Georgia · Private foundation
The Davis Foundation
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.
- $325k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 48
- Grants FY2025
- 42
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $149,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 37 to 53
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations The Davis Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 46 | $314k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 42 | $104k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 39 | $185k | 28% |
| FY2022 | 53 | $247k | 36% |
| FY2021 | 37 | $670k | 46% |
| FY2020 | 39 | $132k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| All Saints Episcopal Church | $605,250 | 6 | n/a |
| Atlanta Speech School Inc | $520,000 | 1 | 2% |
| The Red Sea Foundation | $180,000 | 4 | 79% |
| The Westminster Schools Inc | $61,200 | 5 | 0% |
| Blue Ridge Mountains Health Project Inc | $23,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Inc | $21,200 | 3 | 0% |
| Atlanta Community Food Bank Inc | $12,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Women in Technology Inc | $11,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Highlands Cashiers Health Foundation Inc | $11,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Charles Christian Tuller House Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 10% |
Show all 74 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 35 recipients with no EIN on record ($102k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Davis Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 61 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: The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · The Imlay Foundation Inc · The H Foundation · The Sartain Lanier Family Foundation Inc · Tull Charitable Foundation Inc · Tw Marian W Ottley Atlanta Main · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · The Medlin-Hale Foundation Inc · Tuw Thomas H Pitts · Crj Foundation Inc · Litowitz Foundation Inc · Sarracenia Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About The Davis Foundation
- How much does The Davis Foundation give?
- The Davis Foundation reported 48 grants totaling $325,120 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 37 and 53 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Davis Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (40%), Education (37%), International (11%).
- Who are The Davis Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: All Saints Episcopal Church ($605k), Atlanta Speech School Inc ($520k), The Red Sea Foundation ($180k).
- Does The Davis Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Davis Foundation 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 Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc, The Imlay Foundation Inc, The H Foundation.
- Where is The Davis Foundation based?
- The Davis Foundation is based in GA.
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