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Davidson & Harley Fund Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$95k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
29
Grants FY2025
29
Organizations funded FY2024
3%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$3,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$5,000
Organizations funded a year
27 to 31
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$1.9M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 3% of the organizations Davidson & Harley Fund Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
Public BenefitEducationHealthOther
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
FY2025still arriving29$95k0%
FY202429$80k3%
FY202329$69k7%
FY202229$57k3%
FY202129$46k3%
FY202031$38k10%
FY201930$36k10%
FY201827$38k0%
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$157kYouth Development$100kEducation$84kArts & Culture$74kHuman Services$45kPublic Benefit$16kHousing & Shelter$14kScience & Tech$9k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Cambridge Historic School Foundatio$26,000934%
Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra Inc$22,00090%
Boys and Girls Club of Greater Milwaukee Inc$21,00090%
Literacy Services of Wisconsin Inc$19,00090%
Kids From Wisconsin Ltd$19,00091%
STEM Forward Inc$19,00091%
Milwaukee Public Museum Inc$19,00090%
Prohealth Care Foundation Inc$18,50090%
Davidson Yell and Tell Foundation Inc$18,5009n/a
Wisconsin Veterans Network Inc$18,00071%
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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($139k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Davidson & Harley Fund Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 23 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCambridge Historic School Foundatio: $26,000 over 9y, 34% of budgetMilwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra Inc: $22,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetBoys and Girls Club of Greater Milwaukee Inc: $21,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetLiteracy Services of Wisconsin Inc: $19,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetKids From Wisconsin Ltd: $19,000 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetSTEM Forward Inc: $19,000 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetMilwaukee Public Museum Inc: $19,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetProhealth Care Foundation Inc: $18,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetWisconsin Veterans Network Inc: $18,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetPenfield Children's Center Inc: $17,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetLad Lake Inc: $16,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetWisconsin Parkinson Association Inc: $15,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetUnited Performing Arts Fund Inc: $14,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBoy Scouts of America Potawatomi Area Council-Operating: $13,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetThe Parenting Network Inc: $13,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetGirl Scouts of Wisconsin Southeast Inc: $13,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCity Forward Collective Inc: $12,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetLake Area Free Clinic Inc: $12,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetYour Choice to Live Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCurative Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCaring Place Inc: $4,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTeen Challenge of Wisconsin Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCoalition for Children Youth & Families Inc: $2,000 over 4y, 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 23.

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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.

Herbert H Kohl Charities IncWI33.7× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Waukesha County Community Foundation · Youth Foundation Inc · Ralph Evinrude Foundation Inc · Oconomowoc Area Foundation Inc · Gardner Foundation · STACKNER FAMILY FOUNDATION INC co KRISTIN A OCCHETTI

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 Davidson & Harley Fund Inc 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 Davidson & Harley Fund Inc

How much does Davidson & Harley Fund Inc give?
Davidson & Harley Fund Inc reported 29 grants totaling $95,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 27 and 31 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Davidson & Harley Fund Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (31%), Youth Development (20%), Education (17%).
Who are Davidson & Harley Fund Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Cambridge Historic School Foundatio ($26k), Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra Inc ($22k), Boys and Girls Club of Greater Milwaukee Inc ($21k).
Does Davidson & Harley Fund Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 3% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Davidson & Harley Fund Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Davidson & Harley Fund Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc, United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc, Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc.
Where is Davidson & Harley Fund Inc based?
Davidson & Harley Fund Inc is based in WI.

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 38 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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