· Private foundation
The Leonard & Sophie Davis Fund
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $248k
- $50k–250k22 grants · $2.7M
- $250k+20 grants · $21M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TIDES FOUNDATION | $4,605,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (USC) LEONARD DAVIS SCHOOL OF GERONTO | $2,500,000 |
| THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION | $1,550,000 |
| PA ALLIANCE FOUNDATION | $1,240,000 |
| THE RAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER | $1,125,000 |
| STATE DEMOCRACY PROJECT | $1,120,000 |
| FOCUS FOR DEMOCRACY FUND | $1,100,000 |
| ACCELERATE CHANGE INC | $1,100,000 |
| EXCESSIVE WEALTH DISORDER INSTITUTE | $1,050,000 |
| AMALGAMATED FOUNDATION | $1,000,000 |
| CORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS | $991,250 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY | $750,000 |
| NORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC | $600,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND | $500,000 |
| THE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION | $450,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
117 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 98 since wound down; 25 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, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8.9M 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
- PAPA Alliance Foundation3× · 2021–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +353%
- SOSOCIETY OF AMERICAN REGISTERED ARCHITECTS EDUCATION FUND INC2× · 2021–2022 · $1.3M · revenue +170%
STATE DEMOCRACY PROJECT2× · 2022–2024 · $1.2M · revenue ×26
Funded once
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INCone grant, 2022 · $3.0M · revenue -4%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF RHODE ISLANDone grant, 2021 · $2.1M
- FGFLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $1.5M
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Organizing Empowerment Fund Inc and the most unlike its peers is Society of American Registered Architects Education Fund 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 26 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.4% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
227 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. 227 of the 289 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds EXCESSIVE WEALTH DISORDER INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds WORKING AMERICA EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds PA Alliance Foundation ↗
- Who funds PROTEUS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF AMERICAN REGISTERED ARCHITECTS EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds STATE DEMOCRACY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Solidaire Network Inc ↗
- Who funds FOCUS FOR DEMOCRACY FUND ↗
- Who funds ACCELERATE CHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds NORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds CORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS ↗
- Who funds WORKMONEY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEO Philanthropy Inc ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds TESSERACT RESEARCH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ↗
- Who funds Fair Elections Center ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES ↗
- Who funds HOPEWELL FUND ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND ↗
- Who funds University of San Francisco ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Verified Voting Foundation ↗
- Who funds BETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE ON TAXATION AND ECONOMIC POLICY ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds IMAGINE NORTH CAROLINA FIRST ↗
- Who funds School of the Arts Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds TEXAS FREEDOM NETWORK EDUCATION FUND ↗
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: NEO Philanthropy Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Hopewell Fund · New Venture Fund · Tides Foundation · Windward Fund · The San Francisco Foundation · Marguerite Casey Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc · Rockefeller Family Fund Inc · Impactassetsinc
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 Leonard & Sophie Davis Fund 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.
- National Safe Boating Council Inc — 61% of income from government
- Coalition of Communities of Color — 15% of income from government
- Community Catalyst Inc — 15% of income from government
- Casa Inc — 8% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of South Florida and the Treasure Coast Inc — 6% of income from government
- Asian Community Development Corporation — 2% of income from government
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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