· Private foundation
The Robert N and Nancy a Downey Foundation
Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2026.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2026
- Under $10k7 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $93k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $109k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION | $58,900 |
| TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE | $50,000 |
| OHIO PROGRESSIVE COLLABORATIVE EDUCATION FUND | $25,000 |
| WILLIAM J BRENNAN JR CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC | $25,000 |
| REACH THE WORLD COMPANY | $13,000 |
| PEPPERWOOD FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME | $10,000 |
| THE MABEL MERCER FOUNDATION INC | $5,300 |
| 54 BELOW INC | $5,000 |
| WANER CHILDREN'S VASCULAR ANOMALY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| ENTERTAINMENT COMMUNITY FUND | $3,000 |
| DARTMOUTH-HITCHCOCK HEALTH | $1,000 |
| THE STUTTERING ASSOCIATION FOR THE YOUNG | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN INSTITUE FOR STUTTERING | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY25–26) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 84% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2026, 13 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (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 FY2026, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $118k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TMTHE MABEL MERCER FOUNDATION INC5× · 2020–2026 · $102k · revenue +67%
- ITINTERNATIONAL TENNIS HALL OF FAME INCORPORATED2× · 2020–2023 · $23k · revenue +101%
- KCKEYSTONE CENTER2× · 2020–2025 · $15k · revenue +92%
Funded once
- THThe Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Incgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +26%
- BCBROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INCone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +18%
- FFFUND FOR THE NEW SCHOOL BOULDER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOLone grant, 2025 · $15k · revenue 0%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Actors' Fund of America and the most unlike its peers is Holland Lodge Historical Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
51 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 51 of the 88 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 THE MABEL MERCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds REACH THE WORLD COMPANY ↗
- Who funds Ohio Progressive Collaborative Education Fund ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds The Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL TENNIS HALL OF FAME INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds BROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds KEYSTONE CENTER ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR THE NEW SCHOOL BOULDER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PEPPERWOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MISS PORTER'S SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE NIGHTINGALE-BAMFORD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds 54 BELOW INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH ↗
- Who funds ALPHA DELTA ALUMNI CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Gifford Medical Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Museum of Modern Art ↗
- Who funds ENSEMBLE STUDIO THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds THE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER ↗
- Who funds IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN VETERANS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds RAZOM INC ↗
- Who funds NYU LANGONE HOSPITALS ↗
- Who funds UCSF FOUNDATION INVESTMENT COMPANY ↗
- Who funds THE ALOHA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds 101 EAST 69TH STREET CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds American Museum of Natural History ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The New York Community Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Ford Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Tides Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust
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 Robert N and Nancy a Downey 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.
- Eugene O'neill Memorial Theater Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Gifford Medical Center Inc — 0% of income from government
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.