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.

Dow Company Foundation

Dow Company Foundation at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Private foundation

Dow Company Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$20M

Granted FY2024still arriving

221

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$2.4M

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$29MEducation$29MPhilanthropy$11MInternational$9.2MArts & Culture$8.1MEmployment$3.6MCommunity Improvement$1.9MHuman Services$1.5MOther$0

02FY2024 · 221 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k105 grants · $435k
$10k–50k81 grants · $1.5M
$50k–250k23 grants · $3.0M
$250k+12 grants · $15M

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$250M

Total assets

Largest grants
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
CONGRESSIONAL BLACK CAUCUS	$200,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$61M · 211 repeat orgs$25M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +13% since the first grant, against +8% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

211

142

Total granted

$61M

$23M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%

+8%

Still filing today

47%

49%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.2M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationEnvironmentPhilanthropyHealthArts & CultureOther

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.

Backed again, and grew

MC
Midland Center for the Arts Inc
4× · 2021–2024 · $7.0M · revenue +57%
TF
TEACH FOR ALL INC
2× · 2021–2024 · $700k · revenue +55%
GL
GREAT LAKES BAY FOUNDATION
4× · 2021–2024 · $655k · revenue +21% · 39% of their budget

Funded once

SV
See Vendor Report Attached to Return
one grant, 2020 · $18M
OC
ONETEN COALITION INC
one grant, 2023 · $1.5M · revenue -53%
TS
THE ST BERNARD PROJECT INC
one grant, 2022 · $175k · revenue -25%

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.

04Its field

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.

Business Leaders for Michigan

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.…

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United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey

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…

Philanthropy

Tulsa Area United Way

The tulsa area united way unites people and resources to improve lives and strengthen our communities.

—

Business Leaders for Michigan Foundation

Community Improvement

United Way of Central Ohio Inc

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…

Philanthropy

Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

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…

Community Improvement

Arbor Research Collaborative for Health

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…

Health

Michigan Enviromental Council

Informing and educating the public and decision makers about environmental issues.

Environment

Association of Washington Cities

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…

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Greater Washington Partnership

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.

Recreation & Sports

The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International

Behavior Analyst Certification Board Inc

We protect consumers of behavior analysis services by systematically establishing, promoting, and disseminating professional standards.

Employment

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Orion Communities Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

208 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 208 of the 416 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

205/208

Grantees still filing

117/208

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$62,427,935Philanthropy$12,466,463Arts & Culture$8,050,000Health$4,869,300Human Services$4,188,856Education$2,592,397Civil Rights$1,500,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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.

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.

Midland Area Community FoundationMI38.6× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Dow Company Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dow Company Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

51report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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The regranting layer

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The camps

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By state

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