How much does Herbert S and Eleanore L Howard Charitable Foundation give?

Herbert S and Eleanore L Howard Charitable Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $37,400 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 58 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

Who are Herbert S and Eleanore L Howard Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Friends of the Rosamond Gifford Zoo at Burnet Park Inc ($86k), United Way of Central New York Inc ($67k), Baltimore Woods Nature Center Inc ($47k).

Does Herbert S and Eleanore L Howard Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Herbert S and Eleanore L Howard Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Herbert S and Eleanore L Howard Charitable Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Central New York Community Foundation Inc, The John Ben Snow Foundation Inc, Jim and Juli Boeheim Foundation Inc.

Herbert S and Eleanore L Howard Charitable Foundation

Herbert S and Eleanore L Howard Charitable Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Herbert S and Eleanore L Howard Charitable Foundation

Q: What does Herbert S and Eleanore L Howard Charitable Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (84%), Religion (4%), Animals (3%).

Q: Where is Herbert S and Eleanore L Howard Charitable Foundation based?

Herbert S and Eleanore L Howard Charitable Foundation is based in NY.

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$37k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$10k

Largest

01What it funds

0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$2.4MReligion$115kAnimals$88kEnvironment$55kEducation$52kFood & Nutrition$36kHealth$32kHuman Services$26kOther$0

02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k20 grants · $27k
$10k–50k1 grant · $10k

$500

Median grant

States reached

$878k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
THE KEYS PROGRAM	$10,000
ORDER OF ST THOMAS MORE (NOTRE DAME)	$5,400
IMMACULATE CONCEPTION	$5,000
FRANCIS HOUSE	$2,500
SYRACUSE JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE	$2,500
ST LUCY CATHOLIC CHURCH	$2,500
CAZCARES INC	$2,500
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL NEW YORK INC	$1,500
CAZENOVIA PRESERVATION FOUNDATION	$1,000
CAZENOVIA PUBLIC LIBRARY	$700
Individual grant recipient	$500
Individual grant recipient	$500
GIVING TREE	$500
ONEIDA COMMUNITY MANSION HOUSE	$500
FRIENDS OF THE ROSAMOND GIFFORD ZOO	$500

02The need

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 (FY17–25, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$520k · 60 repeat orgs$22k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.

60 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 46 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$520k

$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%

+24%

Still filing today

58%

44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesHealthAnimalsEnvironmentArts & CultureOther

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

FO
FRIENDS OF THE ROSAMOND GIFFORD ZOO AT BURNET PARK INC
7× · 2017–2025 · $86k · revenue +61%
UW
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL NEW YORK INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $67k · revenue +8%
BW
BALTIMORE WOODS NATURE CENTER INC
4× · 2018–2021 · $47k · revenue +42%

Funded once

BA
BSK ASSISTANCE FUND
one grant, 2019 · $1k
MF
MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL NEW YORK INCgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $500 · revenue +104%
NC
NAPLES COMMUNITY HOSPITAL INCgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $500 · revenue +70%

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.

Humane Society of Yates County

The humane society of yates county exists to promote the welfare of companion and domestic animals through educational programs and initiatives that reduce pet overpopulation, enrich adoptions, and encourage responsible pet ownership.

Animals

Cny Fair Housing Inc

We work to eliminate housing discrimination, promote open communities, and ensure equal access to housing opportunity for all people in central and northern new york.

—

Oswego Health Inc

The mission of Oswego Health, Inc. is to provide accessible quality care and improve the health of residents in our community.

Health

Carefirst Ny Inc

It is the mission of carefirst ny, inc. to affirm life through extraordinary, compassionate support and care to patients and families in chemung, steuben and schuyler counties.

—

Legal Assistance of Western New York Inc

Lawny increases access to justice through excellent legal representation, advocacy and service.

Crime & Legal

Connecticut Humane Society

The connecticut humane society is the leading resource in the state for companion animal welfare, enriching the lives of families and communities through adoption services, medical care, education, and prevention of cruelty.

Animals

St Catherine of Siena Medical Center

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

Health

Home Care Association of New York State Inc

To promote and enhance the quality and accessibility of health care and support at home.

Community Improvement

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

Seneca Health Services Inc

To be the leading provider of behavioral and physical healthcare through compassionate and quality services in our community.

—

Central New York Quest Inc

Central ny quest has been established to serve the needs of persons with intellectual, developmental and mental health disorders in the central new york region.

Human Services

St Josephs Hospital

Ministers to inpatients and outpatients, serving a primary care and specialty referral center for people from all faiths living in chemung county and the surrounding counties of new york and pennsylvania

—

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Central New York Inc; the most unlike its peers is Cazenovia Lake Association. 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

52 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. 52 of the 94 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

51/52

Grantees still filing

40/52

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Philanthropy$2,367,217Other$243,548Animals$87,950Environment$55,234Education$52,500Human Services$22,600Arts & Culture$14,050

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.

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.

Central New York Community Foundation IncNY73.4× affinity35 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Central New York Community Foundation Inc · The John Ben Snow Foundation Inc · Jim and Juli Boeheim Foundation Inc · Allyn Family Foundation Inc · The Dorothy and Marshall M Reisman Foundation · The Rosamond Gifford Charitable Corporation · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · Equitable Foundation Inc · Howard Drescher Foundation · United Way of Central New York Inc

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 Herbert S and Eleanore L Howard Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Herbert S and Eleanore L Howard Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

23report 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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