Minnesota · 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.
- $505k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 2
- Grants FY2025
- 34
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 35%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $500,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 34
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.5M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 35% of the organizations McDowell Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 41% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 2 | $505k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 34 | $74k | 35% |
| FY2023 | 26 | $114k | 15% |
| FY2022 | 25 | $68k | 32% |
| FY2021 | 25 | $56k | 48% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $50k | 23% |
| FY2019 | 16 | $50k | 13% |
| FY2018 | 18 | $49k | 56% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Breakthrough | $41,250 | 7 | 0% |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $30,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Haven | $26,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Gallatin Valley Land Trust | $18,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Urban Boatbuilders Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Northside Boxing Club Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Santa Barbara Education Foundation | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Wilderness Inquiry Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| St Stephens Episcopal School | $13,000 | 6 | n/a |
| City Kids Adventures | $13,000 | 8 | 1% |
Show all 52 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($710k), 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: Austin Community Foundation Inc · Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · Vick Foundation Inc · The Cruz Family Foundation Inc · McCrea Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · The Seidler Foundation · The Webber Family Foundation · Longview Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Community Foundation of Greater Memphis Inc · The Dorothy and Jim Kronzer Foundation
How this is measured
About McDowell Foundation
- How much does McDowell Foundation give?
- McDowell Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $505,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 34 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does McDowell Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (66%), Education (10%), Health (6%).
- Who are McDowell Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Breakthrough ($41k), World Central Kitchen Inc ($30k), Haven ($26k).
- Does McDowell Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 35% 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 Austin Community Foundation Inc, Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc, Vick Foundation Inc.
- Where is McDowell Foundation based?
- McDowell Foundation is based in MN.
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