· Private foundation
The Irene E and George A Davis Foundation
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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 119 grants below total $6,565,642 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $8,185,642 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,620,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k24 grants · $112k
- $10k–50k56 grants · $1.1M
- $50k–250k34 grants · $2.5M
- $250k+5 grants · $2.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Baystate Health Foundation, Inc. | $1,000,000 |
| Holyoke Community College | $600,000 |
| Springfield Day Nursery DBA Square One | $500,000 |
| Care Center, Inc | $500,000 |
| College of Our Lady of the Elms(") | $250,000 |
| The Food Bank, Inc of Western Mass | $200,000 |
| Tech Foundry, Inc | $200,000 |
| American Red Cross of Western MA | $150,000 |
| Friends of Veritas Prep. Charter School | $100,000 |
| Mass. Charter Public School Assoc. | $100,000 |
| Roca, Inc. | $100,000 |
| DetecTogether | $100,000 |
| Friends of Springfield Prep Charter | $100,000 |
| Roca, Inc. | $100,000 |
| Springfield Operations ECS Inc. | $100,000 |
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
111 repeat relationships — 87 still active in FY2023, 24 since wound down; 26 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M 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
- BHBAYSTATE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC3× · 2020–2023 · $2.0M · revenue +2%
- TFTECH FOUNDRY INC4× · 2020–2023 · $675k · revenue +299% · 44% of their budget
- SDSPRINGFIELD DAY NURSERY CORPORATION2× · 2021–2023 · $600k · revenue +82%
Funded once
- NCNICHOLS COLLEGEone grant, 2020 · $2.5M · revenue -4%
- MGMassachusetts General Hospitalone grant, 2021 · $1.6M
- LALibertas Academyone grant, 2022 · $700k
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.
Massachusetts education and career opportunities, inc. (massedco, inc.) is a statewide network of service sites that provides education and career advising to over 12,000 low-income, first generation individuals each year. massedco…
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
We create opportunities for the people of massachusetts to transform their lives and build a more equitable commonwealth through the humanities.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To advance the interests of the human services sector and providers through advocacy, education, and engagement of diverse stakeholders for collective impact.
Boston after school & beyond, inc. is a public private partnership that pursues a unified after-school and summer learning system that promotes stakeholder alignment, a focus on results, and access to learning opportunities, particularly…
The mission of the roundtable is to make massachusetts the most desirable place to live, work and do business by engaging private sector executives and public leaders to ensure access to a robust, diverse and talented workforce that…
Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.
To promote the growth and development of children while teaching them how to learn efficiently and experience the joy of learning
Mhic's mission is to be an innovative private financier of afforable housing and community development throughout new england, providing financing that would not otherwise be available, and extending the impact of that financing to ensure…
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
The mission of the cambridge chamber of commerce is to make cambridge a better place in which to live, to work, to do business, to visit and to study.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grantmakers for Education and the most unlike its peers is The Harold Grinspoon Charitable Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
135 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. 135 of the 210 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
- Who funds NICHOLS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BAYSTATE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TECH FOUNDRY INC ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE OF OUR LADY OF THE ELMS ↗
- Who funds SPRINGFIELD DAY NURSERY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD BANK OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds SPRINGFIELD OPERATIONS ECS INC ↗
- Who funds ROCA INC ↗
- Who funds THE PHOENIX CHARTER ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INC OF THE VALLEY ↗
- Who funds DETECTOGETHER INC FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE 15-40 CONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds MASS INSIGHT EDUCATION AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds REACH OUT AND READ INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S FUND OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SPRINGFIELD EMPOWERMENT ZONE PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL CITY BOXING & BARBELL INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER WESTFIELD INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION REFORM NOW INC ↗
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- Who funds BES INC ↗
- Who funds SPRINGFIELD MUSEUMS CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds TEACH PLUS INC ↗
- Who funds HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Beveridge Family Foundation · Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts · United Bank Foundation Massachusetts Inc · Berkshire Bank Foundation Inc · Easthampton Savings Bank Foundation Inc · Peoplesbank Charitable Foundation Inc · Massmutual Foundation Inc · Henrietta F Dexter Tuw-Dexter Ch · Chicopee Savings Bank Charitable Foundation · United Way of Pioneer Valley Inc · Florence Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Health Resources in Action Inc
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.
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