· Private foundation
The Anne R Dow Family Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $53k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $28k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CAMBODIAN CHILDREN'S FUND | $16,269 |
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
| WBUR | $8,000 |
| HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION | $7,000 |
| COMMUNITY PARTNERS (FOR HRDAG) | $4,750 |
| FISTULA FOUNDATION | $4,067 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE DEVELOPMENT | $4,067 |
| SCHOOL FOR LIFE FOUNDATION | $4,067 |
| NPR | $4,000 |
| TIN MOUNTAIN CONSERVATION CENTER | $2,500 |
| FRIENDS OF THE EARTH | $2,457 |
| PLOUGHSHARES FUND | $2,034 |
| MA KA HANA KA 'IKE BUILDING PROGRAM | $2,034 |
| VOTEORG | $2,034 |
| ONE ACRE FUND | $2,033 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY22–22, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
22 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 4 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $68k · revenue +58%- FOFRIENDS OF THE EARTH9× · 2017–2025 · $67k · revenue +63%
The Fistula Foundation9× · 2017–2025 · $57k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- TCThe Children's Health Fundone grant, 2017 · $9k · revenue -56%
COMMUNITY SERVINGS INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +41%
BOSTON ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +95%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Aclu foundation of ma was established to defend freedoms guaranteed in the constitution and bill of rights through public education and litigation.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
To promote free expression, academic freedom, viewpoint diversity, and open scientific inquiry in the MIT community
Mission - the aclu of maine works to support bills that advance civil rights and civil liberties and oppose bills that would curtail them. we also provide voter education about how to vote and voting rights at the polls. we do not endorse…
At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cambodian Childrens Fund and the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 30 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Cambodian Childrens Fund ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE EARTH ↗
- Who funds The Fistula Foundation ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds American Civil Liberties Union Foundation ↗
- Who funds ONE ACRE FUND ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds PLOUGHSHARES FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MA KA HANA KA IKE BUILDING PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds CAMBRIDGE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VOTEORG ↗
- Who funds CAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY CHORUS ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Association of Teachers of Speakers ↗
- Who funds The Children's Health Fund ↗
- Who funds FAIR FIGHT INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds TIN MOUNTAIN CONSERVATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UPPER SACO VALLEY LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds ELLIS EARLY LEARNING INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF MUSEUMS ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BOSTON ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds RAWAN INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Anne R Dow Family Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Ellis Early Learning Inc — 20% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Community Servings Inc — 12% of income from government
- Boston Arts Academy Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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