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The Ronald Davis Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$81k
Granted FY2024still arriving
20
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$17k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$473kHealth$176kPhilanthropy$151kCommunity Improvement$120kArts & Culture$95kHousing & Shelter$95kReligion$77kInternational$61kOther$0
02FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k17 grants · $44k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $37k
$4,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$546k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BRIGHT FUTURE FOUNDATION$16,500
Individual grant recipient$10,000
HOPE HAVEN RWANDA$10,000
BUSH FOUNDATION$7,500
VAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SPRINGS$4,800
THE PHOENIX THEATER$4,300
Individual grant recipient$4,000
ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION$2,500
BRAVO VAIL$1,311
HERBERGER THEATER CENTER$1,010
SOUP FOR YOU$1,000
LBJ FOUNDATION$1,000
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 (FY18–21, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 33% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MY FUTURE PATHWAYS: $5k → 8%MILE HIGH MINISTRIES: $5k → 12%MY FUTURE PATHWAYS: $5k → 7%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

MN
NY
OH
CT
CA
CO
VA
AZ
NM
DC
OK
GA
TX
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.

46%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$550k · 18 repeat orgs$637k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +63% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

18 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
38

Total granted

$550k
$602k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+63%
+12%

Still filing today

33%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHealthRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesReligionOther
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

  • RA
    RIDGEFIELD ACADEMY INC
    6× · 2017–2023 · $126k · revenue +63%
  • BF
    BRIGHT FUTURE FOUNDATION FOR EAGLE COUNTY
    3× · 2018–2024 · $43k · revenue +104%
  • HH
    HOPE HAVEN CHARITABLE TRUST
    7× · 2017–2024 · $31k · revenue +226%

Funded once

  • CM
    COLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2020 · $250k
  • VH
    VAIL HEALTH SERVICES
    one grant, 2021 · $133k
  • VR
    VAIL RELIGIOUS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -72%
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
Fountain Valley School of Colorado

Fountain valley school of colorado provides a transformative curriculum in a supportive environment where students are challenged to think critically, become leaders, and live by our core values: courage, compassion, curiosity,…

Education
2
Vail Mountain School

We inspire tomorrow's ethical leaders by developing character, seeking knowledge, and building a community of lifelong learners from the heart of the colorado mountains to the world beyond.

Education
3
Eagle River Valley Childcare

Eagle river valley childcare is strategically designed to address the childcare supply and affordability issues in the eagle county, colorado community.

Human Services
4
Vail-Summit Research & Education Foundat
Education
5
Vvmc Diversified Services

Elevating health across our mountain communities.

Health
6
Vail International Pro Am
Recreation & Sports
7
Vail Clinic Inc % Vhh Accounting Department

Elevating health across our mountain communities.

Health
8
The Vermont Community Foundation

The vermont community foundation helps to build philanthropic resources to sustain healthy and vital vermont communities. the foundation connects and mobilizes people through giving to multiply the impact of philanthropy.

Philanthropy
9
Front Range Community College Foundation

To advance the mission of front range community college by providing resources of time, expertise, and financial support to augment the state of colorado funding and thereby create, sustain or strengthen current and emerging centers of…

Education
10
Eagle Valley Mental Health

Eagle valley mental health (dba eagle valley behavioral health) primarily serves the behavioral health care needs of eagle county, and secondarily the region surrounding eagle county.

Health
11
Elevations Credit Union

Together we create solutions for a better life.

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12
Education Commission of the States

The mission of education commission of the states is to advocate for attaining educational excellence for all and to help state leaders identify, develop and implement public policy for education that addresses current and future needs of…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado Gives Foundation; the most unlike its peers is University of Southern California. 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

32 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. 32 of the 75 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/32
Grantees still filing
20/32
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COLORADO MESA UNIVERSITY: $250,000 · OtherCOLORADO MESA UNIVERSITYHABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $95,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITYVAIL RELIGIOUS FOUNDATION: $50,000 · OtherVAIL RELIGIOUS FOUNDATIONBRIGHT FUTURE FOUNDATION FOR EAGLE COUNTY: $43,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $30,000 · OtherBRAVO VAIL: $27,958 · Other+50 more: $326,696 · Other+50 moreRIDGEFIELD ACADEMY INC: $126,131 · EducationRIDGEFIELD …Colorado Christian University: $8,228 · EducationColorado Ch…UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $5,000 · Education+2 more: $3,632 · EducationVAIL HEALTH SERVICES: $133,000 · HealthVAIL HEALT…STEADMAN PHILIPPON RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $5,000 · Health+1 more: $100 · HealthEAGLE VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $101,000 · PhilanthropyEAGLE VALL…ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $25,000 · PhilanthropyORANGE COU…+2 more: $5,000 · PhilanthropyVAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION: $119,610 · Community ImprovementVAIL VALL…Colorado Ski Museum Inc: $40,000 · Arts & CultureVAIL PERFORMING ARTS ACADEMY: $10,500 · Arts & CultureTHE VAIL JAZZ FOUNDATION INC: $6,892 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $282 · Arts & CultureHOPE HAVEN CHARITABLE TRUST: $31,300 · International
Other$822,654Education$142,991Health$138,100Philanthropy$131,000Community Improvement$119,610Arts & Culture$57,674International$31,300

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRIDGEFIELD ACADEMY INC: $126,131 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetVAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION: $119,610 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetEAGLE VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $101,000 over 4y, 6.6% of budgetVAIL RELIGIOUS FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetBRIGHT FUTURE FOUNDATION FOR EAGLE COUNTY: $43,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetColorado Ski Museum Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetHOPE HAVEN CHARITABLE TRUST: $31,300 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO MOUNTAIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetVAIL PERFORMING ARTS ACADEMY: $10,500 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetMY FUTURE PATHWAYS INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPROTECTION & EDUCATION RE ANIMALS CULTURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetColorado Christian University: $8,228 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEADMAN PHILIPPON RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMILE HIGH MINISTRIES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGUARDIAN SCHOLARS INC: $2,733 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCOLORADO GIVES FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Cycle Effect: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Mountain Rescue Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetROUNDUP RIVER RANCH: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEAGLE VALLEY RELIGIOUS FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMountain Recreation Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $899 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEAD GUITAR: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL FRONTIER MISSIONS INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAMI National: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetADMIRAL NIMITZ FOUNDATION: $32 over 1y, 0.0% 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 VAIL HEALTH SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds RIDGEFIELD ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds VAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds EAGLE VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds VAIL RELIGIOUS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BRIGHT FUTURE FOUNDATION FOR EAGLE COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds Colorado Ski Museum Inc ↗
  • Who funds HOPE HAVEN CHARITABLE TRUST ↗
  • Who funds ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO MOUNTAIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds EAGLE VALLEY COMMUNITY FUND ↗
  • Who funds VAIL PERFORMING ARTS ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds MY FUTURE PATHWAYS INC ↗
  • Who funds PROTECTION & EDUCATION RE ANIMALS CULTURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds Colorado Christian University ↗
  • Who funds THE VAIL JAZZ FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds STEADMAN PHILIPPON RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds MILE HIGH MINISTRIES ↗

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.

Colorado Gives Founda…The Winmax Foundation…United Jewish Foundat…The Denver FoundationThe Patrick and Donna…James C Allen Charita…El Pomar FoundationThe Colorado Health F…Slifer Family Foundat…Frampton Family Chari…Vail Clinic Inc % Vhh…Helle Family Foundati…
Colorado Gives FoundationCO21.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Winmax Foundation Inc · United Jewish Foundation · The Denver Foundation · The Patrick and Donna Martin Family Foundation · James C Allen Charitable Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Slifer Family Foundation · Frampton Family Charitable Foundation · Vail Clinic Inc % Vhh Accounting Department · Helle Family 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 Ronald Davis Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ronald Davis Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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 75 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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