· Private foundation
McDowell Family Foundation
Its FY2025 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, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k4 grants · $60k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $104k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| University of Nebraska | $104,420 |
| Haven House St Louis | $20,000 |
| Children's Hospital | $20,000 |
| St Louis University | $10,000 |
| Food Bank of the Rockies | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–20, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 49% of McDowell Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 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, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $104k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HSHAVENHOUSE ST LOUIS6× · 2020–2025 · $385k · revenue +577%
- GGGLOBAL GAMING WOMEN CHARITABLE EDUCATION7× · 2017–2024 · $85k · revenue +588%
- SLST LOUIS UNIVERSITY4× · 2018–2025 · $37k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- SLSt Louis Community Foundationone grant, 2017 · $5k
- JFJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +62%
- PAPROJECT ANGEL HEARTgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +42%
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.
We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.
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.
To help rural providers with collaborative solutions and resources focusing on rural healthcare.
Support the work of the denver health and hospital authority in its mission to sustain and advance the health and well-being of denver, colorado and the rocky mountain region.
Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.
See schedule o colorado state university foundation assists in the promotion, development, and enhancement of facilities and educational programs and enhancements of faculty, students, and alumni of colorado state university (csu). this is…
Vail health services is the parent company of a group of companies generally known as vail health, whose mission is to elevate health across our mountain communities.
to manage the investment of funds on behalf of Children's Hospital Colorado ("Hospital") and Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation ("Foundation").
The mission of st. luke community healthcare is to remain an integral component of the communities of the mission valley through the delivery of personal, compassionate, quality health care in a dignified manner that values our patients,…
The mission of health care without harm (hcwh) is to transform health care worldwide so that it reduces its environmental footprint, becomes a community anchor for sustainability and a leader in the global movement for environmental health…
The mission of colorado west healthcare system and community hospital is to improve the health and quality of life of the individuals and communities we serve.
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 14 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 HAVENHOUSE ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL GAMING WOMEN CHARITABLE EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds KENDALL & TAYLOR ATKINSON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ANGEL HEART ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation ↗
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.
How this is measured
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