· Private foundation
The James W Davis Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $100k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $320k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GARDNER WEBB UNIVERSITY | $160,000 |
| MITCHELL COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $160,000 |
| FIFTH STREET MINISTRIES | $35,000 |
| POWER CROSS | $30,000 |
| IREDELL CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES | $20,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $15,000 |
| PURPLE HEART HOMES | $5,000 |
| GOODWILL WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT CTR | $5,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 46% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +94% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- GUGARDNER-WEBB UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +15%
- DIDIAKONOS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $228k · revenue +74%
- ICIREDELL CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $138k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- ECElder Center Incone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +10%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $150
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.
To transform students for lives of character and service through a christ-centered education.
A comprehensive educational institution offering baccalaureate, masters, and doctoral degrees.
Challenging students to be dedicated scholars and leaders who impact the world for Christ.
Central piedmont community college will be a champion of students, a catalyst for opportunity, and an exceptional provider of learning experiences that transform lives and strengthen our community. the college facilitates student learning,…
Founded in 1891, meredith is one of the largest women's colleges in the southeast. meredith offers comprehensive liberal arts and professional studies for undergraduate women. at the graduate level, meredith offers co-educational mba,…
The college provides a post-secondary liberal arts education from a historic Reformed Christian Perspective.
To provide scholarships and other forms of support for the students of davidson-davie community college.
Elon university's mission is to transform the mind, body, and spirit and encourage freedom of thought and liberty of conscience. the university provides a liberal arts undergraduate curriculum and graduate programs.
Supports, by financial assistance and otherwise, the various colleges within the university, the libraries, and other university-connected functions.
To educate, train, and develop ministers, evangelists, missionaries, and other people who are going to enter the Christian ministry. Educate ministers and missionaries to serve the Lord.
Four-year liberal arts college
The mission of the east carolina university educational foundation, inc., d/b/a the pirate club, is to be the friend-raising and fund-raising arm of east carolina university's division i athletics program, representing the highest…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Iredell Christian Ministries Inc and the most unlike its peers is Gardner-Webb University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
7 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. 7 of the 13 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.
Open a dossier: Foundation for the Carolinas · United Way of Iredell County Inc · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Cashion Family Foundation Inc · Wilson Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 James W 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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