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Willard H Dow II Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$141k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $45k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $96k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Els for Autism Foundation$25,000
Boys and Girls Club of Palm Beach County$20,000
Stock Farm Greater Ravalli Foundation$16,000
Palm Beach Symphony Orchestra$15,000
Norton Museum of Art$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
Society of the Four Arts$5,000
Historical Society of PBC$5,000
Jupiter Medical Center Foundation$5,000
Palm Beach Gardens Police and Fire Rescu$5,000
Marcus Daley Memorial Hospital Foundatio$5,000
Bitterroot Public Library$5,000
Palm Beach Opera$5,000
4H of Hamilton Montana$5,000
Haven House$5,000
02The need
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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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY25–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Stock Farm Greater Ravalli Foundation: $16k → 11%Palm Beach Gardens Police and Fire Rescu: $5k → 11%Haven House: $5k → 11%Els for Autism Foundation: $25k → 11%Bitterroot Public Library: $5k → 11%Norton Museum of Art: $10k → 11%Marcus Daley Memorial Hospital Foundatio: $5k → 11%Jupiter Medical Center Foundation: $5k → 11%4H of Hamilton Montana: $5k → 11%Palm Beach Symphony Orchestra: $15k → 11%Darby Rodeo: $10k → 11%Boys and Girls Club of Palm Beach County: $20k → 11%Palm Beach Opera: $5k → 11%Society of the Four Arts: $5k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein 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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your 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.

1
Jupiter Medical Center Physicians Group Inc

JMCPG is committed to providing compassionate, personalized care from the region's most trusted team of physicians and health care professionals. Across the Palm Beaches and the Treasure Coast of Florida, JMCPG practice locations offer…

Health
2
Jupiter Medical Center Inc

The mission of jupiter medical center is to deliver excellent and compassionate healthcare advancing the well-being of the people we serve, regardless of their ability to pay. certain services are provided at a loss or at no payment…

Health
3
Florida Grand Opera Inc

The mission of florida grand opera is to enrich people's lives through an awareness and deeper appreciation of opera while supporting the operations of the greater miami opera and the opera guild, inc. by expanding its reach to diverse…

Arts & Culture
4
Education Foundation of Palm Beach County Inc

The foundation is the nexus of palm beach county's public schools, the private sector, and the community. it facilitates student achievement by supporting high quality public education through partnership, grants, events and public…

5
Opera Guild Inc of Fort Lauderdale

To enrich people's lives through an awareness and deeper appreciation of opera in broward county.

Arts & Culture
6
The Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach Inc

The Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach advocates, educates, and invests in the community to protect the architectural, botanical, and cultural heritage of Palm Beach.

Arts & Culture
7
Florida Children's Museum Inc

Curating the world for all children to explore

Arts & Culture
8
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
9
The Bolles School

The bolles school prepares students for college and life by inspiring excellence, courage, integrity and compassion in an academic community dedicated to nurturing mind, body and soul.

Education
10
Phelps Memorial Hospital Association

Phelps memorial hospital association ("pmha") is part of northwell health, inc ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the…

Health
11
Greater Miami Opera Inc

The mission of greater miami opera is to enrich people's lives through an awareness and deeper appreciation of opera. by expanding its reach to diverse communities throughout miami and fort lauderdale and wider audiences abroad creating a…

Arts & Culture
12
Bok Tower Gardens Inc

To inspire a better and more beautiful world by sharing edward bok's legacy.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Society of the Four Arts Inc and the most unlike its peers is Haven House. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

8 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 15 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
3/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Palm Beach Symphony Orchestra — $15,000 · OtherPalm Beach Symphony OrchestraIndividual grant recipient — $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMarcus Daley Memorial Hospital Foundatio — $5,000 · OtherMarcus Daley Memorial Hospital FoundatioHistorical Society of PBC — $5,000 · OtherHistorical Society of PBCHAVEN HOUSE — $5,000 · OtherHAVEN HOUSEBitterroot Public Library — $5,000 · OtherBitterroot Public Library4H of Hamilton Montana — $5,000 · Other4H of Hamilton MontanaPalm Beach Gardens Police and Fire Rescu — $5,000 · OtherPalm Beach Gardens Police and Fire RescuELS FOR AUTISM FOUNDATION — $25,000 · HealthELS FOR AUTISM FOUND…BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PBC — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLU…NORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureNORTON MUSEUM OF…PALM BEACH OPERA INC — $5,000 · Arts & CulturePALM BEACH OPERA…The Society of the Four Arts Inc — $5,000 · Arts & CultureThe Society of t…STOCK FARM GREATER RAVALLI FOUNDATION — $16,000 · EducationSTOCK FARM G…Jupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc — $5,000 · Philanthropy
Other$55,000Health$25,000Youth Development$20,000Arts & Culture$20,000Education$16,000Philanthropy$5,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetELS FOR AUTISM FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PBC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPALM BEACH OPERA INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Society of the Four Arts Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAVEN HOUSE — $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budget
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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Willard H Dow II 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Willard H Dow II Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Willard H Dow II Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 15 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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