New Jersey · Private foundation
McDowell 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.
- $212k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 18
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 27%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $186k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $105,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 18
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 6
- Total assets, FY2024
- $3.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 27% of the organizations McDowell Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 17 | $181k | 59% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $256k | 27% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $342k | 56% |
| FY2019 | 18 | $399k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Duke University | $394,450 | 3 | 0% |
| The Taft School Corporation | $308,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Shelburne Farms | $165,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Winifred Masterson Burke Medical Research | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Childrens Academy | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Sato Project | $17,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Jewish Museum | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Challenged Athletes Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Teachers College Columbia University | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Tom Coughlin Jay Fund Foundation Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 23 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Duke University | $394,450 | 3 | 0% |
| The Taft School Corporation | $308,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Shelburne Farms | $165,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Winifred Masterson Burke Medical Research | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Childrens Academy | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Sato Project | $17,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Jewish Museum | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Challenged Athletes Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Teachers College Columbia University | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Tom Coughlin Jay Fund Foundation Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Northwell Health Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Daniel W Offit Fund to Fight Glioblastoma Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Blythedale Children's Hospital | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| National Breast Cancer Coalition | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Wolf Conservation Center Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| North American Gamebird Foundation | $1,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Head Count Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Gucker Campership Fund Inc % Richard Deitchman | $1,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Artsconnection Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Friends of the Israel Defense Forces | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| One Tree Planted Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Bedford Playhouse Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Walt Ronan Educational Fund Inc | $750 | 1 | 1% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($148k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget McDowell Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About McDowell Foundation
- How much does McDowell Foundation give?
- McDowell Foundation reported 18 itemized grants totaling $185,500, out of $211,900 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 18 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does McDowell Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (26%), Education (17%), Food & Nutrition (4%).
- Who are McDowell Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Duke University ($394k), The Taft School Corporation ($309k), Shelburne Farms ($165k).
- Does McDowell Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does McDowell 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 Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, National Philanthropic Trust, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is McDowell Foundation based?
- McDowell Foundation is based in NJ.
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