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The William H Davis Dorothy M Davis and William C Davis Foundation at a glance

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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.

$617k
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$116k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 21 grants below total $602,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $616,500 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $14,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k16 grants · $212k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $391k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$50M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$116,000
HOMELESS FAMILIES FOUNDATION DBA HOME FOR FAMILIES$100,000
COLUMBUS ZOO AND AQUARIUM$75,000
STAR HOUSE$50,000
SIMON KENTON COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA$50,000
BESA COMMUNITY INC$30,000
CANINE COMPANIONS NORTH CENTRAL REGION$25,000
A KID AGAIN INC$20,000
PRESS PRO SCHOLARSHIP ENDOWMENT$16,500
CONGREGATION TIFERETH ISRAEL$10,000
CORNERSTONE OF HOPE$10,000
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOR ALL PEOPLE$10,000
LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF CENTRAL OHIO$10,000
WESTERVILLE AREA RESOURCE MINISTRY (WARM)$10,000
GLADDEN COMMUNITY HOUSE$10,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CORNERSTONE OF HOPE: $10k → 5%ADAPTIVE SPORTS CONNECTION: $100k → 5%CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE: $100k → 15%CANINE COMPANIONS NORTH CENTRAL REGION: $30k → 15%CANINE COMPANIONS NORTH CENTRAL REGION: $25k → 15%YWCA COLUMBUS: $25k → 15%ALVIS INC: $25k → 15%CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES: $15k → 15%HOMELESS FAMILIES FOUNDATION: $4k → 15%VILLAGE CONNECTIONS: $3k → 15%YMCA OF CENTRAL OHIO: $3k → 15%CORNERSTONE OF HOPE: $30k → 15%YMCA OF CENTRAL OHIO: $178k → 15%YMCA OF CENTRAL OHIO: $30k → 15%FUTURE READY COLUMBUS: $16k → 15%YMCA OF CENTRAL OHIO: $15k → 15%ST STEPHEN'S COMMUNITY HOUSE: $10k → 15%YMCA OF CENTRAL OHIO: $10k → 15%ST STEPHEN'S COMMUNITY HOUSE: $10k → 15%YMCA OF CENTRAL OHIO: $5k → 15%YMCA OF CENTRAL OHIO: $3k → 15%YMCA OF CENTRAL OHIO: $3k → 15%YMCA OF CENTRAL OHIO: $3k → 15%REEB AVENUE CENTER: $25k → 15%A KID AGAIN INC: $30k → 15%A KID AGAIN INC: $25k → 15%A KID AGAIN INC: $20k → 15%KID AGAIN INC: $60k → 15%KID AGAIN INC: $50k → 15%NNEMAP INC: $10k → 15%HUCKLEBERRY HOUSE INC: $30k → 15%HUCKLEBERRY HOUSE INC: $16k → 15%WESTERVILLE AREA RESOURCE MINISTRY: $10k → 15%WESTERVILLE AREA RESOURCE MINISTRY (WARM): $10k → 15%GLADDEN COMMUNITY HOUSE: $10k → 15%CORNERSTONE OF HOPE: $10k → 15%HOMELESS FAMILIES FOUNDATION DBA HOME FOR FAMILIES: $100k → 15%AMERICAN RED CROSS GREATER COLUMBUSCENTRAL-SOUTHERN OHIO REGION: $30k → 15%AMERICAN RED CROSS CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN: $13k → 15%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

IL
MA
OH
PA
WV
MD
TN
DC
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$15M · 43 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

43 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

43
41

Total granted

$15M
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+18%

Still filing today

84%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $155k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionAnimalsArts & 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • OS
    OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $8.6M · revenue +36%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE CONSERVATORY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +191%
  • CH
    COLUMBUS HUMANE
    7× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +121%

Funded once

  • DF
    DIRECTIONS FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC
    one grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue +8%
  • TC
    THE COLUMBUS HISTORICAL SOCIETY
    one grant, 2021 · $125k · revenue -1%
  • AS
    ADAPTIVE SPORTS CONNECTION CORDERgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +360%
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
Philanthropy Ohio

To lead and equip ohio philanthropy to be effective partners for change in our communities.

Philanthropy
2
Greater Columbus Chamber of Commerce

Advancing a thriving central ohio commmunity by serving as a catalyst for all businesses to grow and flourish. our mission pillars are connections, government relations, strategic business solutions and talent/workforce.

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3
Community Shelter Board

The community shelter board is ending homelessness by creating collaborations, innovating solutions, and investing in quality programs.

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4
Lutheran Social Services of Central Ohio Delaware Housing Inc

See schedule oto create a better world by serving people in need by operating food pantries, homeless shelters, a domestic violence shelter, affordable housing communities, senior living, assisted living and skilled care facilities, a home…

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5
Ohio United Way

To strengthen the capacity of United Ways across Ohio and to advance the common good for Ohioans.

Philanthropy
6
Greater Cleveland Volunteers

Greater cleveland volunteers enriches the community and indivuduals through volunteer service. volunteers age 18 and older are recruited and placed in the agency's programs or referred to local nonprofit or public organizations to help…

Philanthropy
7
Columbus Neighborhood Health Center Inc

To serve the central ohio community with affordable, easy to access healthcare services.

Health
8
Hospice & Palliative Care of the Ohio Valley Inc

Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.

Human Services
9
Columbus Center for Human Services Inc

Inspiring life journeys

Human Services
10
Empowering and Strengthening Ohio's People Inc

Empowering and strengthening ohio's people (esop) helps adults in all stages of life achieve and maintain financial wellness and housing stability.

Housing & Shelter
11
Central Ohio Youth for Christ Inc

Coyfc reaches young people everywhere, working with the local church and other like minded partners to raise up lifelong followers of jesus who lead by their godliness in lifestyle, devotion to the word of god and prayer, passion for…

Youth Development
12
United Way of Central Ohio Inc

United way of central ohio is the local organization that harnesses the power of communities working together - people, nonprofits, businesses and government - to create a stronger, more equitable central ohio. see schedule o.we do this…

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Columbus Youth Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Wings Charitable Foundation. 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

82 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. 82 of the 96 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
78/82
Grantees still filing
65/82
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $8,649,650 · EducationOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION+5 more: $137,000 · EducationCOLUMBUS FOUNDATION: $2,746,100 · PhilanthropyCOLUMBUS FOUNDATI…STAR HOUSE: $150,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $66,500 · PhilanthropyARTHUR G JAMES CANCER HOSPITAL AND RICHARD J SOLOVE RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $630,000 · OtherARTHUR G JAMES CA…SIMON KENTON COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $240,000 · OtherSIMON KENTON COUN…Mid-Ohio Foodbank: $230,000 · OtherMid-Ohio FoodbankHABITAT FOR HUMANITY - MIDOHIO: $200,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMAN…NATIONAL FOOTBALL FOUNDATION AND CO LLEGE HALL OF FAME INC: $100,000 · OtherBUCKEYE DIAMOND CLUB INC CO JAMES DURHAM: $100,000 · OtherDIRECTIONS FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC: $250,000 · OtherDIRECTIONS FOR YO…LIFECARE ALLIANCE: $100,500 · Other+51 more: $1,067,550 · Other+51 moreCOLUMBUS HUMANE: $1,215,000 · AnimalsCOLUMBUS H…INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR THE PRESERVATION OF WILD ANIMALS INC: $462,000 · AnimalsINTERNATIO…COLUMBUS ZOOLOGICAL PARK ASSOCIATION: $75,000 · Animals+1 more: $500 · AnimalsFRIENDS OF THE CONSERVATORY: $1,497,000 · EnvironmentYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL OHIO: $247,500 · Human ServicesA KID AGAIN INC: $185,000 · Human ServicesCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $155,000 · Human ServicesTHE HOMELESS FAMILIES FOUNDATION: $103,500 · Human ServicesADAPTIVE SPORTS CONNECTION CORDER: $100,000 · Human ServicesCORNERSTONE OF HOPE INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesHUCKLEBERRY HOUSE INC: $46,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $42,500 · Human Services+11 more: $194,200 · Human ServicesHONOR FLIGHT COLUMBUS INC: $170,000 · Arts & CultureTHE COLUMBUS HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $125,000 · Arts & CultureFRANKLIN PARK CONSERVATORY WOMENS SUSTAINING BOARD: $100,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $5,000 · Arts & Culture
Education$8,786,650Philanthropy$2,962,600Other$2,918,050Animals$1,752,500Environment$1,497,000Human Services$1,123,700Arts & Culture$400,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $8,649,650 over 9y, 1.8% of budgetCOLUMBUS FOUNDATION: $2,746,100 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CONSERVATORY: $1,497,000 over 8y, 23% of budgetCOLUMBUS HUMANE: $1,215,000 over 7y, 19% of budgetARTHUR G JAMES CANCER HOSPITAL AND RICHARD J SOLOVE RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $630,000 over 6y, 84% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR THE PRESERVATION OF WILD ANIMALS INC: $462,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetDIRECTIONS FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC: $250,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL OHIO: $247,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetSIMON KENTON COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $240,000 over 7y, 2.4% of budgetMid-Ohio Foodbank: $230,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY - MIDOHIO: $200,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetA KID AGAIN INC: $185,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetHONOR FLIGHT COLUMBUS INC: $170,000 over 4y, 10% of budgetCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $155,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSTAR HOUSE: $150,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetTHE COLUMBUS HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $125,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetTHE HOMELESS FAMILIES FOUNDATION: $103,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLIFECARE ALLIANCE: $100,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBUCKEYE DIAMOND CLUB INC CO JAMES DURHAM: $100,000 over 6y, 56% of budgetFRANKLIN PARK CONSERVATORY WOMENS SUSTAINING BOARD: $100,000 over 6y, 6.4% of budgetADAPTIVE SPORTS CONNECTION CORDER: $100,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetCHARITABLE PHARMACY OF CENTRAL OHIO INC: $80,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTHE 2ND AND 7 FOUNDATION: $80,000 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetTHE BUCKEYE RANCH FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN OHIO: $66,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetPRESS PRO SCHOLARSHIP ENDOWMENT INC: $58,500 over 5y, 80% of budgetBESA COMMUNITY INC: $55,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetLOCAL MATTERS: $50,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetLOGAN FAMILY FOUNDATION % JEFFREY D LOGAN: $50,000 over 6y, 13% of budgetCORNERSTONE OF HOPE INC: $50,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetLEVELING THE PLAYING FIELD INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLOWER LIGHT MINISTRIES INC: $50,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetHUCKLEBERRY HOUSE INC: $46,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $42,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRANKLINTON FARMS: $40,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetHEARTLAND HIGH SCHOOL: $40,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetSEEDS OF CARING: $40,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetHope Hollow: $37,500 over 4y, 6.4% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS OHIO INC: $35,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGREATER COLUMBUS SPORTS FOUNDATION: $34,000 over 2y, 45% of budgetBIG GREEN SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE HUMAN SERVICE CHAMBER FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetFLYING HORSE FARMS: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetREEB AVENUE CENTER: $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetLICKING COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetI KNOW I CAN: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOLUMBUS DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

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 FoundationIngram-White Castle F…United Way of Central…L Brands FoundationAmerican Electric Pow…Harry C Moores Founda…Siemer Family Foundat…Cardinal Health Found…Encova Foundation of …Nisource Charitable F…Columbus Jewish Found…Park National Corpora…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The William H Davis Dorothy M Davis and William C Davis Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The William H Davis Dorothy M Davis and William C Davis Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    29report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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.
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    Find your warmest path to The William H Davis Dorothy M Davis and William C Davis Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 96 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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