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Kenneth S Davidson Family Foundation

Its FY2022 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$47k
Granted FY2022
10
Grants FY2022
10
Organizations funded FY2022
40%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Median grant, FY2022
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2022
$16,996
Organizations funded a year
6 to 10
FY2017 to FY2022
States reached, FY2022
1
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 40% of the organizations Kenneth S Davidson Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 60% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalOther
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
FY202210$47k40%
FY20218$21k38%
FY20207$18k71%
FY20196$11k33%
FY20187$39k29%
FY20179$32kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Arts & Culture$79kEducation$31kHealth$19kReligion$9kPhilanthropy$7kCivil Rights$3kHuman Services$3kHousing & Shelter$1kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 17 grantees

Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($40k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Kenneth S Davidson Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNew Music USA Inc: $38,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetJuilliard School: $22,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGuide Dog Foundation for the Blind Inc: $18,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBridgehampton Chamber Music Associates Inc: $16,996 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetThe Hunter College Foundation Inc: $8,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Atlantic Golf Club Foundation: $7,000 over 5y, 4.1% of budgetCitizens Committee for Children of New York Inc: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBridgehampton Child Care and Recreational Center Inc: $2,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYoung Concert Artists Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetManhattan Class Company Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEdible Schoolyard New York: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPaul Taylor Dance Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPartnership for Palliative Care: $1,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetLocal Tv Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 14.

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.

The New York Community TrustNY15.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The New York Community Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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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How do I get to Kenneth S Davidson Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Kenneth S Davidson Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Kenneth S Davidson Family Foundation

How much does Kenneth S Davidson Family Foundation give?
Kenneth S Davidson Family Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $47,196 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 10 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
What does Kenneth S Davidson Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2022, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (47%), Education (19%), Health (11%).
Who are Kenneth S Davidson Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2022: New Music USA Inc ($38k), Juilliard School ($23k), Guide Dog Foundation for the Blind Inc ($18k).
Does Kenneth S Davidson Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Kenneth S Davidson Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Kenneth S Davidson Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The New York Community Trust, Jewish Communal Fund, National Philanthropic Trust.
Where is Kenneth S Davidson Family Foundation based?
Kenneth S Davidson Family Foundation 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 25 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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