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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $60k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $300k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON MEDICAL SCHOOL | $150,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| GREAT FALLS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| CM RUSSELL MUSEUM | $50,000 |
| BENFIS HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| PROVIDENCE MT HEALTH FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| HISTORY MUSEUM | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $25,000 |
| UM FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| GREAT FALLS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $25,000 |
| MONTANA PBS | $10,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF CASCADE COUNTY | $10,000 |
| GLACIER NATIONAL PARK CONSERVANCY | $10,000 |
| NEGIHBOR WORKS | $10,000 |
| EAGLE MOUNT | $10,000 |
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 (FY23–25, $135k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of Davidson Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 88% of the giving stays in MT; read by stated purpose it is 90% — more of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
45 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- GFGREAT FALLS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $429k · revenue +126%
- BHBENEFIS HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC7× · 2019–2025 · $357k · revenue +61%
- TCTRIGG - C M RUSSELL FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $250k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- FPFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $50k
- MFMSU FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $25k
- GCGATEWAY COMMUNITY CENTERone grant, 2020 · $10k
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.
The montana state parks foundation raises private support to enhance the visitors experience and build advocates for montanas state parks and recreation heritage.
The great falls clinic legacy foundation brings hope and healing to great falls and surrounding communities
Montana hospital association is the principal advocate for the interests of members in their efforts to improve the health status of the communities they serve.
The mission of the great falls area chamber of commerce is to drive business success, connect leaders, cultivate partnerships, and shape community solutions to build a thriving future for great falls.
To enhance community vitality by inspiring community giving and strengthening nonprofits
To create and sustain an optimal business climate, business prosperity and a strong montana economy through advocacy, education and collaboration, working to provide an empowered and educated workforce, reduce business growth obstacles,…
Serving as the voice of business, the big sky chamber of commerce champions a healthy economy and works collaboratively with community stakeholders as a conveyor and a catalyst to improve the overall quality of life in the region.
To collectively serve as a catalyst for engagement and bonding of people to our wildlife and public lands in montana through a sense of place, education, access, research and stewardship.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Great Falls Public Library Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Making Waves Foundation Inc Aka Making Waves Education Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
21 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. 21 of the 53 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 GREAT FALLS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BENEFIS HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TRIGG - C M RUSSELL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREAT FALLS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CASCADE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Eagle Mount ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PROVIDENCE ↗
- Who funds EASTERSEALS - GOODWILL NORTHERN ROCKY MOUNTAIN INC ↗
- Who funds GREAT FALLS PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PARIS GIBSON SQUARE INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER POLSON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GLACIER NATIONAL PARK CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds FLATHEAD LAKERS INC ↗
- Who funds My Neighbor in Need ↗
- Who funds MAKING WAVES FOUNDATION INC AKA MAKING WAVES EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL MONTANA ↗
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: 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
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 or a single department — 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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