Alabama · Private foundation
Benjamin and Frances David 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.
- $237k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 22
- Grants FY2025
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 17 to 22
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $722k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations Benjamin and Frances David Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 22 | $237k | 23% |
| FY2024 | 22 | $155k | 14% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $152k | 5% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $87k | 19% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $85k | 44% |
| FY2020 | 17 | $95k | 6% |
| FY2019 | 18 | $95k | 11% |
| FY2018 | 19 | $104k | 5% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $78,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation | $64,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Catholic Near East Welfare Assoc Inc | $55,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Eternal Word Television Network Inc | $44,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Fathers of St Edmund Southern Missions Inc | $35,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Samaritan's Purse | $27,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Salesian Missions Inc | $27,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Polish Museum of America | $25,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Tim Tebow Foundation Inc | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Unless U Inc | $11,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 17 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $78,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation | $64,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Catholic Near East Welfare Assoc Inc | $55,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Eternal Word Television Network Inc | $44,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Fathers of St Edmund Southern Missions Inc | $35,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Samaritan's Purse | $27,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Salesian Missions Inc | $27,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Polish Museum of America | $25,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Tim Tebow Foundation Inc | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Unless U Inc | $11,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Wounded Warrior Project Inc | $10,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Crohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 4 | 0% |
| American Heart Association Inc | $8,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Children's Hospital of Alabama | $6,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Rustys Rescue Ranch Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Blanket Fort Hope | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Folds of Honor Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($668k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Benjamin and Frances David Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
Compare Benjamin and Frances David Foundation with peer funders
About Benjamin and Frances David Foundation
- How much does Benjamin and Frances David Foundation give?
- Benjamin and Frances David Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $237,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 22 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Benjamin and Frances David Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (35%), Human Services (17%), Health (13%).
- Who are Benjamin and Frances David Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc ($78k), Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation ($64k), Catholic Near East Welfare Assoc Inc ($55k).
- Does Benjamin and Frances David Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Benjamin and Frances David Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Benjamin and Frances David Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is Benjamin and Frances David Foundation based?
- Benjamin and Frances David Foundation is based in AL.
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