California · Private foundation
Louise M Davies 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.
- $1.0M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 62
- Grants FY2025
- 55
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 15%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $75,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 48 to 59
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 12
- Total assets, FY2025
- $22M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 15% of the organizations Louise M Davies Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 61 | $1.0M | 20% |
| FY2024 | 55 | $835k | 15% |
| FY2023 | 48 | $823k | 2% |
| FY2022 | 52 | $873k | 6% |
| FY2021 | 59 | $1.1M | 10% |
| FY2020 | 54 | $1.1M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| San Francisco Symphony | $425,000 | 6 | 0% |
| San Francisco Opera Association | $325,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Archdiocese of San Francisco Ca | $230,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Marin Catholic High School | $220,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Immaculate Conception Academy | $180,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Sophia Institute | $170,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Thomas Aquinas College | $150,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Wood Rose Academy | $150,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Mission Dolores Academy | $150,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Camphill Communities California | $120,000 | 6 | 1% |
Show all 51 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 33 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Louise M Davies Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 41 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Marin Community Foundation · G L Connolly Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Knights of Columbus Charitable Fund Inc · The Drum Foundation · The Charles D & Frances K Field Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Rafael Madan & Lilian Casas Foundation · The Moran Foundation · Heffernan Group Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
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About Louise M Davies Foundation
- How much does Louise M Davies Foundation give?
- Louise M Davies Foundation reported 62 grants totaling $1,023,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 48 and 59 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Louise M Davies Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (52%), Arts & Culture (22%), Religion (14%).
- Who are Louise M Davies Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: San Francisco Symphony ($425k), San Francisco Opera Association ($325k), Archdiocese of San Francisco Ca ($230k).
- Does Louise M Davies Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Louise M Davies Foundation 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 Louise M Davies Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Marin Community Foundation, G L Connolly Foundation, The San Francisco Foundation.
- Where is Louise M Davies Foundation based?
- Louise M Davies Foundation is based in CA.
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