· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $79k
- $10k–50k42 grants · $794k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY | $75,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION | $75,000 |
| ST PETER'S SCHOOL | $35,000 |
| IMMACULATE CONCEPTION ACADEMY | $30,000 |
| MARIN CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| ST ANTHONY-IMMACULATE CONCEPTION SC | $30,000 |
| ST ANTHONY FOUNDATION | $26,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART | $25,000 |
| ST BRIGID SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES | $25,000 |
| ARCHDIOCESE OF SAN FRANCISCO | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN CONSERVATORY THEATER | $25,000 |
| MISSION DOLORES ACADEMY | $25,000 |
| THOMAS AQUINAS COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| BAY AREA SCHOLARHIPS FOR INNER-CITY | $25,000 |
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 (FY25–25, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 60% 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.
61 repeat relationships: 49 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 12 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $218k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SFSAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY6× · 2020–2025 · $425k · revenue +4%
- TATHOMAS AQUINAS COLLEGE6× · 2020–2025 · $150k · revenue +58%
- WRWOOD ROSE ACADEMY6× · 2020–2025 · $150k · revenue +63%
Funded once
- SOSTAR OF THE SEA CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $30k
- OSOLD ST MARY'S CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $25k
- SMSTELLA MARRS ACADEMYone grant, 2021 · $20k
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 institute's mission is to conduct research on key issues facing society to help both the church and society deal thoughtfully with the major issues they face globally. the institute also sponsors and conducts research and scholarship…
Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…
California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
Collegium Institute is a Catholic intellectual apostolate that fosters the Catholic intellectual tradition within the University of Pennsylvania community and within the greater region and secular academia. (Continued on Sch. O)
Saint mary's college of california invites you to passionately embrace knowledge, the challenges of scholarship, and the capacity to make lasting change in the world. the foundation for this is our mission. to probe deeply the mystery of…
University education grounded in the traditions and faith of the roman catholic church
Our institutional mission is to educate and prepare students to be ethical leaders and socially responsible global citizens who incorporate the dominican values of study, reflection, community and service into their lives.
The corporation of saint mary's college, notre dame (saint mary's) is a catholic, residential, women's, liberal arts college offering undergraduate degrees and co-educational graduate programs. (continued in schedule o)
Catholic answers is an apostolate dedicated to serving christ by bringing the fullness of catholic truth to the world. we help good catholics become better catholics, bring former catholics home, and lead non-catholics into the fullness of…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…
How this is measured
43 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 43 of the 85 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 SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SOPHIA INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THOMAS AQUINAS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds WOOD ROSE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Camphill Communities California ↗
- Who funds THE SAINT JOSEPH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Thomas More College of Liberal Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds KEEP THE FAITH INC ↗
- Who funds CARDINAL NEWMAN SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF CATHOLIC HGR ED ↗
- Who funds Pacific Legal Foundation ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF CALIFORNIA PIONEERS ↗
- Who funds MONTEREY MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds Riekes Center for Human Enhancement ↗
- Who funds Wyoming Catholic College ↗
- Who funds THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Louise M Davies Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Louise M Davies Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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