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The David Family Foundation Inc

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.

$614k
Granted FY2025still arriving
22
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$418k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Social Science$2.3MCrime & Legal$594kCivil Rights$311kArts & Culture$152kEducation$138kHealth$134kInternational$100kReligion$37kOther$0
02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k16 grants · $66k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $80k
  • $250k+1 grant · $418k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$3.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Hudson Institute Inc$418,000
Committee for Human Rights in N Kor$80,000
Manhattan Institute for Policy Rese$15,000
Institute for Justice$15,000
Foundation for Individual Rights Ex$10,000
Fountain House Inc$10,000
Metropolitan Opera$8,000
American Enterprise Institute for P$5,000
Gilder Lehrman Institute of America$5,000
Commentary Inc$5,000
Charlotte Hungerford Hospital$5,000
New York-Presbyterian Fund Inc$5,000
Becket Fund$5,000
Lincoln Center Theater$5,000
The Federalist Society$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Germantown Life Enrichment Center: $1k → 22%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
NY
PA
CT
CA
VA
DE
AZ
DC
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.4M · 31 repeat orgs$57k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.

31 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
9

Total granted

$4.4M
$55k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+24%

Still filing today

68%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationInternationalHealthArts & CulturePublic BenefitCivil RightsOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • HI
    Hudson Institute Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $2.4M · revenue +242%
  • IF
    INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE
    8× · 2017–2025 · $605k · revenue +57%
  • FH
    FOUNTAIN HOUSE INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $58k · revenue +119%

Funded once

  • CF
    Center for Strategic International
    one grant, 2017 · $15k
  • TD
    The Defense Forum Foundation Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +22%
  • TF
    THE FOREIGN POLICY INITIATIVE co KLEINBERG KAPLAN
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Peter G Peterson Institute for International Economics

The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…

Social Science
2
The International Institute for Strategic Studies - Us

To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…

International
3
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
4
United States Naval Institute

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.

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5
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
6
Center for Strategic and International Studies

The center for strategic and international studies (csis) is a bipartisan, nonprofit policy research organization dedicated to advancing practical ideas to address the world's greatest challenges.

International
7
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…

Social Science
8
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
9
Manhattan Institute for Policy Research Inc

The manhattan institute is a community of scholars, journalists, activists, and civic leaders dedicated to advancing opportunity, individual liberty, and the rule of law in america and its great cities.

Public Benefit
10
Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University Inc

The Knight First Amendment Institute defends the freedoms of speech and the press in the digital age through strategic litigation, research, public advocacy and public education. Our aim is to promote a system of free expression that is…

Education
11
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
12
The Roosevelt Institute

To create a nation where everyone enjoys a fair share of our collective prosperity.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies; the most unlike its peers is The Charlotte Hungerford Hospital. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

29 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 29 of the 42 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/29
Grantees still filing
22/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Hudson Institute Inc: $2,413,400 · OtherHudson Institute IncCommittee for Human Rights in N Kor: $265,000 · OtherCommittee for Human Rights in N KorManhattan Institute for Policy Rese: $164,000 · Other+22 more: $606,500 · Other+22 moreINSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $605,000 · Civil RightsINSTITUTE FOR J…FOUNTAIN HOUSE INC: $58,000 · HealthNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $28,000 · HealthThe Charlotte Hungerford Hospital: $25,500 · HealthMIDDLE EAST MEDIA AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $38,000 · InternationalCENTER FOR SECURITY POLICY INC: $35,000 · InternationalCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC: $6,000 · International+1 more: $1,000 · InternationalINTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES INSTITUTE INC: $34,000 · EducationTHE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION: $20,000 · EducationNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SCHOLARS INC: $18,000 · EducationPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · EducationTHE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER: $35,000 · Arts & CultureThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $15,000 · Arts & CultureQUINTESSENCE THEATRE GROUP INC: $2,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMENTARY INC: $41,500 · Religion
Other$3,448,900Civil Rights$605,000Health$111,500International$80,000Education$78,000Arts & Culture$52,000Religion$41,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHudson Institute Inc: $2,413,400 over 9y, 1.7% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $605,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetFOUNTAIN HOUSE INC: $58,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES: $55,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FEDERALIST SOCIETY FOR LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES: $51,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMENTARY INC: $41,500 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetMIDDLE EAST MEDIA AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $38,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetThe Becket Fund: $35,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER: $35,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR SECURITY POLICY INC: $35,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetINTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES INSTITUTE INC: $34,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC: $30,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC: $28,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe Charlotte Hungerford Hospital: $25,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Michigan: $21,000 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetTHE DOE FUND INC: $21,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SCHOLARS INC: $18,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Defense Forum Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC: $6,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOREIGN POLICY INITIATIVE co KLEINBERG KAPLAN: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetQUINTESSENCE THEATRE GROUP INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNET SOCIETY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILLIAMSON COLLEGE OF THE TRADES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 Hudson Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE ↗
  • Who funds FOUNTAIN HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES ↗
  • Who funds THE FEDERALIST SOCIETY FOR LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES ↗
  • Who funds COMMENTARY INC ↗
  • Who funds MIDDLE EAST MEDIA AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds The Becket Fund ↗
  • Who funds THE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR SECURITY POLICY INC ↗
  • Who funds INTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds The Charlotte Hungerford Hospital ↗
  • Who funds University of Michigan ↗
  • Who funds THE DOE FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds THE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SCHOLARS INC ↗
  • Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
  • Who funds The Defense Forum Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE FOREIGN POLICY INITIATIVE co KLEINBERG KAPLAN ↗
  • Who funds PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds BARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH ↗
  • Who funds QUINTESSENCE THEATRE GROUP INC ↗
  • Who funds INTERNET SOCIETY ↗

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.

Donors Trust IncNational Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Donors Trust IncVA13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donors Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The David Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The David Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Connecticut Foodshare Inc: 5% of income from government
  • The Charlotte Hungerford Hospital: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 42 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The endowment market
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The camps
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By state
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