· Private foundation
Davidson Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k17 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $181k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $175k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION | $125,000 |
| LONG POINT REGION CONSERVATION AUTHORITY | $50,000 |
| OCEAN REEF COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $49,000 |
| MARINE PRESERVATION SOCIETY | $25,000 |
| BONEFISH & TARPON TRUST | $25,000 |
| EVERGLADES FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| BAPTIST HEALTH FOUNDATION | $21,125 |
| BACKUS DECOY MUSEUM | $16,093 |
| DUCKS UNLIMITED | $10,174 |
| OCEAN REEF CULTURAL CENTER | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF UNH | $7,315 |
| CORAL RESTORATION FOUNDATION | $5,250 |
| DELTA WATERFOWL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $5,000 |
| GEORGETOWN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $3,671 |
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 US giving — 88% of grant dollars ($1.1M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 12% that went abroad ($142k) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $126k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
Beyond the US — 12% of all-years giving ($142k)
1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 18% of Davidson Family Foundation Inc’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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +54% since the first grant, against +40% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $187k 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
- BHBaptist Health South Florida Foundation Inc5× · 2018–2022 · $116k · revenue +300%
- OROCEAN REEF CHAPEL FOUNDATION INC4× · 2020–2023 · $115k · revenue +226%
THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC6× · 2017–2024 · $75k · revenue +226%
Funded once
- BTBONEFISH TARPIN UNLIMITEDone grant, 2017 · $20k
- TATHE AMERICAN FRIENDS OF UHN INCone grant, 2022 · $8k
- TPTHE PRINCESS MARGARET CANCER FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $7k
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.
To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.
Our mission is to act to conserve threatened species and ecosystems worldwide, choosing solutions that are sustainable, based on sound science and take into account human needs.
To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.
Our mission is to invest in and accelerate the development of the most promising future leaders in biomedical research with global impact.
Leading Citizen scientists to promote stewardship of sustainable reef communities worldwide.
As the only community foundation for the ocean, The Ocean Foundation's 501(c)(3) mission is to improve global ocean health, climate resilience, and the blue economy. We create partnerships to connect people in the communities in which we…
The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Inc and the most unlike its peers is Movember Foundation. 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 31 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% 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 17% 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.
40 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. 40 of the 74 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 OCEAN REEF COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BONEFISH & TARPON TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Baptist Health South Florida Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds OCEAN REEF CHAPEL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CORAL RESTORATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Ducks Unlimited Inc ↗
- Who funds OCEAN REEF CULTURAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Delta Waterfowl Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE KENAN-FLAGLER BUSINESS SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERDS OF YOUTH CHARITABLE TRUST ↗
- Who funds A MOMENT OF MAGIC INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH FLORIDA PBS INC ↗
- Who funds OCEAN REEF MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MIAMI COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF FLY FISHING 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: William B McGuire Jr Family Foundation · Foundation for the Carolinas · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Inc 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.
- United Way of Lane County — 31% of income from government
- The Coral Restoration Foundation Inc — 16% of income from government
- South Florida Pbs Inc — 0% of income from government
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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