Massachusetts · Private foundation
Howland 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.
- $53k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 52
- Grants FY2025
- 51
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 48 to 52
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 11
- Total assets, FY2025
- $586k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Howland Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 52 | $53k | 4% |
| FY2024 | 51 | $46k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 51 | $46k | 4% |
| FY2022 | 48 | $43k | 2% |
| FY2021 | 52 | $47k | 4% |
| FY2020 | 50 | $38k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 52 | $38k | 8% |
| FY2018 | 52 | $39k | 2% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation | $8,750 | 9 | 0% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $8,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Pine Street Inn Inc | $7,200 | 9 | 0% |
| Rosie's Place Inc | $7,200 | 9 | 0% |
| Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals | $7,100 | 9 | 0% |
| Smile Train Inc | $7,000 | 9 | 0% |
| The Doug Flutie Jr Foundation for Autism Inc | $7,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc | $7,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Reading Volunteer Fire Dept Inc | $6,750 | 9 | n/a |
| Hale Education Inc | $6,750 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 29 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 35 recipients with no EIN on record ($235k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Howland Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Arbella Insurance Foundation · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · Citizens Charitable Foundation · The Weezie Foundation Xxxxx0005 · The Carney Family Charitable Foundation · Analog Devices Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good
How this is measured
About Howland Family Foundation
- How much does Howland Family Foundation give?
- Howland Family Foundation reported 52 grants totaling $53,450 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 48 and 52 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Howland Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (27%), Education (22%), Human Services (10%).
- Who are Howland Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation ($9k), American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ($8k), Pine Street Inn Inc ($7k).
- Does Howland Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Howland Family 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 Howland Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Arbella Insurance Foundation, American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc, Citizens Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Howland Family Foundation based?
- Howland Family Foundation is based in MA.
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