· Private foundation
Carolyn & George Rowland Char Fdn Tr
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k4 grants · $105k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $524k
- $250k+1 grant · $430k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BENNINGTON COLLEGE | $430,000 |
| ASPETUCK LAND TRUST INC | $150,000 |
| OSTERVILLE HISTORICAL MUSEUM | $150,000 |
| OSTERVILLE VILLAGE LIBRARY | $124,000 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| THE FREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA | $50,000 |
| DOWNEAST SALMON FEDERATION | $40,000 |
| THE EQUUS EFFECT | $30,000 |
| MASTERY CHARTER SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| CENTER FOR WILDLIFE RESCUE RESEARCH | $15,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 17%. 1% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +16% since the first grant, against -2% for those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 3 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $220k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BCBENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION7× · 2019–2025 · $2.6M · revenue +26%
- OFOSTERVILLE FREE LIBRARY CORPORATION7× · 2019–2025 · $834k · revenue +20%
- BPBRIDGEPORT PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND INC5× · 2020–2024 · $128k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- PWPOOTATUCK WATERSHED ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2021 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $10k
- TBTHREE BAYS PRESERVATION INCone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -2%
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.
The boston public library fund provides financial support to the boston public library (bpl), ensuring that it remains viable, engaging, accessible, and free to all. the library fund fulfills this mission by working in partnership with…
The franklin land trust works to conserve farms, forests, wildlands, and other natural resources significant to the quality of the environment, economy, and rural character of western massachusetts.
To understand key processes driving the world's ocean ecosystems, their evolution, and their fundamental relationship to life on earth through interrelated research, education, and technology transfer programs.
Kennebunk Land Trust's mission is to permanently conserve and steward land to benefit natural and human communities.
The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…
To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.
To inspire and enable our communities to discover, learn and connect.
Frenchman Bay Conservancy protects and cares for our local lands and waters for the benefit of communities and nature.
The princeton land trust was formed to preserve the natural beauty and rural character of the town of princeton.
To preserve and steward aquidneck island's open spaces for the lasting benefit of the community while connecting people with the land that defines the island's natural character.
To enhance the quality of life of our community by inspiring lifelong learning, providing free and open access to information, and fostering community connections.
The mission of Islesboro Islands Trust is to enhance the quality of residents' lives through the preservation of open space, educate all residents as to the value of the island's natural ecosystems, and act as an environmental advocate on…
How this is measured
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 16 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 BENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds OSTERVILLE FREE LIBRARY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ASPETUCK LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds DOWNEAST SALMON FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEPORT PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE EQUUS EFFECT INC ↗
- Who funds FREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HAITIAN EDUCATIONAL INITIATIVES ↗
- Who funds MASTERY CHARTER SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THREE BAYS PRESERVATION 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: Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Carolyn & George Rowland Char Fdn Tr funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Carolyn & George Rowland Char Fdn Tr. Bigger dots raise more.
- Aspetuck Land Trust: 28% of income from government
- Three Bays Preservation Inc: 18% of income from government
- The Equus Effect Inc: 16% of income from government
- Bennington College Corporation: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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