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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k43 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $31k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $259k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALL SAINTS' EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $149,000 |
| RED SEA FOUNDATION | $110,000 |
| ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $11,000 |
| WESTMINSTER SCHOOLS | $10,200 |
| COBB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| PRINCETON UNIVERSITY | $2,455 |
| GEORGIA PUBLIC BROADCASTING | $2,200 |
| WABE | $2,200 |
| CARTER CENTER | $2,000 |
| VIRGINIA THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY | $2,000 |
| CHURCH OF THE GOOD SHEPHARD | $2,000 |
| VISION CASHIERS | $2,000 |
| FAMILIES FIRST | $2,000 |
| ATLANTA BOTANICAL GARDEN | $1,200 |
| RESPITE CARE ATLANTA | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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 +34% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
54 repeat relationships — 37 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 9 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- TRTHE RED SEA FOUNDATION4× · 2022–2025 · $180k · revenue +162% · 79% of their budget
- BRBLUE RIDGE MOUNTAINS HEALTH PROJECT INC5× · 2020–2025 · $23k · revenue +1%
- CHCHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INC3× · 2020–2025 · $21k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- ASAtlanta Speech School Incone grant, 2021 · $520k · revenue +11%
- WIWOMEN IN TECHNOLOGY INCone grant, 2022 · $11k · revenue -25%
- CCCHARLES CHRISTIAN TULLER HOUSE INCone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -94%
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.
ACP is a group committed to identifying and providing leadership on selected issues important to driving the economic development of the city of Atlanta and for which the ACP's active involvement will make a major difference. The ACP has a…
Our mission is to create thriving communities by helping nonprofits succeed. our work revolves around four primary areas of focus.1. we are a hub for social innovation 2. we are a capacity accelerator for organizations and their people3.…
Atlanta is #1 for income inequality in the nation. as such, the needs in our community are pressing and we need to move with the urgency of now to address those needs. the community foundation has unequivocally embraced equity as our #1…
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.
To provide healthcare marked by compassion and sustainable excellence in a progressive environment, guided by physicians, delivered by exceptional professionals, and inspired by the communities we serve.
The corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively as a supporting organization to and for the benefit of the georgia institute of technology to foster and support education and scientific research and economic development…
The corporation is a voluntary association of individuals and organizations the purposes of which are to upgrade and advance the atlanta metropolitan area in population, commerce and finance; to effect civic and social improvements; to…
Leading the creation and advancement of health equity we exist to improve the health and well-being of individuals and communities, increase the diversity of the health professional and scientific workforce, and address primary health care…
To provide education, networking opportunities, advocacy and professional industry information to the american institute of architects' atlanta chapter members.
The georgia hospital association (gha) serves approximately 150 hospitals throughout georgia. its purpose is to promote the health and welfare of the public through the development of better health care for all of georgia's citizens. gha…
Enhance the ability of actec members to provide the most efficient and highest quality services to their clients; develop qualified trust and estate counselors; improve and reform probate, trust and tax laws, procedures, and standards of…
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgia Tech Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Red Sea 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 44 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 19% 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.
68 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. 68 of the 112 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 Atlanta Speech School Inc ↗
- Who funds THE RED SEA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Westminster Schools Inc ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE MOUNTAINS HEALTH PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN IN TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds Highlands Cashiers Health Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CHARLES CHRISTIAN TULLER HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds COBB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TREES ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds THE CARTER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Summit Charter School Foundation ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES FIRST INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CASHIERS HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds RESPITE CARE ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds THE ATLANTA BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
- Who funds VISION CASHIERS INC ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds PISGAH LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds Georgia First Amendment Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BOYCE L ANSLEY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds COVENANT COMMUNITY INC ↗
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: 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
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 Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% 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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