The Marvin H Davidson Foundation Inc
Vero Beach, FL · EIN 13-6217756. Reported 129 grants totalling $10.6M to 64 recipients across tax years 2020-2024. This foundation told the IRS it does not accept unsolicited requests: it contributes only to organizations it selects itself.
Does this foundation accept applications?
No -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation to check a box if it "only makes contributions to preselected charitable organizations and does not accept unsolicited requests for funds". The Marvin H Davidson Foundation Inc checked it on its most recent filing, as 78% of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered did. An unsolicited request is unlikely to go anywhere.
Organizations it funds that make grants of their own
4 of the organizations The Marvin H Davidson Foundation Inc funded make grants themselves, and it reported 8 grants totalling $196,000 to them. That is 10% of the $2,005,925 of its giving we could match to a registered organization. Each is classified by the IRS as a philanthropy or grantmaking organization, reported grants to at least 25 organizations of its own, and has at least 10 funders behind it.
All of them file Form 990, which never asks whether an organization funds only groups it picks, so there is no answer on record either way.
What that does not mean. It does not mean an application to any of them reaches this foundation's money. A private foundation's grant to a community foundation or a federated campaign is often a donor-advised fund or a gift designated for a purpose the foundation chose, and has nothing to do with any open programme the receiving organization runs. Its return's purpose text sometimes names a family fund or a designated purpose, which is the plainest case of money no applicant can reach; where it names none, neither return says which. The list is who this foundation paid that also makes grants. Whether any of them would fund you is a question for its own page.
| Grantmaker | Kind | State | Received | Grants | Years | Last | Only funds organizations it picks? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Robin Hood Foundation | federated giving programme | New York | $80,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 | Its form does not ask |
| Quail Valley Charities Inc | community foundation | Florida | $76,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 | Its form does not ask |
| Town of Palm Beach United Way Inc | federated giving programme | Florida | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 | Its form does not ask |
| Community Foundation for Nantucket | community foundation | Massachusetts | $15,000 | 2 | 1 | 2020 | Its form does not ask |
A floor, not a full list. A grantmaker appears here only where this foundation's return named it clearly enough for us to match the name to an EIN, which we manage for about two thirds of 990-PF grant rows, and only where that grantmaker has a page on this site. There may be more. Dollars here are summed by EIN across every spelling on its returns, so a figure can differ from the matching row in the full list below, which groups names as written. And the IRS classification cannot tell a grantmaker from a funders' association or a donor-advised fund sponsor, so a payment to one of these may be dues or an account rather than support for a grants programme.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $25,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $15,000 and $50,000; the smallest was $2,500 and the largest $5,168,087.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marvin Davidson Family Foundation Inc | New York, NY | $5,168,087 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| St Jude Childrens Hospital | Albany, NY | $625,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Massashusetts General Hospital Dept of Psychiatry | Boston, MA | $535,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, MI | $525,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center | New York, NY | $425,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Stone Ridge Foundation | Altavista, VA | $205,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Jasa | New York, NY | $200,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Jasa's Covid-19 Emergency Fund | New York, NY | $200,000 | 2 | 1 | 2020 |
| Hss Hospital for Special Surgery | New York, NY | $175,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Greenwich Hospital | Greenwich, CT | $145,000 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Nantucket Cottage Hospital | Nantucket, MA | $145,000 | 6 | 5 | 2024 |
| Hope for Depression Research Foundation | New York, NY | $125,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Rye Presbyterian Nursery School Sally M Davidson Memorial | Rye, NY | $110,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Hackley School | Tarrytown, NY | $105,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Harvard Business School | Boston, MA | $105,000 | 3 | 2 | 2021 |
| University of Chicago Celiac Disease Center | Chicago, IL | $105,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Leda | New York, NY | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Marjorie E Korff Pact Program at the Massachusetts General Hospital | Boston, MA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Portchester Carver Center | Port Chester, NY | $95,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Museum of the City of Ny | New York, NY | $85,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution | Falmouth, MA | $85,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Camp Boggy Creek | Eustis, FL | $80,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Quail Valley Charities | Vero Beach, FL | $76,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Rye Country Day School | Rye, NY | $60,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| University of Miami Bascom Palmer Eye Institute | Miami, FL | $60,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Rye Presbyterian Church | Rye, NY | $52,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Cranbrook School | Bloomfield Hills, MI | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Detroit Goodfellows | Detroit, MI | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| God's Love We Deliver Inc | New York, NY | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Museum City of New York | New York, NY | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Robin Hood Foundation | New York, NY | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Publicolor | New York, NY | $45,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| St Jude Children's Hospital | Albany, NY | $45,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Brain & Behavior Research Foundation | New York, NY | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Cohen Veterans Networkinc | Stamford, CT | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| East Side House Inc | Bronx, NY | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Robin Hood | New York, NY | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Trevor Project Inc | West Hollywood, CA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| American Cancer Society Hope Lodge | Baltimore, MD | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Cranbrook Upper School 1953 | Bloomfield Hills, MI | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Fiver Children's Foundation | New York, NY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| HB5 Fund | Austin, TX | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Pact Program | Bonghamton, NY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Port Chester Carver Center | Port Chester, NY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Town of Palm Beach United Way | Palm Beach, FL | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Fountain House Inc | New York, NY | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Friends of the Ruin Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Palm Beach Island Hospice Foundation | Palm Beach, FL | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Palm Beach County | West Palm Beach, FL | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Community Foundation for Nantucket | Nantucket, MA | $15,000 | 2 | 1 | 2020 |
| Nmdp Foundation | Minneapolis, MN | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Old Newsboys Goodfellow Fund of Detroit Michigan | Detroit, MI | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Make-a-Wish Foundation of Ct Inc | Trumbull, CT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| South Florida PBS | Boynton Beach, FL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| The Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach | Palm Beach, FL | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Hillary Benson New York Philanthropy | New York, NY | $6,500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| The Nantucket Historical Association | Nantucket, MA | $5,425 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Bascom Palmer Eye Institute | Palm Beach, FL | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Foundation House | Portland, ME | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Hopital Albert Schweitzer Haiti | Pittsburgh, PA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Society of Msk | New York, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| The Academy for Teachers | New York, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| The Fund for Park Avenue | New York, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Coast Guard Foundation | Stonington, CT | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
24 of 64 (38%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold.
Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 92%, across 4 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is unusually consistent. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one, and this foundation told the IRS it does not.
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 69 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 32 | $814,425 | $10,000 |
| 2021 | 17 | $1,150,000 | $50,000 |
| 2022 | 20 | $1,063,000 | $25,000 |
| 2023 | 23 | $1,025,000 | $25,000 |
| 2024 | 37 | $6,508,087 | $30,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Where its money goes
76% of its giving went to organizations in New York.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more. Unlike this foundation, none of them is on record as funding only organizations it picks, and each page says what its filings show.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from The Marvin H Davidson Foundation Inc's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.
Address of record on the latest return: 2350 S Highway A1A, Vero Beach, FL, 32963. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS.
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