· Private foundation
The Davis Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $77k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $436k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FLORIDA INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN AND MACHINE COGNITION INC | $200,000 |
| AMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME | $100,000 |
| SEASIDE INSTITUTE | $84,000 |
| SEA SHUL INC | $52,000 |
| PARKING REFORM NETWORK | $22,000 |
| INSTITUTE OF CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE AND ART INC | $20,000 |
| THE NATURE SCHOOL COOPERATIVE | $15,000 |
| MENTOR | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF LAGUNA SECA INC | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION | $9,000 |
| MARIN AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST | $5,000 |
| THE CHAPEL AT SEASIDE | $5,000 |
| SMART GROWTH AMERICA | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI - SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE | $2,500 |
| KQED INC | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–23, $61k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 19% of The Davis Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
39 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $257k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AAAMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME7× · 2017–2025 · $775k · revenue +77%
- SISEASIDE INSTITUTE INC3× · 2017–2025 · $397k · revenue +36% · 58% of their budget
- PWPoint Washington Medical Clinic Inc3× · 2022–2024 · $190k · revenue +52%
Funded once
- SASEASIDE AGING WITH GRACE INCone grant, 2023 · $60k · 100% of their budget
- ITINFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY COUNCILone grant, 2017 · $60k
- IIITIC - INT'L TRANSPORTATION INNOVATION CTRone grant, 2018 · $50k
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.
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The academy is a renowned scientific and educational institution with a mission to regenerate the natural world through science, learning, and collaboration. based in san francisco's golden gate park, it is home to a world-class aquarium,…
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
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.
We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…
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The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
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How this is measured
52 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. 52 of the 106 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds AMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME ↗
- Who funds SEASIDE INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR APPLIED TRANSECT STU ↗
- Who funds Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition Inc ↗
- Who funds Point Washington Medical Clinic Inc ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds THE INSTITUTE OF CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE AND ART INC ↗
- Who funds SEASIDE AGING WITH GRACE INC ↗
- Who funds Florida Wildlife Federation ↗
- Who funds SCENIC WALTON INC ↗
- Who funds Cambodian Childrens Fund ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds PARKING REFORM NETWORK ↗
- Who funds SMART GROWTH AMERICA ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF LAGUNA SECA ↗
- Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
- Who funds CONGRESS FOR THE NEW URBANISM INC ↗
- Who funds MENT LTD ↗
- Who funds FANT MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds KQED INC ↗
- Who funds University of Miami ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR THOUGHT ↗
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: Jesse W Couch Charitable Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Alys Foundationinc · Gaia Fund · The St Joe Community Foundation Inc · McNabb Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The Chicago Community Trust · Texas Instruments Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation
How this is measured
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.
- Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition Inc: 23% of income from government
- University of Miami: 5% of income from government
- Portland Art Museum: 1% of income from government
- Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Inc: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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