· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $150k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $57k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SHELBY COUNTY CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER | $56,700 |
| FRIENDS OF CENTER ROUGHRIDER ATHLETICS | $29,450 |
| METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME | $25,000 |
| SHELBYVILLE HIGH SCHOOL | $20,550 |
| FANNIE BROWN BOOTH MEMORIAL LIBRARY | $20,000 |
| HUXLEY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $15,000 |
| ALCUIN SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| SHELBYVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $15,000 |
| ALCUIN SCHOOL-SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $10,000 |
| LADONIA CEMETARY ASSOCIATION INC | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $563k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 28% of The Wi & Inez Davis Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in TX; by stated purpose, 97%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +68% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SCSHELBY COUNTY CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $383k · revenue +68%
- MCMETHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME7× · 2017–2025 · $180k · revenue +66%
- HVHUXLEY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT8× · 2018–2025 · $133k · revenue +113% · 35% of their budget
Funded once
- ASALCUIN SCHOOL - SHINE CAMPAIGNone grant, 2024 · $25k
- CFChristus Foundation Shreveport-Bossiergraduatedone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +350%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $10k
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.
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.
Ambulance commission
Preserve the history of shelby county al
Serve the needs of the people of shelby with financial and other assistance.
Conduct the annual county fair
Home repair and housing assistance
Lubbock christian school is dedicated to providing a quality environment in which each student will grow in wisdom and stature and in favor with god and man. lcs strives for excellence spiritually, personally, and professionally among…
To provide fire protection services
To maintain a patient-centered environment that encourages and supports innovation and teamwork in achieving excellence. to maximize customer satisfaction by meeting the highest standards of value, service, and performance. to provide…
To support the shelby county drug court.
Assist families in need with food and clothing
Shelby County Children's Advocacy Center, Inc. is a non-profit organization that is dedicated to ending child abuse through education, advocacy, counseling, family support, and the pursuit of justice.
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 27 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 SHELBY COUNTY CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME ↗
- Who funds HUXLEY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds FANNIE BROWN BOOTH MEMORIAL LI ↗
- Who funds ALCUIN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CENTER ROUGHRIDER ATHLETICS ↗
- Who funds OPERATION BLUE SANTA ↗
- Who funds Christus Foundation Shreveport-Bossier ↗
- Who funds SHELBY COUNTY OUTREACH MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Jacksonville College ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Wi & Inez Davis Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Wi & Inez Davis Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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