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The John & Jordan Davis Foundation at a glance

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The John & Jordan Davis Foundation

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.

$40k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$26k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Science & Tech$318kHealth$232kArts & Culture$151kHuman Services$34kPublic Benefit$11kCrime & Legal$10kPublic Safety & Disaster$5kCivil Rights$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $4k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $36k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$298
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UCLA$26,100
HOLLYROD FOUNDATION$10,000
CHILDRENS HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES$2,500
WILL ROGERS MOTION PICTURE PIONEERS FOUNDATION$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–22, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%VICTIMS FIRST INC: $1k → 14%MOTION PICTURE & TELEVISION FUND: $15k → 14%ONE VOICE: $3k → 14%FULFILLMENT FUND: $600 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$331k · 4 repeat orgs$115k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +78% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
13

Total granted

$331k
$104k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+78%
+28%

Still filing today

50%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesEducationCivil RightsRecreation & SportsInternationalOther
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

  • U
    UCLA
    7× · 2019–2025 · $199k
  • M
    MPTF
    5× · 2018–2023 · $110k
  • CH
    Children's Hospital Los Angeles
    8× · 2017–2025 · $14k · revenue +78%

Funded once

  • US
    USC SCHOOL OF DRAMATIC ARTS
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
  • MP
    MOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION FUNDgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +77%
  • AF
    ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTSgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +26%
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.

04Its 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.

1
American Civil Liberties Union Fund of the District of Columbia

Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.

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2
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

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3
Arbor Research Collaborative for Health

Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…

Health
4
Public Knowledge

Public knowledge promotes freedom of expression, an open internet, and access to affordable communications tools and creative works. we work to shape policy on behalf of the public interest.

Public Benefit
5
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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6
America's Health Insurance Plans Inc

Ahip is the national trade association representing the health insurance industry. ahip's members provide health care coverage, services and solutions to more than 200 million americans. we are committed to market-based solutions and…

Membership Benefit
7
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
8
Associated Students University of California Riverside

To serve as the student government body at the university of california, riverside.

Education
9
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
10
South Central Family Health Center

To improve the quality of life for the diverse communities we serve providing affordable and comprehensive healthcare and education in a welcoming multi-cultural environment.

Health
11
Altamed Health Services Corporation

To eliminate disparities in health care access and outcomes by providing superior quality health and human services through an integrated world-class delivery system for latino, multi-ethnic underserved communities in southern california.

Health
12
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Aclu Foundation of Southern California; the most unlike its peers is Will Rogers Motion Picture Pioneers Foundation. 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

15 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. 15 of the 20 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
9/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UCLA: $198,600 · OtherUCLAMPTF: $109,720 · OtherMPTFUSC SCHOOL OF DRAMATIC ARTS: $50,000 · OtherUSC SCHOOL OF DRAMATIC ARTS+3 more: $16,000 · OtherPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $318,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard College+1 more: $10,000 · EducationChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $14,000 · HealthAUTISM SPEAKS INC: $8,500 · HealthTHE ED ASNER FAMILY CENTER: $1,250 · HealthWILL ROGERS MOTION PICTURE PIONEERS FOUNDATION: $1,000 · HealthMOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION FUND: $15,000 · Human ServicesOne Voice: $3,000 · Human ServicesVictims First Inc: $1,000 · Human Services+1 more: $600 · Human ServicesHOLLYROD FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $5,000 · InternationalACLU FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $1,000 · Civil RightsSwim Across America Inc: $1,000 · Philanthropy
Other$374,320Education$328,000Health$24,750Human Services$19,600Recreation & Sports$10,000International$5,000Civil Rights$1,000Philanthropy$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $318,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION FUND: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $14,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHOLLYROD FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN'S RIGHTS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCivic Nation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAUTISM SPEAKS INC: $8,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOne Voice: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ED ASNER FAMILY CENTER: $1,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetACLU FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVictims First Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetSwim Across America Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILL ROGERS MOTION PICTURE PIONEERS FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFULFILLMENT FUND: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO6.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The John & Jordan Davis Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The John & Jordan Davis Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 20 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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