· Private foundation
The Richmond Lee Downey Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY FREE CLINIC | $5,000 |
| WILLIAMSPORT FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| GIRLS INCORPORATED OF WASHINGTON CO | $4,500 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WASHINGTON C | $4,500 |
| WASHINGTON COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $3,000 |
| FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH | $3,000 |
| MARYLAND THEATRE ASSOCIATION INC | $3,000 |
| WASHINGTON COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $3,000 |
| WASHINGTON COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $3,000 |
| WASHINGTON COUNTY FREE LIBRARY | $2,500 |
| FRIENDS OF THE WASHINGTON COUNTY | $2,000 |
| WASHINGTON COUNTY MUSEUM OF | $2,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF | $2,000 |
| WASHINGTON CNTY COUNCIL OF CHURCHES | $2,000 |
| CHILDREN'S VILLAGE OF WASHINGTON CO | $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 (FY20–20, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +27% since the first grant, against -6% for those funded once.
18 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF WASHINGTON COUNTY9× · 2017–2025 · $25k · revenue +280%
- CFCOMMUNITY FREE CLINIC INC9× · 2017–2025 · $23k · revenue +9%
- TMTHE MARYLAND THEATRE ASSOCIATION9× · 2017–2025 · $20k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- LRLEITERSBURG RURITAN COMMUNITY CENTER INCone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue -40%
- NCNATIONAL CHILD SAFETY COUNCILone grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue -6%
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.
The organization is charged with fostering an interest in the history of washington county, maryland and the vicinity.
It is the mission of the wicomico county free library to serve the people of wicomico county by supporting education, enriching lives, and building community.
Local museum and historical society
Preserve the history of Harford County, Maryland
Preservation and promotion of the history, traditions, and culture of westmoreland county, virginia and preservation of historical records of the county.
Museum
Historical museum & educational society
Residents of county will receive accurate information in various formats through the dorchester county public library. this information will successfully address residents' high priority education, recreation, and informational needs in a…
Residents of queen anne's county will receive information and materials in various formats through public library service which successfully addresses their educational, informational and recreational needs in a cost effective manner.
Provide historical records and documents
Historical museum and library. preservation of historical information and materials relating to barton county kansas.
The mission is implemented through: intentional art collecting in the focus areas of american art and world cultures, barrier free public access and free admission to art collections of national importance, vigilant preservation and…
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 20 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 BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF WASHINGTON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARYLAND THEATRE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON COUNTY FREE LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds BROOKES HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of the Wash Co Rural Heritage Museum Inc ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY STATION AT HAGERSTOWN INC ↗
- Who funds LEITERSBURG RURITAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CHILD SAFETY COUNCIL ↗
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: The Community Foundation of Washington County Maryland Inc · The John R Hershey and Anna L Hershey Family Foundation Inc · Delaplaine Foundation Inc · Nora Roberts Foundation · W Lee & Rosalie Ridenour Foundation Inc · Kershner Sisters Foundation · Alice V & David W Fletcher Foundation Inc · The Hamilton Family Foundation Inc · Richard N Funkhouser Foundationinc · The Jone L Bowman Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Richmond Lee Downey Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Richmond Lee Downey Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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