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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 FY2024still arriving
94
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$6.1M
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, FY2020 to 2024.

Philanthropy$74MArts & Culture$53MInternational$36MReligion$35MCommunity Improvement$34MEducation$17MScience & Tech$9.3MEnvironment$7.9MOther$0
02FY2024 · 94 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k8 grants · $197k
  • $50k–250k29 grants · $3.1M
  • $250k+57 grants · $56M
$300,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$1.1B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Jewish Federation of Detroit$6,090,000
Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan$5,000,000
American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science Inc$3,000,000
AFSNC Inc$2,500,000
Jewish Federation of Detroit$2,350,000
Jerusalem Botanical Gardens$2,000,000
Holocaust Memorial Center$2,000,000
Detroit Opera$2,000,000
OneTable$1,500,000
Sefaria Inc$1,500,000
Birthright Israel Foundation$1,500,000
Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan$1,250,000
Foundation For Detroit's Future$1,250,000
The Jewish People Policy Institute$1,200,000
Momentum Unlimited Inc$1,000,000
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 (FY20–23, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 21% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT: $500k → 8%Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit: $350k → 8%SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN COMMUNITY ALLIANCE INC: $100k → 21%DETROIT POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC: $130k → 21%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

IL
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
CA
VA
MD
DC
GA
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 23% of William Davidson Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

William Davidson Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 21% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$205M · 90 repeat orgs$24M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.

90 repeat relationships: 54 still active in FY2024, 36 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

90
32

Total granted

$205M
$17M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+22%

Still filing today

80%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6.7M 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
Arts & CultureCommunity ImprovementInternationalEducationReligionPhilanthropyOther
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

  • AI
    AFSNC INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $12M · revenue +70% · 50% of their budget
  • DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $12M · revenue +36%
  • DO
    DETROIT OPERA
    4× · 2021–2024 · $9.0M · revenue +68%

Funded once

  • TC
    The Company for the Reconstruction and Development of the Jewish Quarter
    one grant, 2023 · $4.2M
  • HM
    Holocaust Memorial Center DBA Holocaust Memorial CTR Zekelman Family Campus
    one grant, 2023 · $3.0M
  • TC
    The Company for the Reconstruction and Development of the Jewish Quarter in
    one grant, 2022 · $1.5M
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
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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2
The Jewish Fund

The jewish fund is organized and operates exclusively for charitable, educational, and religious purposes. the fund's primary activities are: supporting a jewish health care mission in the greater detroit area and michigan; promotion of…

Philanthropy
3
The Israel Innovation Fund Inc

Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.

Arts & Culture
4
Michigan Israel Business Accelerator

Accelerating michigan's economic growth, one israeli innovation at a time.

Community Improvement
5
Detroit Jews for Justice

Djj advances racial and economic justice by developing metro detroit jews as community organizers who fight for transformative policy change in deep partnership with neighbors

Civil Rights
6
Minneapolis Jewish Federation

Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.

Philanthropy
7
The Israel Institute Inc

The israel institute, inc. (the institute) enhances knowledge about modern israel by ensuring that more students have access to courses about israel during their time on campus.

International
8
Jewish Voice Ministries Intl

To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…

—
9
Jewish Electorate Institute

The jewish electorate institute (jei) is an independent, non-partisan 501(c)(3) organization that surveys, interprets, reports, and educates the public about the perspectives, voting behaviors, and motivations of the american jewish…

Civil Rights
10
Jewish Federation Council of Greater La

Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…

Philanthropy
11
Jewish Graduate Student Initiative

To support jewish life on graduate school campuses and to connect jewish graduate students, alumni, and executives to their heritage and the greater jewish community.

Education
12
Jewish Federation of Greater Ann Arbor

The federation provides and inspires philanthropic leadership and community-building to nurture a strong, engaged, connected, vibrant, and enduring jewish community locally, in israel, and around the world.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Detroit; the most unlike its peers is Wexner Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

112 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. 112 of the 141 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.

15
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
111/112
Grantees still filing
76/112
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT: $30,025,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF DETR…COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN: $17,705,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR …UNITED JEWISH FOUNDATION: $6,445,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH FOUNDATIONTHE SCHECHTER INSTITUTES INC: $5,900,000 · PhilanthropyTHE SCHECHTER INSTITUTES …+9 more: $5,208,647 · Philanthropy+9 moreAFSNC INC: $12,000,000 · InternationalAFSNC INCAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC: $9,000,000 · InternationalAMERICAN COMMITTEE FO…BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $5,580,000 · InternationalBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOU…AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $5,000,000 · InternationalAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCA…WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY: $4,625,000 · InternationalWASHINGTON INSTITUTE …THE IDI FOUNDATION INC FKA AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEMOC: $4,520,863 · InternationalTHE IDI FOUNDATION IN…THE SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE OF NORTH AMERICA: $4,000,000 · InternationalTHE SHALOM HARTMAN IN…THE GESHER FOUNDATION INC: $2,425,000 · InternationalThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $2,400,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF ELNET: $1,900,000 · International+6 more: $2,430,000 · InternationalWEXNER FOUNDATION: $5,340,900 · OtherWEXNER FOUNDATIONJEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF AMERICA: $4,750,000 · OtherJEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINAR…The Company for the Reconstruction and Development of the Jewish Quarter: $4,157,500 · OtherThe Company for the Recons…Holocaust Memorial Center DBA Holocaust Memorial CTR Zekelman Family Campus: $3,000,000 · OtherCONGREGATION SHAAREY ZEDEK: $2,815,000 · OtherHAZON INC: $2,800,000 · OtherAmerican Friends of Beit Hatfutsot - The Museum of the Jewish People: $2,750,000 · OtherThe Jewish People Policy Institute: $2,500,000 · OtherMECHON HADAR: $2,250,000 · OtherTHE HAROLD GRINSPOON FOUNDATION: $2,250,000 · OtherDETROIT RIVERFRONT CONSERVANCY INC: $4,500,000 · OtherDETROIT RIVERFRONT CONSERV…+45 more: $28,914,743 · Other+45 moreDETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $11,515,000 · Arts & CultureDETROIT SYMPHONY O…DETROIT OPERA: $9,000,000 · Arts & CultureDETROIT OPERATHE FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL ANTIQUITIES AUTHORITY INC: $7,221,772 · Arts & CultureTHE FRIENDS OF THE…THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $6,150,000 · Arts & CultureTHE DETROIT INSTIT…AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM: $5,425,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN FRIENDS O…HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER INC: $2,000,000 · Arts & Culture+11 more: $4,375,000 · Arts & Culture+11 moreFOUNDATION FOR DETROIT'S FUTURE: $6,250,000 · Community ImprovementFOUNDATIO…MIDTOWN DETROIT INC: $3,140,000 · Community ImprovementMIDTOWN D…VENTURE FOR AMERICA INC: $2,315,000 · Community ImprovementVENTURE F…WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY PARK IN THE CITY OF DETROIT: $2,145,000 · Community ImprovementWAYNE STA…ENDEAVOR DETROIT: $1,645,000 · Community ImprovementENDEAVOR …INVEST DETROIT FOUNDATION: $1,500,000 · Community ImprovementINVEST DE…GLOBAL DETROIT: $1,377,500 · Community ImprovementGLOBAL DE…UPSTART BAY AREA: $1,225,000 · Community ImprovementDETROIT REGIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION: $1,025,000 · Community ImprovementREPAIR THE WORLD: $925,000 · Community Improvement+7 more: $3,565,000 · Community Improvement+7 moreMOMENTUM UNLIMITED INC: $4,500,000 · ReligionONETABLE INC: $3,800,000 · ReligionHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $3,010,000 · ReligionCONGREGATION B'NAI B'RITH HILLEL: $1,650,000 · ReligionREBOOT INC: $1,136,198 · ReligionCHABAD ON CAMPUS INTERNATIONAL INC: $1,000,000 · Religion+5 more: $1,440,000 · ReligionSEFARIA INC: $5,600,000 · EducationHILLEL DAY SCHOOL OF METRO DETROIT: $3,204,238 · EducationNLI USA INC: $1,250,000 · EducationINDUSTRIAL SEWING AND INNOVATION CENTER: $1,200,000 · EducationJEAN AND SAMUEL FRANKEL JEWISH ACADEMY OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT: $675,000 · Education+6 more: $1,680,000 · Education
Philanthropy$65,283,647International$53,880,863Other$66,028,143Arts & Culture$45,686,772Community Improvement$25,112,500Religion$16,536,198Education$13,609,238

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 DETROIT: $30,025,000 over 5y, 14% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN: $17,705,000 over 5y, 5.2% of budgetAFSNC INC: $12,000,000 over 5y, 50% of budgetDETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $11,515,000 over 5y, 14% of budgetDETROIT OPERA: $9,000,000 over 4y, 17% of budgetAMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC: $9,000,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetTHE FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL ANTIQUITIES AUTHORITY INC: $7,221,772 over 3y, 83% of budgetUNITED JEWISH FOUNDATION: $6,445,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR DETROIT'S FUTURE: $6,250,000 over 5y, 7.5% of budgetTHE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS: $6,150,000 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetTHE SCHECHTER INSTITUTES INC: $5,900,000 over 5y, 31% of budgetSEFARIA INC: $5,600,000 over 4y, 41% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $5,580,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM: $5,425,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetWEXNER FOUNDATION: $5,340,900 over 5y, 13% of budgetAMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $5,000,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY: $4,625,000 over 5y, 5.1% of budgetTHE IDI FOUNDATION INC FKA AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEMOC: $4,520,863 over 5y, 15% of budgetMOMENTUM UNLIMITED INC: $4,500,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetDETROIT RIVERFRONT CONSERVANCY INC: $4,500,000 over 5y, 8.6% of budgetTHE SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE OF NORTH AMERICA: $4,000,000 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetONETABLE INC: $3,800,000 over 5y, 16% of budgetHILLEL DAY SCHOOL OF METRO DETROIT: $3,204,238 over 4y, 9.1% of budgetMIDTOWN DETROIT INC: $3,140,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $3,010,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetHAZON INC: $2,800,000 over 3y, 67% of budgetTHE GESHER FOUNDATION INC: $2,425,000 over 5y, 53% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $2,400,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetVENTURE FOR AMERICA INC: $2,315,000 over 5y, 16% of budgetTHE HAROLD GRINSPOON FOUNDATION: $2,250,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetEASTERN MARKET CORPORATION: $2,160,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetWAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY PARK IN THE CITY OF DETROIT: $2,145,000 over 4y, 10% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $2,100,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetONWARD ISRAEL USA INC: $2,020,000 over 2y, 39% of budgetHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL CENTER INC: $2,000,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetFRIENDS OF ELNET: $1,900,000 over 5y, 5.7% of budgetCONGREGATION B'NAI B'RITH HILLEL: $1,650,000 over 5y, 20% of budgetENDEAVOR DETROIT: $1,645,000 over 5y, 46% of budgetFRIENDS OF BEZALEL ACADEMY OF ARTS AND DESIGNS INC: $1,500,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetINVEST DETROIT FOUNDATION: $1,500,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetMOTOWN HISTORICAL MUSUEM INC: $1,500,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetGLOBAL DETROIT: $1,377,500 over 3y, 25% of budgetNLI USA INC: $1,250,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetUPSTART BAY AREA: $1,225,000 over 4y, 7.6% of budgetINDUSTRIAL SEWING AND INNOVATION CENTER: $1,200,000 over 3y, 41% of budgetREBOOT INC: $1,136,198 over 5y, 9.9% of budgetHENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM: $1,063,611 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK: $1,051,447 over 5y, 4.3% 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 JEWISH FEDERATION OF DETROIT ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN ↗
  • Who funds AFSNC INC ↗
  • Who funds DETROIT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
  • Who funds DETROIT OPERA ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL ANTIQUITIES AUTHORITY INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED JEWISH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR DETROIT'S FUTURE ↗
  • Who funds THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS ↗
  • Who funds THE SCHECHTER INSTITUTES INC ↗
  • Who funds SEFARIA INC ↗
  • Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds WEXNER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY ↗
  • Who funds THE IDI FOUNDATION INC FKA AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEMOC ↗
  • Who funds MOMENTUM UNLIMITED INC ↗
  • Who funds DETROIT RIVERFRONT CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE SHALOM HARTMAN INSTITUTE OF NORTH AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds ONETABLE INC ↗
  • Who funds HILLEL DAY SCHOOL OF METRO DETROIT ↗
  • Who funds MIDTOWN DETROIT INC ↗
  • Who funds HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE ↗
  • Who funds HAZON INC ↗
  • Who funds THE GESHER FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
  • Who funds VENTURE FOR AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE HAROLD GRINSPOON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds EASTERN MARKET CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY PARK IN THE CITY OF DETROIT ↗

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.

DTE Energy FoundationCommunity Foundation …Hudson-Webber Foundat…The Ralph C Wilson Jr…The Kresge FoundationFord PhilanthropyThe Shimon Ben Joseph…The Fred & Barbara Er…The Eugene Applebaum …The Gilbert Family Fo…United Jewish Foundat…Max M & Marjorie S Fi…
DTE Energy FoundationMI58.1× affinity29 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Adamah Inc: 10% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
22report 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
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to William Davidson Foundation?

Find your warmest path to William Davidson Foundation 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 141 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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