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The Christina and Robert Dow 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.

$18M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
2
Grants FY2024
5
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$12,426,573
Largest grant, FY2024
$12,426,573
Organizations funded a year
2 to 15
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$199M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations The Christina and Robert Dow Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Housing & ShelterHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving1$12M0%
FY20235$11M0%
FY20226$14M17%
FY20216$11M33%
FY20202$11M0%
FY201910$11M20%
FY201814$2.6M7%
FY201715$11Mn/a
93% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$81MPhilanthropy$5.3MHealth$1.0MYouth Development$200kHousing & Shelter$75kCrime & Legal$40kEducation$33kCommunity Improvement$8kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 12 grantees
All grantees of The Christina and Robert Dow Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Christina Seix Academy$81,348,318899%
Williams Cancer Foundation$1,000,0001n/a
Peter Westbrook Foundation Inc$200,000223%
Homefront Inc$60,00060%
Children's Futures Inc$25,00031%
Isles Inc$15,00030%
Charles E Decker Foundation$12,5002n/a
The Oliver Scholars Program Inc$12,50030%
Cal Farley's Boys Ranch$10,00020%
Shiloh Community Development Corp$7,50021%
TASK Inc Trenton Area Soup Kitchen Inc$3,00060%
Lawrenceville Main Street$50011%

Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($192k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Christina and Robert Dow Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 10 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetChristina Seix Academy: $81,348,318 over 8y, 99% of budgetPeter Westbrook Foundation Inc: $200,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetHomefront Inc: $60,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Futures Inc: $25,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetIsles Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Oliver Scholars Program Inc: $12,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCal Farley's Boys Ranch: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetShiloh Community Development Corp: $7,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTASK Inc Trenton Area Soup Kitchen Inc: $3,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLawrenceville Main Street: $500 over 1y, 0.8% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.

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.

National Philanthropic TrustPA8.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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Find your warmest path to The Christina and Robert Dow Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About The Christina and Robert Dow Foundation

How much does The Christina and Robert Dow Foundation give?
The Christina and Robert Dow Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $17,676,573 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 15 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Christina and Robert Dow Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (92%), Philanthropy (6%), Health (1%).
Who are The Christina and Robert Dow Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Christina Seix Academy ($81M), Williams Cancer Foundation ($1.0M), Peter Westbrook Foundation Inc ($200k).
Does The Christina and Robert Dow Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Christina and Robert Dow 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 The Christina and Robert Dow Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Philanthropic Trust, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is The Christina and Robert Dow Foundation based?
The Christina and Robert Dow Foundation is based in NY.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 22 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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