How much does Stephen M Dowicz Foundation give?

Stephen M Dowicz Foundation reported 22 itemized grants totaling $91,850, out of $116,850 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 41 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Stephen M Dowicz Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Education (18%), Community Improvement (17%), Health (16%).

Who are Stephen M Dowicz Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Iona University ($69k), Ms Hope for a Cure Inc ($51k), Morgan Hoffmann Foundation ($44k).

Does Stephen M Dowicz Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 61% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Stephen M Dowicz 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 Stephen M Dowicz Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Matthew 185 Foundation, National Philanthropic Trust, Jpmorgan Chase Foundation.

Where is Stephen M Dowicz Foundation based?

Stephen M Dowicz Foundation is based in FL.

Stephen M Dowicz Foundation

Stephen M Dowicz Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Stephen M Dowicz Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$117k

Granted FY2023

Grants FY2023

States reached

$25k

Largest

01What it funds

0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$221kCommunity Improvement$202kHealth$201kPhilanthropy$149kScience & Tech$120kArts & Culture$33kReligion$27kHuman Services$24kOther$0

02FY2023 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 22 grants below total $91,850, the rows itemized in this filing. The $116,850 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $25,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2023

Under $10k21 grants · $67k
$10k–50k1 grant · $25k

$2,500

Median grant

States reached

$2.1M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
St. Jude Childrens Hospital	$25,000
MS For a Hope	$9,750
Covenant House	$5,000
The Oliver Scholars Program, Inc.	$5,000
IONA University	$5,000
IONA University	$3,600
MS For a Hope	$3,000
Dominican Academy	$2,500
Boys & Girls Club of New Rochelle	$2,500
Ronald McDonalds House	$2,500
Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation	$2,500
Regis High School	$2,500
Covenant House	$2,500
IONA University	$2,500
Several Sources Shelters	$2,500

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 (FY17–19, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, 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.

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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$909k · 37 repeat orgs$168k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +11% since the first grant, against -9% for those funded once.

37 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2023, 30 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$909k

$129k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%

-9%

Still filing today

46%

30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthInternationalEducationRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther

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

IU
IONA UNIVERSITY
3× · 2020–2023 · $69k · revenue +31%
US
UC SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATION
3× · 2017–2019 · $15k · revenue +55%
CH
COVENANT HOUSE
2× · 2018–2023 · $10k · revenue +11%

Funded once

MH
MORGAN HOFFMAN FOUNDATION
one grant, 2019 · $22k
AA
Alumni Asoc of Bronx Science
one grant, 2022 · $10k
DS
DOMINICAN SISTERS OF CORPUS CHRISTI
one grant, 2021 · $10k

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.

New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health

Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Global Down Syndrome Foundation

To significantly improve the lives of people with down syndrome through research, medical care, education and advocacy. an important part of this mission is to support the global affiliate organizations that we helped establish and…

Health

Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health

Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health

Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

The Lieber Institute Inc

The mission of the institute is to translate basic genetic and molecular mechanisms of schizophrenia and related developmental brain disorders into clinical advances that change the lives of affected individuals. it is catalyzing a new…

Health

Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health

Society for Neuroscience

Sfn's mission is to: 1. advance the understanding of the brain and the nervous system by bringing together scientists of all segments of neuroscience, by facilitating the integration of research directed at all levels of biological…

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Oliver Scholars Program Inc; the most unlike its peers is Museum of the City of New York. 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

36 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. 36 of the 92 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)

35/36

Grantees still filing

18/36

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$779,318Health$123,400Education$115,350Community Improvement$29,250Human Services$15,000International$7,500Philanthropy$7,000

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.

The Matthew 185 FoundationNJ13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Matthew 185 Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Stephen M Dowicz Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Stephen M Dowicz Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

5get no government money at all

6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%

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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