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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 FY2024still arriving
20
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it funds
0190% 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
02FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k18 grants · $72k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
$4,500
Median grant
12
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH NATIONAL FUND$25,000
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$10,000
Individual grant recipient$8,500
SOUTH JORDAN COMMUNITY CHURCH$8,500
MISSIONGO$5,000
SHILOH MILITARY MINISTRIES$5,000
CONGREGATION BETH ISRAEL$5,000
DOVES$5,000
RESCUE MISSION OF SLC$5,000
CASA ACADEMY$4,500
ELEVATE PHOENIX$4,000
COLLEGE OF THE OZARKS$4,000
PREGANCY RESOURCE CENTER$3,500
NATIONAL CENTER FOR SEXUAL EXPLOITATION$3,500
HOMESCHOOL LEGAL DEFENSE ASSOCIATION$2,500
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $68k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 78% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%THOMAS MOORE LAW CENTER: $4k → 14%THOMAS MOORE LAW CENTER: $3k → 14%THOMAS MOORE LAW CENTER: $2k → 14%RESCUE MISSION OF SLC: $5k → 8%FAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $3k → 14%RESCUE MISSION OF SLC: $5k → 8%RESCUE MISSION OF SLC: $5k → 8%DOVES: $10k → 11%DOVES: $5k → 11%DOVES: $5k → 11%DOVES: $5k → 11%DOVES: $5k → 11%DOVES: $5k → 11%DOVES: $5k → 11%DOVES: $3k → 11%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

ID
IL
MI
NY
CA
UT
MO
VA
AZ
TN
NC
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$798k · 38 repeat orgs$54k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

38 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
15

Total granted

$798k
$34k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+5%

Still filing today

53%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesReligionEducationPublic BenefitYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • BF
    BARROW FOUNDATION UK
    6× · 2017–2022 · $57k · revenue +84%
  • TC
    THUNDERBIRDS CHARITIES
    2× · 2017–2018 · $45k · revenue +52%
  • IC
    INTERMOUNTAIN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
    4× · 2017–2020 · $35k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • AF
    ARISCEND FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • AC
    ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION (LOU GRUBB)
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • DB
    DENTON BIBLE CHURCH
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
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.

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Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
2
Evangel University

Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.

Education
3
American Law Institute

The institute's mission, as set out in its certificate of incorporation, is to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice, and to…

Crime & Legal
4
Arizona Christian University

Arizona christian university provides a biblically-integrated, liberal arts education equipping graduates to serve the lord jesus christ in all aspects of life, as leaders of influence and excellence.

Education
5
Shield of Faith Missions

Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.

Religion
6
Jewish Voice Ministries Intl

To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…

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7
American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona

The american civil liberties union of arizona is the state's premier guardian of liberty working through the arizona legislature and communities statewide to defend and preserve individual rights and freedoms guaranteed to all by the…

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8
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
9
Aclu Foundation of Arizona

The mission of the aclu foundation of arizona is to defend and preserve, through litigation and public education, individual rights and freedoms guaranteed to all by the constitution and the laws of the united states and arizona.

Civil Rights
10
United States Naval Institute

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.

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11
One for Israel

One for israel's purposes are to unite u.s. and international churches, ministries and individuals for the proclamation of the gospel in israel, to raise funds for evangelism and gospel proclamation, to provide tangible relief for israel's…

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12
Blue Letter Bible

The specific purpose of this corporation is to present a biblical, christian ministry of the gospel, hope, encouragement and strength to as many people as possible. the intent of those who will conduct this corporation's work is to present…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Judicial Watch Inc; the most unlike its peers is Barrow Foundation Uk. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

33 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. 33 of the 59 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/33
Grantees still filing
20/33
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

100 Club: $151,500 · Other100 ClubTGEN: $46,500 · OtherTGENCONGREGATION BETH ISRAEL OF PHOENIX ARIZONA: $38,000 · OtherCONGREGATION BETH ISRAEL OF PHOENIX ARIZONAGRACE COMMUNITY CHURCH: $37,500 · OtherGRACE COMMUNITY CHURCHCANINE COMPANIONS LTD: $27,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $22,000 · OtherUNOM DAY CARE CENTERS: $20,000 · OtherBARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $30,750 · OtherBARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCHNew Pathways For Youth: $21,000 · Other+32 more: $179,575 · Other+32 moreJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $205,000 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL FUND …+1 more: $1,000 · InternationalDOVES INCORPORATED: $42,500 · Human ServicesRESCUE MISSION OF SALT LAKE INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesTHOMAS MORE LAW CENTER: $8,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $2,500 · Human ServicesBARROW FOUNDATION UK: $57,000 · HealthFEEDING MATTERS INC: $7,500 · Health+2 more: $3,000 · HealthELEVATE PHOENIX: $28,850 · Youth DevelopmentEXECUTIVE COUNCIL CHARITIES: $24,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHUNDERBIRDS CHARITIES: $45,000 · PhilanthropyARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,500 · PhilanthropyINTERMOUNTAIN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $35,000 · EducationCOLLEGE OF THE OZARKS: $7,000 · EducationHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $3,000 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · Education
Other$574,325International$206,000Human Services$68,000Health$67,500Youth Development$52,850Philanthropy$47,500Education$46,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $205,000 over 8y, 0.0% of 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 budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY RESEARCH COUNCIL: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $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
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.

  • Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
  • Who funds BARROW FOUNDATION UK ↗
  • Who funds THUNDERBIRDS CHARITIES ↗
  • Who funds DOVES INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds INTERMOUNTAIN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds BARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH ↗
  • Who funds ELEVATE PHOENIX ↗
  • Who funds EXECUTIVE COUNCIL CHARITIES ↗
  • Who funds New Pathways For Youth ↗
  • Who funds DIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX ↗
  • Who funds RESCUE MISSION OF SALT LAKE INC ↗
  • Who funds Shiloh Military Ministries ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds HOME SCHOOL LEGAL DEFENSE ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds THOMAS MORE LAW CENTER ↗
  • Who funds FEEDING MATTERS INC ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE OF THE OZARKS ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL CENTER ON SEXUAL EXPLOITATION ↗
  • Who funds GLOBAL OUTREACH MISSION INC ↗
  • Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗
  • Who funds CASA ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund ↗
  • Who funds WOODSON CENTER ↗
  • Who funds HAPPY JACK CATS INC ↗

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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

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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.

    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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