· Private foundation
Davidson Foundation Inc
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 $10k6 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILDREN'S HEALTH DEFENSE | $10,005 |
| AOPA FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| BONTON FARMS | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY | $4,000 |
| NO KID HUNGRY | $1,030 |
| KERRVILLE PETS ALIVE | $1,000 |
| O'DONNELL-COOKSON LIFE CELEBRATION HOME | $1,000 |
| TRIETSCH MEMORIAL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–20, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
19 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 4 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- TATHE AOPA FOUNDATION INC6× · 2017–2025 · $60k · revenue +85%
- HSHumane Society of Taos Inc dba Stray Hearts Animal Shelter4× · 2019–2022 · $35k · revenue +8%
- CHCHILDREN'S HEALTH DEFENSE3× · 2020–2025 · $31k · revenue +123%
Funded once
- AWANNA WOODS BENEFIT FOR UKRAINEone grant, 2022 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $4k
- DDOBRAone grant, 2024 · $1k
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.
Rescue neglected, unwanted homeless dogs and cats nurture and provide shelter until they are placed with a forever family strive to reduce animal overpopulation prevent cruelty to animals teach responsible pet ownership through an outreach…
To support animals, save lives, and spread compassion.
CASA of Williamson County, TX exists to empower community volunteers to advocate for children who have experienced abuse or neglect to find loving, safe, and permanent homes.
See schedule orancho coastal is dedicated to the rescue and shelter of abandoned companion animals. it encourages adoptions into loving homes and provides educational and community outreach programs designed to enhance the human-animal…
To promote and protect the best interest of children who have been abused or neglected by empowering volunteers to advocate for their safety, well-being, and for opportunities to thrive.
Animal rescue and rehabilitation
The austin humane society (ahs) offers comprehensive, humane, life-saving animal services, transforming the lives of animals and those who love them. because we believe homeless animals deserve a chance to thrive in a loving environment,…
Advocates for children
To provide care and housing for impounded, surrendered and stray animals on camano island.
One tail at a time west texas otat wtx serves the rural communities of west texas by supporting animal shelter operations rescuing and sheltering homeless unwanted companion animals dogs and cats primarily arranging their veterinary care…
Child Advocacy
In Tulsa County there are several agencies that address prevention and treatment of child abuse, but the Child Advocacy Network (CAN) is the ONLY nonprofit that provides intervention services for children and their nonoffending…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Christian Community Action and the most unlike its peers is Music Memories Austin. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 27 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 46 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 THE AOPA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Humane Society of Taos Inc dba Stray Hearts Animal Shelter ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALTH DEFENSE ↗
- Who funds ANGEL FLIGHT INC DBA ANGEL FLIGHT SOUTH CENTRAL ↗
- Who funds Taos Coalition To End Homelessness Inc ↗
- Who funds Music Memories Austin ↗
- Who funds WTF-WINNING THE FIGHT ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY INC ↗
- Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
- Who funds CLOUD NINE CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER FOR NORTH TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds ROOM TO READ ↗
- Who funds KERRVILLE PETS ALIVE ↗
- Who funds Ranch Hands Rescue ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ACTION ↗
- Who funds COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF DENTON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS ACROSS AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Holden Village ↗
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: Coserv Charitable Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Cross Timbers Rotary Club Charities Inc · The Henry Foundation · The Rees-Jones Foundation · Speedway Children's Charities · The Moody Foundation · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Celanese Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment 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 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 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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