California · Private foundation
The Edward M 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.
- $5.0M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 25
- Grants FY2025
- 2
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 100%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $4,800,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 5
- FY2022 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $163M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 100% of the organizations The Edward M Dowd Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.1M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 25 | $5.0M | 92% |
| FY2024 | 2 | $3.1M | 100% |
| FY2023 | 3 | $141k | 100% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $55k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College | $5,800,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Christian Brothers Institute of California | $2,100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| National Multiple Sclerosis Society | $125,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Natividad Medical Foundation | $77,225 | 1 | n/a |
| Food Bank for Monterey County | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Meals on Wheels of the Salinas Valley | $15,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Grower-Shipper Association Foundation | $15,000 | 1 | 13% |
| Franciscan Workers of Junipero Serra | $12,200 | 1 | 0% |
| University of Rochester | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Palma School Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
Show all 22 grantees
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($68k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Edward M Dowd Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
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About The Edward M Dowd Foundation
- How much does The Edward M Dowd Foundation give?
- The Edward M Dowd Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $5,008,325 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 5 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
- What does The Edward M Dowd Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (94%), Health (4%), Food & Nutrition (1%).
- Who are The Edward M Dowd Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College ($5.8M), Christian Brothers Institute of California ($2.1M), National Multiple Sclerosis Society ($125k).
- Does The Edward M Dowd Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Edward M Dowd 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 Edward M Dowd Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The James Irvine Foundation.
- Where is The Edward M Dowd Foundation based?
- The Edward M Dowd Foundation is based in CA.
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