Colorado · Private foundation
The Michael P Dowling 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.
- $2k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 4
- Grants FY2025
- 43
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 9%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 47
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $704k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 9% of the organizations The Michael P Dowling Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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 | 4 | $2k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 43 | $120k | 9% |
| FY2023 | 45 | $46k | 9% |
| FY2022 | 47 | $30k | 9% |
| FY2021 | 46 | $70k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $9k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Colorado Open Lands | $87,375 | 5 | 0% |
| Public Broadcasting of Colorado Inc | $55,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Scenic Hudson Inc | $50,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Land Trust Alliance Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Colorado Symphony Association | $6,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Colorado Museum of Natural History | $6,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Conservation Colorado | $4,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Park People | $2,850 | 4 | 0% |
| Colorado Wildlife Federation Inc | $2,850 | 4 | 1% |
| Rocky Mountain Public Media Inc | $2,155 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 45 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($26k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Michael P Dowling 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Gates Family Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · The Jerry Gart Family Foundation AKA TGFF · El Pomar Foundation · Hill Foundation Wells Fargo Bank Na · Prologis Foundation · Kenneth Kendal King Foundation · Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated · Western Union Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Michael P Dowling Foundation
- How much does The Michael P Dowling Foundation give?
- The Michael P Dowling Foundation reported 4 grants totaling $1,808 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 47 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Michael P Dowling Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (65%), Arts & Culture (26%), Philanthropy (3%).
- Who are The Michael P Dowling Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Colorado Open Lands ($87k), Public Broadcasting of Colorado Inc ($55k), Scenic Hudson Inc ($50k).
- Does The Michael P Dowling Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Michael P Dowling 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 Michael P Dowling Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Colorado Gives Foundation, The Denver Foundation, Gates Family Foundation.
- Where is The Michael P Dowling Foundation based?
- The Michael P Dowling Foundation is based in CO.
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