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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.

$107k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
20
Grants FY2024
23
Organizations funded FY2023
35%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$4,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
18 to 23
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
12
Total assets, FY2024
$2.0M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 35% of the organizations Davidson Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 42% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentReligionArts & CultureOther
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 arriving19$82k16%
FY202323$81k35%
FY202220$96k45%
FY202122$117k36%
FY202019$123k11%
FY201918$109k22%
FY201818$126k6%
FY201721$118kn/a
90% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

International$215kReligion$165kHuman Services$85kYouth Development$81kHealth$76kPhilanthropy$55kEducation$51kPublic Benefit$31kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ID
IL
MI
NY
CA
UT
MO
VA
AZ
TN
NC
DC
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Barrow Foundation UK$57,00066%
Thunderbirds Charities$45,00021%
Doves Incorporated$42,50082%
Congregation Beth Israel of Phoenix Arizona$38,0007n/a
Grace Community Church$37,5005n/a
Intermountain Christian School$35,00040%
Barry Goldwater Institute for Public Policy Research$30,75080%
Elevate Phoenix$28,85060%
Canine Companions Ltd$27,5005n/a
Executive Council Charities$24,00040%
Show all 36 grantees
All grantees of Davidson Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Barrow Foundation UK$57,00066%
Thunderbirds Charities$45,00021%
Doves Incorporated$42,50082%
Congregation Beth Israel of Phoenix Arizona$38,0007n/a
Grace Community Church$37,5005n/a
Intermountain Christian School$35,00040%
Barry Goldwater Institute for Public Policy Research$30,75080%
Elevate Phoenix$28,85060%
Canine Companions Ltd$27,5005n/a
Executive Council Charities$24,00040%
New Pathways For Youth$21,00050%
Diocesan Council for the Society of St Vincent de Paul Diocese Phoenix$15,50580%
Solana Beach Presbyterian Church$15,0003n/a
Rescue Mission of Salt Lake Inc$15,00030%
Shiloh Military Ministries$13,0002n/a
Ariscend Foundation$10,0001n/a
Samaritan's Purse$10,00010%
Home School Legal Defense Association$10,00030%
Thomas More Law Center$8,00030%
Feeding Matters Inc$7,50030%
College of the Ozarks$7,00020%
National Center on Sexual Exploitation$7,00020%
Global Outreach Mission Inc$5,00010%
Alliance Defending Freedom$5,00030%
Denton Bible Church$5,0001n/a
Casa Academy Inc$4,50010%
Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund$3,50020%
Woodson Center$3,50020%
Happy Jack Cats Inc$3,00031%
Family Research Council$2,50010%
Mighty Oaks Foundation$2,00010%
Operation Smile Inc$1,00010%
Phoenix Seminary Inc$1,00010%
American Heart Association Inc$1,00010%
St Mary's Food Bank Alliance$1,00020%
Judicial Watch Inc$14010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($308k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBarrow Foundation UK: $57,000 over 6y, 5.6% of budgetThunderbirds Charities: $45,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetDoves Incorporated: $42,500 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetIntermountain Christian School: $35,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetBarry Goldwater Institute for Public Policy Research: $30,750 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetElevate Phoenix: $28,850 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetExecutive Council Charities: $24,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetNew Pathways For Youth: $21,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetDiocesan Council for the Society of St Vincent de Paul Diocese Phoenix: $15,505 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetRescue Mission of Salt Lake Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSamaritan's Purse: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHome School Legal Defense Association: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThomas More Law Center: $8,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFeeding Matters Inc: $7,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCollege of the Ozarks: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNational Center on Sexual Exploitation: $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGlobal Outreach Mission Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAlliance Defending Freedom: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCasa Academy Inc: $4,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLaw Enforcement Legal Defense Fund: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWoodson Center: $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHappy Jack Cats Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetFamily Research Council: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMighty Oaks Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOperation Smile Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPhoenix Seminary Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Mary's Food Bank Alliance: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJudicial Watch Inc: $140 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 29.

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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.

Arizona Community FoundationAZ15.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arizona Community Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · American Express Foundation · Servant Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Verizon Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management 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.

Compare Davidson Family Foundation with peer funders

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How do I get to Davidson Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to 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 Davidson Family Foundation

How much does Davidson Family Foundation give?
Davidson Family Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $107,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 23 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Davidson Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (20%), Religion (15%), Human Services (8%).
Who are Davidson Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Barrow Foundation UK ($57k), Thunderbirds Charities ($45k), Doves Incorporated ($43k).
Does Davidson Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does 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 Davidson Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Arizona Community Foundation, Texas Instruments Foundation, American Express Foundation.
Where is Davidson Family Foundation based?
Davidson Family Foundation is based in UT.

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 59 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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