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The Richard K Davis & Theresa a Davis Family at a glance

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The Richard K Davis & Theresa a Davis Family

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.

$798k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Health$1.7MEducation$1.1MHuman Services$778kYouth Development$60kArts & Culture$20kRecreation & Sports$10kFood & Nutrition$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k10 grants · $148k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $650k
$25,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA$200,000
MAYO CLINIC$200,000
DENVER CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS$100,000
SCHOLARS OF FINANCE$100,000
MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA$50,000
HAVERN CENTER INC$25,000
MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MINNESOTA$25,000
COLORADO ACADEMY$25,000
PARENTING SPECIAL KIDS NETWORK INC$12,500
BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA$10,000
MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO$10,000
MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ORANGE COUNTY$10,000
2026 SPECIAL OLYMPICS USA GAMES$10,000
MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTH FLORIDA$10,000
YOUTH FRONTIERS INC$10,000
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 (FY23–25, $98k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%YOUTH FRONTIERS INC: $25k → 11%YOUTH FRONTIERS INC: $15k → 11%YOUTH FRONTIERS INC: $10k → 11%PARENTING SPECIAL KIDS NETWORK INC: $35k → 11%PARENTING SPECIAL KIDS NETWORK INC: $13k → 11%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
MN
OH
CA
CO
AZ
HI
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.3M · 12 repeat orgs$386k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
12

Total granted

$2.3M
$321k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
+17%

Still filing today

83%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthHuman ServicesArts & CulturePhilanthropyRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA
    2× · 2023–2025 · $410k · revenue +1%
  • DC
    DENVER CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS
    3× · 2023–2025 · $340k · revenue +35%
  • SO
    SCHOLARS OF FINANCE
    2× · 2023–2024 · $200k · revenue +0%

Funded once

  • DC
    DENVER CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +228%
  • CB
    CHS BASEBALL BOOSTERS ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +17% · 87% of their budget
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $30k
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
Make-a-Wish Foundation of the Mid-Atlantic Inc

The make-a-wish foundation of the mid-atlantic creates life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses.

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2
Make-a-Wish Foundation of Metro New York and Western New York

Together, we create life changing wishes for children with critical illnesses.

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3
Make-a-Wish Foundation of Utah Inc

Together, we create life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses.

—
4
Make-a-Wish Foundation of Georgia Inc

Together, we create life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses.

Philanthropy
5
Make-a-Wish Foundation of the Mid-South Inc

The make-a-wish foundation of the mid-south creates life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses.

Health
6
Make-a-Wish Foundation of Illinois Inc

Together, we create life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses.

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7
Make-a-Wish Foundation of Missouri and Kansas

Together, we create life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses

Human Services
8
Make-a-Wish Foundation of the Texas Gulf Coast & Louisiana Inc

Together, we create life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses.

Health
9
Make-a-Wish Foundation of Central & South Texas

Together, we create life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses.

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10
Make-a-Wish Foundation of Oh Ky & in

Together, we create life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses.

Health
11
Make-a-Wish Foundation of South Dakota & Montana

Together, we create life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses.

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12
Make-a-Wish Foundation of Michigan

Together, we create life-changing wishes for children with critical illnesses.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of America; the most unlike its peers is Chs Baseball Boosters Association. 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

21 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. 21 of the 30 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/21
Grantees still filing
17/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION: $685,000 · OtherMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATIONMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $410,000 · OtherMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICASCHOLARS OF FINANCE: $225,000 · OtherSCHOLARS OF FINANCEGIVE KIDS THE WORLD INC: $52,675 · Other+8 more: $126,400 · Other+8 moreMAYO CLINIC: $1,000,000 · HealthMAYO CLINICMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA INC: $85,000 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA INCMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MINNESOTA: $75,000 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MINNESOTA+4 more: $50,000 · HealthDENVER CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS: $340,000 · EducationDENVER CHRISTIAN SCHOOLSSCHOLARS OF FINANCE: $200,000 · EducationSCHOLARS OF FINANCEDENVER CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · EducationDENVER CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS …COLORADO ACADEMY: $100,000 · EducationCOLORADO ACADEMYCHS BASEBALL BOOSTERS ASSOCIATION: $50,000 · EducationCHS BASEBALL BOOSTERS ASS…+1 more: $25,000 · EducationYOUTH FRONTIERS INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesPARENTING SPECIAL KIDS NETWORK INC: $47,500 · Human ServicesRALLY FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · PhilanthropyTRI-STATE WARBIRD MUSEUM: $20,000 · Arts & Culture2026 SPECIAL OLYMPICS USA GAMES: $10,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$1,499,075Health$1,210,000Education$815,000Human Services$97,500Philanthropy$25,000Arts & Culture$20,000Recreation & Sports$10,000

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 budgetMAYO CLINIC: $1,000,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $410,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDENVER CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS: $340,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetSCHOLARS OF FINANCE: $200,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetCOLORADO ACADEMY: $100,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA INC: $85,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MINNESOTA: $75,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetGIVE KIDS THE WORLD INC: $52,675 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH FRONTIERS INC: $50,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCHS BASEBALL BOOSTERS ASSOCIATION: $50,000 over 1y, 87% of budgetPARENTING SPECIAL KIDS NETWORK INC: $47,500 over 2y, 17% of budgetRALLY FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHAVERN CENTER INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ORANGE COUNTY AND THE INLAND EMPIRE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF COLORADO: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF HAWAII: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

Charities Aid Foundat…Make-A-Wish Foundatio…Car Donation Foundati…The Minneapolis Found…National Philanthropi…Baird Foundation IncJpmorgan Chase Founda…The Pfizer Foundation…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…The Blackbaud Giving …American Online Givin…
Charities Aid Foundation AmericaVA14.2× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Charities Aid Foundation America · Make-A-Wish Foundation of America · Car Donation Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Baird Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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 Richard K Davis & Theresa a Davis Family funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Richard K Davis & Theresa a Davis Family. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 30 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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