Palmer and Jane D Davenport Foundation
Chicago, IL · EIN 20-7210080. Reported 81 grants totalling $856,500 to 43 recipients across tax years 2021-2025. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
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. Palmer and Jane D Davenport 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.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $5,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $5,000 and $10,000; the smallest was $1,000 and the largest $100,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Cape Cod Foundation Inc | South Yarmouth, MA | $165,000 | 5 | 4 | 2025 |
| Cape Cod Healthcare Inc | Hyannis, MA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Seaside Lemans Fund | South Yarmouth, MA | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Cape Abilities Inc | Hyannis, MA | $50,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Cape Area Pilots Association | Waquoit, MA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Cape Cod Healthcare Foundation | Hyannis, MA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Cape Wellness Collaborative | South Yarmouth, MA | $50,000 | 8 | 4 | 2025 |
| Cape Cod Council of Churches Inc | Hyannis, MA | $33,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Penikese Island School Inc | Woods Hole, MA | $27,500 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Champ Homes | Hyannis, MA | $22,500 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Brazilian Resource Center Inc | Hyannis, MA | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Gosnold Behavioral Health | Falmouth, MA | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Belonging to Each Other Inc | Falmouth, MA | $12,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Cape Cod Times Needy Fund | Hyannis, MA | $12,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Cape Cod Times Neighbors Fund | Hyannis, MA | $12,500 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Duffy Health Center | Hyannis, MA | $12,500 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Elder Services of Cape Cod & the Islands | South Dennis, MA | $12,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Cape Kid Meals | Osterville, MA | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Outer Cape Health Services | Harwich Port, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Sharing Kindness Inc | South Harwich, MA | $7,500 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| YMCA Cape Cod | West Barnstable, MA | $7,500 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Behavioral Health Innovators Inc | South Chatham, MA | $6,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Boys & Girls Club of Cape Cod | Mashpee, MA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Cape & Islands Veterans Outreach Center | Hyannis, MA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Cape Cod Village Center for Developmental Disabilities Inc | Orleans, MA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Community Health Center of Cape Cod | Mashpee, MA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Dream Day on Cape Cod | Brewster, MA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Family Pantry of Cape Cod | Harwich, MA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Gosnold Inc | Falmouth, MA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Harbor Health Services Inc | Hyannis, MA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Lower Cape Outreach Council Inc | Orleans, MA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Tedys Team | Plainville, MA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of Cape Cod | Hyannis, MA | $4,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Ma Military Support Foundation Inc | Sandwich, MA | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Mab Community Services Inc | Allston, MA | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Angel Flight of New England | North Andover, MA | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Falmouth Service Center Inc | Falmouth, MA | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Kennedy-Donovan Center Inc | West Yarmouth, MA | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Historical Society of Old Yarmouth | Yarmouth Port, MA | $2,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Sustainable Cape | Truro, MA | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Cape Cod Foster Closet | Orleans, MA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Falmouth Jewish Congregation | East Falmouth, MA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Harwich Historical Society | Harwich, MA | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
19 of 43 (44%) received money in more than one year over the 5 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 67%, across 4 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
- Cape Cod Healthcare Inc
IN HONOR AND MEMORY OF DAVID G MUGAR - Cape Cod Healthcare Foundation
DAVENPORT-MUGAR CANCER CENTER IN MEMORY OF JOANN CURLEY - Gosnold Behavioral Health
GOSNOLD SCHOOL BASED COUNSELING PROGRAM - Cape Cod Council of Churches Inc
REFRIGERATED VAN FOR FOOD ACCESS - Penikese Island School
SCHOOL TRIP DISCOVERY DAYS - Cape Wellness Collaborative
INTEGRATIVE ONCOLOGY CARE FOR CAPE RESIDENTS
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 55 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 6 | $75,000 | $5,000 |
| 2022 | 10 | $200,500 | $6,500 |
| 2023 | 25 | $230,000 | $5,000 |
| 2024 | 16 | $178,500 | $5,000 |
| 2025 | 24 | $172,500 | $5,000 |
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
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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 a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $5,000. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Massachusetts.
- 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.
- 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.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Palmer and Jane D Davenport Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.
Address of record on the latest return: Co Northern Trust Po Box 803878, Chicago, IL, 60680. 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.
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