Montana · Private foundation
Davidson Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $660k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 32
- Grants FY2025
- 32
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 6%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $150,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 28 to 33
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $7.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 6% of the organizations Davidson Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 31 | $653k | 3% |
| FY2024 | 32 | $620k | 6% |
| FY2023 | 33 | $650k | 6% |
| FY2022 | 31 | $616k | 6% |
| FY2021 | 29 | $480k | 10% |
| FY2020 | 33 | $513k | 6% |
| FY2019 | 28 | $475k | 25% |
| FY2018 | 30 | $375k | 23% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Great Falls Public Schools Foundation | $429,000 | 9 | 7% |
| Benefis Health System Foundation Inc | $356,880 | 7 | 3% |
| Trigg - C M Russell Foundation Inc | $250,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Great Falls Community Food Bank Inc | $165,000 | 9 | 2% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $135,000 | 3 | 0% |
| United Way of Cascade County | $94,000 | 7 | 3% |
| Eagle Mount | $85,000 | 8 | 1% |
| University of Providence | $80,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Easterseals - Goodwill Northern Rocky Mountain Inc | $80,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Great Falls Public Library Foundation | $70,000 | 8 | 3% |
Show all 23 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 29 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Davidson Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 20 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Montana Community Foundation Inc · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · James M & Frances M Wylder Foundation · Alice Lee Lund Charitable Trust · Town Pump Charitable Foundation · Robert F & Frances J Jorgensen Foundation · Oakland Family Foundation · Zeller-Knowles Foundation Inc · Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Browning Kimball Foundation · Bnsf Railway Foundation
How this is measured
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About Davidson Family Foundation
- How much does Davidson Family Foundation give?
- Davidson Family Foundation reported 32 grants totaling $660,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 28 and 33 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Davidson Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (25%), Health (23%), Education (14%).
- Who are Davidson Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Great Falls Public Schools Foundation ($429k), Benefis Health System Foundation Inc ($357k), Trigg - C M Russell Foundation Inc ($250k).
- Does Davidson Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 6% 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 Montana Community Foundation Inc, First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc, James M & Frances M Wylder Foundation.
- Where is Davidson Family Foundation based?
- Davidson Family Foundation is based in MT.
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