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The Robert N and Nancy a Downey Foundation at a glance

· 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.

$223k
Granted FY2026still arriving
15
Grants FY2026still arriving
6
States reached
$59k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2026.

Education$504kArts & Culture$197kHealth$154kRecreation & Sports$90kEnvironment$33kCivil Rights$25kPhilanthropy$10kScience & Tech$10kOther$0
02FY2026 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k7 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $93k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $109k
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION$58,900
TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE$50,000
WILLIAM J BRENNAN JR CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC$25,000
OHIO PROGRESSIVE COLLABORATIVE EDUCATION FUND$25,000
REACH THE WORLD COMPANY$13,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME$10,000
PEPPERWOOD FOUNDATION$10,000
THE MABEL MERCER FOUNDATION INC$5,300
WANER CHILDREN'S VASCULAR ANOMALY FOUNDATION$5,000
54 BELOW INC$5,000
ENTERTAINMENT COMMUNITY FUND$3,000
THE STUTTERING ASSOCIATION FOR THE YOUNG$1,000
DARTMOUTH-HITCHCOCK HEALTH$1,000
AMERICAN INSTITUE FOR STUTTERING$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY25–26) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 84% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%PEPPERWOOD FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $59k → 6%PUTNAM COUNTY VOLUNTEER FIREMEN'S ASSOCIATION: $1k → 6%HELP YOURSELF FOUNDATION: $1k → 12%ASHOKAN CENTER INC: $3k → 16%AMERICAN INSTITUE FOR STUTTERING: $1k → 17%BILL ROMPF JUNIOR TENNIS FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 16%REACH THE WORLD COMPANY: $26k → 14%EUGENE ONEILL MEMORIAL THEATER CENTER INC: $1k → 9%TEMPLE SINAI STAMFORD: $10k → 9%MISS PORTERS SCHOOL INC: $7k → 11%DAFGIVING360: $10k → 3%KEYSTONE POLICY CENTER: $5k → 9%BOULDER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $15k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME: $10k → 13%OHIO PROGRESSIVE COLLABORATIVE EDUCATION FUND: $25k → 15%GIFFORD MEDICAL CENTER INC: $10k → 10%ALPHA DELTA ALUMNI CORPORATION: $10k → 5%TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE: $78k → 10%NYU LANGONE HOSPITALS: $5k → 17%REACH THE WORLD COMPANY: $13k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME: $10k → 13%TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE: $50k → 10%THE STUTTERING ASSOCIATION FOR THE YOUNG: $1k → 17%THE STUTTERING ASSOCIATION FOR THE YOUNG: $1k → 17%101 EAST 69TH STREET CONSERVANCY: $5k → 17%HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY: $5k → 17%THE BRICK CHURCH SCHOOL: $1k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA: $10k → 17%ENSEMBLE STUDIO THEATRE INC: $10k → 17%54 BELOW INC: $5k → 17%54 BELOW INC: $5k → 17%WANER CHILDREN'S VASCULAR ANOMALY FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%ENTERTAINMENT COMMUNITY FUND: $3k → 17%WILLIAM J BRENNAN JR CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC: $25k → 17%THE NIGHTINGALE-BAMFORD SCHOOL: $7k → 17%THE BRICK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $2k → 17%THE NEW YORK BROWNING SOCIETY: $500 → 17%THE MABEL MERCER FOUNDATION INC: $71k → 17%THE MABEL MERCER FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NH
NY
IN
OH
CT
CA
CO
DC
OK
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$689k · 21 repeat orgs$377k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +9% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
57

Total granted

$689k
$259k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+9%

Still filing today

71%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $118k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’23’24’25’26
Arts & CultureHealthEducationHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TM
    THE MABEL MERCER FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2020–2026 · $102k · revenue +67%
  • IT
    INTERNATIONAL TENNIS HALL OF FAME INCORPORATED
    2× · 2020–2023 · $23k · revenue +101%
  • KC
    KEYSTONE CENTER
    2× · 2020–2025 · $15k · revenue +92%

Funded once

  • TH
    The Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Incgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +26%
  • BC
    BROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +35%
  • FF
    FUND FOR THE NEW SCHOOL BOULDER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL
    one grant, 2025 · $15k · revenue 0%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
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
2
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.

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3
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
4
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
5
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
Boston Architectural College

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

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8
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Actors' Fund of America; 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.
04the grantee network

51 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 51 of the 85 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/51
Grantees still filing
33/51
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE: $372,500 · OtherTRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGETHE MABEL MERCER FOUNDATION INC: $101,650 · OtherTHE MABEL MERCER FOUNDATION INCFriends Of Dartmouth Football: $30,000 · Other+45 more: $174,656 · Other+45 moreREACH THE WORLD COMPANY: $39,000 · EducationREACH THE WO…WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC: $25,000 · EducationWILLIAM J BR…University of Notre Dame du Lac: $20,000 · EducationUniversity o…MISS PORTER'S SCHOOL INC: $13,500 · EducationMISS PORTER'…THE NIGHTINGALE-BAMFORD SCHOOL: $13,500 · EducationTHE NIGHTING…UCSF FOUNDATION INVESTMENT COMPANY: $5,000 · Education+2 more: $4,500 · EducationNORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $58,900 · HealthNORTHWELL HE…The Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc: $25,000 · HealthThe Hospital…NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $10,000 · HealthNATIONAL JEW…Gifford Medical Center Inc: $10,000 · HealthGifford Medi…NYU LANGONE HOSPITALS: $5,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital Corporation: $5,000 · HealthDartmouth-Hitchcock Health: $4,000 · Health+2 more: $2,000 · HealthAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA: $17,500 · Arts & Culture54 BELOW INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureENSEMBLE STUDIO THEATRE INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureMuseum of Modern Art: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER: $5,717 · Arts & Culture564 PARK AVENUE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Arts & Culture101 EAST 69TH STREET CONSERVANCY: $5,000 · Arts & CultureAmerican Museum of Natural History: $5,000 · Arts & CultureSTUTTERING ASSOCIATION FOR THE YOUNG INC: $3,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $5,300 · Arts & CultureKEYSTONE CENTER: $15,000 · EnvironmentPEPPERWOOD FOUNDATION: $15,000 · EnvironmentASHOKAN CENTER INC: $5,000 · EnvironmentINTERNATIONAL TENNIS HALL OF FAME INCORPORATED: $22,500 · Recreation & SportsTHE ALOHA FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsUSTA FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $2,500 · Recreation & SportsOhio Progressive Collaborative Education Fund: $25,000 · Civil Rights
Other$678,806Education$120,500Health$119,900Arts & Culture$76,517Environment$35,000Recreation & Sports$30,000Civil Rights$25,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE MABEL MERCER FOUNDATION INC: $101,650 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetREACH THE WORLD COMPANY: $39,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetThe Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL TENNIS HALL OF FAME INCORPORATED: $22,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ROYAL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA: $17,500 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetFUND FOR THE NEW SCHOOL BOULDER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKEYSTONE CENTER: $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPEPPERWOOD FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMISS PORTER'S SCHOOL INC: $13,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NIGHTINGALE-BAMFORD SCHOOL: $13,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetENSEMBLE STUDIO THEATRE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALPHA DELTA ALUMNI CORPORATION: $10,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGifford Medical Center Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER: $5,717 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUCSF FOUNDATION INVESTMENT COMPANY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN VETERANS OF AMERICA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget564 PARK AVENUE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ALOHA FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetASHOKAN CENTER INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRAZOM INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDartmouth-Hitchcock Health: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEW VISIONS FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTUTTERING ASSOCIATION FOR THE YOUNG INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUSTA FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetQUEEN SOFIA SPANISH INSTITUTE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGREATER NEW YORK COUNCILS BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWEITZMAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHELP YOURSELF WIN FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPUTNAM VOLUNTEER FIREMENS ASSOCIATION: $1,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetPHIPPS HOUSES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOLLAND LODGE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $800 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSAINT DAVID'S SCHOOL: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR STUTTERING TREATMENT AND PROFESSIONAL TRAINING: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF WESTCHESTER AND PUTNAM: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The New York Communit…Jewish Communal FundThe Goldman Sachs Cha…The Howard Gilman Fou…Gs Donor Advised Phil…National Philanthropi…The Ford FoundationGreater Houston Commu…Vanguard Charitable E…Tides FoundationThe Ayco Charitable F…The Chicago Community…
The New York Community TrustNY15.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Robert N and Nancy a Downey Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Robert N and Nancy a Downey Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Eugene O'neill Memorial Theater Center Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Gifford Medical Center Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 85 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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