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The Davis Family Memorial Trust at a glance

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The Davis Family Memorial Trust

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.

$88k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Health$211kArts & Culture$67kEducation$34kRecreation & Sports$23kHuman Services$13kCommunity Improvement$9kPhilanthropy$9kFood & Nutrition$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $58k
$3,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$780k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOMERSET MEDICAL CENTER FDN INC$30,000
SEEING EYE INC$15,000
SCWEINFURTH MEMORIAL ART CENTER$12,500
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY$6,000
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY$5,000
ADVENTURE CYCLING ASSOCIATION$3,180
LAMBERTVILLE FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY$3,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF SOMERSET HUNTE$3,000
FISHERMAN MARK$3,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
GREENWOOD HOUSE$2,000
N J BIKE WALK COALITION$2,000
BIKE LAMBERTVILLE A NJ NONPROFIT CO$1,000
02The need
03

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 (FY21–25, $86k) land where the poverty rate runs at 4%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%FISHERMAN MARK: $3k → 4%SEEING EYE INC: $15k → 4%SEEING EYE INC: $15k → 4%SEEING EYE INC: $15k → 4%SEEING EYE INC: $15k → 4%SEEING EYE INC: $15k → 4%FISHERMAN MARK: $2k → 4%FISHERMAN MARK: $2k → 4%FISHERMAN MARK: $2k → 4%FISHERMAN MARK: $2k → 4%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.
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$352k · 12 repeat orgs$11k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +12% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
6

Total granted

$352k
$9k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+12%

Still filing today

67%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionArts & CultureAnimalsOther
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

  • SH
    SOMERSET HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $135k · revenue +11%
  • TS
    THE SEEING EYE INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $75k · revenue +12%
  • SM
    SCHWEINFURTH MEMORIAL ART CENTER
    5× · 2021–2025 · $63k · revenue +60%

Funded once

  • BC
    BUCKS COUNTY PLAYHOUSE
    one grant, 2021 · $2k
  • JA
    JAMES A MICHENER ART MUSEUM
    one grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +12%
  • DV
    DELAWARE VALLEY GOLDEN RETRIEVER
    one grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue -28%
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.

1
Delaware Valley University

See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…

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2
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
3
Public Media Nj Inc

To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse

Arts & Culture
4
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
5
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
6
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
7
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
8
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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9
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Wilmington University Inc

Wilmington university is committed to excellence in teaching, relevancy of the curriculum, and individual attention to students. as an institution with admissions policies that provide access for all, it offers opportunity for higher…

Education
11
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
Gettysburg College

Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Somerset Health Care Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center. 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

14 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. 14 of the 20 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
10/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SOMERSET HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC: $135,000 · OtherSOMERSET HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INCSCHWEINFURTH MEMORIAL ART CENTER: $62,500 · OtherSCHWEINFURTH MEMORIAL ART CENTERIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherBIKE LAMBERTVILLE A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $9,000 · OtherLAMBERTVILLE FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY: $8,000 · Other+6 more: $11,000 · OtherTHE SEEING EYE INC: $75,000 · Human ServicesTHE SEEING EYE INCFishermans Mark: $11,000 · Human ServicesFishermans MarkGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $14,000 · EducationThe Trustees of Princeton University: $12,000 · EducationADVENTURE CYCLING ASSOCIATION: $8,680 · Recreation & SportsLeague of American Wheelman Inc: $1,000 · Recreation & SportsJEWISH FEDERATION OF SOMERSET HUNTERDON AND WARREN COUNTIES INC: $9,000 · PhilanthropyDELAWARE VALLEY FOOD PANTRY INC: $4,000 · Food & NutritionGREENWOOD HOUSE HOME FOR THE JEWISH AGED: $2,000 · Health
Other$235,500Human Services$86,000Education$26,000Recreation & Sports$9,680Philanthropy$9,000Food & Nutrition$4,000Health$2,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSOMERSET HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC: $135,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetTHE SEEING EYE INC: $75,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSCHWEINFURTH MEMORIAL ART CENTER: $62,500 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $14,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $12,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFishermans Mark: $11,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF SOMERSET HUNTERDON AND WARREN COUNTIES INC: $9,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetADVENTURE CYCLING ASSOCIATION: $8,680 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDELAWARE VALLEY FOOD PANTRY INC: $4,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetJAMES A MICHENER ART MUSEUM: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDELAWARE VALLEY GOLDEN RETRIEVER: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLeague of American Wheelman Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW JERSEY CONSERVATION FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Bristol-Myers Squibb …The Robert Wood Johns…Princeton Area Commun…Community Foundation …Verizon FoundationThe Pfizer Foundation…The Bank of America C…Charities Aid Foundat…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…Network for Good
Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation IncNJ15.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Verizon Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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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How do I get to The Davis Family Memorial Trust?

Find your warmest path to The Davis Family Memorial Trust 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 20 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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