Massachusetts · Private foundation
Howard Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $515k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 26
- Grants FY2024
- 24
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 8%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 24
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 7
- Total assets, FY2024
- $5.7M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 8% of the organizations Howard Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 26 | $515k | 15% |
| FY2023 | 24 | $487k | 8% |
| FY2022 | 22 | $476k | 27% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $346k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $343k | 16% |
| FY2019 | 16 | $310k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 19 | $345k | 5% |
| FY2017 | 19 | $300k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blood Cancer United Inc | $365,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Columbia Sailing School | $270,000 | 8 | 5% |
| The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations | $245,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Women for Women International | $230,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Loyola Academy | $200,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Chicago Maritime Museum | $182,095 | 8 | 13% |
| Roycemore School | $180,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Central Park Conservancy Inc | $160,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Elbow Reef Foundation Inc Co Chamberlin Owen & Co Inc | $150,000 | 3 | 48% |
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | $150,000 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 27 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($305k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Howard Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 26 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Howard Family Foundation
- How much does Howard Family Foundation give?
- Howard Family Foundation reported 26 grants totaling $515,295 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 24 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Howard Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (27%), Recreation & Sports (18%), Health (18%).
- Who are Howard Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Blood Cancer United Inc ($365k), Columbia Sailing School ($270k), The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations ($245k).
- Does Howard Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Howard Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Howard Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Howard Family Foundation based?
- Howard Family Foundation is based in MA.
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