· Private foundation
The Donald F and Maxine B Davison 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 62% of THE DONALD F AND MAXINE B DAVISON FOUNDATION’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
- Under $10k24 grants · $104k
- $10k–50k25 grants · $360k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOMESTEAD FOR HOPE | $50,000 |
| GENESEE COUNTRY MUSEUM | $35,000 |
| AURORA HOUSE | $32,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| SPENCERPORT DEPOT & CANAL MUSEUM | $20,000 |
| WXXI | $20,000 |
| THE HOCHSTEIN SCHOOL OF MUSIC & DANCE | $20,000 |
| KAPPA KAPPA GAMMA FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| YOUNG WOMEN'S COLLEGE PREP | $15,000 |
| ROCHESTER COMMUNITY ROBOTICS | $15,000 |
| CURE CHILDHOOD CANCER ASSOCIATION | $12,500 |
| BROCKPORT HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| CHURCHVILLE CHILI HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| GEVA THEATRE CENTER INC | $10,000 |
| EAGLE STAR HOUSING | $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 (FY20–25, $32k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
56 repeat relationships — 44 still active in FY2025, 12 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k 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
HOMESTEADS FOR HOPE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $442k · revenue +284%- HHHOPE HALL9× · 2017–2025 · $363k · revenue +242%
- GCGENESEE COUNTRY MUSEUM9× · 2017–2025 · $298k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- RWROBERTS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITYone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +3%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $13k
- WCWEBSTER COMFORT CARE HOME INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +51%
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 rochester general college of health careers is dedicated to preparing adult learners with the knowledge, skills, and competencies necessary to pursue health careers, advanced education, and lifelong learning.
St. francis college is an independent, coeducational institution of higher education chartered by an act of the regents of the university of the state of new york on april 10, 1957.
Rochester general health system, provides patient care, senior housing, laboratory services, and community outreach to residents and other clients in monroe county, new york and several surrounding counties.
Provide scholarships for students with good scholastic standing and family financial difficulties.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Organization's missionas a university with the capacity to attract and engage the best scholars from around the world, yet small enough to support a personalized and academically rigorous student experience, syracuse university faculty and…
The harley school is a diverse, inclusive school. we provide a balanced education that prepares our students to meet the challenges of tomorrow and lead lives of great purpose.
Rochester academy of science charter school (the school) is a not-for-profit education corporation that operates kindergarten through 12th grades and is dedicated to providing quality education to a diverse body of students in the…
Amherst college educates students of exceptional potential from all backgrounds so that they may seek value and advance knowledge, engage the world around them, and lead principled lives of consequence. amherst brings together the most…
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rochester Rotary Charitable Trusts Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Salmon Childrens 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.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 23. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
37 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. 37 of the 79 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 HOMESTEADS FOR HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE HALL ↗
- Who funds GENESEE COUNTRY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
- Who funds GEVA THEATRE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds KAPPA KAPPA GAMMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MONROE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GENESEE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EAGLE STAR HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds THE SALMON CHILDRENS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SHENANDOAH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER ROTARY CLUB ↗
- Who funds NAZARETH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER COMMUNITY ROBOTICS ↗
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: Rochester Area Community Foundation · United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes Inc · Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation · Paychex Charitable Foundation Inc · Esl Charitable Foundation · Daisy Marquis Jones Foundation · Rochester Area Community Foundation Depository Inc · Davenport-Hatch Foundation · Waldron Rise Foundation Inc · William & Sheila Konar Foundation · Greater Rochester Health Foundation · JM McDonald 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 The Donald F and Maxine B Davison 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.
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