· Private foundation
The Ellen and Gary Davis Foundation
Its FY2024 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 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k27 grants · $78k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $120k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WEILL CORNELL MEDICINE | $1,000,000 |
| ROITMAN CHABAD CENTER AT CORNELL UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| UJA JCC GREENWICH | $45,400 |
| COLEL CHABAD | $20,000 |
| ALIYT INC | $20,000 |
| GROUP FOR THE EAST END | $12,500 |
| THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM | $12,000 |
| CHABAD LUBAVITCH OF GREENWICH INC | $10,000 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY | $8,500 |
| CHABAD AT DUKE | $7,200 |
| THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF LOS ANGELES | $7,200 |
| STRATTON MOUNTAIN SCHOOL | $6,000 |
| INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH SPIRITUALITY | $5,400 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE STAMFORD | $5,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE GREENWICH | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $71k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 69% 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
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.
77 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2024, 53 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $133k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UFUJA FEDERATION OF GREENWICH INC8× · 2017–2024 · $439k · revenue +100%
Cornell University6× · 2017–2024 · $143k · revenue +59%- GFGROUP FOR THE EAST END INC7× · 2017–2024 · $126k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- CUCORNELL UNIVERSITY ELLEN AND GARY DAVIS IMMUNE MONITORING COREone grant, 2019 · $56k
- CUCORNELL UNIVERSITY FINE ARTS CONSTRUCTION GIFTone grant, 2017 · $50k
- MMMEOR MANHATTAN JEWISH ENRICHMENT CENTERone grant, 2017 · $50k
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.
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.
Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…
Long island jewish medical center is part of the northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and…
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
See schedule othe organization is a not-for-profit, public charity established in 1911 to provide for the quality and continuity of jewish life in western new york and around the world through private philanthropy. the foundation seeks,…
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…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
How this is measured
87 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 87 of the 139 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.
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- Who funds STRATTON MOUNTAIN SCHOOL ↗
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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: Jewish Communal Fund · Aspen Community Foundation · Fjc · Synchrony Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · National Philanthropic Trust · The New York Community Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Uja Federation of Greenwich Inc · Julie and Martin Franklin Family Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Ellen and Gary Davis Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ellen and Gary Davis Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Jewish Family Services of Greenwich: 41% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Greenwich: 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
- Jewish Family Service of Stamford Inc: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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