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· Private foundation
THE JAMES W DAVIS FOUNDATION INC
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$415k
Granted FY2024
8
Grants
1
Communities
$160k
Largest
01What you fund
0177% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2024.
Education$1.1MPhilanthropy$665kYouth Development$124kHuman Services$88kReligion$85kPublic Benefit$15kOther$628k
02FY2024 · 8 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $5k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $90k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $320k
$30,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$8.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
- GARDNER WEBB UNIVERSITY$160,000
- MITCHELL COMMUNITY COLLEGE$160,000
- POWER CROSS$30,000
- FIFTH STREET MINISTRIES$30,000
- BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB$15,000
- IREDELL CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES$15,000
- PURPLE HEART HOMES$5,000
- FIRST TEE CHARLOTTE$150
02The need
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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.
show:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 11%. 46% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.7M · 10 repeat orgs$15k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +56% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
10
2
Total granted
$2.7M
$15k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+56%
+10%
Still filing today
70%
50%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150 went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
PhilanthropyEducationYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesReligionPublic BenefitOther
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
- GWGARDNER WEBB UNIVERSITY7× · 2018–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +9%
- MCMITCHELL COMMUNITY COLLEGE4× · 2021–2024 · $610k · revenue +47%
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB7× · 2018–2024 · $124k · revenue +61%
Funded once
- TETHE ELDER CENTERone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +10%
- DCDIAKONOS & COALITION VETERANS HOUSEone grant, 2018 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
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Greenville College
To transform students for lives of character and service through a christ-centered education.
Education
2
Wingate University
A comprehensive educational institution offering baccalaureate, masters, and doctoral degrees.
Education
3
Southern Wesleyan University
Challenging students to be dedicated scholars and leaders who impact the world for Christ.
Education
4
Central Piedmont Community College
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,…
Education
5
Meredith College
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,…
Education
6
Providence Christian College
The college provides a post-secondary liberal arts education from a historic Reformed Christian Perspective.
Education
7
Davidson-Davie Community College
To provide scholarships and other forms of support for the students of davidson-davie community college.
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8
Elon University
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.
Education
9
North Carolina State University
Supports, by financial assistance and otherwise, the various colleges within the university, the libraries, and other university-connected functions.
Education
10
Charlotte Christian College &
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.
Religion
11
Tennessee Wesleyan University
Four-year liberal arts college
Education
12
East Carolina University Educational
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…
Recreation & Sports
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.
04the grantee network
8 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2018–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
8/8
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Education$1,080,000Philanthropy$665,000Other$628,150Youth Development$124,000Human Services$88,000Religion$85,000Public Benefit$15,000
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.
Foundation for the CarolinasNC19.4× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Foundation for the Carolinas · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Cashion Family Foundation Inc · Wilson Foundation · United Way of Iredell County Inc · 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 organisation 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.
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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: MITCHELL COMMUNITY COLLEGE.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
high risk
~1 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 561961239 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on MITCHELL COMMUNITY COLLEGE, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 1 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 23% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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Find your warmest path to The James W Davis Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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