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D&S Davidson Family Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $31k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $43k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$374k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
G W LAW SCHOOL$50,000
BEHIND THE BOOK$12,500
THE READING TEAM$10,000
HARLEM ACADEMY$10,000
FEEDING OUR COMMUNITIES PARTNERS$10,000
B'NAI JESHURUN$7,578
BROADWAY COMMUNITY INC$5,000
MENTOR TUTOR CONNECTION$5,000
AMPERSAND FAMILIES$5,000
BAKKEN MUSEUM$5,000
EQUAL JUSTICE AMERICA$1,000
CASA VERDE HOME OF HOPE$1,000
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY$500
BUFFALO STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION$500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $62k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%AMPERSAND FAMILIES: $5k → 14%THE READING TEAM: $10k → 17%THE READING TEAM: $7k → 17%THE READING TEAM: $5k → 17%THE READING TEAM: $5k → 17%THE READING TEAM: $5k → 17%THE READING TEAM: $5k → 17%THE READING TEAM: $5k → 17%URBAN RESOURCE INSTITUTE: $1k → 17%URBAN RESOURCE INSTITUTE: $1k → 17%URBAN RESOURCE INSTITUTE: $1k → 17%THE TEAK FELLOWSHIP: $5k → 17%URBAN RESOURCE INSTITUTE: $515 → 17%THE TEAK FELLOWSHIP: $5k → 17%URBAN RESOURCE INSTITUTE: $500 → 17%THE TEAK FELLOWSHIP: $500 → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
MN
NY
PA
NJ
CA
VA
AZ
DC
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 16% of D&S Davidson Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 41% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 20%.

D&S Davidson Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 20% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$610k · 15 repeat orgs$47k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
10

Total granted

$610k
$24k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+52%

Still filing today

80%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureInternationalFood & NutritionHealthOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • TP
    The Peddie School
    6× · 2018–2023 · $166k · revenue +25%
  • BT
    BEHIND THE BOOK INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $94k · revenue +53%
  • TG
    The George Washington University
    3× · 2021–2023 · $31k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • A
    ALEARN
    one grant, 2018 · $13k
  • SV
    SILICON VALUE EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • MA
    MESA ARTS CENTER FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $500 · revenue +52%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
3
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
4
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
5
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
6
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
7
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
8
Brooklyn Law School

To provide students with the knowledge, skills, ethical values needed for a career in law.

Education
9
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
10
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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11
Manhattan University

Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…

Education
12
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Equal Justice America Inc; the most unlike its peers is Mentor Tutor Connection. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 31 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/25
Grantees still filing
16/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The Peddie School: $165,750 · EducationThe Peddie SchoolBEHIND THE BOOK INC: $93,862 · EducationBEHIND THE BOOK INCHARLEM ACADEMY: $42,500 · EducationHARLEM ACADEMYThe George Washington University: $30,500 · EducationThe George Washington UniversityGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $25,500 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY+2 more: $10,500 · EducationG W LAW SCHOOL: $65,000 · OtherG W LAW SCHOOLCONGREGATION BNAI JESHURUN: $62,646 · OtherCONGREGATION BNAI JESHURUNGEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL: $35,000 · OtherGEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY LAW…ALEARN: $12,500 · OtherALEARNSILICON VALUE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherSILICON VALUE EDUCATION FOUNDATI…+6 more: $1,950 · OtherREADING TEAM INC: $42,000 · Human ServicesREADING TE…THE TEAK FELLOWSHIP INC: $10,500 · Human ServicesTHE TEAK F…AMPERSAND FAMILIES: $5,000 · Human ServicesAMPERSAND …URBAN RESOURCE INSTITUTE: $4,128 · Human ServicesURBAN RESO…THE BAKKEN: $15,000 · Arts & CultureBAY STREET THEATRE FESTIVAL INC: $7,030 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $769 · Arts & CultureFeeding Our Communities Partners: $10,000 · Food & NutritionBROADWAY COMMUNITY INC: $5,000 · HealthCASA VERDE HOME OF HOPE INC: $1,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $1,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $100 · International
Education$368,612Other$187,096Human Services$61,628Arts & Culture$22,799Food & Nutrition$10,000Health$5,000International$2,100

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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 Foundat…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Pfizer Foundation…The Blackbaud Giving …Network for GoodDonor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization D&S Davidson Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from D&S Davidson Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to D&S Davidson Family Foundation?

    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.

    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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