Which funders back the same organizations as The William H Davis Dorothy M Davis and William C Davis Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Columbus Foundation, Ingram-White Castle Foundation, United Way of Central Ohio Inc.

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Ohio · Public charity

The William H Davis Dorothy M Davis and William C Davis Foundation

The mission of the davis foundation in the central ohio community is to continue the philanthropic philosophy of william h. Davis, dorothy m. Davis and william c. Davis.continued on schedule o. During their lifetime, the davis family was generous to a number of deserving organizations with the ohio state university, william h. Davis alma…

$617k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 21
Itemized grants FY2025: 31
Organizations funded FY2024: 10%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $603k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $10,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $116,000
Organizations funded a year: 14 to 34; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 2
Total assets, FY2025: $50M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 10% of the organizations The William H Davis Dorothy M Davis and William C Davis Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionArts & CultureOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	21	$603k	43%
FY2024	31	$2.0M	10%
FY2023	26	$867k	62%
FY2022	14	$1.8M	21%
FY2021	17	$6.8M	29%
FY2020	26	$583k	27%
FY2019	34	$2.9M	47%
FY2018	30	$649k	37%

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What it funded, over time

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

Health$6.9MEducation$3.4MAnimals$1.7MPhilanthropy$1.6MEnvironment$1.6MArts & Culture$1.1MHuman Services$812kYouth Development$507kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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
Ohio State University Foundation	$8,649,650	9	2%
Friends of the Conservatory	$1,497,000	8	23%
Columbus Humane	$1,215,000	7	19%
Arthur G James Cancer Hospital and Richard J Solove Research Institute	$630,000	6	84%
International Center for the Preservation of Wild Animals Inc	$462,000	5	2%
Directions for Youth and Families Inc	$250,000	1	3%
Young Mens Christian Association of Central Ohio	$247,500	6	0%
Simon Kenton Council Boy Scouts of America	$240,000	7	2%
Mid-Ohio Foodbank	$230,000	6	0%
Habitat for Humanity - Midohio	$200,000	7	1%

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All grantees of The William H Davis Dorothy M Davis and William C Davis Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Ohio State University Foundation	$8,649,650	9	2%
Friends of the Conservatory	$1,497,000	8	23%
Columbus Humane	$1,215,000	7	19%
Arthur G James Cancer Hospital and Richard J Solove Research Institute	$630,000	6	84%
International Center for the Preservation of Wild Animals Inc	$462,000	5	2%
Directions for Youth and Families Inc	$250,000	1	3%
Young Mens Christian Association of Central Ohio	$247,500	6	0%
Simon Kenton Council Boy Scouts of America	$240,000	7	2%
Mid-Ohio Foodbank	$230,000	6	0%
Habitat for Humanity - Midohio	$200,000	7	1%
A Kid Again Inc	$185,000	5	1%
Honor Flight Columbus Inc	$170,000	4	10%
Canine Companions for Independence Inc	$155,000	3	0%
Star House	$150,000	5	1%
The Columbus Historical Society	$125,000	1	12%
The Homeless Families Foundation	$103,500	2	0%
Lifecare Alliance	$100,500	2	0%
National Football Foundation and Co Llege Hall of Fame Inc	$100,000	8	n/a
Buckeye Diamond Club Inc Co James Durham	$100,000	6	56%
Franklin Park Conservatory Womens Sustaining Board	$100,000	6	6%
Adaptive Sports Connection Corder	$100,000	1	14%
Charitable Pharmacy of Central Ohio Inc	$80,000	2	1%
The 2nd and 7 Foundation	$80,000	3	4%
Columbus Zoological Park Association	$75,000	1	n/a
The Buckeye Ranch Foundation Inc	$75,000	1	4%
Press Pro Scholarship Endowment Inc	$58,500	5	80%
Besa Community Inc	$55,000	2	2%
Local Matters	$50,000	1	4%
Logan Family Foundation % Jeffrey D Logan	$50,000	6	13%
Cornerstone of Hope Inc	$50,000	3	1%
Leveling the Playing Field Inc	$50,000	2	0%
Lower Light Ministries Inc	$50,000	2	2%
Huckleberry House Inc	$46,000	2	1%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches	$42,500	2	0%
Stitching Sisters Inc	$40,000	5	n/a
Franklinton Farms	$40,000	2	4%
Heartland High School	$40,000	2	4%
Seeds of Caring	$40,000	2	4%
Hope Hollow	$37,500	4	6%
Special Olympics Ohio Inc	$35,000	1	1%
Greater Columbus Sports Foundation	$34,000	2	45%
Big Green Scholarship Foundation	$30,000	1	0%
The Human Service Chamber Foundation	$30,000	1	4%
Flying Horse Farms	$25,000	1	1%
Reeb Avenue Center	$25,000	1	2%
Licking County Humane Society	$25,000	1	1%
I Know I Can	$25,000	1	0%
Columbus Downtown Development Corporation	$25,000	1	0%
Young Women's Christian Association	$25,000	1	0%
Alvis Inc	$25,000	1	0%
Operation Warm Inc	$25,000	1	0%
Columbus Schools Special Olympics	$22,500	4	n/a
Godman Guild Association	$20,000	2	0%
Boys and Girls Clubs of Columbus Inc	$20,000	1	0%
Westerville Area Resource Ministry	$20,000	2	0%
St Stephen Community Services Inc	$20,000	2	0%
Congregation Tifereth Israel	$20,000	2	n/a
Future Ready Five	$16,200	1	1%
Catholic Social Services Inc	$15,000	1	0%
Illinois Eastern Community College District #529	$11,500	4	n/a
Neighborhood Services Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
Broad Street Presbyterian Church	$10,000	1	n/a
Gladden Community House	$10,000	1	n/a
Community Development for All People	$10,000	1	n/a
Healthy Worthington Resource Center and Food Pantry Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Nnemap Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Good Sports Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Heart Food Pantry	$10,000	1	n/a
Lutheran Social Services of Central Ohio	$10,000	1	0%
Belmont Volunteer Fire Dept Inc	$8,000	1	n/a
Newport Township Vol Fire Dept	$8,000	1	n/a
Saint Marys Volunteer Fire Department	$8,000	1	n/a
Pelotonia	$6,000	1	0%
Ohio History Connection	$5,000	1	0%
Lifeline Christian Mission	$5,000	1	0%
House of Hope for Recovery Inc	$5,000	1	0%
Gateway Community Church-Powell Oh	$3,000	1	n/a
Village Connections	$3,000	1	n/a
Columbus Metropolitan Library Foundation	$2,500	1	0%
Lebanon United Methodist Church	$2,500	1	n/a
Wings Charitable Foundation	$2,500	1	n/a
The Bridge Corp	$2,500	1	2%
Arcanum-Butler Local Schools	$2,500	4	n/a
Zach Farmer Cancer Assistance Foundation	$2,000	1	n/a
Pleasant Township	$1,500	1	n/a
Columbus Youth Foundation	$1,050	1	1%
Cancer Gas Cards Inc	$1,000	2	n/a
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc	$1,000	2	0%
1divineline2health	$1,000	1	0%
Pilot Dogs Alloway	$500	1	0%
Humane Society of the Ohio Valley	$500	1	0%
Bethel Township Volunteer Fire Depa Rtment	$500	1	n/a
Northeast Animal Shelter Inc	$500	1	0%

The William H Davis Dorothy M Davis and William C Davis Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 70 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 70.

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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.

Columbus FoundationOH70.1× affinity48 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Columbus Foundation · Ingram-White Castle Foundation · United Way of Central Ohio Inc · L Brands Foundation · American Electric Power Foundation · Harry C Moores Foundation · Siemer Family Foundation · Cardinal Health Foundation · Encova Foundation of Ohio · Nisource Charitable Foundation · Columbus Jewish Foundation · Park National Corporation 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.

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About The William H Davis Dorothy M Davis and William C Davis Foundation

How much does The William H Davis Dorothy M Davis and William C Davis Foundation give?: The William H Davis Dorothy M Davis and William C Davis Foundation reported 21 itemized grants totaling $602,500, out of $616,500 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 34 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The William H Davis Dorothy M Davis and William C Davis Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (36%), Education (18%), Animals (9%).
Who are The William H Davis Dorothy M Davis and William C Davis Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Ohio State University Foundation ($8.6M), Friends of the Conservatory ($1.5M), Columbus Humane ($1.2M).
Does The William H Davis Dorothy M Davis and William C Davis Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as The William H Davis Dorothy M Davis and William C Davis Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Columbus Foundation, Ingram-White Castle Foundation, United Way of Central Ohio Inc.
Where is The William H Davis Dorothy M Davis and William C Davis Foundation based?: The William H Davis Dorothy M Davis and William C Davis Foundation is based in OH.