How much does McDowell Family Foundation give?

McDowell Family Foundation reported 26 grants totaling $126,750 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 49 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does McDowell Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (53%), International (17%), Education (14%).

Who are McDowell Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Rocky Mountain Adventist Healthcare Foundation ($265k), National Jewish Health ($102k), Courageous Faces Foundation ($54k).

Does McDowell Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 4% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does McDowell Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as McDowell Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, The Denver Foundation, The Janus Henderson Foundation.

Where is McDowell Family Foundation based?

McDowell Family Foundation is based in DE.

McDowell Family Foundation

McDowell Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

McDowell Family Foundation

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.

$127k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$50k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$524kInternational$171kEducation$135kHuman Services$77kPublic Safety & Disaster$18kCommunity Improvement$12kReligion$12kRecreation & Sports$12kOther$0

02FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k24 grants · $47k
$10k–50k1 grant · $30k
$50k–250k1 grant · $50k

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.6M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
ROCKY MOUNTAIN ADVENTIST HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION	$50,000
ROCKY MOUNTAIN ADVENTIST HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION	$30,000
MANNA RESOURCE CENTER	$6,000
TALL TALES RANCH	$5,000
HOPE HAVEN CHARITABLE TRUST	$4,000
COURAGEOUS FACES FOUNDATION	$4,000
WORLD VISION	$4,000
NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH	$4,000
CHILDRENS HOSPITAL COLORADO	$3,000
CHRISTIAN MEDICAL MINISTRY TO CAMBODIA JEREMIAHS H	$2,500
MUSANA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION	$2,000
VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA INC	$2,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF DENVER INC	$1,000
FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC	$1,000
FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES	$1,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $88k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 9% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

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.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$910k · 52 repeat orgs$22k to everyone else

52 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$910k

$16k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%

Still filing today

83%

82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthHuman ServicesInternationalEducationPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH
8× · 2017–2025 · $102k · revenue +50%
HH
HOPE HAVEN CHARITABLE TRUST
9× · 2017–2025 · $48k · revenue +226%
TT
TALL TALES RANCH
9× · 2017–2025 · $44k · revenue +451%

Funded once

JH
JEREMIAH'S HOPE INC
one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -75%
CM
CHRISTIAN MEDICAL MINSTRY TO CAMBODIA JEREMIAHS HO
one grant, 2017 · $2k
PA
PROJECT ANGEL HEARTgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +138%

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.

04Its field

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.

Mental Health Center of Boulder County Inc

Partnering to improve quality of life as a nonprofit organization dedicated to mental health and wellness. healing is our purpose, help is our promise, health is our passion.

—

Colorado West Inc

We rebuild lives and inspire hope by providing exceptional mental health and addiction recovery care strengthening the health and vitality of our communities.

Health

Dental Aid

Dental aid strives to improve the quality of life of children and adults struggling to afford health care by providing compassionate, high quality dental care and education, while advocating to ensure access to care.

Health

Fort Collins Habitat for Humanity

Seeking to put god's love into action; habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities, and hope to realize our vision of a world where everyone has a decent place to live. fort collins habitat for humanity adheres…

Housing & Shelter

Colorado Center On Law and Policy

Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.

Crime & Legal

Hospice of Metro Denver Inc

To encircle those facing advanced illness with unprecedented levels of comfort, compassion, and expertise.

Human Services

Colorado Coalition for the Homeless

The mission of the colorado coalition for the homeless is to work collaboratively toward the prevention of homelessness and the creation of lasting solutions for families, children, and individuals who are experiencing or at-risk of…

Human Services

Devworks International

Devworks international is dedicated to a society where all people enjoy the freedom to pursue their own sustainable development. we contribute to this by strengthening the capacity of local organizations.

Human Services

Colorado Legal Services

To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.

Crime & Legal

Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health

Colorado Children's Campaign

The colorado children's campaign relentlessly champions the needs of children. we leverage data, research, and relationships to unapologetically advocate for kids, fighting for a brighter, more equitable future for every child in colorado.…

—

Boulder Valley Women's Health Center Inc

Our mission is to provide high quality and equitable reproductive and sexual health services, abortion, and education to all people, regardless of any barriers to healthcare that they may face.

—

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mile High United Way Inc; the most unlike its peers is Christian Medical Minstry to Cambodia Jeremiahs Hope. 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

62 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 62 of the 73 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

61/62

Grantees still filing

49/62

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Health$483,675Other$203,475International$114,350Human Services$111,450Philanthropy$33,175Education$32,875Recreation & Sports$11,500

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.

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.

Colorado Gives FoundationCO35.6× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · The Janus Henderson Foundation · Schlessman Foundation Inc · Rose Community Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Mile High United Way Inc · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Denver Broncos Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · The Phyllis M Coors Foundation · Berglund Family Foundation

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization McDowell Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from McDowell Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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