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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 FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$1k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Environment$179kArts & Culture$71kPhilanthropy$9kEducation$4kAnimals$4kInternational$3kHuman Services$2kFood & Nutrition$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$500
Median grant
2
States reached
$704k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COLORADO OPEN LANDS$1,000
OPERA COLORADO$500
VOLUNTEERS FOR OUTDOOR COLORADO$208
CENTRAL PARK CONSERVATORY$100
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 24% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SCENIC HUDSON: $30k → 9%LAND TRUST ALLIANCE: $15k → 14%YALE ENVIRONMENT 360 ONLINE ATTN FINANCE: $1k → 12%COLORADO OPEN LANDS: $55k → 7%COLORADO HEADWATERS LAND TRUST: $250 → 7%OPERA COLORADO: $500 → 8%SCENIC HUDSON: $15k → 9%COLORADO OPEN LANDS: $15k → 7%REGIS JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL: $500 → 8%SCENIC HUDSON: $5k → 9%COLORADO OPEN LANDS: $10k → 7%COLORADO PUBLIC RADIO: $45k → 8%MERCY COPRS: $500 → 12%COLORADO PUBLIC RADIO: $5k → 8%COLORADO OPEN LANDS: $6k → 7%COLORADO PUBLIC RADIO: $5k → 8%DENVER MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE: $2k → 12%DENVER MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE: $2k → 12%AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $500 → 17%COLORADO OPEN LANDS: $1k → 7%DENVER MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE: $2k → 12%DENVER MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE: $2k → 12%DENVER ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION: $400 → 12%FOREST TRENDS: $2k → 14%FOREST TRENDS: $1k → 14%FOREST TRENDS: $1k → 14%FOREST TRENDS: $1k → 14%THE PARK PEOPLE: $1k → 12%THE PARK PEOPLE: $750 → 12%THE PARK PEOPLE: $600 → 12%THE PARK PEOPLE: $500 → 12%COLORADO WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $750 → 12%COLORADO WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $750 → 12%COLORADO WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $750 → 12%COLORADO WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $600 → 12%COLORADO SYMPHONY ASSOCATION: $3k → 12%COLORADO SYMPHONY ASSOCATION: $2k → 12%COLORADO SYMPHONY ASSOCATION: $1k → 12%CONSERVATION COLORADO: $1k → 12%CONSERVATION COLORADO: $1k → 12%CONSERVATION COLORADO: $1k → 12%CONSERVATION COLORADO: $1k → 12%COLORADO SYMPHONY ASSOCATION: $1k → 12%MULTIPLE AUTHORIZED CHARITIES: $9k → 12%ROCKY MOUNTAIN PBS: $580 → 12%ROCKY MOUNTAIN PBS: $575 → 12%ROCKY MOUNTAIN PBS: $500 → 12%ROCKY MOUNTAIN PBS: $500 → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$249k · 49 repeat orgs$27k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +20% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

49 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 47 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

49
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Total granted

$249k
$26k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
0%

Still filing today

73%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $600 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentArts & CultureHealthAnimalsInternationalFood & NutritionOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • CO
    COLORADO OPEN LANDS
    5× · 2021–2025 · $87k · revenue +93%
  • PB
    PUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $55k · revenue +9%
  • SH
    Scenic Hudson Inc
    3× · 2022–2024 · $50k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • LT
    LAND TRUST ALLIANCE INC
    one grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue 0%
  • MA
    MULTIPLE AUTHORIZED CHARITIES
    one grant, 2020 · $9k
  • YS
    YALE SOM 1982 SCHOLARSHIP FUND
    one grant, 2023 · $1k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Mountain Area Land Trust

Mountain area land trust's mission is to save natural areas, wildlife habitat, streams and rivers, working ranches and historic lands, for the benefit of the community and as a legacy for future generations.

Environment
2
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
3
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
4
Rocky Mountain Wild

Rocky mountain wild works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the southern rocky mountain region. we work to secure the biodiversity of the mountains, plains, and desert ecosystems of colorado, wyoming, utah, and…

Environment
5
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
6
Colorado Water Trust

To restore water to colorado's rivers.

Environment
7
Montana Wildlife Federation

The montana wildlife federation is a statewide conservation organization dedicated to protecting wildlife, wildlife habitat, and public access for outdoor recreation.

Animals
8
Property and Environment Research Center

Perc is dedicated to advancing conservation through markets, incentives, property rights, and partnerships.

Public Benefit
9
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
10
Greater Yellowstone Coalition

Greater yellowstone coalition works with all people to protect the lands, waters, and wildlife of the greater yellowstone ecosystem, now and for future generations.

Environment
11
Cdp North America Inc

Cdp north america, inc. 's ("cdp-na") vision for the future is a thriving economy that works for people and planet in the long term. we focus investors and companies on taking urgent action to build a truly sustainable economy by measuring…

Environment
12
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Conservation Colorado and the most unlike its peers is Para La Naturaleza Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%5%10–20yr19%21%20–35yr14%47%35–55yr13%28%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%0%10–20yr19%3%20–35yr14%88%35–55yr13%9%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/46
the rest of the field
12%
5,591/47,161

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

45 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 45 of the 62 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/45
Grantees still filing
30/45
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

COLORADO OPEN LANDS — $87,375 · EnvironmentCOLORADO OPEN LANDSScenic Hudson Inc — $50,000 · EnvironmentScenic Hudson IncLAND TRUST ALLIANCE INC — $15,000 · EnvironmentLAND TRUST ALLIANCE INC+7 more — $3,125 · EnvironmentPUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC — $55,000 · Arts & CulturePUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORA…Colorado Museum of Natural History — $6,000 · Arts & CultureColorado Museum of Natural Hi…COLORADO SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION — $6,000 · Arts & CultureCOLORADO SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION+5 more — $3,855 · Arts & Culture+5 moreMULTIPLE AUTHORIZED CHARITIES — $8,788 · OtherMULTIPLE AUTHOR…YALE SCHOOL OF ENVIRONMENT-ANNUAL FUND — $4,500 · OtherYALE SCHOOL OF …FOREST TRENDS — $4,500 · OtherFOREST TRENDSTHE PARK PEOPLE — $2,850 · OtherTHE PARK PEOPLEYALE ALUMNI FUND — $2,550 · OtherYALE ALUMNI FUN…THE SAND COUNTY FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 · OtherYALE ENVIRONMENT 360 ONLINE ATTN FINANCE — $1,350 · Other+27 more — $11,308 · Other+27 moreCONSERVATION COLORADO — $4,000 · Civil RightsCOLORADO WILDLIFE FEDERATION INC — $2,850 · AnimalsNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION — $400 · AnimalsDENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION — $300 · AnimalsMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $1,850 · InternationalMercy Corps — $500 · InternationalAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC — $425 · InternationalFeeding America — $805 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES — $750 · Food & NutritionCOLORADO CATTLEMEN'S AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST — $450 · Food & Nutrition
Environment$155,500Arts & Culture$70,855Other$37,846Civil Rights$4,000Animals$3,550International$2,775Food & Nutrition$2,005

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCOLORADO OPEN LANDS — $87,375 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetPUBLIC BROADCASTING OF COLORADO INC — $55,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetScenic Hudson Inc — $50,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetLAND TRUST ALLIANCE INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetColorado Museum of Natural History — $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION — $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCONSERVATION COLORADO — $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCOLORADO WILDLIFE FEDERATION INC — $2,850 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetTHE PARK PEOPLE — $2,850 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC — $2,155 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SAND COUNTY FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $1,850 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER RESCUE MISSION — $1,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPARA LA NATURALEZA INC — $1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION — $850 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America — $805 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES — $750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVOLUNTEERS FOR OUTDOOR COLORADO — $608 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDenver Architecture Foundation — $600 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC — $550 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRETRO REPORT INC — $500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOPERA COLORADO — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Corps — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRocky Mountain Institute — $450 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO CATTLEMEN'S AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST — $450 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMESA COUNTY LAND CONSERVANCY INC — $450 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO HEADWATERS LAND TRUST — $450 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN RIVERS INC — $450 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Alliance For Collective Action — $425 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC — $425 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWoodwell Climate Research Center Inc — $400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY — $400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION — $400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDENVER ZOOLOGICAL FOUNDATION — $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE IRISH REPERTORY THEATRE COMPANYINC — $250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO FOURTEENERS INITIATIVE — $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENT AMERICA RESEARCH AND POLICY CENTER INC — $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLA CLINICA TEPEYAC — $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MONTANA LAND RELIANCE — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ACCESS FUND — $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Colorado Gives Founda…The Denver FoundationGates Family Foundati…Rose Community Founda…Xcel Energy FoundationThe Jerry Gart Family…El Pomar FoundationHill Foundation Wells…Prologis FoundationKenneth Kendal King F…Environmental Defense…Western Union Foundat…
Colorado Gives FoundationCO29.4× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Michael P Dowling Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 47%
  • Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
  • Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc — 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Michael P Dowling Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Michael P Dowling 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 62 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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