· Private foundation
Charles Downey Fam Fdn
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $50k–250k3 grants · $214k
- $250k+1 grant · $653k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ABIDE NETWORK | $652,600 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION | $89,370 |
| OMAHA COMMUNITY FDN (OCF) | $75,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE | $50,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 5% of Charles Downey Fam Fdn’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
6 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ANABIDE NETWORK INC7× · 2017–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +69%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION3× · 2023–2025 · $268k · revenue +16%
- YLYOUNG LIFE5× · 2017–2025 · $190k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- HCHOPE CENTER FOR KIDS OMAHAone grant, 2021 · $2k
- HCHOPE CENTER FOR KIDS INCone grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue -12%
- PAPHOENIX ACADEMYone grant, 2019 · $1k
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.
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.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
The international leadership institute (ili) changes history by accelerating the spread of the gospel through training and mobilizing leaders of leaders to reach their nations. ili accomplishes this purpose through cutting edge leadership…
The Foundation was created to assist in the promotion, development and enhancement of the financial resources for Washburn University of Topeka, as well as to receive and hold in trust any assets given in benefit of the University.
Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.
Building enduring relationships that maximize advocacy and philanthropy to support North Dakota State University.
Engages, equips and empowers learners to explore their vocations, fulfill their potential and serve the world.
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.
Mid-america christian university prepares students through a wesleyan perspective to create, collaborate, and innovate to solve local and global problems for the glory of god through jesus christ and the good of society.
Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.
Northeastern seminary strives to be a vibrant source for christian theological formation whose students are formed in a biblical vision of gracious christianity and impact wholeness to the world in an expansive array of vocations and…
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 13 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 ABIDE NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds Omaha Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds Luis Palau Association ↗
- Who funds HOPE CENTER FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds New Mexico State Univ Fdn Inc ↗
- Who funds Ligonier Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds MISSION MSA ↗
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: The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Charles Downey Fam Fdn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Charles Downey Fam Fdn. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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