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The Gordon & Joyce Davis Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.0M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
19
Grants FY2024
17
Organizations funded FY2023
53%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$670,083
Organizations funded a year
10 to 17
FY2021 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
4
Total assets, FY2024
$17M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 53% of the organizations The Gordon & Joyce Davis Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $97k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23
Human ServicesAnimalsEducationHealthFood & NutritionOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving18$1.0M67%
FY202317$862k53%
FY202210$960k100%
FY202115$150kn/a
49% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Education$2.0MHealth$272kAnimals$150kPhilanthropy$70kReligion$50kHuman Services$47kRecreation & Sports$25kFood & Nutrition$16kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Rescued Animals-Second Chance Inc$150,000321%
The United Way Inc$60,00030%
Mercy Center$50,0002n/a
West Texas A&M Univ Foundation$50,00010%
Ruidoso Racing Foundation Inc$25,000110%
Lubbock County Expo Center Inc$25,000112%
Backyard Mission$20,000211%
Covenant Health System Foundation$7,50010%
South Plains Food Bank Inc$7,00020%
Meals on Wheels$7,00023%
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All grantees of The Gordon & Joyce Davis Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Rescued Animals-Second Chance Inc$150,000321%
The United Way Inc$60,00030%
Mercy Center$50,0002n/a
West Texas A&M Univ Foundation$50,00010%
Ruidoso Racing Foundation Inc$25,000110%
Lubbock County Expo Center Inc$25,000112%
Backyard Mission$20,000211%
Covenant Health System Foundation$7,50010%
South Plains Food Bank Inc$7,00020%
Meals on Wheels$7,00023%
Clayton Historical Society$5,0001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 35 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.6M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Gordon & Joyce Davis Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRescued Animals-Second Chance Inc: $150,000 over 3y, 21% of budgetThe United Way Inc: $60,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetWest Texas A&M Univ Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRuidoso Racing Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetLubbock County Expo Center Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetBackyard Mission: $20,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetCovenant Health System Foundation: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSouth Plains Food Bank Inc: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMeals on Wheels: $7,000 over 2y, 3.3% 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 9.

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.

Garrison Family FoundationDE13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Garrison Family Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · 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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How do I get to The Gordon & Joyce Davis Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Gordon & Joyce Davis Foundation Inc 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.

About The Gordon & Joyce Davis Foundation Inc

How much does The Gordon & Joyce Davis Foundation Inc give?
The Gordon & Joyce Davis Foundation Inc reported 19 grants totaling $1,026,883 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 17 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
What does The Gordon & Joyce Davis Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (68%), Health (9%), Animals (5%).
Who are The Gordon & Joyce Davis Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Rescued Animals-Second Chance Inc ($150k), The United Way Inc ($60k), Mercy Center ($50k).
Does The Gordon & Joyce Davis Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 53% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Gordon & Joyce Davis Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Gordon & Joyce Davis Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Garrison Family Foundation, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is The Gordon & Joyce Davis Foundation Inc based?
The Gordon & Joyce Davis Foundation Inc is based in TX.

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 47 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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