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Dowd Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $1k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $88k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
- $250k+2 grants · $825k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GALLATIN ICE FOUNDATION | $525,000 |
| CHASE ANIMAL RESCUE SANCTUARY | $300,000 |
| EAGLE MOUNT BOZEMAN | $50,000 |
| VILLAGE OF BIRCHWOOD WI | $50,000 |
| YELLOWSTONE CLUB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $27,500 |
| SPANISH PEAKS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| MIRACLE LEAGUE OF NORTHAMPTON | $25,000 |
| THE BILLY POOLE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
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 (FY21–22, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 23%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
19 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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
- CACHASE ANIMAL RESCUE AND SANCTUARY INC3× · 2023–2025 · $945k · revenue +237% · 92% of their budget
- EMEagle Mount4× · 2022–2025 · $110k · revenue +23%
- TGTEAM GLEASON FOUNDATION2× · 2021–2022 · $30k · revenue +144%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $200k
- M6MT 64 HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INCone grant, 2024 · $100k
- ALALEXS LEMONADE STAND FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue +8%
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.
As the community's official destination management and marketing organization, visit big sky leads the development and promotion of authentic tourism experiences through research and stakeholder collaboration to grow big sky's economy…
Big Sky Ski Education Foundation offers competitive Alpine, Freeride, and Nordic skiing programs.
Sky Foundation, Inc. is dedicated to raising awareness and funding research for the early detection of pancreatic cancer.
Serving as the voice of business, the big sky chamber of commerce champions a healthy economy and works collaboratively with community stakeholders as a conveyor and a catalyst to improve the overall quality of life in the region.
Montana amateur sports, inc. is a non-profit organization established in billings, mt. it was established to provide quality competitions and programs that inspire healthy and active lifestyles for all ages and abilities. these events…
The purposes of the corporation shall be specifically to operate a statewide coordinated health information exchange and related services to enhance clinical care in the community and to improve and promote public health care in the…
None
Operates for the benefit and support of world-class skiing and snowboarding, including coaching and training athletes in these sports.
It is our mission to provide this community with an athletic environment that allows each athlete to reach their potential and pursue their life's goals through through snow sports.
To provide children facing adversity with strong and enduring, professionally supported one-to-one relationships that change their lives for the better, forever.
United states skiing foundation is engaged in not-for-profit membership, competition, training, development, and educational activities related to amateur skiers and snowboarders who are, or aspire to become, members of the u.s. ski and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Police Athletic League of Philadelphia and the most unlike its peers is Drexel University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 38 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
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 CHASE ANIMAL RESCUE AND SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds GALLATIN ICE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BIG SKY COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds YELLOWSTONE CLUB COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SPANISH PEAKS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Eagle Mount ↗
- Who funds BIG SKY SKATING & HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds TEAM GLEASON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Saginaw Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds ALEXS LEMONADE STAND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Miracle League of Joliet ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF BIG SKY COUNTRY ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE BAY AND LAKES REGION INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds BIG SKY BRAVERY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR AUTISM AND NEURODIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds Police Athletic League Of Philadelphia ↗
- Who funds Seattle Children's Foundation ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds DREXEL UNIVERSITY ↗
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: Moonlight Community Foundation · Yellowstone Club Community Foundation · One Valley Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Dowd Family 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.
- Association for Autism and Neurodiversity Inc — 24% 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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