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The John R and M Margrite Davis Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The John R and M Margrite Davis Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$853k
Granted FY2025still arriving
52
Grants FY2025still arriving
14
States reached
$80k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$1.3MPublic Safety & Disaster$885kHuman Services$863kInternational$549kPhilanthropy$485kYouth Development$457kHousing & Shelter$376kCrime & Legal$246kOther$0
02FY2025 · 52 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k26 grants · $120k
  • $10k–50k21 grants · $408k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $325k
$10,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$5.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$80,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$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
Individual grant recipient$25,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREENVILLE$25,000
CLEVELAND CLINIC - AFIB$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
AMERICARE$20,000
MERCY CHEFS$20,000
ALL HANDS AND HEARTS$20,000
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%US VETS: $75k → 14%GREEN BERET FOUNDATION: $9k → 16%EOD WARRIER FOUNDATION: $24k → 8%MERCY CHEFS: $20k → 20%US VETS: $70k → 14%LEAD THE WAY FUND: $9k → 6%GREEN BERET FOUNDATION: $8k → 16%EOD WARRIOR FOUNDATION: $2k → 8%US VETS: $65k → 14%GREEN BERET FOUNDATION: $8k → 16%US VETS: $55k → 14%US VETS: $50k → 14%US VETS: $40k → 14%US VETS: $35k → 14%US VETS: $15k → 14%CATERINA'S CLUB: $22k → 10%CATERINA'S CLUB: $14k → 10%CATERINA'S CLUB: $10k → 10%YMCA OF GREENVILLE: $3k → 10%YMCA OF GREENVILLE: $3k → 10%YMCA OF GREENVILLE: $3k → 10%YMCA OF GREENVILLE: $2k → 10%YMCA OF GREENVILLE: $2k → 10%YMCA OF GREENVILLE: $1k → 10%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
MI
NY
MA
OH
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
TN
NC
SC
DC
GA
TX
FL
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.7M · 76 repeat orgs$284k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +1% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

76
18

Total granted

$5.7M
$185k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+1%

Still filing today

51%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $99k 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 ServicesInternationalPublic BenefitEducationAnimalsOther
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

  • US
    UNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE
    7× · 2019–2025 · $405k · revenue +83%
  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $370k · revenue ×11
  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSE
    4× · 2022–2025 · $300k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • IT
    INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DISASTER RESOURCE
    one grant, 2024 · $50k
  • SC
    SCVETS CARE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $30k · 47% of their budget
  • GC
    GREENVILLE COUNTY SHERIFF'S FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $16k
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
Good Samaritan Hospital Foundation

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.

—
2
Sarasota Memorial Healthcare Foundation Inc

Sarasota memorial healthcare foundation is the philanthropic partner that helps sarasota memorial health care system bring world-class care to our community.

Health
3
Good Samaritan Foundation

Partnering for healing and a healthy future through philanthropy.

—
4
City of Hope

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

Health
5
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

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…

Health
6
Musc Strategic Ventures

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…

Health
7
Gaston Memorial Hospital Inc

To provide compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.

Health
8
Shield of Faith Missions

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.

Religion
9
Usc Care Medical Group Inc

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…

Health
10
Multicare South King Health Foundation

Partnering for healing and a healthy future through philanthropy.

—
11
Gaston Memorial Hospital Foundation Inc

To engage and inspire our community to support caromont health in providing compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.

Health
12
Allosource

Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

52 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. 52 of the 102 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/52
Grantees still filing
37/52
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TEAM RUBICON: $405,000 · OtherTEAM RUBICONIndividual grant recipient: $347,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $345,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITYMARINE CORP LAW ENFORCEMENT FOUND: $250,000 · OtherMARINE CORP LAW ENFORCEMENT FOUNDIndividual grant recipient: $150,000 · OtherGREENVILLE MEMORIAL HOSP FOUNDATION: $145,000 · OtherPROJECT HOPEAUTISM: $135,000 · OtherKILO-9 FOUNDATION: $162,500 · Other+62 more: $2,027,000 · Other+62 moreWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $370,000 · InternationalWORLD CENT…DIRECT RELIEF: $65,000 · InternationalDIRECT REL…COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $65,000 · InternationalCOOPERATIV…PROJECT HOUSE OF HOPE: $52,500 · InternationalPROJECT HO…HOPE FOR UKRAINE INC: $50,000 · InternationalHOPE FOR U…+1 more: $1,000 · InternationalUNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE: $405,000 · Human ServicesUNITED STA…CATERINAS CLUB: $46,000 · Human ServicesCATERINAS …THOMAS MORE LAW CENTER: $37,500 · Human ServicesTHOMAS MOR…EOD WARRIOR FOUNDATION: $25,500 · Human ServicesGREEN BERET FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Human ServicesMERCY CHEFS INC: $20,000 · Human Services+3 more: $37,000 · Human Services+3 moreCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREENVILLE INC: $485,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $2,500 · PhilanthropySAMARITAN'S PURSE: $300,000 · ReligionSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $80,000 · HealthMISSION HOSPITAL REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER: $60,000 · HealthPINK FUND INC: $45,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $39,000 · HealthCANCER SURVIVORS PARK ALLIANCE: $28,000 · HealthHENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Health+3 more: $10,250 · HealthJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $108,500 · Public BenefitTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $90,000 · Public BenefitPets for Vets Inc: $38,000 · Public BenefitCombat Control Association Inc: $9,000 · Public Benefit+1 more: $1,000 · Public Benefit
Other$3,967,000International$603,500Human Services$596,000Philanthropy$487,500Religion$300,000Health$272,250Public Benefit$246,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREENVILLE INC: $485,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetUNITED STATES VETERANS INITIATIVE: $405,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $370,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $300,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKILO-9 FOUNDATION: $162,500 over 8y, 42% of budgetALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC: $130,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $108,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetDETROIT ATHLETIC CLUB FOUNDATION: $95,000 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $90,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ACCESS FUND: $85,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $80,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $68,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $65,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $65,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMISSION HOSPITAL REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER: $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT HOUSE OF HOPE: $52,500 over 4y, 20% of budgetHOPE FOR UKRAINE INC: $50,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCATERINAS CLUB: $46,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetPINK FUND INC: $45,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $39,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHOMAS MORE LAW CENTER: $37,500 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetSCVETS CARE FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 47% of budgetInstitute for Humane Studies: $30,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER SURVIVORS PARK ALLIANCE: $28,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetUPSTATE FOREVER: $27,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetEOD WARRIOR FOUNDATION: $25,500 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetGREEN BERET FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPROJECT HOST INC: $23,500 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS INC: $19,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetMIRACLE HILL MINISTRIES INC: $15,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSIENA HEIGHTS UNIVERSITY: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGLEANERS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN: $15,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCASS COMMUNITY SOCIAL SERVICES INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUPSTATE MEDIATION CENTER: $15,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetYMCA OF GREENVILLE: $12,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK: $11,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SOUTH CAROLINA SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLEAD THE WAY FUND INC: $9,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCombat Control Association Inc: $9,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SC INC: $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSigma Chi Foundation: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUPCOUNTRY HISTORY MUSEUM: $3,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetRyans Reach: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUTTS WITH A MISSION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN OF HAITI: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

Ge Aerospace Foundati…Yeargin FoundationDaniel-Mickel Foundat…The Jolley FoundationDabo's All in Team Fo…Don Waggoner & Zelma …Hayne Hipp FoundationKellett Family Founda…Charles Timmons Found…Scsymmes FoundationUnited Community Bank…Duke Energy Foundation
Ge Aerospace FoundationCT20.6× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 R and M Margrite Davis Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The John R and M Margrite Davis Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
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Find your warmest path to The John R and M Margrite Davis Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 102 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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