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Davidson Family Foundation at a glance

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Davidson Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$115k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Health$238kEducation$158kFood & Nutrition$126kArts & Culture$113kHuman Services$82kHousing & Shelter$24kPublic Safety & Disaster$20kCivil Rights$12kOther$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $95k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$15,000
BOULDER COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION$10,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$10,000
NCH MED DIPLOMAT COUNCIL$10,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS$10,000
COMMUNITY FOOD SHARE$10,000
DENVER FAMILY INSTITUTE$10,000
HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK$10,000
IMPACT CHARITABLE$10,000
THE COLORADO CHAUTAUQUA ASSOCIATION$5,000
BROOMFIELD FISH$5,000
SISTER CARMEN COMMUNITY CENTER$5,000
FUN TIME EARLY CHILDHOOD ACADEMY INC$5,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BROOMFIELD FISH: $5k → 5%SISTER CARMEN COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 12%BROOMFIELD FISH: $5k → 5%SISTER CARMEN COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 12%BROOMFIELD FISH: $5k → 5%SISTER CARMEN COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 12%BROOMFIELD FISH: $5k → 5%BROOMFIELD FISH: $5k → 5%SISTER CARMEN COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 12%SISTER CARMEN COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 12%DENVER FAMILY INSTITUTE: $10k → 12%BROOMFIELD FISH: $1k → 5%DENVER FAMILY INSTITUTE: $10k → 12%SISTER CARMEN COMMUNITY CENTER: $4k → 12%DENVER FAMILY INSTITUTE: $10k → 12%DENVER FAMILY INSTITUTE: $8k → 12%SISTER CARMEN COMMUNITY CENTER: $3k → 12%DENVER FAMILY INSTITUTE: $3k → 12%DENVER FAMILY INSTITUTE: $3k → 12%FUN TIME EARLY CHILDHOOD ACADEMY INC: $25k → 10%FUN TIME EARLY CHILDHOOD ACADEMY INC: $25k → 10%FUN TIME EARLY CHILDHOOD ACADEMY INC: $25k → 10%FUN TIME EARLY CHILDHOOD ACADEMY INC: $25k → 10%FUN TIME EARLY CHILDHOOD ACADEMY INC: $22k → 10%FUN TIME EARLY CHILDHOOD ACADEMY INC: $20k → 10%BRIDGE HOUSE: $3k → 12%FUN TIME EARLY CHILDHOOD ACADEMY INC: $5k → 10%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.
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$760k · 22 repeat orgs$27k to everyone else

22 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
13

Total granted

$760k
$27k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+92%
+93%

Still filing today

82%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
Human ServicesHealthFood & NutritionArts & CulturePhilanthropyPublic BenefitOther
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

  • FT
    Fun Time Early Childhood Academy Inc
    7× · 2018–2024 · $147k · revenue +221%
  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $85k · revenue +125%
  • HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $60k · revenue +112%

Funded once

  • BS
    BOULDER SHELTER
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
  • BH
    Bridge Housegraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue +36%
  • BV
    BOULDER VALLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT
    one grant, 2019 · $3k
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.

1
Mental Health Center of Boulder County Inc

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.

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2
Colorado Coalition for the Homeless

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…

Human Services
3
Colorado Legal Services

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.

Crime & Legal
4
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
5
Summit Community Care Clinic Inc

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.

Health
6
Colorado Gives Foundation

We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.

Philanthropy
7
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.

Crime & Legal
8
Boulder Valley Women's Health Center Inc

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.

—
9
Habitat for Humanity of Metro Denver Inc

Seeking to put god's love into action, habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.

—
10
Colorado Museum of Natural History

Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.

Arts & Culture
11
Commonwealth Care Alliance Inc

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.

Health
12
Colorado Jobs With Justice Inc

Advance workers rights & social justice through building sustained relationships and taking direct action to create concrete change in the lives of working families

Employment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of America; 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.
04the grantee network

26 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. 26 of the 36 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
22/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Fun Time Early Childhood Academy Inc: $146,900 · Human ServicesFun Time Early Childhood Academy IncDENVER FAMILY INSTITUTE: $43,000 · Human ServicesDENVER FAMILY INSTITUTESISTER CARMEN COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $37,000 · Human ServicesSISTER CARMEN COMMUNITY CENTER INCCOMMUNITY SERVICES OF BROOMFIELD: $26,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY SERVICES OF BROOMFIELD+1 more: $3,000 · Human ServicesNCH MED DIPLOMAT COUNCIL: $70,000 · OtherNCH MED DIPLOMAT COUNCILDAVID LAWRENCE CENTER: $42,500 · OtherDAVID LAWRENCE CENTERCOLORADO CHAUTAUQUA ASSOCIATION: $35,000 · OtherCOLORADO CHAUTAUQUA ASSOCIATIONAMERICAN RED CROSS: $19,500 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSSHABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $13,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY+14 more: $41,250 · Other+14 moreST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $85,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RES…BOULDER COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION: $45,000 · HealthBOULDER COMMUNITY HEAL…ROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC: $30,000 · HealthROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED…+2 more: $1,600 · HealthHARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC: $60,000 · Food & NutritionHARRY CHAPIN F…COMMUNITY FOOD SHARE INC: $20,000 · Food & NutritionCOMMUNITY FOOD…FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $20,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK OF T…ARTIS-NAPLES INC: $35,000 · Arts & CultureIMPACT CHARITABLE: $10,000 · PhilanthropyCHINOOK FUND INC: $9,000 · PhilanthropyDOMINO SERVICE DOGS: $4,200 · Public Benefit
Human Services$255,900Other$221,250Health$161,600Food & Nutrition$100,000Arts & Culture$35,000Philanthropy$19,000Public Benefit$4,200

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 budgetFun Time Early Childhood Academy Inc: $146,900 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $85,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC: $60,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBOULDER COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetDENVER FAMILY INSTITUTE: $43,000 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetSISTER CARMEN COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $37,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCOLORADO CHAUTAUQUA ASSOCIATION: $35,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetARTIS-NAPLES INC: $35,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY SERVICES OF BROOMFIELD: $26,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOOD SHARE INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetIMPACT CHARITABLE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHINOOK FUND INC: $9,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBal Swan Childrens Center: $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDOMINO SERVICE DOGS: $4,200 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetBridge House: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC: $3,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO IMMIGRANT RIGHTS COALITION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetI Have A Dream Foundation Of Boulder County: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN BUTTERFLY CONSORTIUM: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMOTHER HOUSE DBA HAVEN RIDGE: $1,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CLINIC INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $100 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.

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.

Colorado Gives Founda…Rose Community Founda…The Denver FoundationCommunity Foundation …The Colorado Health F…ImpactassetsincBoulder Valley Rotary…Nathan B & Florence R…Tides FoundationGates Family Foundati…The Richard M Schulze…Xcel Energy Foundation
Colorado Gives FoundationCO28.1× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 · 10%0%1%3%5%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
    1get no government money at all
    15report 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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    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 36 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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