· Private foundation
The Powell Foundation Inc
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 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $84k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MT ENNON BAPTIST CHRUCH | $49,400 |
| Individual grant recipient | $24,524 |
| FIRST AME BAPTIST CHURCH | $10,000 |
| DELTA FOUNDATION INC | $6,000 |
| SPELMAN COLLEGE | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,995 |
| HAMPTON UNIVERSITY | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,409 |
| FRANCIS MARION UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 92% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.
12 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SCSpelman College4× · 2018–2025 · $78k · revenue +4%
- MCMOREHOUSE COLLEGE3× · 2022–2024 · $27k · revenue +21%
- BSBULLIS SCHOOL2× · 2017–2020 · $26k · revenue +69%
Funded once
- AJANDREW JACKSON ACADEMYone grant, 2024 · $20k
- RRRAPPAHANNOCK REGIONAL UPLIFT & SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $6k
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.
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Mcdaniel college is a diverse student-centered community committed to excellence in the liberal arts & sciences and professional studies with careful mentoring and attention to the individual. mcdaniel changes lives. we challenge students…
Coker university is a student-centered, comprehensive university. it is dedicated to providing every student an academic curriculum based upon a uniformly excellent liberal arts core that enhances the structured development of key personal…
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…
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The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 42 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.
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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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Powell Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Powell Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Stevenson University: 6% of income from government
- University of Miami: 5% of income from government
- University of Maryland Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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