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Howley 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.

$117k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

Education$475kPhilanthropy$48kReligion$28kRecreation & Sports$26kYouth Development$16kInternational$6kHuman Services$3kArts & Culture$2k
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $45k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$6,180
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY$50,000
THE CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION$25,000
AUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$20,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE LOW COUNTRY$8,000
DETROIT GOLF FOUNDATION$6,180
ST GREGORY THE GREAT$5,500
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB$1,000
NPH USA$1,000
GIVENGAIN FOUNDATION$173
02The need
03

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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 36% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%ST JOHNS PREP: $6k → 10%THE CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $25k → 16%VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $55k → 10%INNER CITY CATHOLIC SCHOLARSHIP: $10k → 17%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE LOW COUNTRY: $25k → 10%NAVY SEAL MUSEUM: $2k → 13%ST GREGORY THE GREAT: $6k → 16%DETROIT GOLF FOUNDATION: $6k → 21%AUBURN UNIVERSITY: $20k → 15%SAMARITAN'S PURSE: $5k → 21%ACWORTH UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $5k → 8%NPH USA: $1k → 14%ST ROSE OF LIMA PARISH: $13k → 6%ST JOHNS PREP: $4k → 10%THE CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $25k → 16%VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $50k → 10%INNER CITY CATHOLIC SCHOLARSHIP: $10k → 17%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE LOW COUNTRY: $10k → 10%ST GREGORY THE GREAT: $5k → 16%AUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $20k → 15%THE CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $25k → 16%VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $50k → 10%INNER CITY CATHOLIC SCHOLARSHIP: $10k → 17%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE LOW COUNTRY: $8k → 10%AUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $20k → 15%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB: $5k → 16%VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $50k → 10%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE LOW COUNTRY: $5k → 10%AUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $20k → 15%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB: $1k → 16%VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $50k → 10%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BLUFFTON: $10k → 10%GIVENGAIN FOUNDATION: $173 → 16%VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $45k → 10%BLUFFTON SELF HELP: $3k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$492k · 7 repeat orgs$64k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
7

Total granted

$492k
$57k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+34%

Still filing today

43%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationReligionRecreation & SportsInternationalPhilanthropyOther

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

  • VU
    VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $300k · revenue +44%
  • CS
    CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $75k · revenue -40%
  • AU
    AUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $60k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • AU
    AUBURN UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · $20k
  • SR
    ST ROSE OF LIMA PARISH
    one grant, 2020 · $13k
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE LOWCOUNTRY INC
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -11%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
University of South Florida Foundation Inc

University of South Florida Foundation, Inc.'s mission is to provide charitable and educational aid to the University of South Florida; to promote education and other related activities of the University; and to encourage research,…

Education
2
Florida Gulf Coast University Foundation Inc

To advance florida gulf coast university and its students by promoting the institution, securing philanthropy to support the needs of the university, managing and administering assets with a long term perspective, and providing resources…

Education
3
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
4
Saint Augustine's University

The mission of the University is to prepare students personally, socially, and intellectually to effectively function in a global and technological society.

Education
5
University of Virginia Foundation

To provide administrative services to university of virginia (university) entities, university associated organizations, or other entities involved in activities which support the university. to engage in matters pertaining to real…

Education
6
Evangel University

Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.

Education
7
North Greenville University

North greenville university exists to glorify god by cultivating graduates who are equipped to serve as transformational leaders for church and society.

Education
8
University of Sioux Falls

The university of sioux falls, a christian university in the liberal arts tradition, educates students in the humanities, sciences and professions. the traditional motto of the university is culture for service, that is, we seek to foster…

Education
9
Jefferson Scholars Foundation

The jefferson scholars foundation (foundation) provides academic merit-based scholarship, fellowship and professorship support to students and faculty at the university of virginia (uva).

Philanthropy
10
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

11
Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education
12
University of Southern Mississippi Foundation

To build relationships with alumni and friends in order to secure private funds and other resources for the benefit of the university of southern mississippi (usm). the foundation receives, invests and distributes private gifts in support…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of the Orphans D/B/a Nph-Usa and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

11 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 18 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
5/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY — $300,000 · EducationVILLANOVA UNIVERSITYCATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC — $75,000 · EducationCATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INCAUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $60,000 · EducationAUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONINNER CITY CATHOLIC SCHOLARSHIP — $30,000 · OtherINNER CITY CATHOLIC …AUBURN UNIVERSITY — $20,000 · OtherAUBURN UNIVERSITYST ROSE OF LIMA PARISH — $12,500 · OtherST ROSE OF LIMA PARI…ST GREGORY THE GREAT — $10,500 · OtherST GREGORY THE GREATST JOHNS PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC — $10,000 · OtherST JOHNS PREPARATORY…BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE LOWCOUNTRY INC — $10,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS O…BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB — $6,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBACWORTH UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — $5,000 · Other+2 more — $4,500 · OtherCommunity Foundation of the Lowcountry — $47,725 · Philanthropy+1 more — $173 · PhilanthropyDETROIT GOLF FOUNDATION — $6,180 · Recreation & SportsSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $5,000 · ReligionFRIENDS OF THE ORPHANS D/B/A NPH-USA — $1,000 · International
Education$435,000Other$108,500Philanthropy$47,898Recreation & Sports$6,180Religion$5,000International$1,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY — $300,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC — $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Foundation of the Lowcountry — $47,725 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE LOWCOUNTRY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLUFFTON SELF HELP INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUDT - SEAL MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ORPHANS D/B/A NPH-USA — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC8.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Howley 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.

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202122232425
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 18 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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