North Carolina · Private foundation
Dowd Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $4.4M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 162
- Grants FY2024
- 123
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 35%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 114 to 156
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 14
- Total assets, FY2024
- $80M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 35% of the organizations Dowd Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $599k 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 | 113 | $4.1M | 23% |
| FY2023 | 123 | $3.7M | 35% |
| FY2022 | 156 | $5.1M | 38% |
| FY2021 | 150 | $3.9M | 53% |
| FY2020 | 114 | $3.8M | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Charlotte Country Day School | $2,550,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Foundation of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte | $1,875,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Woodberry Forest School | $1,541,604 | 5 | 1% |
| Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Charlotte | $1,202,500 | 3 | 1% |
| Charlotte Mecklenburg Library Foundation | $905,000 | 5 | 5% |
| Atrium Health Foundation | $800,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Sullenberger Aviation Museum | $525,000 | 3 | 8% |
| Carolina Thread Trail | $400,100 | 5 | 30% |
| The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Foundation Inc | $333,000 | 1 | 2% |
| HopeWay Foundation | $292,100 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 187 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 136 recipients with no EIN on record ($6.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Dowd Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 163 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: Foundation for the Carolinas · The Dickson Foundation Inc · The Marc & Mattye Silverman Family Foundation · United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · The Cannon Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · The Leon Levine Foundation · Foundation for the Charlotte Jewish Community · The Presbyterian Hospital · The Winston-Salem Foundation · The Eleanor H Barnhardt Charitable Trust · Albemarle Foundation
How this is measured
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About Dowd Foundation Inc
- How much does Dowd Foundation Inc give?
- Dowd Foundation Inc reported 162 grants totaling $4,433,225 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 114 and 156 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Dowd Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (42%), Community Improvement (13%), Health (11%).
- Who are Dowd Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Charlotte Country Day School ($2.5M), Foundation of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte ($1.9M), Woodberry Forest School ($1.5M).
- Does Dowd Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Dowd Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Dowd Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Foundation for the Carolinas, The Dickson Foundation Inc, The Marc & Mattye Silverman Family Foundation.
- Where is Dowd Foundation Inc based?
- Dowd Foundation Inc is based in NC.
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