How much does The Anne R Dow Family Foundation Inc give?

The Anne R Dow Family Foundation Inc reported 19 grants totaling $81,346 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 19 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Anne R Dow Family Foundation Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Civil Rights (29%), International (29%), Environment (12%).

Who are The Anne R Dow Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Cambodian Childrens Fund ($112k), Human Rights Campaign Foundation ($68k), Friends of the Earth ($67k).

Does The Anne R Dow Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Anne R Dow Family Foundation Inc 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 The Anne R Dow Family Foundation Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, The Pfizer Foundation Inc, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.

Where is The Anne R Dow Family Foundation Inc based?

The Anne R Dow Family Foundation Inc is based in MA.

The Anne R Dow Family Foundation Inc

The Anne R Dow Family Foundation Inc at a glance

· 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.

$81k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$16k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Civil Rights$200kInternational$198kEnvironment$82kHealth$67kEducation$52kCommunity Improvement$31kYouth Development$19kArts & Culture$17kOther$0

02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k17 grants · $53k
$10k–50k2 grants · $28k

$2,500

Median grant

States reached

$1.4M

Total assets

Largest grants
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
SCHOOL FOR LIFE FOUNDATION	$4,067
FISTULA FOUNDATION	$4,067
AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE DEVELOPMENT	$4,067
NPR	$4,000
TIN MOUNTAIN CONSERVATION CENTER	$2,500
FRIENDS OF THE EARTH	$2,457
MA KA HANA KA 'IKE BUILDING PROGRAM	$2,034
PLOUGHSHARES FUND	$2,034
VOTEORG	$2,034
ONE ACRE FUND	$2,033

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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$663k · 22 repeat orgs$26k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$663k

$12k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%

+41%

Still filing today

82%

100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationCivil RightsInternationalArts & CultureEnvironmentPhilanthropyOther

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

HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION
9× · 2017–2025 · $68k · revenue +58%
FO
FRIENDS OF THE EARTH
9× · 2017–2025 · $67k · revenue +63%
The Fistula Foundation
9× · 2017–2025 · $57k · revenue +42%

Funded once

TC
The Children's Health Fund
one grant, 2017 · $9k · revenue -56%
COMMUNITY SERVINGS INCgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +41%
BOSTON ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION INCgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +95%

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.

Aclu Foundation of Massachusetts Inc

Aclu foundation of ma was established to defend freedoms guaranteed in the constitution and bill of rights through public education and litigation.

Civil Rights

Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education

American Civil Liberties Union Fund of the District of Columbia

Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.

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American Association for the Advancement of Science

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,…

Science & Tech

American Gas Association

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…

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Open Markets Institute

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.

Education

Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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The Common Application Inc

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…

Education

Mit Free Speech Alliance

To promote free expression, academic freedom, viewpoint diversity, and open scientific inquiry in the MIT community

Civil Rights

American Civil Liberties Union of Maine

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…

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Internet Society Foundation

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…

International

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cambodian Childrens Fund; 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.

04the grantee network

26 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. 26 of the 30 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)

25/26

Grantees still filing

16/26

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Civil Rights$183,668Philanthropy$111,864Other$143,877International$85,317Environment$75,164Health$57,390Education$32,129

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.

Boston Foundation IncMA12.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 The Anne R Dow Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Anne R Dow Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

5get no government money at all

4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

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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