· Private foundation
Richard & Rosalee C Davison Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 51% of Richard & Rosalee C Davison Foundation Inc’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k8 grants · $165k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $321k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Friends of the Ethiopian National Project | $170,000 |
| American Technion Society | $100,000 |
| Erin Levitas Foundation | $51,000 |
| Baltimore Design School | $30,000 |
| Roca Pallin Youth Center - Baltimore | $25,000 |
| JCC Valley of the Sun | $25,000 |
| Adamah | $20,000 |
| University of Baltimore Foundation | $20,000 |
| Building Steps | $20,000 |
| Dyslexia Tutoring Program | $15,000 |
| Living Classrooms Foundation (GEM) | $10,000 |
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 (FY24–25, $340k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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 +41% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 6 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, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $120k 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
- FOFRIENDS OF THE ETHIOPIAN NATIONAL PROJECT INC2× · 2024–2025 · $340k · revenue +3% · 83% of their budget
- UOUNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC3× · 2023–2025 · $60k · revenue +76%
- BSBALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC2× · 2018–2020 · $40k · revenue +50%
Funded once
- VOvarious organized charitiesone grant, 2018 · $70k
- TCTIKVA CORPone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%
- VOVALLEY OF THE SUN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INCone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%
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.
The shalom hartman institute (shi) is a leading research and educational center serving israel and world jewry. we work to enrich the moral and spiritual life of israel and the jewish people, deepen the commitment to pluralism and israel's…
Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.
The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…
The purpose of the organization (the school) will be accomplished solely by providing a jewish and secular secondary education to students in baltimore, maryland
Israel-america academic exchange (iaae) is a nonprofit organization whose mission is todeepen the understanding of israel and the middle east within the international academiccommunity. the organization organizes educational missions and…
Promotes excellence in jewish learning & leadership within a pluralistic environment. see sch ohebrew college promotes excellence in jewish learning and leadership within a pluralistic environment of open inquiry, intellectual rigor,…
The jewish leadership academy is a world-class jewish middle and upper school dedicated to developing the skills, curiosity, and potential of miami's most ambitious students for a life of purpose, commitment, and service.
To promote a positive relationship between catholics and israelis.
Education opportunity for the jewish community
The israel institute, inc. (the institute) enhances knowledge about modern israel by ensuring that more students have access to courses about israel during their time on campus.
The mission of the institute is to translate basic genetic and molecular mechanisms of schizophrenia and related developmental brain disorders into clinical advances that change the lives of affected individuals. it is catalyzing a new…
To further jewish education in israel
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Adamah Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends of the Ethiopian National Project Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
18 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. 18 of the 31 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 FRIENDS OF THE ETHIOPIAN NATIONAL PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ERIN MICHELE LEVITAS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TIKVA CORP ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE DESIGN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds VALLEY OF THE SUN JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND HORSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Building Science Technology and Education Partnerships Inc ↗
- Who funds LIFEBRIDGE HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds ADAMAH INC ↗
- Who funds DYSLEXIA TUTORING PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds PROMISE FUND OF FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds The Society of the Four Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds Maryland Institute ↗
- Who funds ACHIM INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL AQUARIUM INC ↗
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: Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Crane Family Foundation Inc · The Hackerman Foundation Inc · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Lapidus-Cohen Foundation Inc · Ben & Zelda Cohen Charitable Foundation Inc · Zell and Myrna Hurwitz Foundation Inc · The Goldsmith Family Foundation Inc · The Abell Foundation 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 Richard & Rosalee C Davison Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc — 11% of income from government
- Adamah Inc — 10% of income from government
- Lifebridge Health Inc — 1% of income from government
- National Aquarium Inc — 1% of income from government
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.
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