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The Pokelwaldt-McDowell Family 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.

$90k
Granted FY2019
11
Grants FY2019
7
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What you fund
0165% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY20172019.

Education$97kPhilanthropy$11kHuman Services$8kHealth$4kOther$65k
02FY2019 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 11 grants below total $83,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $90,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $7,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2019

  • Under $10k7 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$877k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
United States Luge Association$15,000
UCLA Foundation Operation Mend$15,000
alk Institute Development Office$10,000
Outer Banks Community Foundation$10,000
Hampden-Sydney College$8,000
Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center$5,000
Colorado College$5,000
Outer Banks Hospital Development Council$5,000
Alzheimer's Association$4,000
ALS Association$4,000
Outer Banks Relief Foundation$2,000
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:

Your human-services grants (FY17–18, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FOOD FOR THOUGHT: $3k → 8%FOOD FOR THOUGHT: $3k → 8%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

NH
WA
NY
MA
WY
CA
UT
VA
NC
GA

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.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$98k · 20 repeat orgs$60k to everyone else

20 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2019, 19 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
7

Total granted

$98k
$10k

Still filing today

60%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 14% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19
EducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyHealthOther

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

  • GOVERNOR DUMMER ACADEMY THE GOVERNOR'S ACADEMY
    2× · 2017–2018 · $31k · revenue +51%
  • HC
    HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE
    3× · 2017–2019 · $14k · revenue +76%
  • WC
    Wellesley College
    2× · 2017–2018 · $10k · revenue +63%

Funded once

  • CO
    COLLEGE OF ALBEMARLE
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • OM
    OPERATION MEND
    one grant, 2018 · $2k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $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
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
2
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
3
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
4
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

5
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
6
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
7
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
8
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
9
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

10
Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education
11
Williams College

Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.

Education
12
Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Robert Louis Stevenson School and the most unlike its peers is Food for Thought Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

18 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 37 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
16/18
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

GOVERNOR DUMMER ACADEMY THE GOVERNOR'S ACADEMY — $30,500 · EducationGOVERNOR DUMMER ACADEMY THE GOVERNOR'S ACADEMYUCLA FOUNDATION — $17,000 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATIONHAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE — $14,400 · EducationHAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGEWellesley College — $10,000 · EducationWellesley CollegeHARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL — $6,650 · EducationHARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOLElon University — $6,400 · EducationElon UniversityTHE COLORADO COLLEGE — $5,000 · EducationTHE NORFOLK ACADEMY — $3,950 · Education+3 more — $3,500 · EducationUNITED STATES LUGE ASSOCIATION — $15,000 · OtherUNITED STATES LUGE ASSOCIATIONalk Institute Development Office — $10,000 · Otheralk Institute Development OfficeIndividual grant recipient — $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientOuter Banks Hospital Development Council — $5,000 · OtherOuter Banks Hospital Development Counci…Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center — $5,000 · OtherSidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Cent…COLLEGE OF ALBEMARLE — $4,803 · OtherCOLLEGE OF ALBEMARLEALS Association — $4,000 · OtherALS AssociationALL SAINTS EPISCOPSAL CHURCH — $2,200 · Other+13 more — $13,900 · Other+13 moreOUTER BANKS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · PhilanthropyMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION — $1,000 · PhilanthropyFOOD FOR THOUGHT INC — $6,000 · Human ServicesOUTER BANKS RELIEF FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 · Human ServicesALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $4,000 · Health
Education$97,400Other$64,903Philanthropy$11,000Human Services$8,000Health$4,000

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 budgetGOVERNOR DUMMER ACADEMY THE GOVERNOR'S ACADEMY — $30,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION — $17,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES LUGE ASSOCIATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE — $14,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWellesley College — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOUTER BANKS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL — $6,650 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetElon University — $6,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD FOR THOUGHT INC — $6,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetTHE COLORADO COLLEGE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NORFOLK ACADEMY — $3,950 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK — $1,900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON SCHOOL — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIESE Foundation Inc — $1,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHERONFIELD ACADEMY — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 2y, 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.

  • Who funds GOVERNOR DUMMER ACADEMY THE GOVERNOR'S ACADEMY
  • Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION
  • Who funds UNITED STATES LUGE ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE
  • Who funds Wellesley College
  • Who funds OUTER BANKS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds HARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL
  • Who funds Elon University
  • Who funds FOOD FOR THOUGHT INC
  • Who funds THE COLORADO COLLEGE
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC
  • Who funds THE NORFOLK ACADEMY
  • Who funds OUTER BANKS RELIEF FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK
  • Who funds ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON SCHOOL
  • Who funds IESE Foundation Inc
  • Who funds HERONFIELD ACADEMY
  • Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION

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.

Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN8.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Pokelwaldt-McDowell Family 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.

2025
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 1%
  • Governor Dummer Academy the Governor's Academy1% of income from government
  • Wellesley College1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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

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How do I get to The Pokelwaldt-McDowell Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Pokelwaldt-McDowell Family 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 37 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $50k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2019, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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