· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| CM RUSSELL MUSEUM | $50,000 |
| GREAT FALLS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| BENFIS HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| GREAT FALLS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $25,000 |
| PROVIDENCE MT HEALTH FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| HISTORY MUSEUM | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $25,000 |
| UM FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS | $10,000 |
| EASTER SEALS GOODWILL - NORTHERN ROCKY MOUNTAIN | $10,000 |
| MACLEAN-CAMERON ANIMAL ADOPTION CENTER | $10,000 |
| GREAT FALLS PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| GREAT FALLS RESCUE MISSION FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 6% of Davidson Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 88% of the giving stays in MT; by stated purpose, 90%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
21 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. 21 of the 53 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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
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.
How this is measured
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