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The John C Davison Family Charitable Foundation Inc at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Education$233kPhilanthropy$161kScience & Tech$125kReligion$104kInternational$55kArts & Culture$50k
02FY2022 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 77% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its 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%Mesivta Ne'imus HaTorah: $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%Mikvah of Baltimore: $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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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

+25%
+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
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 +25%

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%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Sherit Isroel
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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
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7
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

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

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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.

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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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Society for Technion Israel Institute of Technology Inc; 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 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. 9 of the 13 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
9/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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
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.

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.

Gutman Family Foundat…Associated Jewish Cha…The Sharaby Family Fo…Crane Family Foundati…The Tzedakah FundThe Hackerman Foundat…Annie E Casey Foundat…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The John C Davison Family Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The John C Davison Family Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Jewels School Inc: 2% 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, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 13 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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