· Private foundation
Mn 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CONGREGATION BETH ISRAEL | $6,000 |
| RICE UNIVERSITY - TX | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SWLA | $4,500 |
| KIPP ACADEMY OF HOUSTON | $3,000 |
| TEXAS AM UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| CONGREGATION TEMPLE EMANUEL | $2,000 |
| MD ANDERSON - TX | $2,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON | $1,500 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK | $1,500 |
| TEMPLE SINAI | $1,000 |
| LONGHORN COUNCIL | $1,000 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $600 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| ARMAUND BAYOU NATURE CENTER - TX | $500 |
| TEMPLE BETH ISRAEL | $500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +70% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 12 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, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- MSMCNEESE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2024 · $18k · revenue +70%
- SJSt John's School9× · 2017–2025 · $5k · revenue +130%
- TWThe Westminster Schools Inc4× · 2020–2024 · $5k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- COCHRISTUS OSCHNER SWLA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $5k
- TCTECHNICAL COLLEGE SYSTEM OF GEORGIAone grant, 2017 · $5k
- MAMD ANDERSON - LAone grant, 2017 · $3k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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…
Newman inspires individual growth and academic excellence within an inclusive community committed to strong relationships and high expectations.
The southern association of colleges and schools commission on colleges is the regional body for the accreditation of degree-granting higher education institutions in the southern states. the commission's mission is the enhancement of…
The arc of louisiana advocates for and with individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families.
The council shall promote, within the territory covered by the charter from time to time granted it by the boy scouts of america and in accordance with the congressional charter, bylaws, and rules and regulations of the boy scouts of…
The louisiana school for math, science, and the arts foundation develops and manages resources to complement the work of the louisiana school for math, science, and the arts. the foundation provides for the educational and cultural welfare…
Live the words of catholic educator janet erskine stuart,"education is formation, not just information." faculty is dedicated to work with parents to help each child build a foundation for a life centered on a love of learning, desire to…
Louisville collegiate school inspires academic excellence, extraordinary character and global citizenship.
The mission of south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…
The lsu foundation cultivates and invests in philanthropic partnerships to support and advance lsu's academic priorities.
The mission is to protect, promote, and foster the welfare of louisiana state university and to create and nurture mutually beneficial relationships between the university and its alumni and friends. the association, using the talents and…
See Schedule OThe Work Study Program and Jesuit Cristo Rey High School of Houston (dba Cristo Rey Jesuit College Preparatory School) operate together as a coordinated program that inspires and prepares students with limited economic…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of North Louisiana and the most unlike its peers is Parkinson Research Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 48 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds MCNEESE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTH LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds St John's School ↗
- Who funds The Westminster Schools Inc ↗
- Who funds Armand Bayou Nature Center Inc ↗
- Who funds CAMP SUNSHINE AT SEBAGO LAKE INC ↗
- Who funds EMERGE Fellowship ↗
- Who funds AUTISM SERVICES OF SWLA ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA ↗
- Who funds LAKE CHARLES SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA CALCASIEU AREA COUNCIL 209 ↗
- Who funds Parkinson Research Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CHRISTUS ST PATRICK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH CHILDREN'S REGIONAL SERVICE ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Shearman Foundation · Community Foundation of Southwest Louisiana · Shell USA Company Foundation · CSE Community Foundation · Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Mn Davidson Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to Mn Davidson Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Mn Davidson 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.