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 97 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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