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Dow Endowment Fund Inc

Provide financial assistance to educational/ medical programs

$91k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$35k
Largest
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01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$525kYouth Development$280kEducation$159kOther$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$30,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DOW CLASS 1989-2$35,000
DOW CLASS OF 1993 PED WARD$30,000
CLASS OF 1986$25,764
02Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$896k · 10 repeat orgs$85k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
5

Total granted

$896k
$85k

Still filing today

0%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • DC
    DOW CLASS 1989-2
    8× · 2017–2024 · $280k
  • DC
    DOW CLASS 1984
    4× · 2017–2023 · $115k
  • DC
    DOW CLASS OF 1993 PED WARD
    3× · 2019–2024 · $115k

Funded once

  • DC
    DOW CLASS OF 1986
    one grant, 2021 · $28k
  • DC
    DOW CLASS OF 1982 ICU
    one grant, 2018 · $22k
  • DC
    DOW CLASS OF 1985 SPECIAL PRO
    one grant, 2022 · $18k
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.

03Its field
03the grantee network

0 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2024.

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 2024, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 0 of the 15 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
0/0
Grantees still filing
0/0
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DOW CLASS 1989-2: $280,000 · OtherDOW CLASS 1989-2DOW CLASS 1984: $115,000 · OtherDOW CLASS 1984DOW CLASS OF 1993 PED WARD: $114,911 · OtherDOW CLASS OF 1993 PED WARDDOW CLASS OF 1990: $88,600 · OtherDOW CLASS OF 1990CLASS OF 1986: $68,053 · OtherCLASS OF 1986DOW CLASS 1992: $61,319 · OtherDOW CLASS 1992CLASS OF 1986 PEDI INTENSIVE: $53,100 · OtherCLASS OF 1986 PEDI INTENSIVEDOW CLASS OF 1985: $52,645 · OtherDOW CLASS OF 1985DOW CLASS 1991: $38,781 · Other+6 more: $108,614 · Other+6 more
Other$981,023

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budget
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.

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Find your warmest path to Dow Endowment Fund Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 15 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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