How much did The Vincent Dowling Family Foundation Inc grant in FY2024?

Education$4.6MArts & Culture$1.9MPhilanthropy$1.2MAnimals$500kHealth$428kPublic Benefit$90kHuman Services$28kHousing & Shelter$10kRecreation & Sports$7kOther$3.3M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

museumstudentscholarshipcorporation

2019

healingscholarshipmuseum

2020

museumvillage childrenbuildingboystrusteeshartford youthyouth scholars

2021

—

2022

—

2023

—

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k12 grants · $34k
$10k–50k6 grants · $99k
$250k+2 grants · $900k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$36M

Total assets

Largest grants

TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE$500,000
AVON OLD FARMS SCHOOL INC$400,000
VERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC$25,000
MAYO CLINIC$25,000
HARTFORD YOUTH SCHOLARS FOUNDATION INC$18,737
KINGSWOOD OXFORD SCHOOL INC$10,000
JOHN'S ISLAND FOUNDATION INC$10,000
PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE$10,000
THE AMERICAN IRELAND FUND$5,000
TALCOTT MOUNTAIN SCIENCE CENTER FOR STUDENT INVOLV$5,000
TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE$5,000
FLORENCE GRISWOLD MUSEUM$5,000
SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION$5,000
TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE$2,500
TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE$2,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–20, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 10%. 93% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 8% of The Vincent Dowling Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

The Vincent Dowling Family Foundation Inclessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address · 8.4% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$9.7M · 39 repeat orgs$2.3M to everyone else

39 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$9.7M

$2.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%

+45%

Still filing today

85%

59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsOther

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

PRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE
3× · 2017–2020 · $2.8M · revenue +18%
AO
AVON OLD FARMS SCHOOL INC
5× · 2017–2024 · $750k · revenue +18%
PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE
6× · 2017–2024 · $520k · revenue +5%

Funded once

IF
IMAGINEERS FOUNDATION INCgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $1.0M · revenue +51875% · 67% of their budget
CC
CONNECTICUT CHILDRENS MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION IN
one grant, 2017 · $700k
SR
SEA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INCgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $500k · revenue +45%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Yale University

To improve the world through research, scholarship, education, preservation, and practice.

Education

Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education

New England College

An independent liberal arts college offering undergraduate, graduate and professional programs.

Education

Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians At

As previously noted in this form 990, the mission of harvard medical faculty physicians at beth israel deaconess medical center, inc. is to provide extraordinary healthcare services, where the patient comes first, supported by world-class…

Health

Yale New Haven Hospital

To provide health care services.

Health

Harvard College Trust

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New England Institute of Technology

The mission of new england institute of technology (neit) is described in schedule o*the mission of new england institute of technology (neit) is to provide specialized undergraduate and graduate degree and certificate programs which…

Education

Hartford Hospital

To improve the health and healing of the people and communities we serve.

Health

Williams College

Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.

Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Welfare Benefit Plans Trust

To provide health and life insurance benefits to covered eligible retirees of massachusetts institute of technology and their dependents, as well as individuals receiving long-term disability benefits for at least three years.

Membership Benefit

Washington College

Washington college challenges and inspires emerging citizen leaders to discover lives of purpose and passion.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Taft School Corporation and the most unlike its peers is The Horace Bushnell Memorial Hall. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 44 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/49

the rest of the field

11%

206,164/1,819,516

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.

06the grantee network

47 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

47/47

Grantees still filing

35/47

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Education$4,553,096Other$3,386,000Arts & Culture$1,868,000Philanthropy$1,198,270Animals$500,000Health$427,500Public Benefit$90,000

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.

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.

Hartford Foundation for Public GivingCT34.9× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · Aetna Foundation Inc · Farmington Bank Community · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Maximilian E and Marion O Hoffman · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · United Way Inc · The Robert & Margaret Patricelli Family · Amica Companies Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Connecticut Humanities Council Inc · The Vernon K Krieble Foundation Inc

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 organisation The Vincent Dowling Family Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

14get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: IMAGINEERS FOUNDATION INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~53 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 519.8× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 200856784 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on IMAGINEERS FOUNDATION INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 53 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 67% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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Find your warmest path to The Vincent Dowling Family Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

The Vincent Dowling Family Foundation Inc

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

47 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Vincent Dowling Family Foundation Inc?

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The Vincent Dowling Family Foundation Inc

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

47 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Vincent Dowling Family Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph