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Andrew P Barowsky Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$683k
Largest
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Animals$2.8MInternational$1.7MPhilanthropy$1.3MHealth$1.1MEducation$679kFood & Nutrition$249kRecreation & Sports$72kReligion$70kOther$0
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $115k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $394k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.2M
$46,542
Median grant
4
States reached
$9.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE$682,943
BOSTON FOUNDATION THE PHILANTHROPIC INITIATIVE (TPI)$502,500
BEST BUDDIES INTERNATIONAL$244,893
Individual grant recipient$94,904
FIRST TEE - NAPLESCOLLIER$54,097
ST ANNE'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH$46,542
HOSPICE OF SOUTHERN MAINE$31,463
MOUNT SINAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$26,595
BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION FOR FAMILY LITERACY$10,000
CONGREGATION SONS OF ZION$7,000
ST MARY'S HEALTH SYSTEM$5,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $800k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 81% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%ARC BROWARD: $200k → 13%HOSPICE OF SOUTHERN MAINE: $31k → 7%HOSPICE OF SOUTHERN MAINE: $30k → 7%ARC BROWARD: $152k → 13%HOSPICE OF SOUTHERN MAINE: $30k → 7%ARC BROWARD: $149k → 13%HOSPICE OF SOUTHERN MAINE: $30k → 7%ARC BROWARD: $149k → 13%HOSPICE OF SOUTHERN MAINE: $29k → 7%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.
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.1M · 14 repeat orgs$75k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
3

Total granted

$8.1M
$28k

Still filing today

64%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesAnimalsInternationalEducationPhilanthropyOther
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

  • GO
    GULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.8M · revenue +102%
  • Best Buddies International Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +81%
  • AB
    ARC BROWARD INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $650k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • MG
    MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $9k
  • SC
    SYLVESTER COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $9k
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.

1
MRIGlobal

To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.

Science & Tech
2
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
3
Mercy Health

Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…

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4
Saratoga Care Inc

To serve the people of the Saratoga region by providing them access to excellence in healthcare in a supportive and caring environment.

Health
5
University of Florida Health Corporation

UF Health's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across the spectrum of basic,…

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6
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
7
Newport Hospital Foundation

NHF supports, encourages and coordinates the development of comprehensive, integrated health care-related services for the advancement and well-being of the community, in furtherance of the purposes of Newport Hospital (see Schedule O)

Health
8
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
9
Arc Research Institute

Our mission is to accelerate scientific progress, understand the root causes of disease, and narrow the gap between discoveries and impact on patients.

Health
10
Coastal Medical Physicians Inc Brown University Health Primary Care

CMPI was organized to provide accountable patient-centered, high quality, efficient, value-based and innovative care to serve the health needs of the communities in Rhode Island and elsewhere. (see Schedule O)

Health
11
Marine Biological Laboratory

The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…

Science & Tech
12
MaineGeneral Health

To enhance, every day, the health of our patients, our families and our communities. We do that through a range of health care services for people of all ages, in a variety of care settings.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mount Sinai Medical Center Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy 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

10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 19 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)
10/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $2,846,457 · AnimalsGULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTEBOSTON FOUNDATION THE PHILANTHROPIC INITIATIVE (TPI): $864,000 · OtherBOSTON FOUNDATION THE P…Individual grant recipient: $386,236 · OtherIndividual grant recipi…ARC BROWARD CULINARY INSTITUTE: $298,051 · OtherARC BROWARD CULINARY IN…FIRST TEE - NAPLESCOLLIER: $72,262 · Other+5 more: $97,661 · Other+5 moreBest Buddies International Inc: $1,672,390 · InternationalBest Buddies Internati…ARC BROWARD INC: $649,973 · Human ServicesARC BROWAR…Hospice of Southern Maine: $150,000 · Human ServicesHospice of…UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $599,992 · EducationBoston Foundation Inc: $244,000 · PhilanthropyNAPLES CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC: $209,250 · PhilanthropySt Mary's Health System: $265,258 · HealthMOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $54,238 · HealthTHE BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION FOR FAMILY LITERACY INC: $29,768 · Arts & Culture
Animals$2,846,457Other$1,718,210International$1,672,390Human Services$799,973Education$599,992Philanthropy$453,250Health$319,496Arts & Culture$29,768

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $2,846,457 over 8y, 4.5% of budgetBest Buddies International Inc: $1,672,390 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetARC BROWARD INC: $649,973 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $599,992 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSt Mary's Health System: $265,258 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetBoston Foundation Inc: $244,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNAPLES CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC: $209,250 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetHospice of Southern Maine: $150,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $54,238 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION FOR FAMILY LITERACY INC: $29,768 over 3y, 0.4% 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 GULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds Best Buddies International Inc ↗
  • Who funds ARC BROWARD INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
  • Who funds St Mary's Health System ↗
  • Who funds Boston Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds NAPLES CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Hospice of Southern Maine ↗
  • Who funds MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION FOR FAMILY LITERACY 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Andrew P Barowsky Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Andrew P Barowsky Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Boston Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.
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Find your warmest path to Andrew P Barowsky Foundation Inc 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 19 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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