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The Marvin H Davidson Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Marvin H Davidson Foundation Inc

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.

$6.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
37
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$5.2M
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, FY2020 to 2024.

Philanthropy$5.3MHealth$3.3MEducation$455kHousing & Shelter$205kPublic Benefit$205kPublic Safety & Disaster$203kHuman Services$195kArts & Culture$185kOther$0
02FY2024 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k26 grants · $660k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $675k
  • $250k+1 grant · $5.2M
$30,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MARVIN DAVIDSON FAMILY FOUNDATION INC$5,168,087
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER$125,000
ST JUDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL$100,000
MASSASHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL DEPT OF PSYCHIATRY$100,000
HSS HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY$100,000
ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION$50,000
JASA$50,000
LEDA$50,000
HOPE FOR DEPRESSION RESEARCH FOUNDATION$50,000
GOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC$50,000
BRAIN & BEHAVIOR RESEARCH FOUNDATION$40,000
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI BASCOM PALMER EYE INSTITUTE$35,000
CAMP BOGGY CREEK$35,000
RYE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL$35,000
PORTCHESTER CARVER CENTER$35,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $120k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%PORTCHESTER CARVER CENTER: $35k → 9%PORTCHESTER CARVER CENTER: $25k → 9%PORT CHESTER CARVER CENTER: $25k → 9%PORTCHESTER CARVER CENTER: $20k → 9%PORTCHESTER CARVER CENTER: $15k → 9%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.

Which US states its grants reach

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MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
PA
CT
CA
VA
MD
TX
FL
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.

43%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.5M · 26 repeat orgs$6.1M to everyone else

26 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
21

Total granted

$4.5M
$599k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+97%

Still filing today

65%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 16% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.5M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationPhilanthropyArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentPublic BenefitOther
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

  • UO
    University of Michigan
    4× · 2021–2024 · $525k · revenue +96% · 62% of their budget
  • SR
    STONE RIDGE FOUNDATION NATIONAL CENTER FOR HEALTHY VETERANS
    3× · 2022–2024 · $205k · revenue +121%
  • GH
    GREENWICH HOSPITAL
    5× · 2020–2024 · $145k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • JC
    JASA'S COVID-19 EMERGENCY FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $200k
  • ME
    MARJORIE E KORFF PACT PROGRAM AT THE MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
  • MC
    MUSEUM CITY OF NEW YORK
    one grant, 2020 · $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.

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
University of New Haven

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…

Education
2
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
3
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
4
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
5
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
10
Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Connecticut Inc; the most unlike its peers is University of Miami. 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

35 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. 35 of the 60 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
35/35
Grantees still filing
26/35
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MARVIN DAVIDSON FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $5,168,087 · OtherMARVIN DAVIDSON FAMILY FOUNDATION INCST JUDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL: $670,000 · OtherST JUDE CHILDRENS HOSPITALMASSASHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL DEPT OF PSYCHIATRY: $535,000 · OtherMASSASHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL DEPT OF PSYCHIATRYUniversity of Michigan: $525,000 · OtherUniversity of MichiganMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $425,000 · Other+33 more: $1,573,925 · Other+33 moreGREENWICH HOSPITAL: $145,000 · HealthHOPE FOR DEPRESSION RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $125,000 · HealthUniversity of Chicago Medical Center: $105,000 · HealthHACKLEY SCHOOL: $105,000 · HealthTHE BOGGY CREEK GANG INC: $80,000 · HealthFOUNTAIN HOUSE INC: $20,000 · Health+1 more: $10,000 · HealthLEADERSHIP ENTERPRISE FOR A DIVERSE AMERICA: $100,000 · EducationRYE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $60,000 · EducationUniversity of Miami: $60,000 · EducationPUBLICOLOR INC: $45,000 · Education+1 more: $5,000 · EducationJASA CORPORATION: $200,000 · Community ImprovementOLD NEWSBOYS GOODFELLOW FUND OF DETROIT MICHIGAN: $65,000 · Community ImprovementROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $80,000 · PhilanthropyQUAIL VALLEY CHARITIES INC: $76,000 · PhilanthropyTown of Palm Beach United Way Inc: $25,000 · PhilanthropyNMDP FOUNDATION: $15,000 · PhilanthropyCommunity Foundation for Nantucket Inc: $15,000 · PhilanthropySTONE RIDGE FOUNDATION NATIONAL CENTER FOR HEALTHY VETERANS: $205,000 · Public Benefit+1 more: $2,500 · Public BenefitPORT CHESTER CARVER CENTER INC: $120,000 · Human Services
Other$8,897,012Health$590,000Education$270,000Community Improvement$265,000Philanthropy$211,000Public Benefit$207,500Human Services$120,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Michigan: $525,000 over 4y, 62% of budgetSTONE RIDGE FOUNDATION NATIONAL CENTER FOR HEALTHY VETERANS: $205,000 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetJASA CORPORATION: $200,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetGREENWICH HOSPITAL: $145,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE FOR DEPRESSION RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $125,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetPORT CHESTER CARVER CENTER INC: $120,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetUniversity of Chicago Medical Center: $105,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHACKLEY SCHOOL: $105,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLEADERSHIP ENTERPRISE FOR A DIVERSE AMERICA: $100,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetWOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION: $85,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $80,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOGGY CREEK GANG INC: $80,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetQUAIL VALLEY CHARITIES INC: $76,000 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetOLD NEWSBOYS GOODFELLOW FUND OF DETROIT MICHIGAN: $65,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetRYE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPUBLICOLOR INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEPRESSION: $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEAST SIDE HOUSE INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFIVER CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFOUNTAIN HOUSE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNMDP FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Foundation for Nantucket Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PBC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTH FLORIDA PBS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CONNECTICUT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION: $5,425 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGRANT FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ACADEMY FOR TEACHERS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFUND FOR PARK AVENUE NEW YORK INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds University of Michigan ↗
  • Who funds STONE RIDGE FOUNDATION NATIONAL CENTER FOR HEALTHY VETERANS ↗
  • Who funds JASA CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds GREENWICH HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds HOPE FOR DEPRESSION RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PORT CHESTER CARVER CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds University of Chicago Medical Center ↗
  • Who funds HACKLEY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds LEADERSHIP ENTERPRISE FOR A DIVERSE AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION ↗
  • Who funds ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE BOGGY CREEK GANG INC ↗
  • Who funds QUAIL VALLEY CHARITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds OLD NEWSBOYS GOODFELLOW FUND OF DETROIT MICHIGAN ↗
  • Who funds RYE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds University of Miami ↗
  • Who funds GOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC ↗
  • Who funds PUBLICOLOR INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEPRESSION ↗
  • Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds EAST SIDE HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds FIVER CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗

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.

Morgan Stanley Global…Jewish Communal FundGs Donor Advised Phil…The Ayco Charitable F…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Vanguard Charitable E…The Pfizer Foundation…National Philanthropi…Natl Christian Charit…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…
Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN13.3× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Marvin H Davidson Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Marvin H Davidson Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: 63% of income from government
  • Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc: 10% of income from government
  • University of Miami: 5% of income from government
  • Nantucket Historical Association: 1% of income from government
  • Greenwich Hospital: 0% of income from government
  • South Florida Pbs Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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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Find your warmest path to The Marvin H Davidson 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 60 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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