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The Gerard H Davis and Roberta Davis Charitable Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2024still arriving
29
Grants FY2024still arriving
15
States reached
$33k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0191% 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
02FY2024 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k22 grants · $57k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $183k
$2,500
Median grant
15
States reached
$2.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LIGHHOUSE GUILD$33,250
CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER$33,250
METROPOLITAN OPERA ASSOCIATION$33,250
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$33,250
ADAM J LEWIS ACADEMY$20,250
FRIENDS OF DARIEN YOUTH HOCKEY$20,189
GREENWICH SCHOLARSHIP ASSOCIATION$10,000
PROVIDENCE COLLEGE$5,000
SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS$5,000
SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY$4,500
LEHIGH UNIVERSITY$2,500
GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY$2,500
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI$2,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 76% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BENTLEY UNIVERSITY: $3k → 8%COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS: $5k → 11%SYMPHONY HALL: $5k → 16%FRANKLIN AND MARSHALL COLLEGE: $3k → 9%VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $3k → 10%LEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $3k → 11%THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $3k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA REGENTS: $1k → 10%MAKE-UP DESIGNORY: $1k → 14%METROPOLITAN OPERA ASSOCIATION: $60k → 17%SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY: $5k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI: $3k → 15%GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIVERSITY: $3k → 8%SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER: $5k → 18%ADAM J LEWIS ACADEMY: $20k → 9%EASTERN CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY: $1k → 12%PROVIDENCE COLLEGE: $5k → 14%INDIANA UNIVERSITY: $3k → 18%MIAMI UNIVERSITY: $1k → 12%WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY: $3k → 12%MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE: $1k → 9%SYMPHONY HALL: $5k → 16%LIGHHOUSE GUILD: $33k → 17%SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER: $5k → 18%GREENWICH SCHOLARSHIP ASSOCIATION: $11k → 9%SYMPHONY HALL: $5k → 16%CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER: $33k → 17%GREENWICH SCHOLARSHIP ASSOCIATION: $10k → 9%NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $1k → 16%LIGHHOUSE GUILD: $33k → 17%GREENWICH SCHOLARSHIP ASSOCIATION: $10k → 9%CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER: $33k → 17%FRIENDS OF DARIEN YOUTH HOCKEY: $20k → 9%METROPOLITAN OPERA ASSOCIATION: $33k → 17%FRIENDS OF DARIEN YOUTH HOCKEY: $20k → 9%CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER: $33k → 17%FRIENDS OF DARIEN YOUTH HOCKEY: $9k → 9%LIGHHOUSE GUILD: $33k → 17%NOROTON HEIGHTS FIRE DEPARTMENT: $3k → 9%METROPOLITAN OPERA ASSOCIATION: $33k → 17%HENRY L FARMER V SCHOLARSHIP: $2k → 9%DARIEN ATHLETIC FOUNDATION: $1k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
MI
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
CT
RI
CA
VA
MD
AL
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$531k · 8 repeat orgs$69k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
1

Total granted

$531k
$2k

Still filing today

63%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $67k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureInternationalHealthRecreation & SportsCrime & LegalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • Metropolitan Opera Association Inc
    3× · 2022–2024 · $127k · revenue +8%
  • TC
    The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Inc
    3× · 2022–2024 · $100k · revenue +3%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $100k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • HL
    HENRY L FARMER V SCHOLARSHIP
    one grant, 2023 · $2k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
2
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
3
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
4
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
5
Roger Williams University

At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…

Education
6
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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7
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
8
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
9
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
10
Endicott College

Endicott college offers students a vibrant academic environment that remains true to its founding principle of integrating professional and liberal arts with experiential learning. for more information see schedule o.

Education
11
Hillsdale College

Hillsdale college is a private liberal arts college with approximately 1,500 students. founded in 1844, the college remains, in the words of its articles of association, "grateful to god for the inestimable blessings resulting from the…

Education
12
Wake Forest University

Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northeastern University; the most unlike its peers is The Noroton Heights Fire Department Incorporated. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

19 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. 19 of the 30 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
12/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Metropolitan Opera Association Inc: $126,500 · Arts & CultureMetropolitan Opera Association IncThe Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Inc: $99,750 · Arts & CultureThe Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Cente…LIGHHOUSE GUILD: $99,750 · OtherLIGHHOUSE GUILDFRIENDS OF DARIEN YOUTH HOCKEY: $48,817 · OtherFRIENDS OF DARIEN YOUTH HOCKEYIndividual grant recipient: $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+8 more: $13,500 · Other+8 moreMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $99,750 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRON…GREENWICH SCHOLARSHIP ASSOCIATION INC: $31,000 · EducationGREENWICH SCHOL…ADAM J LEWIS ACADEMY INC: $20,250 · EducationADAM J LEWIS AC…PROVIDENCE COLLEGE: $5,000 · EducationPROVIDENCE COLL…TRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS: $5,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE…Southern Methodist University: $4,500 · EducationSouthern Method…+8 more: $17,000 · Education+8 moreSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $10,000 · Crime & LegalThe Noroton Heights Fire Department Incorporated: $2,500 · HealthDarien Athletic Foundation Inc: $1,488 · Recreation & Sports
Arts & Culture$226,250Other$177,067International$99,750Education$82,750Crime & Legal$10,000Health$2,500Recreation & Sports$1,488

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
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.

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.

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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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Gerard H Davis and Roberta Davis Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Gerard H Davis and Roberta Davis Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
  • University of Miami: 5% of income from government
  • The Noroton Heights Fire Department Incorporated: 2% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Middlebury College: 1% of income from government
  • Bentley University: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to The Gerard H Davis and Roberta Davis Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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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