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Davidson Foundation for Music Dance and Dramatic Arts
Its FY2023 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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $1,300 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND (EDF) | $1,100 |
| WORLD WILDLIFE FUND (WWF) | $1,100 |
| UNICEF | $1,100 |
| MAUI UNITED WAY | $1,000 |
| MAUI HUMANE SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| MAUI FOOD BANK | $1,000 |
| NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION (NWF) | $900 |
| BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY | $900 |
| NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL (NRDC) | $900 |
| WORLD VISION | $840 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $800 |
| PAWS OF HONOR | $700 |
| FRIENDS OF THE EARTH | $700 |
| FARM SANCTUARY | $700 |
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 (FY17–23, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 88% 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
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.
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 +45% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
104 repeat relationships — 66 still active in FY2023, 38 since wound down; 35 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 72% 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
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches7× · 2017–2023 · $9k · revenue +46%
COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC7× · 2017–2023 · $7k · revenue +36%
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED7× · 2017–2023 · $4k · revenue +202%
Funded once
- IRInternational Rescue Committee INCone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue -4%
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $400 · revenue +64%- NRNATURAL RESOURCE DEFENSE COUNCILone grant, 2021 · $400
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.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.
Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…
To pass animal protection laws, educate the public, and support humane candidates for office.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…
HUMANE WORLD FOR ANIMALS INTERNATIONAL, FKA HUMANE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL (HSI), works around the globe to promote the human-animal bond, rescue and protect dogs and cats, improve farm animal welfare, protect wildlife, promote animal-free…
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Panthera's mission is the conservation of the world's 40 wild cat species, many of which are endangered or threatened. panthera develops, implements and oversees wild cat conservation strategies on a global scale.
Wildlife alliance is the leader in direct protection of forests and wildlife in tropical asia. our mission is to combat deforestation, biodiversity loss, climate change, and poverty by partnering with local communities and governments.…
Our vision is a world where humans treat animals with respect, empathy and understanding. four paws mission is to be the strong, global and independent voice for animals.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Farm Sanctuary Inc and the most unlike its peers is Casey to the Rescue Dog Transport Inc. 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 39 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
133 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. 133 of the 182 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 American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE EARTH ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds GREENPEACE INC ↗
- Who funds WATERKEEPER ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds Defenders of Wildlife ↗
- Who funds THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds OCEAN CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ANTI-VIVISECTION SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Infact DBA Corporate Accountability ↗
- Who funds YOSEMITE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FARM SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds YELLOWSTONE FOREVER ↗
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: Bradford Family Foundation · PC Fund for Animals Charitable Tr · Seckinger Foundation Corporation · Joyce a Ward Foundation · Surendra and Karen Gupta Arc Foundation · The Gerald B Shreiber Foundation · Amica Companies Foundation · The Susan and Ford Schumann Foundation · The Patricia Florence Miller Trust · Crystal Family Foundation · Give Lively Foundation Inc · Leslie L Alexander Foundation Inc
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 Foundation for Music Dance and Dramatic Arts 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.
- Jhpiego Corporation — 65% of income from government
- Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Resist Inc — 2% of income from government
- Feed the Children Inc — 1% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Food for the Poor Inc — 0% of income from government
- Infact Dba Corporate Accountability — 0% of income from government
- Oxfam-America 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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