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The Gerard H Davis and Roberta Davis Charitable 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.

$240k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
29
Grants FY2024
9
Organizations funded FY2023
22%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$33,250
Organizations funded a year
7 to 9
FY2022 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
15
Total assets, FY2024
$2.8M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 22% of the organizations The Gerard H Davis and Roberta Davis Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving29$240k72%
FY20239$176k22%
FY20227$184kn/a
91% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$326kInternational$100kEducation$95kRecreation & Sports$50kCivil Rights$10kPublic Safety & Disaster$3kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
MI
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
CT
RI
CA
VA
MD
AL
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 23 grantees
All grantees of The Gerard H Davis and Roberta Davis Charitable Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Metropolitan Opera Association Inc$126,50030%
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Inc$99,75030%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$99,75030%
Greenwich Scholarship Association Inc$31,00031%
Adam J Lewis Academy Inc$20,25010%
Southern Poverty Law Center Inc$10,00020%
Providence College$5,00010%
Trustees of the College of the Holy Cross$5,00010%
Southern Methodist University$4,50010%
Indiana University School of Medicine$2,5001n/a
Villanova University$2,50010%
Grand Valley State University$2,5001n/a
Lehigh University$2,50010%
University of Miami$2,50010%
Franklin & Marshall College$2,50010%
The Noroton Heights Fire Department Incorporated$2,50012%
Washington and Lee University$2,50010%
Pennsylvania State University$2,5001n/a
Bentley University$2,50010%
Darien Athletic Foundation Inc$1,48811%
Northeastern University$1,00010%
President and Fellows of Middlebury College$1,00010%
Miami University$1,0001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($169k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Gerard H Davis and Roberta Davis Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMetropolitan Opera Association Inc: $126,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Inc: $99,750 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $99,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGreenwich Scholarship Association Inc: $31,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetAdam J Lewis Academy Inc: $20,250 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSouthern Poverty Law Center Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetProvidence College: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of the College of the Holy Cross: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Methodist University: $4,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVillanova University: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLehigh University: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFranklin & Marshall College: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Noroton Heights Fire Department Incorporated: $2,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetWashington and Lee University: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBentley University: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDarien Athletic Foundation Inc: $1,488 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNortheastern University: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 19.

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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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About The Gerard H Davis and Roberta Davis Charitable Foundation

How much does The Gerard H Davis and Roberta Davis Charitable Foundation give?
The Gerard H Davis and Roberta Davis Charitable Foundation reported 29 grants totaling $240,427 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 9 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2023.
What does The Gerard H Davis and Roberta Davis Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (54%), International (17%), Education (16%).
Who are The Gerard H Davis and Roberta Davis Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2022 to FY2024: Metropolitan Opera Association Inc ($127k), The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Inc ($100k), Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($100k).
Does The Gerard H Davis and Roberta Davis Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Gerard H Davis and Roberta Davis Charitable 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 Gerard H Davis and Roberta Davis Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is The Gerard H Davis and Roberta Davis Charitable Foundation based?
The Gerard H Davis and Roberta Davis Charitable Foundation is based in CT.

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 30 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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