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Donald and Eunice Dow Charitable Tr

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$38k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
7
Grants FY2025
6
Organizations funded FY2024
33%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 8
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$788k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Donald and Eunice Dow Charitable Tr funded were first-time grantees, receiving 57% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationPublic BenefitHuman ServicesCrime & LegalOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving7$38k43%
FY20246$33k33%
FY20238$48k75%
FY20226$63k50%
FY20214$38k50%
FY20204$41k75%
FY20198$39k38%
FY20186$36k50%
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$89kAnimals$85kEducation$80kRecreation & Sports$51kHousing & Shelter$26kPublic Benefit$15kHealth$13kPhilanthropy$5kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Dogs to Dog Tags Inc$83,360315%
Leader Dogs for the Blind$47,02940%
Hope House of Manitowoc County Inc$25,97726%
Missions of Honor Inc$15,00021%
Patriot Riders of America WI Chapter 2$10,000124%
Kan Cool for School Inc$10,0003n/a
Marquette University$5,00010%
Kansas State University$5,0001n/a
Lakeshore Technical College Foundation Inc$4,50020%
Friends of Manitowoc Public Library$4,0001n/a
Show all 13 grantees
All grantees of Donald and Eunice Dow Charitable Tr by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Dogs to Dog Tags Inc$83,360315%
Leader Dogs for the Blind$47,02940%
Hope House of Manitowoc County Inc$25,97726%
Missions of Honor Inc$15,00021%
Patriot Riders of America WI Chapter 2$10,000124%
Kan Cool for School Inc$10,0003n/a
Marquette University$5,00010%
Kansas State University$5,0001n/a
Lakeshore Technical College Foundation Inc$4,50020%
Friends of Manitowoc Public Library$4,0001n/a
St Norbert College Inc$2,00010%
Wisconsin Vest-A-Dog Inc$1,50011%
University of St Thomas$1,00010%

Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($155k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Donald and Eunice Dow Charitable Tr supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDogs to Dog Tags Inc: $83,360 over 3y, 15% of budgetLeader Dogs for the Blind: $47,029 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHope House of Manitowoc County Inc: $25,977 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetMissions of Honor Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetPatriot Riders of America WI Chapter 2: $10,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetMarquette University: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLakeshore Technical College Foundation Inc: $4,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSt Norbert College Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWisconsin Vest-A-Dog Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetUniversity of St Thomas: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.

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.

Eunice V Dow Foundation TrustMN13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eunice V Dow Foundation Trust · Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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About Donald and Eunice Dow Charitable Tr

How much does Donald and Eunice Dow Charitable Tr give?
Donald and Eunice Dow Charitable Tr reported 7 grants totaling $38,108 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 8 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Donald and Eunice Dow Charitable Tr fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (24%), Animals (23%), Education (21%).
Who are Donald and Eunice Dow Charitable Tr's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Dogs to Dog Tags Inc ($83k), Leader Dogs for the Blind ($47k), Hope House of Manitowoc County Inc ($26k).
Does Donald and Eunice Dow Charitable Tr fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Donald and Eunice Dow Charitable Tr accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Donald and Eunice Dow Charitable Tr?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Eunice V Dow Foundation Trust, Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region Inc, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Donald and Eunice Dow Charitable Tr based?
Donald and Eunice Dow Charitable Tr is based in WI.

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 31 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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