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The Ronald and Joan David Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Ronald and Joan David Foundation Inc

Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$61k
Granted FY2020
45
Grants FY2020
7
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2020.

Health$53kFood & Nutrition$33kReligion$19kHuman Services$18kPhilanthropy$16kCivil Rights$11kInternational$11kRecreation & Sports$9kOther$0
02FY2020 · 45 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF ROCKLAND$5,000
BIKUR CHOLIM OF ROCKLAND COUNTY$5,000
AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE$2,500
STANLEY M ISAACS NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER$2,500
CITYMEALS ON WHEELS$2,500
MEALS ON WHEELS-ROCKLAND COUNTY$2,500
ENGLEWOOD HEALTH FOUNDATION$2,500
CONGREGATION SHEARITH ISRAEL$2,175
COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF NEW JERSEY$2,000
CHILD MIND INSTITUTE$2,000
PEOPLE TO PEOPLE$2,000
FOOD BANK OF THE HUDSON VALLEY$2,000
MAZON$2,000
THE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION FOR FORT LEE$2,000
DOROT$2,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY18–20, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 74% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE SEEING EYE: $2k → 4%JEFFS PLACE: $500 → 8%THE SEEING EYE: $1k → 4%JEFFS PLACE: $500 → 8%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $3k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $250 → 14%UNITED HOSPICE OF ROCKLAND COUNTY: $1k → 14%UNITED HOSPICE OF ROCKLAND COUNTY: $600 → 14%DOROT: $4k → 17%DOROT: $2k → 17%DOROT: $2k → 17%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

ME
IL
NY
MA
OH
NJ
VA
DC
GA
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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$143k · 36 repeat orgs$28k to everyone else

36 repeat relationships: 31 still active in FY2020, 5 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
15

Total granted

$143k
$16k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+79%

Still filing today

69%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20
HealthHuman ServicesFood & NutritionEnvironmentCivil RightsInternationalOther
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

  • FRESH AIR FUND
    3× · 2018–2020 · $9k · revenue +34%
  • HF
    HELP FROM PEOPLE TO PEOPLE INC
    3× · 2018–2020 · $8k · revenue +31%
  • DI
    DOROT INC
    3× · 2018–2020 · $7k · revenue +15%

Funded once

  • LS
    LEADERSHIP SOCIETY
    one grant, 2019 · $3k
  • RS
    RETT SYNDROME
    one grant, 2019 · $3k
  • AL
    ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUEgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue +47%
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
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
2
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
3
Food Allergy Science Initiative Inc

To accelerate the development of breakthrough discoveries that will transform the lives of people living with food allergies.

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4
City Harvest Inc

To end hunger in communities throughout new york city. (see schedule o)to end hunger in communities throughout new york city. we do this through food rescue and distribution, education, and other practical, innovative solutions.

Food & Nutrition
5
Long Island Jewish Medical Center

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…

Health
6
New York Blood Center Inc

As one of the most preeminent and comprehensive blood centers in theworld, nybc operates under a four-part mission. for more information,see sch. o and part iii, 4a-c.

Health
7
Food Bank Association of New York State

The mission of feeding new york state is to lead a unified effort for a hunger-free state of new york. the mission of food banking is to obtain food and deliver it to emergency food programs. feeding new york state works to end hunger by…

Food & Nutrition
8
Jewish Board of Family & Children's Services Inc

To empower new yorkers, providing integrated mental health and social services with compassion and expertise.

Human Services
9
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
10
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
11
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.

Health
12
The New York and Presbyterian Hospital

To be a leader in the provision of world class patient care, teaching, research, and service to local, state, national, and international communities. newyork-presbyterian hospital is one of the nation's most comprehensive, integrated…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is God's Love We Deliver Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Charitable Foundation for Ft Lee 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

39 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 39 of the 66 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/39
Grantees still filing
31/39
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BIKUR CHOLIM OF ROCKLAND COUNTY INC: $15,000 · OtherBIKUR CHOLIM OF ROCKLAND COUNTY INCMEALS ON WHEELS-ROCKLAND COUNTY: $6,000 · OtherMEALS ON WHEELS-ROCKLAND COUNTYSTANLEY M ISAACS NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $6,000 · OtherSTANLEY M ISAACS NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INCMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $6,000 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTERMAZON: $5,000 · OtherMAZONCONGREGATION SHEARITH ISRAEL: $4,280 · OtherLIGHTHOUSE GUILD: $4,000 · OtherMet Council Inc: $3,500 · OtherFRESH AIR FUND: $8,500 · OtherFRESH AIR FUND+29 more: $28,004 · Other+29 moreBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $6,500 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1DCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC: $5,500 · HealthCHILD MIND INSTIT…RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF NEW YORK INC: $4,000 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD H…FOUNTAIN HOUSE INC: $3,600 · HealthFOUNTAIN HOUSE IN…ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $3,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEA…BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $2,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNIT…AUTISM SPEAKS INC: $2,000 · HealthAUTISM SPEAKS INCENGLEWOOD HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER: $1,000 · HealthJawonio Foundation Inc: $1,000 · Health+2 more: $1,100 · HealthCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc: $6,000 · Food & NutritionCommunity Foo…REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC: $5,000 · Food & NutritionREGIONAL FOOD…GOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC: $4,500 · Food & NutritionGOD'S LOVE WE…TABLE TO TABLE INC: $4,412 · Food & NutritionTABLE TO TABL…CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $2,500 · Food & NutritionCITYMEALS-ON-…DOROT INC: $7,000 · Human ServicesDOROT INCTHE SEEING EYE INC: $3,000 · Human ServicesTHE SEEIN…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $2,750 · Human ServicesAmerican …UNITED HOSPICE INC: $1,700 · Human ServicesUNITED HO…Jeff's Place Children's Bereavement Center Inc: $1,000 · Human ServicesJeff's Pl…JEWISH FEDERATION OF ROCKLAND COUNTY: $11,600 · Community ImprovementTHE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION FOR FT LEE INC: $2,000 · Community ImprovementJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $6,000 · InternationalThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $5,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $525 · InternationalHELP FROM PEOPLE TO PEOPLE INC: $8,000 · Civil RightsANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $2,084 · Civil Rights
Other$86,284Health$29,700Food & Nutrition$22,412Human Services$15,450Community Improvement$13,600International$11,525Civil Rights$10,084

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 budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF ROCKLAND COUNTY: $11,600 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetFRESH AIR FUND: $8,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHELP FROM PEOPLE TO PEOPLE INC: $8,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDOROT INC: $7,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $6,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSTANLEY M ISAACS NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetREGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTABLE TO TABLE INC: $4,412 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF NEW YORK INC: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNTAIN HOUSE INC: $3,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SEEING EYE INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $2,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $2,084 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION FOR FT LEE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetAUTISM SPEAKS INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED HOSPICE INC: $1,700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOMENS FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY A NJ NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $1,500 over 2y, 8.1% of budgetINCARNATION CHILDREN'S CENTER: $1,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetENGLEWOOD HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJawonio Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJeff's Place Children's Bereavement Center Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $525 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAMI National: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPOLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS DOWN SYNDROME CONGRESS INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN: $196 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $145 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFORT LEE FIRE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $45 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.

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.

Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Pfizer Foundation…Vanguard Charitable E…Paypal Charitable Giv…Network for GoodNational Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Jpmorgan Chase FoundationNY10.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Ronald and Joan David Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ronald and Joan David Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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 Ronald and Joan David 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 66 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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