California · Private foundation
The Davidson Family 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.
- $4.4M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 71
- Grants FY2025
- 64
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $40,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $460,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 42 to 64
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 12
- Total assets, FY2025
- $54M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations The Davidson Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $400k 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 | 71 | $4.4M | 17% |
| FY2024 | 64 | $3.4M | 13% |
| FY2023 | 59 | $2.9M | 12% |
| FY2022 | 60 | $2.7M | 17% |
| FY2021 | 54 | $2.9M | 26% |
| FY2020 | 46 | $1.8M | 70% |
| FY2017 | 42 | $993k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Almaden Country Day School | $886,000 | 6 | 2% |
| YWCA Golden Gate Silicon Valley | $870,000 | 4 | 2% |
| The First Academy Inc | $865,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Commonsense Childbirth Inc | $800,000 | 6 | 4% |
| The Tech Interactive | $665,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Boy Scouts of America 55 Silicon Valley Monterey Bay Council | $525,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Cabrillo College Foundation | $490,000 | 6 | 2% |
| The Good Samaritan Outreach | $436,000 | 5 | 59% |
| San Jose Conservation Corps | $425,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Humane Society Silicon Valley | $425,000 | 7 | 1% |
Show all 83 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 42 recipients with no EIN on record ($6.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Davidson Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 10 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 70 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Sobrato Family Foundation · The Valley Foundation · San Jose Mercury News Wish Book Fund Inc · The Applied Materials Foundation · Heffernan Group Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Mission City Community Fund · Bright Funds Foundation · Analog Devices Foundation · The Catholic Community Foundation · Los Altos Mountain View Community Foundation
How this is measured
About The Davidson Family Foundation
- How much does The Davidson Family Foundation give?
- The Davidson Family Foundation reported 71 grants totaling $4,419,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 42 and 64 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does The Davidson Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (31%), Human Services (15%), Animals (15%).
- Who are The Davidson Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Almaden Country Day School ($886k), YWCA Golden Gate Silicon Valley ($870k), The First Academy Inc ($865k).
- Does The Davidson Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Davidson Family 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 The Davidson Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, The Sobrato Family Foundation, The Valley Foundation.
- Where is The Davidson Family Foundation based?
- The Davidson Family Foundation is based in CA.
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