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Donald Macdavid Charitable Tr Pf

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.

$306k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
31
Grants FY2025
30
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$8,697
Largest grant, FY2025
$28,991
Organizations funded a year
30 to 30
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$5.9M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Donald Macdavid Charitable Tr Pf funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving30$292k7%
FY202430$263k0%
FY202330$272k3%
FY202230$314k0%
FY202130$253k0%
FY202030$267kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$373kArts & Culture$308kHealth$245kPhilanthropy$171kReligion$171kHuman Services$149kPublic Safety & Disaster$94kEnvironment$85kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Hospice Foundation of Wny Inc$170,99560%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$94,05460%
The Salvation Army$85,4946n/a
World Wildlife Fund Inc$85,49360%
Bowmansville United Methodist Church$85,4936n/a
New York University$58,75260%
Buffalo and Erie County Public Library Co$51,2966n/a
Zoological Society of Buffalo Inc$34,19760%
Buffalo Fine Arts Academy$34,19760%
Goodwill Industries of Western New York$34,19760%
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All grantees of Donald Macdavid Charitable Tr Pf by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Hospice Foundation of Wny Inc$170,99560%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$94,05460%
The Salvation Army$85,4946n/a
World Wildlife Fund Inc$85,49360%
Bowmansville United Methodist Church$85,4936n/a
New York University$58,75260%
Buffalo and Erie County Public Library Co$51,2966n/a
Zoological Society of Buffalo Inc$34,19760%
Buffalo Fine Arts Academy$34,19760%
Goodwill Industries of Western New York$34,19760%
United Way of Buffalo and Erie County$28,99110%
Daemen University$19,58460%
D'Youville University$17,09960%
Buffalo State College Foundation Inc$14,61460%
Canisius University$14,24660%
University at Buffalo Foundation Inc$14,20050%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($818k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Donald Macdavid Charitable Tr Pf supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHospice Foundation of Wny Inc: $170,995 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $94,054 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Wildlife Fund Inc: $85,493 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $58,752 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetZoological Society of Buffalo Inc: $34,197 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBuffalo Fine Arts Academy: $34,197 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGoodwill Industries of Western New York: $34,197 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Way of Buffalo and Erie County: $28,991 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDaemen University: $19,584 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetD'Youville University: $17,099 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBuffalo State College Foundation Inc: $14,614 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCanisius University: $14,246 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity at Buffalo Foundation Inc: $14,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 13.

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.

James H Cummings Foundation IncNY15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: James H Cummings Foundation Inc · Tower Family Fund Inc · Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · Cullen Foundation of Western New York Inc · Buffalo Sabres Foundation · First Niagara Foundation · The Western New York Foundation · Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · Verizon Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Donald Macdavid Charitable Tr Pf

How much does Donald Macdavid Charitable Tr Pf give?
Donald Macdavid Charitable Tr Pf reported 31 grants totaling $306,354 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 30 and 30 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Donald Macdavid Charitable Tr Pf fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (21%), Arts & Culture (18%), Health (14%).
Who are Donald Macdavid Charitable Tr Pf's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Hospice Foundation of Wny Inc ($171k), American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ($94k), The Salvation Army ($85k).
Does Donald Macdavid Charitable Tr Pf fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Donald Macdavid Charitable Tr Pf accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Donald Macdavid Charitable Tr Pf?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include James H Cummings Foundation Inc, Tower Family Fund Inc, Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc.
Where is Donald Macdavid Charitable Tr Pf based?
Donald Macdavid Charitable Tr Pf is based in NY.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 34 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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