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The R & a Davis Family 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.

$23k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
14
Grants FY2025
11
Organizations funded FY2024
36%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$5,600
Organizations funded a year
11 to 18
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$53k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 36% of the organizations The R & a Davis Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving14$23k50%
FY202411$15k36%
FY202313$12k46%
FY202213$13k31%
FY202115$28k13%
FY202018$35k56%
FY201918$53k39%
FY201817$49k53%
91% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$84kEducation$63kHealth$34kArts & Culture$28kEmployment$25kHuman Services$15kEnvironment$9kPublic Benefit$8kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
NY
PA
CA
AZ
KS
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 33 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 33 recipients with no EIN on record ($148k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The R & a Davis Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe New School: $29,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGoodwill Industries of Orange County California: $25,255 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Laguna Playhouse: $14,025 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetOrder of Malta Clinic of Northern California: $13,450 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetSovereign Military Order of Malta Western Association-Usa: $12,956 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetLaguna Canyon Foundation: $8,612 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetHoag Hospital Foundation: $7,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOrange County Museum of Art: $4,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Uc Irvine Rowing: $2,750 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetAlexs Lemonade Stand Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Larry and Helen Hoag Foundation: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBig Canyon Country Club: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSallys Fund Inc: $1,350 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetGirls Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriendship Shelter Inc: $550 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe University of Florida Foundation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetShare Our Selves Corporation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCure Gm1 Incorporated: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIrvine Valley College Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLaguna Art Museum: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRescuing Unwanted Furry Friends: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetChhahari Inc: $500 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetLiving Desert The: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $168 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWillow International Everfree: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Gray Academy: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCaringBridge: $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSanta Fe Trail Council Boy Scouts of America Inc: $10 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 29.

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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.

Orange County Community FoundationCA26.1× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Orange County Community Foundation · The William Jeff and Jennifer Gross Family Foundation · J Stanley & Mary W Johnson Family Foundation · Laguna Beach Community Foundation · The Hanauer Family Foundation · Macgillivray Family Foundation · Croul Family Foundation · The William Gillespie Foundation · The Hexberg Family Foundation · The Bassman Family Charitable Trust · Ueberroth Family Foundation · O L Halsell 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.

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About The R & a Davis Family Foundation

How much does The R & a Davis Family Foundation give?
The R & a Davis Family Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $23,254 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 18 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The R & a Davis Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (29%), Education (21%), Health (12%).
Who are The R & a Davis Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The New School ($29k), Goodwill Industries of Orange County California ($25k), The Laguna Playhouse ($14k).
Does The R & a Davis Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The R & a Davis Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The R & a Davis Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Orange County Community Foundation, The William Jeff and Jennifer Gross Family Foundation, J Stanley & Mary W Johnson Family Foundation.
Where is The R & a Davis Family Foundation based?
The R & a Davis Family Foundation is based in CA.

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 68 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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