· Private foundation
Howe 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 FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $140k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $165k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $85,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATIO | $80,000 |
| SIERRA NEVADA BIGHORN SHEEP FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| THE INTERNATIONAL GAME FISH ASSOCIATION | $25,000 |
| DUCKS UNLIMITED INC | $25,000 |
| MOUNTAIN AREA LAND TRUST | $20,000 |
| THE BUSCH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY INC | $15,000 |
| MILEY ACHIEVEMENT CENTER | $15,000 |
| KIDS CHANCE OF CALIFORNIA INC | $10,000 |
| TEXAS CONSERVATION ALLIANCE | $7,500 |
| BUILDING YOUTH AROUND THE WORLD | $7,500 |
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 (FY18–22, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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 +30% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 3 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION3× · 2022–2024 · $240k · revenue +62%
- KCKIDS CHANCE OF CALIFORNIA INC4× · 2021–2024 · $40k · revenue +25%
- TCTexas Conservation Alliance4× · 2021–2024 · $30k · revenue +192%
Funded once
- TITHE INT GAME FISH ASSOCIATION INCone grant, 2023 · $25k
- MNMONTANA NATURAL RESOURCES YOUTH CAMP INCone grant, 2019 · $25k
- BBBobwhite Brigadeone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +10%
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.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
The foundation works with diverse groups representing many interests to acquire and restore critical wildlife habitat and protecting species
The Wildlands Conservancy's dual mission is to preserve the beauty and biodiversity of the earth and to provide programs so that children may know the wonder and joy of nature.
The institute is dedicated to scientific research, the results of which are used to promote public awareness and education in the areas of conservation biology and ecology,including the wise use of natural resources.
Through management of oakland zoo, the conservation society of california deepens connection with animals, saves wildlife, and inspires champions for the natural world.
Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…
Nature collective's mission is to drive a passion for nature for all. we think inclusively and diversely when serving those devoid of nature those who remember nature and want to connect back to it and those who have an affinity with…
We work to connect people, wildlife, and lands across the u.s.-mexico border through the use of science, advocacy, educational activities, community engagement, and on-the-ground conservation initiatives. our main activities include…
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
The montana wildlife federation is a statewide conservation organization dedicated to protecting wildlife, wildlife habitat, and public access for outdoor recreation.
Create and publish educational materials, conduct professional development, promote awareness, and sponsor research on the spectacular biological diversity of the State of CA.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Nevada and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 26 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 UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SIERRA NEVADA BIGHORN SHEEP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN AREA LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds KIDS CHANCE OF CALIFORNIA INC ↗
- Who funds Texas Conservation Alliance ↗
- Who funds Ducks Unlimited Inc ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL GAME FISH ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE BUSCH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
- Who funds AGC CONSTRUCTION EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH NEVADA ↗
- Who funds CURESEARCH FOR CHILDREN'S CANCER ↗
- Who funds BUILDING YOUTH AROUND THE WORLD ↗
- Who funds ANTHONY RODRIGUEZ SCOTT LEGACY OF L ↗
- Who funds Bobwhite Brigade ↗
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: Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Howe 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.
- International Game Fish Association Inc — 2% 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.