· Private foundation
The Dowd 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $1,100 |
| ST PIUS V SHRINE | $655 |
| HEARTBEAT INTERNATIONAL | $250 |
| TURNING POINT USA | $100 |
| Individual grant recipient | $40 |
| IMMACULATE CONCEPTION CHURCH | $15 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 63% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +221% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.
7 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 5 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $405 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- VCVARIOUS CATHOLIC PARISHES4× · 2017–2020 · $3k
- TSTHE ST JOHN CANTIUS4× · 2017–2020 · $3k
- IGIndividual grant recipient3× · 2022–2025 · $2k
Funded once
- SMST MICHAEL'S MEDIA INCone grant, 2022 · $500 · revenue -93%
- TSTHE ST JOHN CANTIUS CANTIAN FUNDone grant, 2021 · $500
- PUPRAGER U FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $200
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.
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.
The institute on religion and public life is an interreligious, nonpartisan research and educational 501(c)(3) organization. the institute's mission is to articulate a governing consensus that supports: (see schedule o)- a religiously…
University education grounded in the traditions and faith of the roman catholic church
The institute's mission is to conduct research on key issues facing society to help both the church and society deal thoughtfully with the major issues they face globally. the institute also sponsors and conducts research and scholarship…
The International Catholic Jurists Forum (ICJF) was established to produce, compile, and share resources on fundamental human rights under attack in the regional and international human rights protection systems. It operates as a forum for…
Catholic answers is an apostolate dedicated to serving christ by bringing the fullness of catholic truth to the world. we help good catholics become better catholics, bring former catholics home, and lead non-catholics into the fullness of…
Promoting the traditional, pre-1958 roman catholic faith and religion exclusively. this is accomplished by the promulgation of religious and educational materials including (but not limited to) videos, podcasts, and writings.
To glorify god by equipping the church with proper christian doctrine and to help non-believers come to a saving knowledge of jesus christ.
The dynamic catholic mission is to re-energize the catholic church in america by developing world-class resources that inspire people to rediscover the genius of catholicism.
Inspired by don boscos vision of the two pillarsatop which stood our lady on one pillar and the most holy eucharist on the otherthe goal of regina angelorum institute is to help souls come to know and love jesus, especially in the blessed…
Keep the faith is a catholic lay apostolate devoted to assist in the dissemanation of good catholic doctrine
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 27 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds AMERICAN OPINION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LUDWIG VON MISES INSTITUTE FOR AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS INC ↗
- Who funds ST MICHAEL'S MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds HEARTBEAT INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds CANONS REGULAR OF ST JOHN CANTIUS ↗
- Who funds THE AMDG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
- Who funds ROMAN CATHOLIC FAITHFUL ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL VACCINE INFORMATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THOMAS MORE SOCIETY ↗
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: American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Dowd Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Dowd Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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