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Howe Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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 $10k27 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $205k
- $250k+3 grants · $4.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MIAMI UNIVERSITY | $2,000,000 |
| ASHLAND COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $1,000,500 |
| THE CHRIST HOSPITAL | $1,000,000 |
| BOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC FOUNDATION | $105,000 |
| FRIENDS OF BOCA GRANDE | $100,000 |
| UNITED WAY | $10,000 |
| ARTSWAVE | $5,000 |
| GASPARILLA ISLAND CONSERVATION & IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| BIRMINGHAM UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $4,000 |
| MCLAREN NORTHERN MICHIGAN FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| HEALTH NETWORK FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| CINCINNATI ART MUSEUM | $1,500 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT | $1,000 |
| BOCA GRANDE DISASTER FUND | $1,000 |
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, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +45% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
44 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 9 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, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M 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
- BGBOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC FNDTN INC8× · 2017–2024 · $149k · revenue +215%
- GIGASPARILLA ISL CONSER & IMPROVE ASSN8× · 2017–2024 · $65k · revenue +66%
- CICincinnati Institute of Fine Arts8× · 2017–2024 · $45k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- TRTHE ROGER AND JOYCE HOWE FIDELITY CHARITABLE GIFT FUNDone grant, 2018 · $250k
- MUMiami University Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $75k · revenue +68%
- PCPORTMAN CNTR ENDOWMENT UC FDone grant, 2023 · $25k
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.
To empower and educate people to value, preserve and save greater cincinnati's historic buildings, communities, landscapes and stories.
To benefit the general public by preserving natural lands and significant habitats, lands suitable for the production of food, timber, or other cultivated or natural products, lands creating scenic vistas for public enjoyment, lands with…
To conserve the unique character of tennessee's natural and historic landscapes and sites for future generations.
The mission of the lake champlain land trust is to save the scenic beauty, natural communities, and recreational amenities of lake champlain by permanently preserving significant islands, shoreline areas, and natural communities in the…
Lmc's mission is to restore and protect the little miami state and national scenic river
Finance impacts everyone. as a socially relevant organization, the museum of american finance seeks to improve understanding of the influence of financial institutions and capital markets on the u.s. and global economies, and on…
The mission of the cincinnati observatory is to maintain the integrity and heritage of an historic 19th century observatory and to educate, engage, and inspire our community about astronomy and science.
The columbus medical association foundation, through the governance and oversight of its board of physicians and other experts, effects change within specific priority areas to improve the health and wellbeing of the residents and…
Perform fundraising functions, provide financial support, carryout the purpose and otherwise operating for the benefit of the zoological society of cincinnati.
Our mission is to engage, educate and excite the community by collecting, exhibiting, and preserving works of art for the enjoyment of all. the museum of fine arts, st. petersburg, florida (mfa) is the cultural leader of our community. our…
A non-profit established in 1998, the cultural landscape foundation (tclf) connects people to places. tclf educates and engages the public to make our shared landscape heritage more visible, identify its value, and empower its stewards.…
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cincinnati Museum Association and the most unlike its peers is Turner Farm Preservation Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
48 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. 48 of the 91 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 ASHLAND COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Christ Hospital ↗
- Who funds BOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC FNDTN INC ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds Miami University Foundation ↗
- Who funds GASPARILLA ISL CONSER & IMPROVE ASSN ↗
- Who funds Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts ↗
- Who funds The Christ Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds MCLAREN NORTHERN MICHIGAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI ARTS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE ISLAND SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds BOCA GRANDE WOMAN'S CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds WALLOON LAKE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MOOSEHEAD MARINE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds TURNER FARM PRESERVATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Living Arrangements for the Developmentally Disabled Inc ↗
- Who funds THOMAS G LABRECQUE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI WORKS ↗
- Who funds TAFT MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds CINCINNATI MUSEUM CENTER ↗
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: Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · Sweet Peas Foundation · Linda & Barry Allen Foundation · The Alpaugh Foundation · Robert H & Susan F Castellini Foundation · Van Beuren Charitable Foundation Inc · Sullivan Family Foundation Foundation · Carbonari Family Foundation · Sackett Family 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 Howe 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
- Food for the Poor 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.
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