FundersArkansas

Alline B & Chloe C Davis Charitable Foundation

Fort Smith, AR · EIN 71-0556734. Reported 151 grants totalling $358,300 to 55 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$2,000median grant
$358,300granted, 2021-2024
55organizations funded
82%of grantees funded again the next year
$1,993,346assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Alline B & Chloe C Davis Charitable Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $2,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $1,000 and $3,000; the smallest was $500 and the largest $5,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
6 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
121 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
24 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Donald W Reynolds Cancer Support HouseFort Smith, AR$20,000442024
Good Samaritan ClinicFort Smith, AR$20,000442024
Riverview Hope CampusFort Smith, AR$20,000442024
Gregory Kistler Treatment CenterFort Smith, AR$19,000442024
Fort Smith Boys & Girls ClubFort Smith, AR$18,000442024
River Valley Regional Food BankFort Smith, AR$14,500442024
Fort Smith Museum of HistoryFort Smith, AR$13,000442024
Antioch Youth & FamilyFort Smith, AR$12,800442024
Boys Shelter of Fort SmithFort Smith, AR$12,000442024
Crisis Intervention CenterFort Smith, AR$12,000442024
The Salvation ArmyFort Smith, AR$12,000442024
United Way of Fort SmithFort Smith, AR$11,500442024
University of Arkansas Fort Smith FdnFort Smith, AR$11,500332024
Girl's Inc of Fort SmithFort Smith, AR$10,000442024
Children's Emergency ShelterFort Smith, AR$9,500332024
Girl's Shelter of Fort Smith IncFort Smith, AR$9,000332024
Project Compassion IncFort Smith, AR$9,000442024
Fort Smith SymphonyFort Smith, AR$8,500442024
Community Dental ClinicFort Smith, AR$8,000442024
Clayton HouseFort Smith, AR$7,000442024
Community Rescue MissionFort Smith, AR$6,500442024
Fort Smith Regional Art MuseumFort Smith, AR$6,000442024
Girl Scouts Diamonds of Ar Ok TxFort Smith, AR$5,500332024
Bost IncFort Smith, AR$5,000442024
Fort Smith Children's Emergency ShelterFort Smith, AR$5,000112022
Ua Fort Smith Foundation IncFort Smith, AR$5,000112021
Bonneville HouseFort Smith, AR$4,500442024
Abilities Unlimited of Fort SmithVan Buren, AR$4,000442024
Arkansas True Vision Children Home LLCFort Smith, AR$4,000442024
Chloe Hardie Kirksey FoundationVan Buren, AR$4,000332023
Community School of the ArtsFort Smith, AR$4,000222023
Heart to Heart Pregnancy SupportFort Smith, AR$4,000442024
Single Parent Scholarship FundFort Smith, AR$4,000442024
StepsFort Smith, AR$4,000442024
The Arc for the River ValleyFort Smith, AR$4,000442024
Camp InventionFort Smith, AR$3,000442024
Girls Shelter of Fort SmithFort Smith, AR$3,000112021
Interfaith Community CenterFort Smith, AR$2,500112022
Interfaith Community PreschoolFort Smith, AR$2,500112021
Lincoln Childcare CenterFort Smith, AR$2,000112023
Literacy Council of Western ArkansasFort Smith, AR$2,000112022
Methodist Village Senior LivingFort Smith, AR$2,000112021
St Anne's Society IncFort Smith, AR$2,000112022
Junior League of Fort SmithFort Smith, AR$1,500112022
Ronald Mcdonald HouseFort Smith, AR$1,500112021
Ronald Mcdonald House of Fort SmithFort Smith, AR$1,500112022
Arkansas PBSConway, AR$1,000222022
Arts on MainVan Buren, AR$1,000112024
Boy Scouts of AmericaFort Smith, AR$1,000112024
Fort Smith Little TheaterFort Smith, AR$1,000112024
Literacy Councilof Western ArFort Smith, AR$1,000112024
The Sack Lunch ProgramFort Smith, AR$1,000112021
US Marshalls Museum FoundationFort Smith, AR$1,000112021
Kitties and Kanines Vet ClinicFort Smith, AR$500112023
Literacy CouncilFort Smith, AR$500112021

35 of 55 (64%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 82%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is unusually consistent. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 56 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Human Services
17 grants
Arts & Culture
14 grants
Health Care
13 grants
Youth Development
4 grants
Housing & Shelter
4 grants
Education
3 grants
Community Improvement
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202139$85,000$1,500
202240$96,500$2,000
202336$91,600$2,500
202436$85,200$2,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Fort Smith, AR
$343K
Van Buren, AR
$9K
Fort Simth, AR
$5K
Conway, AR
$1K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Walter O Caldwell Foundation10 shared recipientsArkansas Community Foundation Inc6 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund5 shared recipientsNetwork for Good4 shared recipientsInternational Paper Company Foundation4 shared recipientsMhm Support Services3 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $2,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Arkansas.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Alline B & Chloe C Davis Charitable Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 7 C/O Trust Department, Fort Smith, AR, 72902. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 71-0556734 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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