· Private foundation
Harold and Nadine Davidson 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 $10k14 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $56k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ORTHOPEDIC INSTITUTE FOR CHILDREN | $29,867 |
| WAYFINDER FAMILY SERVICES | $16,000 |
| USC SCHOOL OF GERONTOLOGY | $10,000 |
| TEMPLE EMANUEL | $9,644 |
| ZETA BETA TAU FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
| THE MUSIC CENTER | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| THE JEWISH FEDERATION | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| SKULL AND DAGGER SOCIETY | $560 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| VISTA DEL MAR | $500 |
| HILLEL - USC - DONATION | $400 |
| BET TZEDEK | $250 |
| ROTARY DISTRICT - 7500 FGIFT OF LIFE FOUNDATION INC | $250 |
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 (FY17–25, $94k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
29 repeat relationships: 13 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $910 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WFWayfinder Family Services9× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +62%
- OHORTHOPAEDIC HOSPITAL4× · 2017–2021 · $44k · revenue +38%
- WBWATER BUFFALO CLUB INC DBA WE BENEFIT CHILDREN4× · 2020–2023 · $17k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $19k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $6k
- UAUSC ADVANCE GIFT SERVICESone grant, 2022 · $6k
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 mission of children's hospital & research center at oakland is to protect and advance the health and well-being of children through clinical care, teaching and research.
To further the conservation, improvement and restoration of human eyesight" (mrs. doheny - 1947).
Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…
The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…
Stanford university is one of a select group of american universities that have achieved eminence in both undergraduate and graduate education and research - cont'd sch o.
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…
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To support lundquist institute for biomedical innovation at harbor-ucla medical center.
The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…
Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
How this is measured
18 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. 18 of the 51 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 ZETA BETA TAU FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Wayfinder Family Services ↗
- Who funds ORTHOPAEDIC HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds WATER BUFFALO CLUB INC DBA WE BENEFIT CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds VISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds BET TZEDEK ↗
- Who funds ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LES AMIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE RAPE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INDIA DEVELOPMENT AND RELIEF FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE THALIANS ↗
- Who funds Hillels of Georgia Inc ↗
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: The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Harold and Nadine Davidson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Harold and Nadine Davidson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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