· Private foundation
William C Dowling Jr Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
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.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $108k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TMThe Mustard Seed Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $180k · revenue +47%
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE5× · 2021–2025 · $120k · revenue +60%
- LOLAND OF PEACE INCORPORATED5× · 2021–2025 · $110k · revenue +218% · 42% of their budget
Funded once
- GGGREATER GOOD CHARITIESone grant, 2024 · $40k · revenue -44%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $25k
- TPTHE PRASAD PROJECT INCgraduatedone 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
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.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
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.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
How this is measured
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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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
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.
- 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
How this is measured
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