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Tom Davis Fund

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$568k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
13
Grants FY2024
7
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$125,000
Organizations funded a year
7 to 22
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$5.4M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Tom Davis Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesEducationReligionHealthEnvironmentCrime & LegalOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving13$568k38%
FY20237$237k0%
FY202212$430k25%
FY202112$412k42%
FY202014$205k36%
FY201916$255k50%
FY201822$216k55%
FY201716$239kn/a
94% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$762kHealth$411kHuman Services$284kFood & Nutrition$256kYouth Development$214kReligion$154kArts & Culture$117kEnvironment$70kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WI
NY
PA
NC
SC
AL
GA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 31 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($898k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Tom Davis Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 26 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEmbry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc: $400,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCrossnore Communities for Children: $206,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetSenior Services Inc: $200,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetSecond Harvest Food Bank of Northwest Nc Inc: $156,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetOn Wings Like a Dove Inc: $153,000 over 3y, 27% of budgetPiedmont Land Conservancy: $70,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetOak Ridge Foundation Inc: $67,700 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetInner Banks Stem Center: $67,000 over 3y, 23% of budgetWake Forest University: $65,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBaptist Children's Homes of North Carolina Incorporated: $62,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetEaa Aviation Foundation Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetForsyth Technical Community College Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetPiedmont Silver Eagles Inc: $23,100 over 6y, 51% of budgetCancer Services Inc: $15,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetAmazing Grace Adoptions: $15,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetThe Piedmont School Inc: $9,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetJimmys Bike Drive Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetBreakthrough T1d: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVictory Junction Gang Camp Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAuburn University Foundation: $2,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSamaritan's Purse: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTidewell Hospice Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Johns County Council on Aging Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Masonic Home for Children at Oxford Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAnna L Haas Humane Society of Cobb County: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetForsyth Humane Society: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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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 26.

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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.

The Winston-Salem FoundationNC22.5× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Winston-Salem Foundation · Reynolds American Foundation · Strickland Family Foundation Cynthia a S Graham · Pfefferkorn Foundation Inc · Ta John W and Anna H Hanes Foundation · Reynolds Foundation 186-8803582 · Duke Energy Foundation · The Cannon Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America

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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How do I get to Tom Davis Fund?

Find your warmest path to Tom Davis Fund 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.

About Tom Davis Fund

How much does Tom Davis Fund give?
Tom Davis Fund reported 13 grants totaling $568,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 22 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Tom Davis Fund fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (30%), Health (16%), Human Services (11%).
Who are Tom Davis Fund's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc ($400k), Crossnore Communities for Children ($206k), Senior Services Inc ($200k).
Does Tom Davis Fund fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Tom Davis Fund accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Tom Davis Fund?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Winston-Salem Foundation, Reynolds American Foundation, Strickland Family Foundation Cynthia a S Graham.
Where is Tom Davis Fund based?
Tom Davis Fund is based in NC.

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 54 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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