· Private foundation
Davidson Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $95k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $15,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $10,000 |
| NCH MED DIPLOMAT COUNCIL | $10,000 |
| DENVER FAMILY INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOOD SHARE | $10,000 |
| IMPACT CHARITABLE | $10,000 |
| BOULDER COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| FUN TIME EARLY CHILDHOOD ACADEMY INC | $5,000 |
| THE COLORADO CHAUTAUQUA ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| SISTER CARMEN COMMUNITY CENTER | $5,000 |
| BROOMFIELD FISH | $5,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $256k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 90% 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.
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 +92% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- FTFun Time Early Childhood Academy Inc7× · 2018–2024 · $147k · revenue +221%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC7× · 2018–2024 · $85k · revenue +125%
HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC7× · 2018–2024 · $60k · revenue +112%
Funded once
- BSBOULDER SHELTERone grant, 2018 · $5k
- UIURBAN INITIATIVESone grant, 2018 · $3k
- BVBOULDER VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2019 · $3k
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.
Partnering to improve quality of life as a nonprofit organization dedicated to mental health and wellness. healing is our purpose, help is our promise, health is our passion.
The mission of the colorado coalition for the homeless is to work collaboratively toward the prevention of homelessness and the creation of lasting solutions for families, children, and individuals who are experiencing or at-risk of…
To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
Provide exceptional, integrated, patient-centered health care services designed to meet the needs of all patients, particularly those who experience barriers to accessing care, regardless of their ability to pay.
We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.
Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.
Our mission is to provide high quality and equitable reproductive and sexual health services, abortion, and education to all people, regardless of any barriers to healthcare that they may face.
Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.
Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.
Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.
Advance workers rights & social justice through building sustained relationships and taking direct action to create concrete change in the lives of working families
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of America and the most unlike its peers is Mother House Dba Haven Ridge. 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 40 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 36 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 Fun Time Early Childhood Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds BOULDER COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DENVER FAMILY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds SISTER CARMEN COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO CHAUTAUQUA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ARTIS-NAPLES INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SERVICES OF BROOMFIELD ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOOD SHARE INC ↗
- Who funds IMPACT CHARITABLE ↗
- Who funds CHINOOK FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Bal Swan Childrens Center ↗
- Who funds THE CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA ↗
- Who funds DOMINO SERVICE DOGS ↗
- Who funds ST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO IMMIGRANT RIGHTS COALITION ↗
- Who funds Bridge House ↗
- Who funds I Have A Dream Foundation Of Boulder County ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN BUTTERFLY CONSORTIUM ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds MOTHER HOUSE DBA HAVEN RIDGE ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
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: Colorado Gives Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Community Foundation Boulder County · The Colorado Health Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Boulder Valley Rotary Community Foundation · Nathan B & Florence R Burt Foundation · Tides Foundation · Gates Family Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Xcel Energy 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 Davidson 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, a single department, or state — 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.
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