Tandem in the Community

2023 Tandem Foundation Awards $40,000 to Davis Schools

2023 Tandem Foundation

For the past 22 years, the Tandem Foundation has distributed up to $40,000 annually to the Davis public schools.

This year the Tandem Foundation received 22 requests totaling $55,727. The Tandem Partners, John Whitcombe and Bill Roe, have decided again this year, to award an additional $10,000 in memory of their late partner Paul Makley, for a total of $40,000 in grant money.

We are delighted to fully fund 18 requests and partially fund 4 requests totaling $40,000.

It is our hope that the Tandem Foundation will be able to continue our tradition of supporting our community and its youth.

DJUSD principals are encouraged to watch for an email from Tandem each year inviting each of them to apply on behalf of their school.

View our 2023 list of recipients below.

2023 Tandem Foundation Grant Recipients

Davis Senior High School

$4,000 DHS Symphony Outreach Concerts
$923 Classroom Library Refresh
$1,377 Front Office DHS
$5,800 DHS Band

Da Vinci Charter Academy

$2,000 WWI museum night
$1,199 3D printing

Emerson Junior High School

$2,400 Archery Equipment

Holmes Junior High School

$913 Social Studies
$4,064 Steel Picnic Tables
$1,383 Birding Club
$2,495 Robotics Competition
$2,495 Positive Behavior Intervention

Cesar Chavez Elementary

$837 Kindergarten
$2,000 CARES recess games
$1,190 Glacier Chiller

North Davis Elementary School

$389 Talk Time
$570 Performing Arts
$184 Temperature Investigators
$1,264 Community Table
$1,000 Classroom Seating and furniture

Pioneer Elementary School

$650 Library

Davis School for Independent Study

$2,500 Age of Sail living history program
$367 School Garden