California · 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.
- $732k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 25
- Grants FY2025
- 32
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 34%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $150,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 24 to 42
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 34% of the organizations Davidow Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 26% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M 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 | 19 | $732k | 37% |
| FY2024 | 32 | $4.1M | 34% |
| FY2023 | 42 | $7.1M | 48% |
| FY2022 | 24 | $6.9M | 50% |
| FY2021 | 27 | $7.0M | 33% |
| FY2020 | 38 | $370k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Colby-Sawyer College | $6,275,000 | 6 | 7% |
| Kipp Bay Area Schools | $5,000,000 | 1 | 4% |
| San Francisco Museum of Modern Art | $5,000,000 | 1 | 5% |
| University of California San Francisco Foundation | $1,916,240 | 3 | 0% |
| California Institute of Technology | $1,901,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Horse Park at Woodside | $250,500 | 5 | 2% |
| Crystal Springs Uplands School | $250,000 | 3 | 0% |
| St Lawrence University | $220,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Benedictine Fathers of the Priory | $130,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Grateful Guitars Foundation | $100,000 | 1 | 40% |
Show all 47 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 50 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Davidow Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 42 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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 tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
About Davidow Family Foundation
- How much does Davidow Family Foundation give?
- Davidow Family Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $732,145 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 42 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Davidow Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (53%), Arts & Culture (20%), Science & Tech (11%).
- Who are Davidow Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Colby-Sawyer College ($6.3M), Kipp Bay Area Schools ($5.0M), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art ($5.0M).
- Does Davidow Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 34% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Davidow 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 Davidow Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation, Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma.
- Where is Davidow Family Foundation based?
- Davidow Family Foundation is based in CA.
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