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Thomas R & Deborah a Davidson Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$500
Granted FY2023
1
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$500
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.

Health$1.9MHousing & Shelter$174kFood & Nutrition$165kEnvironment$100kHuman Services$83kEducation$55kInternational$47kPublic Safety & Disaster$45kOther$0
02FY2023 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$500
Median grant
1
States reached
$27k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DOGSMILE ADVENTURES$500
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–22, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE EMPOWERMENT PLAN: $11k → 21%COMMUNITY CANCER FUND: $1.0M → 12%MAYA HEALTH ALLIANCE: $10k → 9%THE EMPOWERMENT PLAN: $220 → 21%COMMUNITY CANCER FUND: $83k → 12%COMMUNITY CANCER FUND: $34k → 12%COMMUNITY CANCER FUND: $5k → 12%THE GIVING SPIRIT: $15k → 14%THE GIVING SPIRIT: $15k → 14%THE GIVING SPIRIT: $15k → 14%CHARITYWATER: $5k → 17%THE GIVING SPIRIT: $10k → 14%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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.8M · 28 repeat orgs$245k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +77% since the first grant, against +55% for the ones you funded once.

28 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2023, 27 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
51

Total granted

$1.8M
$245k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+77%
+55%

Still filing today

82%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
InternationalHealthHuman ServicesEnvironmentHousing & ShelterEducationOther

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

  • CC
    COMMUNITY CANCER FUND
    4× · 2017–2021 · $1.1M · revenue +57%
  • Feeding America
    4× · 2018–2021 · $80k · revenue +77%
  • SHARE OUR STRENGTH
    3× · 2019–2021 · $60k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • PA
    PEN AMERICAN CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue +61%
  • NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue +37%
  • AO
    ALL OUR KIDS INC
    one grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue -95%

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.

1
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
2
Waterorg

Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.

International
3
Oceana Inc

To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.

Environment
4
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
5
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
6
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
7
Global Greengrants Fund

Global greengrants fund seeds grassroots environmental action and social justice through small grants. we support change from the ground up by channeling donations to local projects and grassroots campaigns for environmental justice around…

Environment
8
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
9
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
10
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
11
The One Campaign

The ONE Campaign ("ONE") continued its work to educate and raise awareness among the public, media and policymakers around the world about the importance of official development assistance and international programs that (Continued on…

Unclassified
12
The Global FoodBanking Network

To nourish the world's hungry through uniting and advancing food banks.

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bob Woodruff Family Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Oakland Elizabeth House. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsHealth Access Advocacy and …Cancer Support ServicesAnimal Rescue and ShelterDomestic Violence ServicesPolicy Research and AdvocacyYouth Sports ProgramsCommunity Arts CentersFood Banks and PantriesSchool District FoundationsEnvironmental Conservation …
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 28 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%4%<5yr14%7%5–10yr19%27%10–20yr16%29%20–35yr13%22%35–55yr16%11%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%50%10–20yr16%9%20–35yr13%9%35–55yr16%30%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/62
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,503

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.

04the grantee network

59 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. 59 of the 82 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)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
58/59
Grantees still filing
46/59
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

COMMUNITY CANCER FUND — $1,130,700 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY CANCER FUNDTHE GIVING SPIRIT — $55,000 · Human Services+4 more — $31,095 · Human ServicesMAYO CLINIC — $750,000 · HealthMAYO CLINIC+7 more — $41,000 · HealthSHARE OUR STRENGTH — $60,000 · OtherSHARE OUR STRENGT…RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE — $30,000 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD H…Individual grant recipient — $22,500 · OtherRAINFOREST ALLIANCE INC — $20,000 · OtherHEARTS WITH HOPE FOUNDATION — $20,000 · OtherLIFEMOVES — $20,000 · OtherSCHOOL OF LEADERSHIP-AFGHANISTAN INC — $15,000 · OtherLAS LOMITAS EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $20,000 · Other10000 DEGREES — $20,000 · OtherWILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC — $20,000 · OtherPEN AMERICAN CENTER INC — $15,000 · OtherALL OUR KIDS INC — $15,000 · Other+38 more — $149,750 · Other+38 moreFeeding America — $80,000 · Food & NutritionBREAD FOR THE CITY INC — $15,000 · Food & NutritionWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $45,000 · InternationalUNIVERSAL LANGUAGE INC — $27,500 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $10,000 · InternationalGOOD360 — $5,000 · International+3 more — $5,250 · International350ORG — $35,000 · EnvironmentTHE CORAL REEF ALLIANCE — $20,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $15,000 · EnvironmentSAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE — $5,000 · EnvironmentNorthern Virginia Conservation Trust — $5,000 · EnvironmentVENICE COMMUNITY HOUSING CORPORATION — $35,000 · Housing & ShelterOakland Elizabeth House — $20,000 · Housing & ShelterRebuilding Together Peninsula — $15,000 · Housing & ShelterOPEN DOOR MINISTRIES OF HIGH POINT INC — $10,000 · Housing & Shelter
Human Services$1,216,795Health$791,000Other$427,250Food & Nutrition$95,000International$92,750Environment$80,000Housing & Shelter$80,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCOMMUNITY CANCER FUND — $1,130,700 over 4y, 25% of budgetMAYO CLINIC — $750,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America — $80,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH — $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GIVING SPIRIT — $55,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $45,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budget350ORG — $35,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVENICE COMMUNITY HOUSING CORPORATION — $35,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSAL LANGUAGE INC — $27,500 over 3y, 34% of budgetLAS LOMITAS EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budget10000 DEGREES — $20,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetRAINFOREST ALLIANCE INC — $20,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWILDLIFE CONSERVATION NETWORK INC — $20,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CORAL REEF ALLIANCE — $20,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetLIFEMOVES — $20,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOakland Elizabeth House — $20,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetPEN AMERICAN CENTER INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAD FOR THE CITY INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSCHOOL OF LEADERSHIP-AFGHANISTAN INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRebuilding Together Peninsula — $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION — $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EMPOWERMENT PLAN — $11,095 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWuqu Kawoq SA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPEN DOOR MINISTRIES OF HIGH POINT INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetREACH OUT AND READ INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINTEGRATIVE MEDICINE FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetReigning Grace Ranch — $7,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE DISCOVERY LAND COMPANY FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNorthern Virginia Conservation Trust — $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPALISADES ENRICHMENT PROGRAMS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGOOD360 — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOB WOODRUFF FAMILY FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GIVE AN HOUR NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCRISIS TEXT LINE INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRANDOM ACTS INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN FELINE RESCUE INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLittle People of America Inc — $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUnited States Association for UNHCR — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTILL KICKIN — $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREBECCA BENDER INITIATIVE — $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSanta Monica Group Theatre — $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCHRIS NORTON FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 1y, 1.7% 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.

California Community …Silicon Valley Commun…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…Network for GoodThe Bank of America C…Paypal Charitable Giv…
California Community FoundationCA12× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund

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 Thomas R & Deborah a Davidson 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Reach Out and Read Inc — 9% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

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 82 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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