Delaware · Private foundation
The Dorothy B Davis Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $1.4M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 26
- Grants FY2024
- 26
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 31%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 51
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 6
- Total assets, FY2024
- $31M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 31% of the organizations The Dorothy B Davis Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 33% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.0M 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 26 | $1.4M | 38% |
| FY2023 | 26 | $6.1M | 31% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $1.2M | 11% |
| FY2021 | 39 | $6.4M | 13% |
| FY2020 | 51 | $3.7M | 43% |
| FY2019 | 36 | $5.7M | 36% |
| FY2018 | 38 | $13M | 50% |
| FY2017 | 25 | $3.9M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Nebraska Foundation | $2,536,355 | 5 | 0% |
| Spirit Lake Kiwanis Foundation | $1,727,515 | 1 | 53% |
| Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital | $1,253,734 | 2 | 0% |
| Avenue Scholars | $1,010,000 | 6 | 5% |
| Nebraska Methodist Hospital Foundation | $1,001,332 | 1 | 3% |
| Historic Arnolds Park Inc | $1,000,105 | 1 | 8% |
| Children's Hospital & Medical Center | $750,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Project Harmony | $700,000 | 8 | 1% |
| USA Hockey Foundation | $700,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben Foundation | $600,000 | 1 | 14% |
Show all 66 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 38 recipients with no EIN on record ($22M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Dorothy B Davis Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 6 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 66 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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 Sherwood Foundation · The Lozier Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · Mutual of Omaha Foundation · The Hawks Foundation · Suzanne & Walter Scott Foundation · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · Leland J & Dorothy H Olson Charitable Foundation · Immanuel Community Vision Foundation · Weitz Family Foundation · Nebraska Community Foundation · Gilbert M and Martha H Hitchcock Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Dorothy B Davis Foundation
- How much does The Dorothy B Davis Foundation give?
- The Dorothy B Davis Foundation reported 26 grants totaling $1,400,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 51 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Dorothy B Davis Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (33%), Education (12%), Housing & Shelter (10%).
- Who are The Dorothy B Davis Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: University of Nebraska Foundation ($2.5M), Spirit Lake Kiwanis Foundation ($1.7M), Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital ($1.3M).
- Does The Dorothy B Davis Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Dorothy B 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 Dorothy B Davis Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Sherwood Foundation, The Lozier Foundation, Robert B Daugherty Foundation.
- Where is The Dorothy B Davis Foundation based?
- The Dorothy B Davis Foundation is based in DE.
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