· Private foundation
Dow Company Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k105 grants · $435k
- $10k–50k81 grants · $1.5M
- $50k–250k23 grants · $3.0M
- $250k+12 grants · $15M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION | $2,356,233 |
| MIDLAND CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $2,250,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,175,000 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNO | $2,000,000 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY | $1,633,334 |
| MYMICHIGAN HEALTH FOUNDATION | $1,340,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $958,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF MIDLAND COUNTY | $600,000 |
| FOR INSPIRATION AND RECOGNITIO | $500,000 |
| TEACH FOR ALL INC | $400,000 |
| TEMPLEARTS | $300,000 |
| CATALYST INC | $250,000 |
| SAGINAW COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $215,000 |
| LOUISIANA FOUNDATION FOR | $204,200 |
| MICHIGAN HEALTH IMPROVEMENT | $200,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $4.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 23% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +12% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
211 repeat relationships — 161 still active in FY2024, 50 since wound down; 55 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.2M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- MCMidland Center for the Arts Inc4× · 2021–2024 · $7.0M · revenue +57%
- TFTEACH FOR ALL INC2× · 2021–2024 · $700k · revenue +55%
- GLGREAT LAKES BAY FOUNDATION4× · 2021–2024 · $655k · revenue +21% · 39% of their budget
Funded once
- SVSee Vendor Report Attached to Returnone grant, 2020 · $18M
- OCONETEN COALITION INCone grant, 2023 · $1.5M · revenue -53%
- TSTHE ST BERNARD PROJECT INCone grant, 2022 · $175k · revenue -25%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…
United way's mission is to end intergenerational poverty in our region by harnessing, leveraging and strategically investing the collective power of donors, advocates and volunteers, to help individuals and families break the cycle of…
The tulsa area united way unites people and resources to improve lives and strengthen our communities.
Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…
United way of central ohio is the local organization that harnesses the power of communities working together - people, nonprofits, businesses and government - to create a stronger, more equitable central ohio. see schedule o.we do this…
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…
Informing and educating the public and decision makers about environmental issues.
The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…
We identify shared opportunities and core challenges and offer solutions to the region's most critical issues including skills and talent, regional mobility, infrastructure and inclusive economic growth.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
We protect consumers of behavior analysis services by systematically establishing, promoting, and disseminating professional standards.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Orion Communities Inc and the most unlike its peers is Gmz Education and Development Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
207 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 207 of the 416 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Midland Center for the Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds MYMICHIGAN HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
- Who funds United Way of Midland County ↗
- Who funds THE MANUFACTURING INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds ONETEN COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds Iron Belle Trail Fund ↗
- Who funds United Way of Brazoria County ↗
- Who funds United Way of St Charles ↗
- Who funds TEMPLEARTS ↗
- Who funds TEACH FOR ALL INC ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN HEALTH IMPROVEMENT ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds GREAT LAKES BAY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds Saginaw Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds CATALYST INC ↗
- Who funds MIDLAND BUSINESS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds TEAM RUBICON INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SAGINAW COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PRAIRIE VIEW A&M FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF BAY COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BRAZOSPORT CARES ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF ORANGE COUNTY INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Midland Area Community Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Saginaw Community Foundation · The Herbert H & Grace a Dow Foundation · Bierlein Companies Foundation · Bay Area Community Foundation · Allen E & Marie A Nickless Memorial Foundation · Wickson-Link Memorial Foundation · The Charles J Strosacker Foundation · Morley Foundation · Rollin M Gerstacker Foundation · Frank N Andersen Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Dow Company Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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