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DOWNING FAMILY OPERATING FOUNDATION

DOWNING FAMILY OPERATING FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $252,500 to it, the largest being DOWNING FAMILY FOUNDATION ($252,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$6k
Revenue FY2025
1
Funders on record
$253k
Grants received
$0
Net assets
1/1 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($30k) Expenses 100 ($18k) Net assets 100 ($16k)2018 Revenue 167 ($50k) Expenses 349 ($64k) Net assets 16 ($3k)2019 Revenue 87 ($26k) Expenses 98 ($18k) Net assets 66 ($11k)2020 Revenue 427 ($128k) Expenses 753 ($137k) Net assets 8 ($1k)2021 Revenue 133 ($40k) Expenses 150 ($27k) Net assets 86 ($14k)2022 Revenue 0 ($1) Expenses 31 ($6k) Net assets 51 ($8k)2023 Revenue 0 ($63) Expenses 32 ($6k) Net assets 16 ($3k)2024 Revenue 9 ($3k) Expenses 18 ($3k) Net assets 12 ($2k)2025 Revenue 20 ($6k) Expenses 43 ($8k) Net assets 0 ($0)
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Revenue (20)Expenses (43)Net assets (0)
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $15k → $25k.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'20
'21
'24*
'25*
total
funders
1
1
1
1
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of DOWNING FAMILY OPERATING FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.

Where its funders are

100% of DOWNING FAMILY OPERATING FOUNDATION's grant income comes from California funders.

CA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like DOWNING FAMILY OPERATING FOUNDATION

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In California

Garfield Family Foundation64%Alternative Family Services Foundation63%Down for Dance62%Downtown College Prep Foundation61%Indo- American Foundation Inc61%Sacramento Philharmonic & Opera Foundation60%David E Smith Family Foundation Inc60%2722 Bancroft Foundation60%

Nationally

Noi Foundation Inc64%Garfield Family Foundation64%The Dalton Family Foundation64%Downingtown Veterans Memorial Fund63%The Nicholas B Ottaway Fdn Inc63%Alternative Family Services Foundation63%Churchill Downs Incorporated Foundation63%North American Communities Foundation63%
04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DOWNING FAMILY OPERATING FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Questions and answers

Who funds DOWNING FAMILY OPERATING FOUNDATION?
DOWNING FAMILY OPERATING FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $252,500 to it, the largest being DOWNING FAMILY FOUNDATION ($252,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does DOWNING FAMILY OPERATING FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $252,500 in grants to DOWNING FAMILY OPERATING FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of DOWNING FAMILY OPERATING FOUNDATION?
DOWNING FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $252,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like DOWNING FAMILY OPERATING FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 1funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. What this page cannot tell you · view filing