· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| WABE | $2,200 |
| GEORGIA PUBLIC BROADCASTING | $2,200 |
| CHURCH OF THE GOOD SHEPHARD | $2,000 |
| FAMILIES FIRST | $2,000 |
| VISION CASHIERS | $2,000 |
| VIRGINIA THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY | $2,000 |
| CARTER CENTER | $2,000 |
| ATLANTA BOTANICAL GARDEN | $1,200 |
| CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA | $1,000 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +19% for those 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
How this is measured
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 -29%
- CCCHARLES CHRISTIAN TULLER HOUSE INCone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -94%
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.
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…
How this is measured
68 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. 68 of the 112 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 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 COBB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLES CHRISTIAN TULLER HOUSE 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 Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds VISION CASHIERS 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Davis Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Davis Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
How this is measured
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