New York · Private foundation
William C Dowling Jr Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $768k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 55
- Grants FY2025
- 56
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $12,127
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 56 to 71
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 15
- Total assets, FY2025
- $24M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations William C Dowling Jr Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $160k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 54 | $748k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 56 | $784k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 57 | $708k | 16% |
| FY2022 | 71 | $612k | 37% |
| FY2021 | 61 | $499k | 43% |
| FY2020 | 56 | $439k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Mustard Seed Inc | $180,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Village Health Works | $133,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Samaritan's Purse | $120,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Land of Peace Incorporated | $110,020 | 5 | 42% |
| Wounded Warrior Project Inc | $110,020 | 6 | 0% |
| Home for the Aged of Little Sisters of the Poor | $105,000 | 5 | 95% |
| Missionaries of the Poor USA Inc | $95,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation | $85,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Spence School | $80,060 | 5 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $80,000 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 88 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 54 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
William C Dowling Jr Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 73 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Open Society Institute · The New York Community Trust · Ibm International Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
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About William C Dowling Jr Foundation
- How much does William C Dowling Jr Foundation give?
- William C Dowling Jr Foundation reported 55 grants totaling $767,523 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 56 and 71 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does William C Dowling Jr Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (24%), Religion (18%), Human Services (13%).
- Who are William C Dowling Jr Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The Mustard Seed Inc ($180k), Village Health Works ($133k), Samaritan's Purse ($120k).
- Does William C Dowling Jr Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does William C Dowling Jr Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as William C Dowling Jr Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, Jewish Communal Fund, Open Society Institute.
- Where is William C Dowling Jr Foundation based?
- William C Dowling Jr Foundation is based in NY.
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