· Private foundation
Downing Foundation
Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2026
- Under $10k9 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $226k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Holy Spirit Center | $40,000 |
| St Anthony Church | $30,000 |
| John Paul the Great University | $25,000 |
| Archbishop Moeller High School | $21,000 |
| Sacred Heart Radio | $20,000 |
| St Philomena Apostolate | $20,000 |
| Good Shephard School | $20,000 |
| St Patricks School | $17,000 |
| Pregnancy Center East | $11,500 |
| St Cecilia School | $11,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Serenelli Project | $5,000 |
| St Pauls Outreach | $5,000 |
| Franciscan Daughters of Mary | $5,000 |
| Sisters of Life | $5,000 |
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 (FY21–26, $63k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
25 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2026, 9 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (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 FY2026, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SHSACRED HEART RADIO INC6× · 2021–2026 · $120k · revenue +32%
- JPJohn Paul The Great Catholic University5× · 2022–2026 · $105k · revenue +9%
- PCPREGNANCY CENTER PLUS INC6× · 2021–2026 · $63k · revenue +111%
Funded once
- SCST CECILIA R C CHURCHone grant, 2025 · $24k
- OSOld St Mary Churchone grant, 2025 · $20k
- SJST JOSEPH ACADEMYone grant, 2024 · $10k
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.
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 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 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.
Operation of a radio station to service as a ministry
To pursue the development of morally and professionally acceptable reproductive health services.
The mission of sacred heart radio inc is to provide catholic radio programing and broadcasting in the pacific northwest.
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…
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
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
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)
To promote expressions of faith, prayer, and devotion consistent with the magisterium and authoritative moral guidance of the catholic church, and to raise and provide financing and sponsorship of conferences, conventions, publications,…
How this is measured
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 36 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 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 ANGELICO PROJECT A CENTER FOR THOUGHT AND CULTURE ↗
- Who funds SERENELLI PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Project Sycamore A Nfp Corporation ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Downing Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Downing Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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