· Private foundation
Calvin W and Julia B Howard Family Foundation
Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 92% of CALVIN W AND JULIA B HOWARD FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MEALS ON WHEELS OF ALAMANCE CO | $2,000 |
| CROSSROADS SEXUAL ASSUALT RESPONSE | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| RESIDENTAL TREATMENT SERVICES | $1,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| FAMILY ABUSE SERVICES OF | $1,000 |
| FIRST UNITED METHODIST CH | $700 |
| ALAMANCE CITIZENS FOR A DRUG FREE | $700 |
| DEGA MOBILE VETERINARY CARE | $500 |
| ANTIOCH BAPTIST CHURCH | $500 |
| CONNECT 4 FAITH | $500 |
| ALAMANCE ARTS | $500 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $308 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS NORTH CAROLINA | $250 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–23, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 71% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
21 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2023, 9 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- PRPIEDMONT RESCUE MISSION INC2× · 2021–2022 · $2k · revenue +24%
DUKE UNIVERSITY3× · 2019–2021 · $2k · revenue +44%
SPECIAL OLYMPICS NORTH CAROLINA INC5× · 2019–2023 · $1k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- ACALAMANCE COUNT SHERIFF DEPTone grant, 2021 · $4k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $3k
- FOFRIENDS OF GRAHAM PARKS ANDone grant, 2022 · $1k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Humane Society of Charlotte mission is to champion the wellbeing of companion animals and strengthen their bond with the people who know, love, and need them.
Aspca veterinary services of north carolina, p.c. is a professional corporation that provides the veterinary services of qualified, licensed veterinarians exclusively to the aspca in north carolina. these services include the veterinary…
The aps of durham is a leader in building lifelong bonds between people and animals through education, community outreach, and the provision of care for animals in need.
The organization stands for every pet and pet owner by making the highest quality veterinary care and spay neuter services affordable and accessible, with the goal of reducing the number of dogs and cats euthanized in regional shelters and…
The primary mission of the humane society is to end animal cruelty, neglect and overpopulation in south carolina.
The mission of safe haven for cats is to use no-kill principles and education to save cats' lives through rescue, adoption, spay/neuter services and community programs.
The humane societys misison is to prevent cruelty and suffering among dogs and cats through rescue, adoption, and education.
The organization provides shelter for homeless, abused, and abandoned animals. the shelter also provides an opportunity for adoption of these animals
Founded in 2023, humane animal partners is a nonprofit no-kill animal care and adoption center. we are committed to providing for the needs of homeless and owned dogs and cats in our community. we make "friends for life" by connecting…
To advance the humane treatment of dogs and cats by providing comprehensive sheltering, medical care, and behavioral support. we strive to ensure every animal has the opportunity to find a permanent, loving home through community education…
To address pet overpopulation in our state by offering high quality, low cost spay-neuter surgeries for pets belonging to north carolina families in need.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cone Health Philanthropic Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Dega Mobile Veterinary Care. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 42 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds PIEDMONT RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds CONE HEALTH PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Animal Protection Society of the ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP ADULT DAY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FIRE SAFETY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds DEGA Mobile Veterinary Care ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF ALAMANCE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SAFE INC ↗
- Who funds COTA - Children's Organ Transplant Association ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Calvin W and Julia B Howard Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.