· Private foundation
The John R and M Margrite Davis Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k26 grants · $120k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $408k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $325k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $80,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $80,000 |
| US VETS | $65,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| TEAM RUBICON | $40,000 |
| PETS FOR VETS | $38,000 |
| HOPE FOR UKRAINE | $25,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREENVILLE | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| CLEVELAND CLINIC - AFIB | $25,000 |
| MERCY CHEFS | $20,000 |
| AMERICARE | $20,000 |
| JUDICIAL WATCH | $20,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $543k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 83% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +30% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
76 repeat relationships — 44 still active in FY2025, 32 since wound down; 7 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $99k 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
- USUNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE7× · 2019–2025 · $405k · revenue +83%
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC7× · 2019–2025 · $370k · revenue ×11- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE4× · 2022–2025 · $300k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- ITINFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DISASTER RESOURCEone grant, 2024 · $50k
- SCSCVETS CARE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $30k · 47% of their budget
- GCGREENVILLE COUNTY SHERIFF'S FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $16k
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.
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
Sarasota memorial healthcare foundation is the philanthropic partner that helps sarasota memorial health care system bring world-class care to our community.
Partnering for healing and a healthy future through philanthropy.
City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
To promote and support the educational, medical, scientific, and research purposes of the medical university of south carolina "musc", and university medical associates of the medical university of south carolina "uma", including their…
To provide compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.
Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.
To promote health by engaging in the practice of medicine for patients of hospitals affiliated with the university of southern california keck school of medicine and elsewhere. to provide medical care to the sick and injured who may come…
Partnering for healing and a healthy future through philanthropy.
To engage and inspire our community to support caromont health in providing compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.
Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Project House of Hope. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
52 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. 52 of the 102 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.
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREENVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds KILO-9 FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds DETROIT ATHLETIC CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ACCESS FUND ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds MISSION HOSPITAL REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOUSE OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR UKRAINE INC ↗
- Who funds CATERINAS CLUB ↗
- Who funds PINK FUND INC ↗
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: Ge Aerospace Foundation · Yeargin Foundation · Daniel-Mickel Foundation · The Jolley Foundation · Dabo's All in Team Foundation · Don Waggoner & Zelma Waggoner Foundation · Hayne Hipp Foundation · Kellett Family Foundation · Charles Timmons Foundation · Scsymmes Foundation · United Community Bank Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation
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 John R and M Margrite Davis Foundation 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.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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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