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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 FY2024still arriving
162
Grants FY2024still arriving
14
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Education$9.2MCommunity Improvement$2.7MHealth$2.4MHuman Services$1.6MPhilanthropy$1.4MReligion$913kArts & Culture$877kRecreation & Sports$626kOther$0
02FY2024 · 162 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k97 grants · $206k
  • $10k–50k47 grants · $844k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $983k
  • $250k+7 grants · $2.4M
$5,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$80M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNC CHARLOTTE FOUNDATION$500,000
CHARLOTTE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL$500,000
ATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION - THE CENTER FOR ONCOLOGY$400,000
CPCC FOUNDATION - PLUMBING & PIPE FITTING CAREERS$250,000
CAROLINAS AVIATION MUSEUM$250,000
CPCC FOUNDATION - PLUMBING & PIPE FITTING CAREERS$250,000
Individual grant recipient$250,000
CHRIST CHURCH CHARLOTTE$200,000
THE JOHN CROSLAND SCHOOL$125,000
FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLIANS - HUGH MCCOLL PARK$125,000
CAROLINA THREAD TRAIL$100,000
CROSSNORE COMMUNITIES FOR CHILDREN$100,000
HOPEWAY FOUNDATION$83,000
UPLIFT - TEXAS CHARTER SCHOOL$50,000
CHARLOTTE SYMPHONY$50,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LYMELIGHT FOUNDATION: $500 → 7%SF NEW DEAL: $300 → 10%ELK GROVE FOOD BANK SERVICES: $250 → 12%SACRED SELECTIONS: $250 → 9%CHARLOTTE FAMILY HOUSING: $50k → 10%HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%YMCA OF GREATER RICHMOND: $10k → 22%LYMELIGHT FOUNDATION: $500 → 7%CHARLOTTE FAMILY HOUSING: $25k → 10%YMCA OF GREATER RICHMOND: $5k → 22%LYMELIGHT FOUNDATION: $500 → 7%INTERFAITH FOOD SHUTTLE: $2k → 8%STANLY COUNTY FAMILY YMCA: $3k → 13%NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR ADOPTION: $2k → 9%INTERFAITH FOOD SHUTTLE: $2k → 8%CHARLOTTE FAMILY HOUSING: $20k → 10%STANLY COUNTY FAMILY YMCA: $3k → 13%INTERFAITH FOOD SHUTTLE: $2k → 8%STANLY COUNTY FAMILY YMCA: $3k → 13%YMCA OF GREATER RICHMOND: $3k → 22%YMCA OF GREATER RICHMOND: $3k → 22%SHINING HOPE FARMS: $250 → 12%A CAUSE FOR TEA: $3k → 7%A CAUSE FOR TEA: $1k → 7%A CAUSE FOR TEA: $500 → 7%CHARLOTTE MECKLENBURG DREAM CENTER: $10k → 10%YMCA OF GREATER CHARLOTTE: $400k → 10%YMCA OF GREATER CHARLOTTE: $400k → 10%YMCA OF GREATER CHARLOTTE: $400k → 10%YMCA OF GREATER CHARLOTTE: $3k → 10%HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE CHARLOTTE: $1k → 10%HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE CHARLOTTE: $1k → 10%HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE CHARLOTTE: $500 → 10%HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE CHARLOTTE: $500 → 10%INREACH: $25k → 10%INREACH: $25k → 10%INREACH: $25k → 10%INREACH: $25k → 10%INREACH: $250 → 10%INREACH: $250 → 10%INREACH: $250 → 10%INREACH: $250 → 10%CRISIS ASSISTANCE MINISTRY: $20k → 10%CRISIS ASSISTANCE MINISTRY: $3k → 10%CRISIS ASSISTANCE MINISTRY: $3k → 10%CRISIS ASSISTANCE MINISTRY: $2k → 10%CRISIS ASSISTANCE MINISTRY: $2k → 10%CRISIS ASSISTANCE MINISTRY: $1k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$18M · 162 repeat orgs$2.5M to everyone else

162 repeat relationships — 87 still active in FY2024, 75 since wound down; 26 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

162
136

Total granted

$18M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+34%

Still filing today

65%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesAnimalsEnvironmentOther

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

  • FO
    FOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +219%
  • WF
    WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +52%
  • YM
    YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER CHARLOTTE
    3× · 2020–2022 · $1.2M · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $333k · revenue -15%
  • MS
    MOREHEAD-CAIN SCHOLARSHIP FUND
    one grant, 2022 · $200k · revenue +8%
  • UM
    URBAN MINISTRY CENTER
    one grant, 2020 · $125k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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Carolina Meadows Foundation Inc

To solicit and receive gifts, grants, bequests and contributions for the support of carolina meadows, inc. in order to enhance or extend its mission, programs, services, and facilities.

Human Services
2
Unc Health Foundation Inc

At unc health foundation, we inspire philanthropic support for unc health and unc school of medicine that transforms healthcare and provides hope to the people of north carolina and communities around the world.

Education
3
North Carolina Symphony Society Inc

To be north carolina's state orchestra, an orchestra achieving the highest level of artistic quality and performance standards, and embracing its dual legacies of statewide service and music education.

Arts & Culture
4
North Carolina Chamber

The organization is a proactive, nonpartisan business advocacy organization. the organization works in the legislative, regulatory and political arenas to proactively drive positive change to ensure that north carolina is a leading place…

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5
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
6
Charlotte Regional Realtor Association Inc

The charlotte regional realtor (r) association (crra) is a trade association serving members in mecklenburg, iredell and haywood counties. at december 31, 2024, crra had 14,020 members.

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7
Coastal Carolinas Health Alliance

Facilitate networking among hospitals

Health
8
National Committee for Quality Assurance

Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.

Health
9
Conway Hospital Community Services

Conway hospital community services provides outpatient health care services to horry county and the surrounding community in conjunction with conway hospital, inc., a non-profit acute care hospital system.

Health
10
North Carolina Symphony Foundation

To receive and hold the endowment of the north carolina symphony society, inc. (the "society"), solicit additions to the endowment, safeguard assets, and expend funds for the exclusive use and benefit of the society.

Arts & Culture
11
The Foundation of Firsthealth Inc

Provide philanthropic support to firsthealth of the carolinas, inc., a healthcare system exempt from income tax under irs section 501c(3) and 170(b)(1)(a)(iii).

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12
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for the Carolinas and the most unlike its peers is Richard Hampton Jenrette Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyHealth Access Advocacy and …Community College Foundatio…Community FoundationsEnvironmental Conservation …Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Affordable Housing Developm…Orchestra and Ensemble Perf…Food Banks and PantriesYouth Sports ProgramsDance Arts OrganizationsChristian Missionary Organi…Child Abuse Advocacy Servic…Community Arts CentersChristian Youth CampsJewish Community Organizati…Military Veterans SupportCommunity FoundationsElementary Literacy TutoringCancer Support ServicesUnited Way AffiliatesAnimal Rescue and ShelterPublic Library OperationsYmca Youth DevelopmentIndependent K-12 Schools
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number26%3%<5yr16%5%5–10yr20%18%10–20yr14%28%20–35yr12%20%35–55yr12%27%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value26%1%<5yr16%0%5–10yr20%11%10–20yr14%11%20–35yr12%16%35–55yr12%62%55yr+

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.5% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.5%1/193
the rest of the field
15%
7,956/52,987

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

172 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. 172 of the 330 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
33
Early backer (in before they grew)
167/172
Grantees still filing
128/172
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE — $1,875,000 · OtherFOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT C…Individual grant recipient — $1,033,284 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUCCACGET CENTERED — $750,000 · OtherUCCACGET CENTEREDCPCC FOUNDATION - PLUMBING & PIPE FITTING CAREERS — $500,000 · OtherCPCC FOUNDATION — $500,000 · OtherCHRIST CHURCH CHARLOTTE — $411,600 · OtherCAROLINA THREAD TRAIL — $400,100 · OtherATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION - THE CENTER FOR ONCOLOGY — $400,000 · OtherTHE MOREHEAD-CAIN SCHOLARSHIP — $400,000 · OtherDISCOVERY PLACE NATURE — $375,000 · Other+118 more — $3,122,975 · Other+118 moreCHARLOTTE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL — $2,550,000 · EducationCHARLOTTE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOLWOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL — $1,541,604 · EducationWOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOLCHARLOTTE MECKLENBURG LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $905,000 · EducationCHARLOTTE MECKLENBURG LIBRARY FOU…THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL FOUNDATION INC — $333,000 · Education+21 more — $1,150,150 · Education+21 moreATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION — $800,000 · HealthATRIUM HE…HopeWay Foundation — $229,500 · HealthHopeWay F…CROSSNORE COMMUNITIES FOR CHILDREN — $200,000 · HealthCROSSNORE…Dilworth Center for Chemical Dependency — $175,000 · HealthDilworth …CHARLOTTE RESCUE MISSION — $166,000 · HealthCHARLOTTE…UNITED MITOCHONDRIAL DISEASE FOUNDATION INC — $75,100 · HealthCharlotte Speech and Hearing Center Inc — $70,000 · Health+5 more — $85,000 · HealthYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER CHARLOTTE — $1,202,500 · Human ServicesInReach — $101,250 · Human ServicesCharlotte Family Housing — $95,000 · Human Services+8 more — $84,500 · Human ServicesFOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS — $1,011,250 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST — $59,446 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTE INC — $45,000 · Philanthropy+4 more — $34,250 · PhilanthropySullenberger Aviation Museum — $525,000 · Arts & CultureMINT MUSEUM OF ART INC — $103,100 · Arts & Culture+10 more — $71,847 · Arts & CultureHumane Society of Charlotte Inc — $167,850 · AnimalsHelping Animals to Survive Inc — $30,000 · AnimalsLIFELINE ANIMAL PROJECT INC — $23,278 · Animals+2 more — $8,400 · Animals
Other$9,767,959Education$6,479,754Health$1,800,600Human Services$1,483,250Philanthropy$1,149,946Arts & Culture$699,947Animals$229,528

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCHARLOTTE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL — $2,550,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetFOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE — $1,875,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetWOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL — $1,541,604 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER CHARLOTTE — $1,202,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS — $1,011,250 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCHARLOTTE MECKLENBURG LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $905,000 over 5y, 4.6% of budgetATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION — $800,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSullenberger Aviation Museum — $525,000 over 3y, 8.1% of budgetCAROLINA THREAD TRAIL — $400,100 over 5y, 30% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL FOUNDATION INC — $333,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetHopeWay Foundation — $229,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMOREHEAD-CAIN SCHOLARSHIP FUND — $200,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetBrookstone Schools of Mecklenburg County — $200,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetCROSSNORE COMMUNITIES FOR CHILDREN — $200,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetDilworth Center for Chemical Dependency — $175,000 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetHumane Society of Charlotte Inc — $167,850 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetCHARLOTTE RESCUE MISSION — $166,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTHE JOHN CROSLAND SCHOOL — $155,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetUNC FREE SPEECH ALLIANCE INC — $150,000 over 3y, 93% of budgetAUGUSTINE LITERACY PROJECT - TRIANGLE — $141,250 over 4y, 23% of budgetTHE GOOD FELLOWS CLUB INC — $132,064 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetQueens University of Charlotte — $105,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMINT MUSEUM OF ART INC — $103,100 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetInReach — $101,250 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCharlotte Family Housing — $95,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetWINGATE UNIVERSITY — $90,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED MITOCHONDRIAL DISEASE FOUNDATION INC — $75,100 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetTeach for America Inc — $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $70,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCharlotte Speech and Hearing Center Inc — $70,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetVISION TO LEARN — $60,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST — $59,446 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKinderMourn Inc — $50,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTE INC — $45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOUNCIL FOR A SECURE AMERICA INC — $31,296 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetHelping Animals to Survive Inc — $30,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetCrisis Assistance Ministry — $29,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE FOR THE PUBLIC TRUST — $27,500 over 3y, 7.0% of budgetALL-IN TO FIGHT CANCER — $26,000 over 3y, 23% of budgetJunior Achievement of Central Carolinas Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCHARLOTTE LATIN SCHOOLS — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLIFELINE ANIMAL PROJECT INC — $23,278 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER RICHMOND & PETERSBURG — $22,750 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBETHANY COLLEGE — $22,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Greater Richmond (6769) — $21,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNION DIVERSIFIED INDUSTRIES INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHOUSE OF MERCY INC — $20,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetVETERANS BRIDGE HOME INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budget
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 CHARLOTTE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE ↗
  • Who funds WOODBERRY FOREST SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER CHARLOTTE ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ↗
  • Who funds CHARLOTTE MECKLENBURG LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ATRIUM HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Sullenberger Aviation Museum ↗
  • Who funds CAROLINA THREAD TRAIL ↗
  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HopeWay Foundation ↗
  • Who funds MOREHEAD-CAIN SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
  • Who funds Brookstone Schools of Mecklenburg County ↗
  • Who funds CROSSNORE COMMUNITIES FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds Dilworth Center for Chemical Dependency ↗
  • Who funds Humane Society of Charlotte Inc ↗
  • Who funds CHARLOTTE RESCUE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds THE JOHN CROSLAND SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds UNC FREE SPEECH ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds AUGUSTINE LITERACY PROJECT - TRIANGLE ↗
  • Who funds THE GOOD FELLOWS CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds Queens University of Charlotte ↗
  • Who funds MINT MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
  • Who funds InReach ↗
  • Who funds Charlotte Family Housing ↗

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.

Foundation for the Ca…The Dickson Foundatio…The Marc & Mattye Sil…United Way of Greater…The Cannon Foundation…Duke Energy FoundationThe Leon Levine Found…Foundation for the Ch…The Presbyterian Hosp…The Winston-Salem Fou…The Eleanor H Barnhar…Albemarle Foundation
Foundation for the CarolinasNC88.3× affinity73 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Foundation Inc 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    6get no government money at all
    48report 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

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Dowd Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Dowd Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 330 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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