· Private foundation
The Gordon & Joyce Davis Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $188k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $159k
- $250k+1 grant · $670k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY | $670,083 |
| AMSA | $59,300 |
| RESCUED ANIMALS SECOND CHANCE | $50,000 |
| WTAMU FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| FIBERMAX CENTER FOR DISCOVERY | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| RUIDOSO RACING FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| UNITED WAY | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| BACKYARD MISSION | $10,000 |
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 (FY22–24, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
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.
10 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $195k 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
- RARESCUED ANIMALS-SECOND CHANCE INC3× · 2022–2024 · $150k · revenue +1%
- TUTHE UNITED WAY INC3× · 2022–2024 · $60k · revenue +4%
- BMBACKYARD MISSION2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- LCLUBBOCK COUNTY EXPO CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue ×31
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $10k
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.
The Muleshoe Meals on Wheels purpose is to engage in all activities necessary, useful, or expedient, through operative measures and active organizations, to promote and further the interests of the Senior citizens of the area. The purpose…
sustain farming ranching and land management in a food desert.
Food to poor and elderly
Improve healthcare access for marginalized population.
Deliver food and nutritious meals to rowan county seniors and individuals who have difficulty leaving their homes and/or are challenged to prepare their meals. volunteers and staff build relationships, provide referrals and work to…
Volunteer firefighting of all fires in the rural areas around nocona texas including assisting other fire departments during large fires in their areas.
Enable frail seniors to maintain their independence at home by providing them with high quality, nutritious meals that are cost effective, prepared in West Contra Costa County, delivered by caring drivers and administered by local…
Friends of Texas Panhandle Shelter Pets is a placement and transport rescue that works with small town panhandle shelters to help animals who are at risk of euthanasia get to rescues where they are adopted and loved.Our volunteers work…
Meals for the elderly of crockett county, texas
To fund educational scholarships to deserving students who pass an application process.
First Southwest Community Fund supports the dedicated entrepreneurial spirit of rural Colorado, by investing in the people, culture and ideas that fuel innovation and financial knowledge in our community, with an emphasis on areas of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The United Way Inc and the most unlike its peers is Meals On Wheels. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 47 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.
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.
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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 Gordon & Joyce Davis Foundation Inc 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.
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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