How much does The Irene E and George A Davis Foundation give?

The Irene E and George A Davis Foundation reported 119 itemized grants totaling $6,565,642, out of $8,185,642 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 81 and 113 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.

What does The Irene E and George A Davis Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2023, its largest causes are Education (26%), Health (13%), Human Services (6%).

Who are The Irene E and George A Davis Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2023: Nichols College ($2.5M), Baystate Health Foundation Inc ($2.0M), Tech Foundry Inc ($675k).

Does The Irene E and George A Davis Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Irene E and George A Davis Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Where is The Irene E and George A Davis Foundation based?

The Irene E and George A Davis Foundation is based in MA.

The Irene E and George A Davis Foundation

The Irene E and George A Davis Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Irene E and George A Davis Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$8.2M

Granted FY2023

119

Grants FY2023

States reached

$1.0M

Largest

01What it funds

0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$9.2MHealth$4.4MHuman Services$2.1MYouth Development$1.0MFood & Nutrition$716kEmployment$707kArts & Culture$679kCommunity Improvement$509kOther$0

02FY2023 · 119 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 119 grants below total $6,565,642, the rows itemized in this filing. The $8,185,642 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,620,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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

$25,000

Median grant

States reached

$104M

Total assets

Largest grants
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
DetecTogether	$100,000
Friends of Veritas Prep. Charter School	$100,000
Mass. Charter Public School Assoc.	$100,000
Friends of Springfield Prep Charter	$100,000
Springfield Operations ECS Inc.	$100,000
Roca, Inc.	$100,000
Roca, Inc.	$100,000

02Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

61%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$13M · 111 repeat orgs$8.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +24% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

111

Total granted

$13M

$7.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%

+24%

Still filing today

71%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentOther

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

TF
TECH FOUNDRY INC
4× · 2020–2023 · $675k · revenue +299% · 44% of their budget
SD
SPRINGFIELD DAY NURSERY CORPORATION
2× · 2021–2023 · $600k · revenue +82%
THE FOOD BANK OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC
3× · 2021–2023 · $550k · revenue +4%

Funded once

NC
NICHOLS COLLEGE
one grant, 2020 · $2.5M · revenue -4%
MG
Massachusetts General Hospital
one grant, 2021 · $1.6M
LA
Libertas Academy
one grant, 2022 · $700k

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.

03Its 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.

Massachusetts Education & Career Opportunities Inc

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…

Education

Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities & Public Policy Inc

We create opportunities for the people of massachusetts to transform their lives and build a more equitable commonwealth through the humanities.

Arts & Culture

Boston Architectural College

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

—

Massachusetts Council of Human Services Providers Inc

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

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…

Education

Massachusetts Business Roundtable Inc

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…

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Massachusetts Affordable Housing Alliance Inc

Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.

Housing & Shelter

The Boston Children's School Inc

To promote the growth and development of children while teaching them how to learn efficiently and experience the joy of learning

Education

Massachusetts Housing Investment Corporation

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…

Housing & Shelter

Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

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…

Education

Cambridge Chamber of Commerce

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.

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grantmakers for Education; 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.

03the grantee network

135 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

132/135

Grantees still filing

101/135

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$10,082,326Education$6,138,000Health$2,688,148Human Services$1,693,100Youth Development$575,450Arts & Culture$357,000Community Improvement$250,395

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

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.

The Beveridge Family FoundationMA152.1× affinity76 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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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