Texas · Private foundation
The Wi & Inez Davis 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.
- $212k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $56,700
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 13
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.8M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations The Wi & Inez Davis Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 9 | $212k | 11% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $212k | 20% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $210k | 8% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $189k | 15% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $165k | 17% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $173k | 31% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $167k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 8 | $108k | 63% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shelby County Childrens Advocacy Center Inc | $382,725 | 9 | 9% |
| Methodist Children's Home | $180,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Huxley Volunteer Fire Department | $132,500 | 8 | 35% |
| Fannie Brown Booth Memorial Li | $55,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Alcuin School | $45,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Friends of Center Roughrider Athletics | $29,450 | 1 | 17% |
| Operation Blue Santa | $27,000 | 4 | 48% |
| Tyler Junior College | $15,754 | 2 | n/a |
| Christus Foundation Shreveport-Bossier | $15,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Ladonia Cemetery Association | $10,575 | 4 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shelby County Childrens Advocacy Center Inc | $382,725 | 9 | 9% |
| Methodist Children's Home | $180,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Huxley Volunteer Fire Department | $132,500 | 8 | 35% |
| Fannie Brown Booth Memorial Li | $55,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Alcuin School | $45,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Friends of Center Roughrider Athletics | $29,450 | 1 | 17% |
| Operation Blue Santa | $27,000 | 4 | 48% |
| Tyler Junior College | $15,754 | 2 | n/a |
| Christus Foundation Shreveport-Bossier | $15,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Ladonia Cemetery Association | $10,575 | 4 | n/a |
| Shelby County Outreach Ministries Inc | $7,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Jacksonville College | $104 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($641k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Wi & Inez Davis Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 9 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
About The Wi & Inez Davis Foundation
- How much does The Wi & Inez Davis Foundation give?
- The Wi & Inez Davis Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $211,700 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 13 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Wi & Inez Davis Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (37%), Education (19%), Public Safety & Disaster (17%).
- Who are The Wi & Inez Davis Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Shelby County Childrens Advocacy Center Inc ($383k), Methodist Children's Home ($180k), Huxley Volunteer Fire Department ($133k).
- Does The Wi & Inez Davis Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Wi & Inez Davis 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 Wi & Inez Davis Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include East Texas Communities Foundation, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is The Wi & Inez Davis Foundation based?
- The Wi & Inez Davis Foundation is based in TX.
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