Michigan · Private foundation
William Davidson Foundation
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.
- $60M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 94
- Grants FY2024
- 67
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 15%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $300,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $6,090,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 67 to 80
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 10
- Total assets, FY2024
- $1.1B
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 15% of the organizations William Davidson Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9.1M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 68 | $42M | 21% |
| FY2023 | 67 | $43M | 15% |
| FY2022 | 80 | $52M | 21% |
| FY2021 | 71 | $47M | 25% |
| FY2020 | 77 | $45M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Afsnc Inc | $12,000,000 | 5 | 50% |
| Detroit Symphony Orchestra Inc | $11,515,000 | 5 | 14% |
| Detroit Opera | $9,000,000 | 4 | 17% |
| American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science Inc | $9,000,000 | 4 | 3% |
| The Friends of the Israel Antiquities Authority Inc | $7,221,772 | 3 | 83% |
| Foundation for Detroit's Future | $6,250,000 | 5 | 7% |
| The Detroit Institute of Arts | $6,150,000 | 5 | 4% |
| The Schechter Institutes Inc | $5,900,000 | 5 | 31% |
| Sefaria Inc | $5,600,000 | 4 | 41% |
| Birthright Israel Foundation | $5,580,000 | 4 | 2% |
Show all 113 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($28M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
William Davidson Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 15 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 106 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: DTE Energy Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Hudson-Webber Foundation · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · The Kresge Foundation · Ford Philanthropy · The Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation Dba Jim Joseph Foundation · The Fred & Barbara Erb Family Foundation · The Eugene Applebaum Family Foundation · The Gilbert Family Foundation · United Jewish Foundation · Max M & Marjorie S Fisher Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About William Davidson Foundation
- How much does William Davidson Foundation give?
- William Davidson Foundation reported 94 grants totaling $59,609,722 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 67 and 80 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does William Davidson Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (26%), Arts & Culture (19%), International (13%).
- Who are William Davidson Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Afsnc Inc ($12M), Detroit Symphony Orchestra Inc ($12M), Detroit Opera ($9.0M).
- Does William Davidson Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does William Davidson Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as William Davidson Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include DTE Energy Foundation, Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, Hudson-Webber Foundation.
- Where is William Davidson Foundation based?
- William Davidson Foundation is based in MI.
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