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Dowdall Family Charitable Trust

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.

$35k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
0192% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

Recreation & Sports$20kHuman Services$19kHousing & Shelter$16kHealth$10kInternational$8kFood & Nutrition$7kEducation$3kCrime & Legal$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$1,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$814k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
University of Notre Dame$10,055
Boston Childrens Hospital$10,000
Catholic Charities$5,000
Boston Healthcare for Homeless$5,000
Massachusetts Horticultural Society$1,000
Greater Boston Legal Services$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
Greater Boston Food Bank$1,000
Brennan Center for Justice$1,000
Massachusetts Bar Foundation$300
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 (FY22–24, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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.

area typical 10%St Francis House: $1k → 16%St Francis House: $1k → 16%Home for Little Wanderers: $300 → 16%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.

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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$55k · 13 repeat orgs$14k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
7

Total granted

$55k
$3k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+82%

Still filing today

62%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalHuman ServicesHealthEducationArts & CultureEnvironmentOther

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

  • AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $3k · revenue +1%
  • AS
    ACTORS' SHAKESPEARE PROJECT
    2× · 2022–2023 · $1k · revenue +22%
  • TC
    THE CARTER CENTER INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $1k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • HISPANIC FEDERATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue +88%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    one grant, 2023 · $500 · revenue +1%
  • NP
    NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $500 · revenue +82%

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.

1
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

2
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

3
Mass General Brigham Health Plan Inc

Mass general brigham health plan's mission is to promote the health and wellness of our members, and to help ensure equitable, affordbale health care for the diverse communities we serve.

Health
4
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
5
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
6
Aclu Foundation of Massachusetts Inc

Aclu foundation of ma was established to defend freedoms guaranteed in the constitution and bill of rights through public education and litigation.

Civil Rights
7
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
8
Mercy Health

Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…

9
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
10
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

11
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

12
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Amnesty International of the Usa Inc and the most unlike its peers is University of Notre Dame du Lac. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

16 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 24 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
10/16
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Catholic Charities — $14,500 · OtherCatholic CharitiesBoston Healthcare for Homeless — $13,500 · OtherBoston Healthcare for HomelessGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC — $5,000 · OtherGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INCSalvation Army — $4,000 · OtherSalvation ArmyOxfam — $3,000 · OtherOxfamIndividual grant recipient — $2,000 · Other+8 more — $4,960 · Other+8 moreUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac — $20,055 · EducationUniversity of Notre Dame du L…WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC — $3,000 · EducationWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR …Children's Hospital Corporation — $10,000 · HealthChildren's H…AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC — $3,000 · InternationalTHE CARTER CENTER INC — $1,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $500 · InternationalSAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC — $2,000 · Human ServicesTHE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC — $300 · Human ServicesMASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY — $2,000 · EnvironmentHISPANIC FEDERATION INC — $1,000 · Community Improvement
Other$46,960Education$23,055Health$10,000International$4,500Human Services$2,300Environment$2,000Community Improvement$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac — $20,055 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC — $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC — $3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC — $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHISPANIC FEDERATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACTORS' SHAKESPEARE PROJECT — $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CARTER CENTER INC — $1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER BOSTON LEGAL SERVICES INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMassachusetts Bar Foundation Inc — $800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC — $300 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Dowdall Family Charitable Trust 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 18%
  • The Home for Little Wanderers Inc38% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc22% of income from government
  • Saint Francis House Inc18% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation10% of income from government
  • Actors' Shakespeare Project6% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Legal Services Inc3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
1report 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, FY2025

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

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How do I get to Dowdall Family Charitable Trust?

Find your warmest path to Dowdall Family Charitable Trust 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 24 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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