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D&S Davidson Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$123k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
14
Grants FY2024
10
Organizations funded FY2023
20%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
9 to 14
FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
5
Total assets, FY2024
$374k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 20% of the organizations D&S Davidson Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23
EducationArts & CultureInternationalCivil RightsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving14$123k43%
FY202310$88k20%
FY20229$124k11%
FY202110$98k20%
FY202013$78k31%
FY201911$69k18%
FY201814$77kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$450kYouth Development$94kReligion$63kArts & Culture$23kFood & Nutrition$11kHousing & Shelter$5kHealth$5kHuman Services$5kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
MN
NY
PA
NJ
CA
VA
AZ
DC
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Peddie School$165,75060%
Behind the Book Inc$93,86272%
Congregation Bnai Jeshurun$62,6467n/a
Harlem Academy$42,50050%
Reading Team Inc$42,00072%
The George Washington University$30,50030%
Georgetown University$25,50070%
The Bakken$15,00030%
Alearn$12,5001n/a
The Teak Fellowship Inc$10,50030%
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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($111k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget D&S Davidson Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Peddie School: $165,750 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBehind the Book Inc: $93,862 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetHarlem Academy: $42,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetReading Team Inc: $42,000 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetThe George Washington University: $30,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGeorgetown University: $25,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe Bakken: $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetThe Teak Fellowship Inc: $10,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMentor Tutor Connection: $10,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetFeeding Our Communities Partners: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBay Street Theatre Festival Inc: $7,030 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBroadway Community Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAmpersand Families: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUrban Resource Institute: $4,128 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCasa Verde Home of Hope Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEqual Justice America Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMesa Arts Center Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBuffalo State College Foundation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFractured Atlas Inc: $269 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCarnegie Mellon University: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCoalition for the Homeless Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRefugee & Immigrant Center for Education & Legal Services: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 24.

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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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Charities Aid Foundation AmericaVA11.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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Find your warmest path to D&S Davidson Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About D&S Davidson Family Foundation

How much does D&S Davidson Family Foundation give?
D&S Davidson Family Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $123,078 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 14 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does D&S Davidson Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (68%), Youth Development (14%), Religion (10%).
Who are D&S Davidson Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: The Peddie School ($166k), Behind the Book Inc ($94k), Congregation Bnai Jeshurun ($63k).
Does D&S Davidson Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does D&S Davidson Family 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 D&S Davidson Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Charities Aid Foundation America, National Philanthropic Trust, American Endowment Foundation.
Where is D&S Davidson Family Foundation based?
D&S Davidson Family Foundation is based in NY.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 31 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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