· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| VILLAGE OF BIRCHWOOD WI | $50,000 |
| EAGLE MOUNT BOZEMAN | $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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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 +225%
- 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%
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- 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 ALEXS LEMONADE STAND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Saginaw Community 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Dowd Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dowd Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Association for Autism and Neurodiversity Inc: 24% of income from government
How this is measured
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