· Private foundation
The Vincent Dowling Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| TALCOTT MOUNTAIN SCIENCE CENTER FOR STUDENT INVOLV | $5,000 |
| SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| THE AMERICAN IRELAND FUND | $5,000 |
| FLORENCE GRISWOLD MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE | $2,500 |
| TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE | $2,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–20, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 94% of those 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 20% 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.
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.
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 +19% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
PRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE3× · 2017–2020 · $2.8M · revenue +9%- AOAVON OLD FARMS SCHOOL INC5× · 2017–2024 · $750k · revenue +61%
- HYHARTFORD YOUTH SCHOLARS INC7× · 2017–2024 · $213k · revenue +95%
Funded once
- TIThe Imagineers Foundation Incone grant, 2020 · $1.0M · revenue -99% · 67% of their budget
- CCCONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $700k · revenue +114%
- SRSEA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $500k · revenue -20%
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.
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…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
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.
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Mitchell college educates students through a highly individualized educational approach that brings forward each student's potential, reveals their strengths, and fosters personal growth.
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.
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Taft School Corporation and the most unlike its peers is The Imagineers Foundation Inc. 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 43 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.
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.
55 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 55 of the 64 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.
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- Who funds AVON OLD FARMS SCHOOL INC ↗
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- Who funds SEA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD YOUTH SCHOLARS INC ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVEMENT FIRST INC ↗
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- Who funds ST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WADSWORTH ATHENEUM MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN IRELAND FUND (DBA THE IRELAND FUNDS AMERICA/THE IRELAND FUNDS) ↗
- Who funds KINGSWOOD OXFORD SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE HORACE BUSHNELL MEMORIAL HALL ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARCO ISLAND ACADEMY A PUBLIC CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD ↗
- Who funds VERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
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- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE NEW JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds YANKEE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY ↗
- Who funds THE JOHN'S ISLAND FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR INNER CITY EDUCATION DBA PARTNERSHIP SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds BUILDING HOMES FOR HEROES INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION TO ERADICATE DUCHENNE INC ↗
- Who funds HILL-STEAD MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds WALKS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CHARTER OAK AMATEUR BOXING ACADEMY AND YOUTH DEV PROGRAM INC ↗
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: Aetna Foundation Inc · Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · Farmington Bank Community Foundation Inc · The Robert & Margaret Patricelli Family Foundation · The William and Alice Mortensen Foundation · The Maximilian E and Marion O Hoffman Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · The Shulansky Foundation Inc · Enid Storm Dwyer Foundation · Burton & Phyllis Hoffman Foundation Inc · Cheryl Chase & Stuart Bear Family 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 organization 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.
- The Village for Families and Children — 50% of income from government
- Covenant House New Jersey Inc — 34% of income from government
- The Mark Twain Memorial — 22% of income from government
- Lyme Land Conservation Trust Inc — 16% of income from government
- Sea Research Foundation Inc — 8% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Hill-Stead Museum — 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art — 5% of income from government
- Connecticut Children's Medical Center — 5% of income from government
- Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc — 3% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
- Florence Griswold Museum Inc — 2% of income from government
- University of Hartford — 1% of income from government
- Kingswood Oxford School Inc — 0% of income from government
- Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
- Achievement First 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.
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