South Carolina · Private foundation
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 FY2025(still arriving)
- 9
- Grants FY2025
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $6,180
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 6
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Howley Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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 | 8 | $109k | 38% |
| FY2024 | 6 | $110k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $97k | 75% |
| FY2022 | 6 | $101k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $58k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $82k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Villanova University | $300,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Catholic Schools Foundation Inc | $75,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Auburn University Foundation | $60,000 | 3 | 0% |
| St Johns Preparatory School Inc | $10,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of the Lowcountry Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Detroit Golf Foundation | $6,180 | 1 | n/a |
| Acworth United Methodist Church | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Samaritan's Purse | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Bluffton Self Help Inc | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Udt - Seal Museum Association Inc | $1,500 | 1 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Villanova University | $300,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Catholic Schools Foundation Inc | $75,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Auburn University Foundation | $60,000 | 3 | 0% |
| St Johns Preparatory School Inc | $10,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of the Lowcountry Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Detroit Golf Foundation | $6,180 | 1 | n/a |
| Acworth United Methodist Church | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Samaritan's Purse | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Bluffton Self Help Inc | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Udt - Seal Museum Association Inc | $1,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Friends of the Orphans D/B/A Nph-Usa | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| GivenGain Foundation USA | $173 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($79k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Howley 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: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Howley Family Foundation
- How much does Howley Family Foundation give?
- Howley Family Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $116,853 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 6 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Howley Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (79%), Philanthropy (8%), Religion (5%).
- Who are Howley Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Villanova University ($300k), Catholic Schools Foundation Inc ($75k), Auburn University Foundation ($60k).
- Does Howley Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Howley 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 Howley Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, American Online Giving Foundation Inc.
- Where is Howley Family Foundation based?
- Howley Family Foundation is based in SC.
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