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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.

$1.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
20
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$6.3MArts & Culture$1.9MHealth$1.3MPhilanthropy$1.1MYouth Development$756kEnvironment$503kPublic Benefit$100kHuman Services$76kOther$0
02FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k12 grants · $34k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $99k
  • $250k+2 grants · $900k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$32M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE$5,000
FLORENCE GRISWOLD MUSEUM$5,000
SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION$5,000
THE AMERICAN IRELAND FUND$5,000
TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE$2,500
TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE$2,000
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:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%DAVIDS DRIVE 831 INC: $2k → 6%CATHOLIC CHARITIES A COMMUNITY SERVICE MINISTRY OF: $5k → 11%OPERATION HEALING FORCES INC: $5k → 12%THE VILLAGE FOR FAMILIES & CHILDREN INC: $1k → 11%COVENANT HOUSE NEW JERSEY INC: $5k → 16%OPERATION HEALING FORCES INC: $5k → 12%COVENANT HOUSE NEW JERSEY INC: $5k → 16%COVENANT HOUSE: $3k → 17%THE VILLAGE FOR FAMILIES & CHILDREN INC: $1k → 11%COVENANT HOUSE: $250 → 17%THE VILLAGE FOR FAMILIES & CHILDREN INC: $1k → 11%THE VILLAGE FOR FAMILIES & CHILDREN INC: $500 → 11%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

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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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 20% of The Vincent Dowling Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Vincent Dowling Family Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 8.4% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.3M · 36 repeat orgs$2.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against +14% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
22

Total granted

$7.3M
$2.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+14%

Still filing today

86%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • PRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE
    3× · 2017–2020 · $2.8M · revenue +9%
  • AO
    AVON OLD FARMS SCHOOL INC
    5× · 2017–2024 · $750k · revenue +61%
  • HY
    HARTFORD YOUTH SCHOLARS INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $213k · revenue +95%

Funded once

  • TI
    The Imagineers Foundation Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $1.0M · revenue -99% · 67% of their budget
  • CC
    CONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $700k · revenue +164%
  • SR
    SEA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $500k · revenue -20%
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.

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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
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
3
Saint Anselm College

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…

Education
4
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

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…

Education
5
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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Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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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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8
Rhode Island School of Design

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…

Education
9
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
10
Mitchell College

Mitchell college educates students through a highly individualized educational approach that brings forward each student's potential, reveals their strengths, and fosters personal growth.

Education
11
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
12
Fordham University

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.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Taft School Corporation; 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.
05the grantee network

55 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. 55 of the 64 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
54/55
Grantees still filing
43/55
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE: $2,825,000 · EducationPRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGETrustees of Dartmouth College: $1,384,500 · EducationTrustees of Dartmouth CollegeAVON OLD FARMS SCHOOL INC: $750,000 · EducationAVON OLD FARMS SCHOOL INCPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $520,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard CollegeHARTFORD YOUTH SCHOLARS INC: $212,596 · Education+8 more: $260,500 · EducationFLORENCE GRISWOLD MUSEUM INC: $1,740,000 · Arts & CultureFLORENCE GRISWOLD…WADSWORTH ATHENEUM MUSEUM OF ART: $75,000 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $79,000 · Arts & CultureTRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE: $1,026,500 · OtherTRUSTEES OF …UNITED WAY INC: $100,000 · OtherUNITED WAY I…THE AMERICAN IRELAND FUND (DBA THE IRELAND FUNDS AMERICA/THE IRELAND FUNDS): $65,000 · Other+27 more: $170,000 · Other+27 moreCONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $700,000 · HealthCONNECTICUT…MAYO CLINIC: $500,000 · HealthMAYO CLINIC+6 more: $27,500 · HealthThe Imagineers Foundation Inc: $1,000,000 · PhilanthropyThe Imagin…ST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC: $78,270 · PhilanthropyST BALDRIC…+2 more: $20,000 · PhilanthropySEA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $500,000 · AnimalsLeadership Program of the Rockies: $90,000 · Public Benefit
Education$5,952,596Arts & Culture$1,894,000Other$1,361,500Health$1,227,500Philanthropy$1,098,270Animals$500,000Public Benefit$90,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE: $2,825,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetFLORENCE GRISWOLD MUSEUM INC: $1,740,000 over 6y, 16% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College: $1,384,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Imagineers Foundation Inc: $1,000,000 over 1y, 67% of budgetAVON OLD FARMS SCHOOL INC: $750,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetCONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $700,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $520,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $500,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSEA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $500,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetHARTFORD YOUTH SCHOLARS INC: $212,596 over 7y, 6.9% of budgetACHIEVEMENT FIRST INC: $125,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLeadership Program of the Rockies: $90,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC: $78,270 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetWADSWORTH ATHENEUM MUSEUM OF ART: $75,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE AMERICAN IRELAND FUND (DBA THE IRELAND FUNDS AMERICA/THE IRELAND FUNDS): $65,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetKINGSWOOD OXFORD SCHOOL INC: $45,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HORACE BUSHNELL MEMORIAL HALL: $41,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARCO ISLAND ACADEMY A PUBLIC CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL: $25,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetYANKEE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE NEW JERSEY INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JOHN'S ISLAND FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBUILDING HOMES FOR HEROES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR INNER CITY EDUCATION DBA PARTNERSHIP SCHOOLS: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION HEALING FORCES INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFOUNDATION TO ERADICATE DUCHENNE INC: $9,500 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetHILL-STEAD MUSEUM: $8,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS TENNESSEE INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWALKS FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetTHE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION: $7,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCHARTER OAK AMATEUR BOXING ACADEMY AND YOUTH DEV PROGRAM INC: $5,250 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEVERAL SOURCES SHELTERS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF SAN DIEGO: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSE OF BREAD INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSCHOOL YEAR ABROAD INC: $4,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MARK TWAIN MEMORIAL: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VILLAGE FOR FAMILIES AND CHILDREN: $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE: $2,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLYME LAND CONSERVATION TRUST INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDAVIDS DRIVE 831 INC: $2,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetNEW ENGLAND DISABLED SPORTS FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 1.8% 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.

Aetna Foundation IncHartford Foundation f…Farmington Bank Commu…The Robert & Margaret…The William and Alice…The Maximilian E and …The Ayco Charitable F…Lincoln Financial Fou…The Shulansky Foundat…Enid Storm Dwyer Foun…Burton & Phyllis Hoff…Cheryl Chase & Stuart…
Aetna Foundation IncCT25× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Vincent Dowling Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Vincent Dowling Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 140%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
14get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.
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How do I get to The Vincent Dowling Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Vincent Dowling Family Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 64 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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