· Private foundation
Davidow Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $120k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $600k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $150,000 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $100,000 |
| ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| HORSE PARK WOODSIDE | $100,000 |
| COLBY SAWYER COLLEGE | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO | $50,000 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| COMPUTER HISTORY MUSEUM | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| WORLD FOUNDATION FOR GIRL GUIDES AND GIRL SCOUTS | $10,000 |
| WORLD FOUNDATION FOR GIRL GUIDES AND GIRL SCOUTS | $10,000 |
| OLD BARRACKS MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| HAWAII LAND TRUST | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–23, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 63% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +18% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
41 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $84k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- CICALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY6× · 2020–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +18%
- THTHE HORSE PARK AT WOODSIDE5× · 2020–2025 · $251k · revenue +195%
- CSCRYSTAL SPRINGS UPLANDS SCHOOL3× · 2022–2024 · $250k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- KBKIPP BAY AREA SCHOOLSone grant, 2022 · $5.0M · revenue +25%
- SFSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ARTone grant, 2021 · $5.0M · revenue +9%
- CICALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENTone grant, 2023 · $1.0M
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To advance the frontiers of astronomy and share our discoveries with the world. the two 10-meter telescopes of keck observatory are the world's largest optical and infrared telescopes. they have revolutionized our understanding of the…
To connect all people with wildlife, inspire caring for nature, and advance conservation action.
San diego zoo wildlife alliance is committed to saving species worldwide by uniting our expertise in wildlife care and conservation science with our dedication to inspiring passion for nature.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
The catalina island conservancy protects and stewards 88% of catalina island. more than 42,000 acres of wildlands, coves and coastal habitats. founded to preserve the island's natural resources, the conservancy advances a mission rooted in…
To ensure coast redwood forests in the santa cruz mountains thrive for generations to come. since 1900, sempervirens has protected more than 36,000 acres. learn more about our mission, vision, and strategic plan through 2030 at:…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The sacramento zoo inspires appreciation, respect and a connection with wildlife and nature through education, recreation and conservation.
We welcome, educate, and empower a diverse community of learners for lives of meaning, impact, and joy.
Conserving nature through science and discovery.
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sierra Club Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Huddart & Wunderlich Parks. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
47 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 47 of the 101 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Colby-Sawyer College ↗
- Who funds KIPP BAY AREA SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds THE HORSE PARK AT WOODSIDE ↗
- Who funds CRYSTAL SPRINGS UPLANDS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GRATEFUL GUITARS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD FOUNDATION FOR GIRL GUIDES AND GIRL SCOUTS INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF HUDDART & WUNDERLICH PARKS ↗
- Who funds COMPUTER HISTORY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE CALTECH Y ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE FIT KIDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds KQED INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds Pets In Need ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE DOGS OF THE WEST ↗
- Who funds Portland Museum of Art ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Tosa Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · George & Janet Jaffin Foundation Inc · Bear Gulch Foundation · Jason Family Foundation · Thornton S Jr and Katrina D Glide Foundation · The Sobrato Family Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Davidow Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.