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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.

$320k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
11
Grants FY2024
12
Organizations funded FY2023
25%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$85,000
Organizations funded a year
6 to 12
FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
7
Total assets, FY2024
$5.8M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 25% of the organizations Howe Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23
EducationEnvironmentAnimalsHealthScience & TechEmploymentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving11$320k27%
FY202312$318k25%
FY202212$350k25%
FY202112$303k58%
FY20207$285k43%
FY20196$270k17%
FY20186$285kn/a
83% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$615kAnimals$380kEnvironment$233kRecreation & Sports$100kHealth$68kYouth Development$25kEmployment$20kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
NY
NV
NJ
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
TN
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of Nevada Las Vegas Foundation$240,00030%
Fly Fishers International Inc$100,0002n/a
Sierra Nevada Bighorn Sheep Foundation$90,000352%
Mountain Area Land Trust$43,00032%
Kids Chance of California Inc$40,00044%
Texas Conservation Alliance$30,00041%
Montana Natural Resources Youth Camp Inc$25,0001n/a
Ducks Unlimited Inc$25,00010%
International Game Fish Association Inc$25,00011%
The Busch Wildlife Sanctuary Inc$25,00020%
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All grantees of Howe Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of Nevada Las Vegas Foundation$240,00030%
Fly Fishers International Inc$100,0002n/a
Sierra Nevada Bighorn Sheep Foundation$90,000352%
Mountain Area Land Trust$43,00032%
Kids Chance of California Inc$40,00044%
Texas Conservation Alliance$30,00041%
Montana Natural Resources Youth Camp Inc$25,0001n/a
Ducks Unlimited Inc$25,00010%
International Game Fish Association Inc$25,00011%
The Busch Wildlife Sanctuary Inc$25,00020%
American Diabetes Association$22,50020%
Agc Construction Educational Foundation$20,00021%
Make-A-Wish Nevada$20,00020%
Curesearch for Children's Cancer$20,00020%
Building Youth Around the World$20,00031%
Anthony Rodriguez Scott Legacy of L$10,000252%
Bobwhite Brigade$10,00012%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.4M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Howe Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 15 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUniversity of Nevada Las Vegas Foundation: $240,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSierra Nevada Bighorn Sheep Foundation: $90,000 over 3y, 52% of budgetMountain Area Land Trust: $43,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetKids Chance of California Inc: $40,000 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetTexas Conservation Alliance: $30,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetDucks Unlimited Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Game Fish Association Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetThe Busch Wildlife Sanctuary Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $22,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAgc Construction Educational Foundation: $20,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetMake-A-Wish Nevada: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCuresearch for Children's Cancer: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBuilding Youth Around the World: $20,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetAnthony Rodriguez Scott Legacy of L: $10,000 over 2y, 52% of budgetBobwhite Brigade: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 15.

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.

Raymond James Charitable Endowment FundFL9.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Online Giving Foundation 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.

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About Howe Foundation

How much does Howe Foundation give?
Howe Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $320,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 12 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does Howe Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (29%), Animals (18%), Environment (11%).
Who are Howe Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: University of Nevada Las Vegas Foundation ($240k), Fly Fishers International Inc ($100k), Sierra Nevada Bighorn Sheep Foundation ($90k).
Does Howe Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Howe Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Howe Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund, American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Howe Foundation based?
Howe Foundation is based in MO.

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 26 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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