How much did E M Downer Foundation grant in FY2024?

E M Downer Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $34,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is E M Downer Foundation based?

E M Downer Foundation is based in DE.

E M Downer Foundation

Foundation Dossiers

· Private foundation

E M Downer Foundation

This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.

$34k

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$5k

Largest

01What you fund

0178% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Arts & Culture$75kHuman Services$47kEducation$16kEnvironment$5kCommunity Improvement$3kOther$40k

02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$2,500

Median grant

States reached

$963k

Total assets

Largest grants

EAST BAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS$5,000
Edward M Downer Elementary$5,000
YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE EAST BAY$5,000
CALIFORNIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC$5,000
TROON COUNTRY CLUB SCHOLARSHIPFOUNDATION$5,000
GOEN SENIOR CENTER CORPORATION$2,500
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF NAPA VALLEY$2,500
KHAN ACADEMY INC$1,000
THE DAWN REDWOODS CHARITABLE TRUST$1,000
RICHMOND ART CENTER$1,000
SALESIAN HIGH SCHOOL$1,000

02The need

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 (FY17–24, $47k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$166k · 11 repeat orgs$19k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$166k

$14k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%

+161%

Still filing today

73%

75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementOther

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

YM
YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE EAST BAY
8× · 2017–2024 · $31k · revenue +17%
EB
EAST BAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
8× · 2017–2024 · $27k · revenue +142%
RA
RICHMOND ART CENTER
7× · 2017–2024 · $14k · revenue +9%

Funded once

JM
JOHN MUIR LAND TRUSTgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +626%
J
J-SEI-INC
one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +23%
RC
ROTARY CLUB OF RICHMOND INC
one grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +129%

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.

Di Rosa Preserve

Located in scenic Napa Valley, di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art engages its community in the connective power of art and nature through its permanent collection of Northern California art, contemporary exhibitions, and thought-provoking…

Arts & Culture

The American Institute of Architects

The AIA California, in collaboration with local components, is the voice of the architectural profession.

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Napa Valley Museum

Napa valley museum is an art, history and environmental museum. the museum enriches the cultural fabric of the region with changing exhibitions and educational outreach.

Arts & Culture

The Japan Society of Northern California

To promote understanding between japan and the united states in a changing world.

International

Marin Open Studios

Marin open studios is a non-profit visual arts organization dedicated to engaging and supporting marin county artists and their audiences through events, programs and services. marin open studios champions a diverse and inclusive community…

Arts & Culture

Pacific East Quality Education

YCIS Silicon Valley is a welcoming school community where all children from preschool through grade 8 are encouraged to find and follow their gifts as they learn in both Chinese and English. Our goal:to help our students become…

Education

Peninsula Arts Guild

Performing arts facility in the san francisco bay area's peninsula region.

Arts & Culture

New Century Chamber Orchestra

New Century Chamber Orchestra, a virtuoso, conductorless string ensemble founded in 1992, presents performances of extraordinary quality in the San Francisco Bay Area with a commitment to innovation, education, and accessibility.

Arts & Culture

Uc Berkeley Center

UC Berkeley Center for Executive Education ("CEE") is a nonprofit public benefit corporation dedicated to promoting and advancing education through its executive education programs for corporate and institutional clients seeking continuing…

Education

Unitedly

Unitedly is a nonprofit organization based in San Mateo County, California. Unitedly was established to ensure Asian families and communities have access to equitable opportunities and resources to thrive in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Human Services

Monterey Museum of Art

The monterey museum of art cultivates curiosity in the visual arts and engages community with the diversity of california art - past, present, and future.

Arts & Culture

Japan America Society of So California

Membership organization that builds meaningful relationships between japanese and americans.

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Men's Christian Association of the East Bay and the most unlike its peers is Goen Senior Center Corporation. 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, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

14/16

Grantees still filing

13/16

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Arts & Culture$74,750Human Services$46,500Other$40,000Education$15,500Environment$5,000Community Improvement$2,500

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.

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.

Kaiser Foundation HospitalsCA18.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · East Bay Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Richmond Community Foundation · Dean and Margaret Lesher Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc

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 organisation E M Downer 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.

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0rely on government for over half their income

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typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: PINOLE HISTORY MUSEUM.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

high risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, no recent filing.

Legal standing

medium risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 821454949 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on PINOLE HISTORY MUSEUM, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
FlagSustained operations— No recent filing on record.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 25% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to E M Downer Foundation?

Find your warmest path to E M Downer Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

E M Downer Foundation

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

16 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to E M Downer Foundation?

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E M Downer Foundation

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

16 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to E M Downer Foundation?

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