· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $100k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $320k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MITCHELL COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $160,000 |
| GARDNER WEBB UNIVERSITY | $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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 46% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +94% since the first grant, against +24% for those 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
How this is measured
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 +24%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $150
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
7 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The James W Davis Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The James W Davis Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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