· Private foundation
Howard Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $387k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PERC INC | $50,000 |
| ELBOW REEF FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| CHICAGO MARITIME MUSEUM | $37,095 |
| COLUMBIA SALING SCHOOL | $35,000 |
| New York Public Library | $30,000 |
| Smith College Gift Accounting Office | $30,000 |
| Riverside Park Conservancy | $25,000 |
| LOYOLA ACADEMY | $25,000 |
| Roycemore School | $25,000 |
| GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY | $25,000 |
| Central Park Conservancy | $25,000 |
| Women For Women International | $25,000 |
| JUVENILLE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY | $20,000 |
| World Monuments Fund Inc | $15,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $137k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +66% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- BCBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC8× · 2017–2024 · $365k · revenue +4%
- CSCOLUMBIA SAILING SCHOOL8× · 2017–2024 · $270k · revenue +81%
- TNThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations8× · 2017–2024 · $245k · revenue +76%
Funded once
- JDJuvenile Diabetes Research Foundationone grant, 2022 · $20k
- ICINNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +34%
- CAChicago Area Council Boy Scoutsone grant, 2017 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.
Conservation law foundation, inc. (clf) protects new england's environment for the benefit of all people and future generations. we use the law, science, and markets to create solutions that preserve and restore our natural resources,…
The james beard foundation believes in a vibrant, equitable, and sustainable independent restaurant industry that stands as a cornerstone of american culture, community, and economy - and drives towards a better food system. the james…
The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…
The council on foreign relations (cfr) is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher dedicated to being a resource for its members, government officials, business executives, journalists, educators and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 36 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA SAILING SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations ↗
- Who funds WOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO MARITIME MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds ROYCEMORE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds ELBOW REEF FOUNDATION INC CO CHAMBERLIN OWEN & CO INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds RIVERSIDE PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN ↗
- Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds P E R C INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds JUDD GOLDMAN ADAPTIVE SAILING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER OF CONCERN ↗
- Who funds WORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Municipal Art Society of New York ↗
- Who funds Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation of the United States Inc ↗
- Who funds CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS ↗
- Who funds GOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC ↗
- Who funds INNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ENVIRONMENT INC ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Howard Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Trustees of the Smith College — 1% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.