Michigan · Private foundation
Dow Company Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $20M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 221
- Grants FY2024
- 201
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 31%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $2,356,233
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 218
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 23
- Total assets, FY2024
- $250M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 31% of the organizations Dow Company Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.9M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 216 | $17M | 25% |
| FY2023 | 201 | $19M | 31% |
| FY2022 | 218 | $18M | 35% |
| FY2021 | 213 | $13M | 100% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $18M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Midland Center for the Arts Inc | $7,000,000 | 4 | 21% |
| Mymichigan Health Foundation | $4,000,000 | 3 | 22% |
| United Way of Midland County | $2,665,000 | 4 | 14% |
| Regents of the University of Michigan | $1,633,334 | 1 | n/a |
| The Manufacturing Institute | $1,500,000 | 2 | 11% |
| Oneten Coalition Inc | $1,500,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Iron Belle Trail Fund | $1,000,000 | 3 | 39% |
| United Way of Brazoria County | $880,000 | 4 | 9% |
| United Way of St Charles | $780,500 | 4 | 10% |
| Templearts | $775,000 | 2 | 10% |
Show all 227 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 181 recipients with no EIN on record ($52M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Dow Company Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 9 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 199 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
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About Dow Company Foundation
- How much does Dow Company Foundation give?
- Dow Company Foundation reported 221 grants totaling $19,610,484 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 218 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Dow Company Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (29%), Education (29%), Philanthropy (11%).
- Who are Dow Company Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Midland Center for the Arts Inc ($7.0M), Mymichigan Health Foundation ($4.0M), United Way of Midland County ($2.7M).
- Does Dow Company Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Dow Company Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Dow Company Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Midland Area Community Foundation, Consumers Energy Foundation, Saginaw Community Foundation.
- Where is Dow Company Foundation based?
- Dow Company Foundation is based in MI.
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