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The John C Davison Family Charitable Foundation Inc

Its FY2022 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$161k
Granted FY2022
1
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$161k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 43% of The John C Davison Family Charitable Foundation Inc’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.

02FY2022 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$161,386
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Ben & Zelda Cohen Charitable Foundation Inc$161,386
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 77% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%American Technion Society: $25k → 17%United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $20k → 14%Beth El Congregation: $50k → 11%Mikvah of Baltimore: $10k → 19%American Technion Society: $25k → 17%United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $15k → 14%Shoresh: $4k → 11%Mikvah of Baltimore: $10k → 19%American Technion Society: $25k → 17%United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $15k → 14%Bais Yaakov School for Girls: $10k → 11%Mikvah of Baltimore: $10k → 19%American Technion Society: $25k → 17%Bais Yaakov School for Girls: $10k → 11%Mesivta Ne'imus HaTorah: $10k → 19%American Technion Society: $25k → 17%Bais Yaakov School for Girls: $10k → 11%Mesivta Ne'imus HaTorah: $10k → 19%American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee - The Taub Center: $30k → 17%Bais Yaakov School for Girls: $10k → 11%Jewels: $3k → 19%American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee - The Taub Center: $25k → 17%Bais Yaakov School for Girls: $10k → 11%Gilman School: $20k → 19%Garrison Forest School: $20k → 11%Gilman School: $10k → 19%Garrison Forest School: $20k → 11%Gilman School: $10k → 19%Ben & Zelda Cohen Charitable Foundation Inc: $161k → 19%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$385k · 8 repeat orgs$218k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2022, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
3

Total granted

$385k
$57k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+71%

Still filing today

63%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $161k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22
EducationInternationalArts & CultureOther

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

  • GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2017–2019 · $100k · revenue +47%
  • The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc
    2× · 2017–2018 · $55k · revenue +24%
  • TU
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    3× · 2017–2019 · $50k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • BE
    Beth El Congregation
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
  • SI
    Shoresh Inc
    one grant, 2018 · $4k · revenue +20%
  • JS
    JEWELS SCHOOL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue +71%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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Sherit Isroel
2
Eastern European Jewish Heritage Foundation
Philanthropy
3
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
4
Zichron Avrohom Yosef
Philanthropy
5
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…

Education
6
University of Judaism Foundation
7
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

8
Shalom School

Shalom school's mission is to provide each child with an outstanding education in a nurturing environment that is academically excellent, inclusive, innovative, and inspired by jewish values and traditions.

9
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
10
Hebrew Academy of Cleveland

The mission of the hebrew academy is to imbue all students with a love of god, torah and eretz yisroel and to prepare them to achieve excellence in torah and general knowledge based on successful cooperation among family, judaic and…

11
Joseph and Vera Zilber Family Foundation Inc
Philanthropy
12
Fuchs Mizrachi Schools

The mission of fuchs mizrachi school is to educate each child in the orthodox jewish religious zionist tradition, imbued with the love of g-d, torah, people and the land of israel.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Society for Technion Israel Institute of Technology Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ben & Zelda Cohen Charitable 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.

04the grantee network

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 20172026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 13 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
9/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Ben & Zelda Cohen Charitable Foundation Inc — $161,386 · OtherBen & Zelda Cohen Charitable Foundation IncBAIS YAAKOV SCHOOL FOR GIRLS INC — $50,000 · OtherBAIS YAAKOV SCHOOL FOR GIRLS INCBeth El Congregation — $50,000 · OtherBeth El CongregationMIKVAH OF BALTIMORE INC — $30,000 · OtherMIKVAH OF BALTIMORE INCMESIVTA NEIMUS HATORAH INC — $20,000 · OtherMESIVTA NEIMUS HATORAH INC+1 more — $4,000 · OtherGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $100,000 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITYGILMAN SCHOOL INCORPORATED — $40,000 · EducationGILMAN SCHOOL INCORPORATEDGARRISON FOREST SCHOOL INC — $40,000 · EducationGARRISON FOREST SCHOOL INC+1 more — $3,000 · EducationAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC — $125,000 · InternationalAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNIO…The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc — $55,000 · InternationalThe American Jewish Joint Di…The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — $50,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$315,386Education$183,000International$180,000Arts & Culture$50,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC — $125,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc — $55,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — $50,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGILMAN SCHOOL INCORPORATED — $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGARRISON FOREST SCHOOL INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetShoresh Inc — $4,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJEWELS SCHOOL INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

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.

Gutman Family Foundation IncMD15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gutman Family Foundation Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · The Sharaby Family Foundation · Crane Family Foundation Inc · The Tzedakah Fund · The Hackerman Foundation Inc · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 John C Davison Family Charitable Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 2%
  • Jewels School Inc2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get 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
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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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How do I get to The John C Davison Family Charitable Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The John C Davison Family Charitable Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 13 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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