About Davis Family Foundation
Provides grants primarily to Maine-based educational, medical, and cultural/arts charitable organizations to support projects where gifts make a real difference.
Focus Areas
EducationMedical/HealthCultural & ArtsArts & CultureMaine-focused grantmaking
Who They Fund
K–12 students and educatorsCollege and vocational students (including students with intellectual disabilities)Low-income Mainers and economically disadvantaged youthRural communities in MaineIndividuals with substance use disorders and patients needing behavioral health servicesJustice-impacted individuals returning to education/work
About Davis Family Foundation
A $400,000 grant to Sweetser for PATHS, a prevention, assessment, and treatment initiative for healthy students, is the largest recent award in the Davis Family Foundation’s record here and shows the scale of its project-based giving. The foundation directs most of its support to Maine charitable organizations working in education, medical and health, and cultural and arts programs, with a strong preference for projects where gifts can make a visible difference. That pattern appears across school improvement, behavioral health, higher education, childcare, and arts facilities. Recent education grants include support for a Maine Opportunity Culture Network, a college-and-career pipeline for young men in Maine, and expanded access to modern clinical instrumentation at University of Maine campuses. In health, the foundation has backed addiction medicine, contingency management for psychostimulant use disorder, pediatric integrated behavioral health, and critical care transport. It also funds cultural and creative work, including an animation and game art expansion at Maine College of Art & Design and museum gallery updates at Colby College. The foundation’s grantmaking is project-specific and competitive, with trustees reviewing applications quarterly under its general grant program.
What Davis Family Foundation Funds
Education is one of the clearest threads in the Davis Family Foundation’s grantmaking. It gave $281,759 to Great Schools Partnership Inc for “Boosting Student Learning & Educator Opportunity: A Maine Opportunity Culture Network,” and later awarded another $161,756 for the same initiative. The foundation also supported a college-access pipeline with $250,000 to Foundation for Maines Community Colleges for “Maine Connection: Young Men to College and Careers.” Health-related grants cover both treatment and infrastructure. MaineHealth received $200,000 for the Greater Portland Comprehensive Addiction Medicine Program, while MaineHealth dba Maine Medical Center received $141,837 for contingency management to address psychostimulant use disorder. The foundation also funded LifeFlight of Maine with $150,000 for avionic technology and backed Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems with $100,000 for expanded mental health services. Arts and creative economy work appears in grants such as $100,000 to Maine College of Art & Design for an animation and game art expansion.
How Davis Family Foundation Gives
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$3.2M
Total Assets
$100.5M
Total Revenue
$3.7M
Total Expenses
$3.7M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $10K and $25K, with a median of $20K.
25th Percentile
$10K
Median
$20K
75th Percentile
$25K
Geographic Reach
Local5 states funded
Funding intensity
LowHigh
Headquarters
Leadership
Yvonne Mumme
Accepts unsolicited proposals
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