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Downing Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $224k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Holy Spirit Center | $43,000 |
| John Paul the Great University | $25,000 |
| St Cecilia Church | $24,000 |
| Sacred Heart Radio | $20,000 |
| St Philomena Apostolate | $20,000 |
| Old St Mary Church | $20,000 |
| St Patricks School | $18,000 |
| Archbishop Moeller High School | $14,000 |
| St Anthony Church | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| St James Church | $10,000 |
| Pregnancy Center Plus | $10,000 |
| St Pauls Outreach | $5,000 |
| Franciscan Daughters of Mary | $5,000 |
| The Angelico Project | $5,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $51k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
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.
15 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 11 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, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $153k 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
- SHSACRED HEART RADIO INC5× · 2021–2025 · $100k · revenue +32%
- JPJohn Paul The Great Catholic University4× · 2022–2025 · $80k · revenue +9%
- PCPREGNANCY CENTER PLUS INC5× · 2021–2025 · $51k · revenue +111%
Funded once
- SJST JOSEPH ACADEMYone grant, 2024 · $10k
- OLOUR LADY OF CORPUS CHRISTI RETREAT CENTERone grant, 2024 · $10k
- SPSERENELLI PROJECT INCone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
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.
The mission of the Menlough Study Center Inc is to provide moral intellectual and cultural formation consistant with Judea Christian principles and in cooperation with Opus Dei a personal prelature of the Catholic Church.
The Paulist Press was founded to provide Catholic literature and resources for the the religious use of parishes, institutions, individuals and other religious bodies to further the educational and mission goals of the Christian faith and…
The foundation was organized to promote spiritual formation and priesthood vocations for the catholic church.
Post-secondary religious formation. San Damiano College for the Trades operates one program the House of Formation Program, which focuses on theology and spiritual formation for students working in the trades.
We are a catholic university named for saint john henry newman and founded by the adorers of the blood of christ for the purpose of empowering graduates to transform society. our core values (see schedule o for continuation)
Patris corde hermitage (the organization) is organized for charitable, religious, and educational purposes. the name patris corde is latin for: with a father's heart. the organization will offer a space for people to visit to strengthen…
Operation of a radio station to service as a ministry
To pursue the development of morally and professionally acceptable reproductive health services.
Advancement of Religion and Catholic Religious Societies
Our mission is to lead people to an encounter with christ by tapping into the mobile-social-tech communications revolution and growth of digital media
The mission of sacred heart radio inc is to provide catholic radio programing and broadcasting in the pacific northwest.
Religious purposes - promote devotion to st padre pio through creation of a chapel and other religious activities that are approved by the diocese of rochester related to padre pio and to the tenets of the roman catholic church
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Damascus Inc and the most unlike its peers is Pregnancy Center Plus Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 32 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 SACRED HEART RADIO INC ↗
- Who funds John Paul The Great Catholic University ↗
- Who funds PREGNANCY CENTER PLUS INC ↗
- Who funds St Edmund Campion Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds DAMASCUS INC ↗
- Who funds SERENELLI PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Project Sycamore A Nfp Corporation ↗
- Who funds ANGELICO PROJECT A CENTER FOR THOUGHT AND CULTURE ↗
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: The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · The Foundation of the Catholic Diocese of Columbus · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Dayton Foundation Depository · Bob & Felicia Burger Family Foundation · The Heidt Family Foundation · The Dayton Foundation · Columbus Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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 Downing 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.
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.