· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| WXXI | $20,000 |
| THE HOCHSTEIN SCHOOL OF MUSIC & DANCE | $20,000 |
| SPENCERPORT DEPOT & CANAL MUSEUM | $20,000 |
| ROCHESTER COMMUNITY ROBOTICS | $15,000 |
| KAPPA KAPPA GAMMA FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| YOUNG WOMEN'S COLLEGE PREP | $15,000 |
| CURE CHILDHOOD CANCER ASSOCIATION | $12,500 |
| HOPE HALL | $10,000 |
| HILTON HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH | $10,000 |
| BROCKPORT HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
- CHCAMP HICKORY HILLone grant, 2022 · $10k
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
37 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. 37 of the 79 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Donald F and Maxine B Davison Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Donald F and Maxine B Davison Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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