· Private foundation
The Roy and Skeeter 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $184k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LAMAR COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIRE | $38,000 |
| LAMAR COUNTY FOOD PANTRY INC | $28,000 |
| BOERNE HIGH SCHOOL | $27,500 |
| BOERNE EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| COMFORT ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUB | $15,000 |
| KENDALL CO WOMAN'S SHELTER | $10,000 |
| PRAIRILAND INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT FFA | $10,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $10,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| COMFORT GOLDEN AGE CENTER | $10,000 |
| RED RIVER VALLEY DOWN SYNDROME SOCIETY | $5,600 |
| GREYHOUND ATHLETICS BOOSTER CLUB | $5,000 |
| CASA FOR KIDS | $5,000 |
| HUMAN RESOURCES COUNCIL | $5,000 |
| CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER | $5,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $110k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 45% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
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 +78% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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
- LCLAMAR COUNTY FOOD PANTRY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $240k · revenue +154%
- BEBoerne Education Foundation7× · 2018–2024 · $138k · revenue +26%
- GAGreyhound Athletic Booster Club7× · 2017–2024 · $125k · revenue +78%
Funded once
- PFPat Foundation Incgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +145%
- TCTRINITY CHRISTIAN ACADEMYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +46%
- PIPARIS INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2018 · $13k
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.
To alleviate hunger by distributing food to families who are food deprived through a network of volunteers and other agencies within Hays County.
Provide nutrition meals for communities in the Dallas/Ft Worth, Texas areas
Service to youth
The mission of the Bastrop County Emergency Food Pantry and Support Center is to serve Bastrop County residents going through periods of transition by providing emergency food assistance, education and support.
A state of texas licensed foster care and adoption agency that identifies and provides approved healing foster homes for children.
To provide family services and to provide residential child care for dependent children where there is a need to assist children and families disrupted by problems.
Support of special needs military or first responders and their families.
To provide food for less fortunate citizens of deaf smith county, texas
To assist homeless families in securing stable housing
Helping people in poverty or crisis with basic assistance, job preparedness and educational opportunities.
Sunny Glen Childrens Home, Inc. cares for children in need. Our care will be competent, compassionate and professional. We will help every child achieve their greatest potential-physically, emotionally, spiritually and academically.
Rescue of unwanted dogs
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys & Girls Clubs of the Texas Hill Country and the most unlike its peers is Pat Foundation Inc. 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 20 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 75 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 LAMAR COUNTY FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds Boerne Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds Greyhound Athletic Booster Club ↗
- Who funds Red River Valley Down Syndrome Society ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RESOURCES COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds CASA For Kids Inc ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Club of the Red River Valle y ↗
- Who funds Comfort Golden Age Center Foundation ↗
- Who funds BOERNE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Comfort Athletic Booster Club ↗
- Who funds DAY 1 BAGS ↗
- Who funds Pat Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds TRINITY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds CITYSQUARE ↗
- Who funds BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY ↗
- Who funds BOERNE HIGH SCHOOL PTO ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR HEROES TEXAS ↗
- Who funds RED RIVER VALLEY BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Community Food Bank of Franklin County ↗
- Who funds BUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES 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: Ram Foundation · United Way of Lamar County · The Community Foundation of the Texas Hill Country Inc · San Antonio Area Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Roy and Skeeter Davis Family 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.
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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