· Private foundation
The Pokelwaldt-McDowell Family 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 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k7 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UCLA Foundation Operation Mend | $15,000 |
| United States Luge Association | $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 |
| Outer Banks Hospital Development Council | $5,000 |
| Colorado College | $5,000 |
| Alzheimer's Association | $4,000 |
| ALS Association | $4,000 |
| Outer Banks Relief Foundation | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2019, 14% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
GOVERNOR DUMMER ACADEMY THE GOVERNOR'S ACADEMY2× · 2017–2018 · $31k · revenue +51%- HCHAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE3× · 2017–2019 · $14k · revenue +76%
- WCWellesley College2× · 2017–2018 · $10k · revenue +63%
Funded once
- COCOLLEGE OF ALBEMARLEone grant, 2017 · $5k
- OMOPERATION MENDone grant, 2018 · $2k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $1k
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.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
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…
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…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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.
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.
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…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
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.
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.
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…
How this is measured
18 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. 18 of the 37 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 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 HERONFIELD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds IESE Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Pokelwaldt-McDowell Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Pokelwaldt-McDowell Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Governor Dummer Academy the Governor's Academy: 1% of income from government
- Wellesley College: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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