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William C Dowling Jr Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$768k
Granted FY2025still arriving
55
Grants FY2025still arriving
15
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$743kReligion$564kHuman Services$398kInternational$376kEducation$294kFood & Nutrition$202kArts & Culture$152kPhilanthropy$112kOther$0
02FY2025 · 55 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k14 grants · $34k
  • $10k–50k40 grants · $684k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$12,127
Median grant
15
States reached
$24M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MUSTARD SEED$50,000
PRIESTS OF THE SACRED HEART$35,000
LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR$30,000
RELIGIOUS RETIREMENT FUND$25,000
MERCY SHIPS$25,000
WORLD PEDIATRIC PROJECT$25,000
SAMARITANS PURSE$25,000
TUNNEL TO TOWERS$25,000
ST FRANCIS HOME$25,000
LAND OF PEACE$20,020
WORLD VISION$20,000
ST JUDES CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITA$20,000
CENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY$20,000
DISCALCED CARMELITE FRIARS$20,000
OUR LADY OF THE ISLE CHURCH$20,000
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 (FY20–25, $211k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 76% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%EAST END HOSPICE: $11k → 7%THE NEW YORK FOUNDLING: $10k → 17%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $40k → 14%EAST END HOSPICE: $10k → 7%THE NEW YORK FOUNDLING: $10k → 17%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $35k → 14%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $15k → 6%EAST END HOSPICE: $5k → 7%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $20k → 14%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $10k → 6%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $5k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $5k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $5k → 14%WORLD FOOD PROGRAM: $15k → 14%WORLD FOOD PROGRAM: $15k → 14%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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HI
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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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.3M · 80 repeat orgs$447k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.

80 repeat relationships: 43 still active in FY2025, 37 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

80
51

Total granted

$3.3M
$339k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+1%

Still filing today

56%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $108k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalHealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyOther
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

  • TM
    The Mustard Seed Inc
    6× · 2020–2025 · $180k · revenue +47%
  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSE
    5× · 2021–2025 · $120k · revenue +60%
  • LO
    LAND OF PEACE INCORPORATED
    5× · 2021–2025 · $110k · revenue +218% · 42% of their budget

Funded once

  • GG
    GREATER GOOD CHARITIES
    one grant, 2024 · $40k · revenue -44%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • TP
    THE PRASAD PROJECT INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +51%
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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New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
2
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
3
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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4
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
5
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
6
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
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
8
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
10
New York Blood Center Inc

As one of the most preeminent and comprehensive blood centers in theworld, nybc operates under a four-part mission. for more information,see sch. o and part iii, 4a-c.

Health
11
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
12
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Medical Mission Board Inc; the most unlike its peers is Bridgehampton Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

78 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 78 of the 143 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)
77/78
Grantees still filing
47/78
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The Mustard Seed Inc: $180,000 · OtherThe Mustard Seed IncST DAVID'S SCHOOL: $158,125 · OtherST DAVID'S SCHOOLST FRANCIS HOME: $95,000 · OtherMISSIONARIES OF THE POOR USA INC: $95,000 · OtherOUR LADY OF THE ISLE CHURCH: $80,500 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $80,000 · OtherST ANTHONYS CHURCH: $77,000 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING: $75,025 · Other+93 more: $1,351,435 · Other+93 moreVILLAGE HEALTH WORKS: $133,000 · InternationalVILLAGE HEALTH W…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $80,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FR…WORLD PEDIATRICS: $70,000 · InternationalWORLD PEDIATRICSRESONATE WORKSHOPS: $50,000 · InternationalRESONATE WORKSHO…Mercy Ships International: $50,000 · InternationalMercy Ships Inte…WORLD VISION INC: $45,000 · InternationalWORLD VISION INCCATHOLIC MEDICAL MISSION BOARD INC: $35,000 · InternationalCATHOLIC MEDICAL…THE PRASAD PROJECT INC: $25,000 · InternationalDIRECT RELIEF: $25,000 · InternationalOXFAM-AMERICA INC: $25,000 · International+4 more: $28,300 · InternationalSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $120,000 · ReligionSAMARITAN'…LAND OF PEACE INCORPORATED: $110,020 · ReligionLAND OF PE…Home for the Aged of Little Sisters of the Poor: $105,000 · ReligionHome for t…MISSION HOPE FOUNDATION: $20,000 · ReligionMISSION HO…MISSION HOPE: $15,000 · ReligionWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $110,020 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesEast End Hospice Inc: $26,000 · Human ServicesMARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $25,106 · Human ServicesNEW YORK FOUNDLING: $20,000 · Human ServicesSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $85,000 · EducationTHE SPENCE SCHOOL: $80,060 · EducationSTUDENTSPONSOR PARTNERS INC: $27,300 · Education+2 more: $6,000 · EducationSYLVESTER MANOR EDUCATIONAL FARM INC: $78,175 · Food & NutritionGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC: $45,000 · Food & NutritionFeeding America: $20,000 · Food & NutritionCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $10,000 · Food & NutritionALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $60,000 · HealthDetroit Rescue Mission Ministries: $30,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $20,000 · HealthSOLVING KIDS' CANCER INC: $15,000 · HealthHEART TO HEART FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $5,000 · Health+3 more: $3,500 · Health
Other$2,192,085International$566,300Religion$370,020Human Services$211,126Education$198,360Food & Nutrition$153,175Health$143,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Mustard Seed Inc: $180,000 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetVILLAGE HEALTH WORKS: $133,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $120,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLAND OF PEACE INCORPORATED: $110,020 over 5y, 42% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $110,020 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHome for the Aged of Little Sisters of the Poor: $105,000 over 5y, 95% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $85,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SPENCE SCHOOL: $80,060 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $80,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSYLVESTER MANOR EDUCATIONAL FARM INC: $78,175 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetWORLD PEDIATRICS: $70,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $60,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetRESONATE WORKSHOPS: $50,000 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetMercy Ships International: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHELTER ISLAND HISTORY MUSEUM: $47,127 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetThe Mustique Charitable Foundation: $46,000 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetWORLD VISION INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC: $45,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBIGS & LITTLES NYC MENTORING INC: $40,050 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetGREATER GOOD CHARITIES: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC MEDICAL MISSION BOARD INC: $35,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDetroit Rescue Mission Ministries: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTUDENTSPONSOR PARTNERS INC: $27,300 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetEast End Hospice Inc: $26,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $25,106 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PRASAD PROJECT INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOXFAM-AMERICA INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PARRISH ART MUSEUM INC: $24,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK CITY POLICE FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFeeding America: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMISSION HOPE FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetPECONIC LAND TRUST INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK FOUNDLING: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $19,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $16,150 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMISSION HOPE: $15,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOLVING KIDS' CANCER INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTHE SILVER SHIELD FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH FORK PARISH OUTREACH INC: $10,000 over 1y, 6.3% 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.

  • Who funds The Mustard Seed Inc ↗
  • Who funds VILLAGE HEALTH WORKS ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds LAND OF PEACE INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds Home for the Aged of Little Sisters of the Poor ↗
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE SPENCE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds SYLVESTER MANOR EDUCATIONAL FARM INC ↗
  • Who funds WORLD PEDIATRICS ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds RESONATE WORKSHOPS ↗
  • Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
  • Who funds SHELTER ISLAND HISTORY MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds The Mustique Charitable Foundation ↗
  • Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
  • Who funds GOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC ↗
  • Who funds BIGS & LITTLES NYC MENTORING INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER GOOD CHARITIES ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC MEDICAL MISSION BOARD INC ↗

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.

The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY14.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 William C Dowling Jr Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from William C Dowling Jr Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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.
05Through Plinth

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Find your warmest path to William C Dowling Jr 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 143 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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