· Private foundation
Howell-Adams Family Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k27 grants · $83k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $41k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST JOHN'S LUTHERAN SCHOOL | $28,700 |
| LITTLE THEATRE ON THE SQ | $12,000 |
| WILLIAMS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $6,000 |
| POST (PENENSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST) | $5,000 |
| MATTOON PUBLIC LIBRARY | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| BIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS | $5,000 |
| CCAR INDUSTRIES | $4,200 |
| UNITED WAY OF COLES COUNTY | $4,000 |
| CORNBELT SHRINE CLUB | $4,000 |
| HOPE COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIO | $4,000 |
| MATTOON COMMUNITY FOOD CENTER | $4,000 |
| DOUGLAS-HART NATURE CENTER | $4,000 |
| COLES COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $3,500 |
| COLES COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH ASSOC | $3,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $32k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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 +20% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
37 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- CNCAMP NEW HOPE INC3× · 2022–2024 · $27k · revenue +32%
- CICCAR INDUSTRIES5× · 2021–2025 · $19k · revenue +11%
- MCMATTOON COMMUNITY FOOD CENTER5× · 2021–2025 · $16k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- BSBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA- REDHAWK DISTone grant, 2021 · $2k
- BFBEAUTIFUL FEET CHURCH S B C INCone grant, 2022 · $2k
- WDWarrior Dog Foundationone grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue -30%
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 engage the community and focus resources for those in need in comal county
Dedicated to holistic care given with compassion, respect, acceptance and hope. achieving emotional well being and independence.
Seeking to put gods love into action habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes community and hope
Provide affordable housing for low income families.
Provide care for homeless/abused animals
To provide safe and affordable housing to all.
To provide equal access to quality health care to all persons regardless of age, sex, color, ethnicity, national origin, or the ability to pay.primary activities: medical, dental, vision and related healthcare services.
Operation of a nautical history museum.
Construction of homes for low income families. homes built with volunteer labor and sold at cost.
Cornell college offers an innovative and rigorous learning community where faculty and staff collaborate with students to develop the intellectual curiosity, creativity and moral courage necessary for a lifetime of learning and engaged…
The mission of the columbia county community healthcare consortium, inc. is improving access to healthcare and supporting the health and well-being of people in our rural community.
Provide veterans with holistic services designed to eliminate barriers in obtaining permanent sustainable housing.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fish of Sanibel-Captiva Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hillsdale College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 44 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 CAMP NEW HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF COLES COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CCAR INDUSTRIES ↗
- Who funds MATTOON COMMUNITY FOOD CENTER ↗
- Who funds COLES COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds FISH OF SANIBEL-CAPTIVA INC ↗
- Who funds Coles County Habitat For Humanity ↗
- Who funds SANIBEL SEA SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds SANIBEL HISTORICAL MUSEUM & VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds FIVE MILE HOUSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RAVENSWOOD EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
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: Southeastern Illinois Community Foundation · The Lumpkin Family Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Howell-Adams 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.
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.