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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
2
States reached
$550k
Largest
01What it funds
0175% 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
02FY2022 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$549,619
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BAYITH LAPLEITOT INC$549,619
WORLD JEWISH CONGRESS AMERICAN$549,619
BOYS TOWN JERUSALEM FOUNDATION$549,619
AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION$549,619
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN$549,619
Individual grant recipient$549,619
JEWISH FEDERATION OF NORTH AMERICA$549,619
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 86% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%WORLD JEWISH CONGRESS AMERICAN: $550k → 17%BAYITH LAPLEITOT INC: $550k → 20%JEWISH FEDERATION OF NORTH AMERICA: $550k → 14%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN: $550k → 17%BAYITH LAPLEITOT INC: $23k → 20%JEWISH FEDERATION OF NORTH AMERICA: $23k → 14%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN: $68k → 17%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN: $23k → 17%HADASSAH WOMENS ZIONIST: $550k → 17%BOYS TOWN JERUSALEM FOUNDATION: $550k → 17%HADASSAH WOMENS ZIONIST: $68k → 17%BOYS TOWN JERUSALEM FOUNDATION: $23k → 17%HADASSAH WOMENS ZIONIST: $23k → 17%AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION: $550k → 17%AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION: $23k → 17%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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.6M · 6 repeat orgs$573k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2022, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
1

Total granted

$3.6M
$23k

Still filing today

50%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM
    3× · 2020–2022 · $641k · revenue +198%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    3× · 2020–2022 · $641k
  • BT
    BOYS TOWN JERUSALEM FOUNDATION
    2× · 2021–2022 · $573k

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $23k
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
04the grantee network

3 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2024.

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 2024, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 3 of the 8 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
3/3
Grantees still filing
2/3
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $640,681 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBOYS TOWN JERUSALEM FOUNDATION: $572,918 · OtherBOYS TOWN JERUSALEM FOUNDATIONJEWISH FEDERATION OF NORTH AMERICA: $572,918 · OtherJEWISH FEDERATION OF NORTH AMERICABL GIRLS TOWN JERUSALEM INC: $572,918 · OtherBL GIRLS TOWN JERUSALEM INCWORLD JEWISH CONGRESS AMERICAN: $549,619 · OtherWORLD JEWISH CONGRESS AMERICAN+1 more: $23,299 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $640,681 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID A…The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $572,918 · InternationalThe American Jewish Joint Distrib…
Other$2,932,353International$1,213,599

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 budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $640,681 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetBL GIRLS TOWN JERUSALEM INC: $572,918 over 2y, 16% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $572,918 over 2y, 0.1% 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 AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
  • Who funds BL GIRLS TOWN JERUSALEM INC ↗
  • Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization David L Rowe Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from David L Rowe Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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.

    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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