Ohio · Private foundation
The John and Shirley Davies Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $24k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2025
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 24
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $208k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations The John and Shirley Davies Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 40% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 12 | $24k | 17% |
| FY2024 | 12 | $23k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $20k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $21k | 18% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $25k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $22k | 10% |
| FY2019 | 22 | $24k | 18% |
| FY2018 | 24 | $28k | 25% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| COTA - Children's Organ Transplant Association | $21,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Sacred Selections | $16,922 | 8 | 0% |
| Building Blocks Foundation | $15,500 | 7 | 2% |
| Safe Haven Farms Inc | $15,000 | 8 | 1% |
| ProKids | $14,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Matthew 25 Ministries Inc | $12,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Ronald McDonald House Charities of Greater Cincinnati Inc | $10,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Melanoma Know More | $7,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Ohio Valley Voices | $6,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Josh Cares Inc | $6,000 | 2 | 1% |
Show all 28 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($55k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The John and Shirley Davies Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Charles H Dater Foundation Inc · Elsa M Heisel Sule Charitable Trust 2005 · Duke Energy Foundation · William P Anderson Foundation Central Trust · The Thomas J Emery Memorial · The Wohlgemuth Herschede Foundation Co Fifth Third Bank Na Agent · Sutphin Family Foundation Ica · Millstone Fund · The Scripps Howard Foundation
How this is measured
Compare The John and Shirley Davies Foundation with peer funders
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About The John and Shirley Davies Foundation
- How much does The John and Shirley Davies Foundation give?
- The John and Shirley Davies Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $23,877 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 24 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The John and Shirley Davies Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (28%), Human Services (20%), Youth Development (11%).
- Who are The John and Shirley Davies Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: COTA - Children's Organ Transplant Association ($22k), Sacred Selections ($17k), Building Blocks Foundation ($16k).
- Does The John and Shirley Davies Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The John and Shirley Davies Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The John and Shirley Davies Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Johnson Charitable Gift Fund, The Greater Cincinnati Foundation, Ge Aerospace Foundation.
- Where is The John and Shirley Davies Foundation based?
- The John and Shirley Davies Foundation is based in OH.
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