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Howard Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$515k
Granted FY2024still arriving
26
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$865kRecreation & Sports$595kHealth$565kArts & Culture$397kInternational$280kFood & Nutrition$248kPhilanthropy$100kHuman Services$97kOther$0
02FY2024 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $387k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$20,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$5.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ELBOW REEF FOUNDATION$50,000
PERC INC$50,000
CHICAGO MARITIME MUSEUM$37,095
COLUMBIA SALING SCHOOL$35,000
Smith College Gift Accounting Office$30,000
New York Public Library$30,000
Women For Women International$25,000
Central Park Conservancy$25,000
Roycemore School$25,000
LOYOLA ACADEMY$25,000
GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY$25,000
Riverside Park Conservancy$25,000
JUVENILLE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNDATION$20,000
LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY$20,000
World Monuments Fund Inc$15,000
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PERC INC: $50k → 10%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $10k → 14%Wounded Warrior Project: $5k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $5k → 14%CENTER OF CONCERN: $5k → 14%Center Of Concern: $5k → 14%Wounded Warrior Project: $7k → 14%Wounded Warrior Project: $5k → 14%Wounded Warrior Project: $5k → 14%Wounded Warrior Project: $5k → 14%Wounded Warrior Project: $5k → 14%Center of Concern: $10k → 14%Center of Concern: $5k → 14%Center of Concern: $5k → 14%Center of Concern: $5k → 14%Center of Concern: $5k → 14%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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.0M · 27 repeat orgs$110k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +66% since the first grant, against +34% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
4

Total granted

$3.0M
$40k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+66%
+34%

Still filing today

78%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationFood & NutritionRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthOther
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

  • BC
    BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $365k · revenue +4%
  • CS
    COLUMBIA SAILING SCHOOL
    8× · 2017–2024 · $270k · revenue +81%
  • TN
    The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations
    8× · 2017–2024 · $245k · revenue +76%

Funded once

  • JD
    Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
    one grant, 2022 · $20k
  • IC
    INNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +34%
  • CA
    Chicago Area Council Boy Scouts
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
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.

1
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
2
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
3
Project Drawdown

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;…

Education
4
New York Genome Center Inc

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.

Health
5
American Museum of Natural History

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."

Arts & Culture
6
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
7
New York University

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.

Education
8
Ocean Conservancy

Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.

Environment
9
Conservation Law Foundation Inc

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,…

Environment
10
The James Beard Foundation Inc

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…

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11
The Graduate Center Foundation Inc

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…

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12
Council On Foreign Relations Inc

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…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations; 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.
04the grantee network

27 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. 27 of the 36 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/27
Grantees still filing
20/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LOYOLA ACADEMY: $200,000 · OtherLOYOLA ACADEMYCHICAGO MARITIME MUSEUM: $182,095 · OtherCHICAGO MARITIME MUSEUMJuvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Internationa: $120,000 · OtherJuvenile Diabetes Research Foundation I…CHICAGO FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN: $100,000 · OtherCHICAGO FOUNDATION FOR WOMENSmith College Gift Accounting Office: $85,000 · OtherSmith College Gift Accounting OfficeJUVENILLE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $40,000 · OtherP E R C INC: $50,000 · OtherWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $47,000 · OtherTHE CENTER OF CONCERN: $40,000 · OtherRIVERSIDE PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $125,000 · OtherRIVERSIDE PARK CONSERVANCY INCSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $50,000 · Other+7 more: $75,200 · Other+7 moreThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $245,000 · EducationThe New York Public…ROYCEMORE SCHOOL: $180,000 · EducationROYCEMORE SCHOOLTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE: $120,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF THE…+1 more: $5,000 · EducationCOLUMBIA SAILING SCHOOL: $270,000 · Recreation & SportsCOLUMBIA SAILING…CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $160,000 · Recreation & SportsCENTRAL PARK CON…JUDD GOLDMAN ADAPTIVE SAILING FOUNDATION: $40,000 · Recreation & SportsJUDD GOLDMAN ADA…BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $365,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER …Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation of the United States Inc: $20,000 · HealthGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $150,000 · Food & NutritionCITY HARVEST INC: $65,000 · Food & NutritionCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $18,000 · Food & NutritionGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC: $15,000 · Food & NutritionWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL: $230,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $10,000 · InternationalELBOW REEF FOUNDATION INC CO CHAMBERLIN OWEN & CO INC: $150,000 · Arts & CultureWORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC: $35,000 · Arts & CultureMunicipal Art Society of New York: $30,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$1,114,295Education$550,000Recreation & Sports$470,000Health$385,000Food & Nutrition$248,000International$240,000Arts & Culture$215,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $365,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCOLUMBIA SAILING SCHOOL: $270,000 over 8y, 5.3% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $245,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL: $230,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCHICAGO MARITIME MUSEUM: $182,095 over 8y, 13% of budgetROYCEMORE SCHOOL: $180,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $160,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetELBOW REEF FOUNDATION INC CO CHAMBERLIN OWEN & CO INC: $150,000 over 3y, 48% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $150,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetRIVERSIDE PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $125,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE: $120,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN: $100,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $65,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetP E R C INC: $50,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $47,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetJUDD GOLDMAN ADAPTIVE SAILING FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetTHE CENTER OF CONCERN: $40,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetWORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC: $35,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMunicipal Art Society of New York: $30,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPediatric Brain Tumor Foundation of the United States Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS: $18,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC: $15,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ENVIRONMENT INC: $5,200 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 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 WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds INNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ENVIRONMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds University of Chicago ↗

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.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Howard Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Howard Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • The Trustees of the Smith College: 1% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.

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 36 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home