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Howley Family Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
NPH USA$1,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB$1,000
GIVENGAIN FOUNDATION$173
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 36% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its 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 FOUNDATION: $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: $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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
NC
SC
AL
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
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.

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 -14%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of the Orphans D/B/a Nph-Usa; 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 grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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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 first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

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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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Howley Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Howley Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's 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, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 18 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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