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William E & Rose Marie 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.

$87k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Food & Nutrition$111kReligion$95kHealth$81kHuman Services$47kEducation$43kCivil Rights$10kInternational$5kArts & Culture$3k
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $70k
$3,250
Median grant
3
States reached
$414k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TABLE GRACE MINISTRIES$20,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD NORTH CENTRAL STATES$20,000
LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES$20,000
UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL MISSOURI$10,000
WESTERN IOWA TECH COMMUNITY COLLEGE$5,000
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA - LINCOLN$3,250
ELKHORN BAND BOOSTERS$3,000
PROJECT HOPE$2,000
IGLESIA LUTERANA SAN ANDRES$2,000
NORTHWEST MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY$1,000
DANISH AMERICAN ARCHIVE & LIBRARY$500
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $47k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%LUTHERAN VOLUNTEER CORPS: $10k → 14%PROJECT HOPE: $10k → 12%PROJECT HOPE: $3k → 12%PROJECT HOPE: $2k → 12%PROJECT HOPE: $2k → 12%LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES: $20k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

MN
IL
IA
OH
CA
NE
MO
MD
DC

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$323k · 11 repeat orgs$72k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +69% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.

11 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
6

Total granted

$323k
$38k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+69%
+18%

Still filing today

45%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k 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 ServicesHealthArts & CultureInternationalEducationCivil RightsOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • TG
    TABLE GRACE MINISTRIES
    9× · 2017–2025 · $111k · revenue +148%
  • NL
    NEBRASKA LUTHERAN OUTDOOR MINISTRIES
    5× · 2017–2024 · $54k · revenue +69%
  • PH
    PROJECT HOPE INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $17k · revenue +78%

Funded once

  • LV
    LUTHERAN VOLUNTEER CORPS
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -78%
  • N
    NLOM
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE HEARTLAND INC
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue -12%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Lutherans Concernednorth America

Reconcilingworks: advocates, inspires and organizes for the welcome, inclusion and celebration of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (lgbtq) identities in the lutheran communion of the united states and canada.

2
Luther College

Founded by the norwegian evangelical lutheran church in 1861, luther college is a four-year, residential liberal arts institution. luther welcomes students of all backgrounds to engage in a way of learning that moves beyond immediate…

Education
3
Lutheran Family Services Foundation Inc

To educate, inspire, motivate and assist stakeholders in developing gifts supporting the human care provided by lutheran family services of nebraska, inc.

Human Services
4
Lutheran Social Services Housing Inc

Lss housing will support the continued vitality of north dakota communities by providing housing and housing-related services.

5
Planned Parenthood Voters of Nebraska

Planned parenthood voters of nebraska inspires and engages nebraskans to take up the cause of reproductive rights, health, education, and related topics through education, grassroots organizing, and legislative advocacy.

6
Lutheran Service Corps

To expand peace with justice in greater omaha by developing an intentional comumunity of volunteers.

7
Lutheran Social Services of South Dakota

Inspired by god's love, we care for, support, and strengthen individuals, families and communities.

8
Omaha Church Center Inc

None

9
Reconcilingworks Lutherans for Full Participation

Reconcilingworks advocates for the acceptance, full participation, and liberation of all sexual orientations, gender identities, and gender expressions within the lutheran church.

Religion
10
Loma Linda University Health

The primary purpose of loma linda university health(lluh) is to help coordinate the healing ministry of the seventh-day adventist church. this function is accomplished by managing the various schools and hospitals of lluh's core and…

11
Legacy Visiting Nurse Association

Legacy Visiting Nurse Association (LVNA) provides palliative care to terminally ill patients and supportive services to patients, their families, and significant others, through an outpatient hospice program. The home hospice program…

Health
12
Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization

The lausanne movement exists to activate the body of christ to accelerate global mission together through convening global influencers, creating biblically grounded missional content, fostering catalytic collaboration, and equipping…

Religion

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lutheran Family Services of Ne Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Danish American Archive and Lib. 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

10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 23 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NEBRASKA LUTHERAN OUTDOOR MINISTRIES — $53,500 · OtherNEBRASKA LUTHERAN OUTDOOR MINISTRIESPLANNED PARENTHOOD NORTH CENTRAL STATES — $50,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD NORTH CENTRAL STATESTRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH — $32,500 · OtherTRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCHPLANNED PARENTHOOD NCS — $18,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD NCSNEBRASKA SYNOD OF THE ELCA — $16,100 · OtherNEBRASKA SYNOD OF THE ELCAUNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL MISSOURI — $15,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL MISSOURINLOM — $10,000 · Other+7 more — $21,250 · Other+7 moreTABLE GRACE MINISTRIES — $111,292 · Arts & CultureTABLE GRACE MINISTRIESLUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NE INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesLUTHERAN FAMI…PROJECT HOPE INC — $17,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT HOPE …LUTHERAN VOLUNTEER CORPS — $10,000 · Human ServicesLUTHERAN VOLU…PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE HEARTLAND INC — $5,000 · HealthTHE CURE STARTS NOW INC — $2,500 · HealthLUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC — $5,000 · InternationalTREVOR PROJECT INC — $5,000 · Civil RightsThe Danish American Archive and Lib — $3,000 · Education
Other$216,350Arts & Culture$111,292Human Services$47,000Health$7,500International$5,000Civil Rights$5,000Education$3,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTABLE GRACE MINISTRIES — $111,292 over 9y, 4.5% of budgetNEBRASKA LUTHERAN OUTDOOR MINISTRIES — $53,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetPROJECT HOPE INC — $17,000 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetLUTHERAN VOLUNTEER CORPS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE HEARTLAND INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Danish American Archive and Lib — $3,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CURE STARTS NOW INC — $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds TABLE GRACE MINISTRIES
  • Who funds NEBRASKA LUTHERAN OUTDOOR MINISTRIES
  • Who funds LUTHERAN FAMILY SERVICES OF NE INC
  • Who funds PROJECT HOPE INC
  • Who funds LUTHERAN VOLUNTEER CORPS
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE HEARTLAND INC
  • Who funds LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF INC
  • Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC
  • Who funds The Danish American Archive and Lib
  • Who funds THE CURE STARTS NOW INC

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Immanuel Community Vision FoundationNE15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Immanuel Community Vision Foundation · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization William E & Rose Marie Davis Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 47%
  • Lutheran World Relief Inc47% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report 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, FY2025

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

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How do I get to William E & Rose Marie Davis Foundation?

Find your warmest path to William E & Rose Marie 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 23 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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