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David L Rowe Foundation

Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$3.8M
Granted FY2022
7
Grants FY2022
7
Organizations funded FY2022
14%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Median grant, FY2022
$549,619
Largest grant, FY2022
$549,619
Organizations funded a year
2 to 7
FY2020 to FY2022
States reached, FY2022
2
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 14% of the organizations David L Rowe Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $550k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22
InternationalOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20227$3.8M14%
FY20217$163k71%
FY20202$136kn/a
75% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2022.

International$1.2MHousing & Shelter$573kPhilanthropy$573kReligion$573kCivil Rights$550kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
American Friends of Magen David Adom$640,68131%
Bl Girls Town Jerusalem Inc$572,918216%
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc$572,91820%

Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.4M), not named here.

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About David L Rowe Foundation

How much does David L Rowe Foundation give?
David L Rowe Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $3,847,333 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 7 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2022.
What does David L Rowe Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2022, its largest causes are International (29%), Housing & Shelter (14%), Philanthropy (14%).
Who are David L Rowe Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2022: American Friends of Magen David Adom ($641k), Bl Girls Town Jerusalem Inc ($573k), The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ($573k).
Does David L Rowe Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does David L Rowe Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where is David L Rowe Foundation based?
David L Rowe Foundation is based in IL.

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 8 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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