· Private foundation
James a and Mayme H Rowland Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 46% of JAMES A AND MAYME H ROWLAND FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k32 grants · $95k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHRIST SCHOOL FUND | $15,000 |
| LONGVIEW MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS | $8,000 |
| SEWANEE | $5,000 |
| FRENCH BROAD RIVER ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| CONSERVING CAROLINA | $4,000 |
| MOUNTAIN TRUE | $4,000 |
| THE PISGAH CONSERVANCY | $4,000 |
| PHILADELPHIA ORCHARD PROJECT | $3,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $3,000 |
| HOLLINS UNIVERSITY | $3,000 |
| PISGAH LEGAL SERVICES | $3,000 |
| URBAN LEAGUE PHILADELPHIA | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| ARTSAVL | $3,000 |
| NORTH CAROLINA ARBORETUM SOCIETY | $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 (FY17–24, $53k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 12% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +21% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k 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
- AAAsheville Art Museum Association Inc5× · 2017–2021 · $32k · revenue +15%
- TNThe North Carolina Arboretum Society8× · 2017–2024 · $31k · revenue +85%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH4× · 2017–2023 · $20k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- TGTHE GIRLS BUILDING FUNDone grant, 2022 · $10k
- HPHIGHLAND PARK HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETICone grant, 2020 · $10k
- BCBOSTON COLLEGE FLYNN FUNDone grant, 2018 · $10k
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.
Visit philadelphia is our name and our mission. as the region's official tourism marketing agency, we build greater philadelphia's image, drive visitation and boost the economy.
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.
The western pennsylvania conservancy protects and restores exceptional places to provide our region with clean waters and healthy forests, wildlife and natural areas for the benefit of present and future generations. the conservancy…
Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.
United way's mission is to end intergenerational poverty in our region by harnessing, leveraging and strategically investing the collective power of donors, advocates and volunteers, to help individuals and families break the cycle of…
Founded in 1827, the pennsylvania horticultural society (phs) uses horticulture to advance the health and well-being of the greater philadelphia region. (continued in sch o)phs's work focuses on four impact priorities: creating healthy…
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.
To cultivate and develop an expansive collection of trees, gardens, and plants for all to explore, enjoy and study; and to provide through education and stewardship, a greener, healthier, more beautiful environment.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To restore and protect clean water and healthy ecosystems for rivers in tennessee by employing scientific expertise and collaborative relationships to develop, promote, and support broad community stewardship and action.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Homeward Bound of Western North Carolina Inc and the most unlike its peers is Comp-U-Dopt Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
48 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. 48 of the 75 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 P E R C INC ↗
- Who funds LONGVIEW MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ↗
- Who funds HOLLINS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Asheville Art Museum Association Inc ↗
- Who funds The North Carolina Arboretum Society ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH ↗
- Who funds KID SMART ↗
- Who funds PISGAH LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds BREVARD MUSIC CENTER INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds RAINFOREST TRUST ↗
- Who funds Conserving Carolina ↗
- Who funds FRENCH BROAD RIVER ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds EAST TEXAS COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American Whitewater ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds AMOS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF PROVIDENCE ↗
- Who funds TEXAS WINDS MUSICAL OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds HOMEWARD BOUND OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds MEDSHARE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
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: The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · Deerfield Episcopal Retirement Community Inc · The Frances & William H Beattie Fdn · Bailey Family Foundation Inc · Dogwood Health Trust · Richard Eckerd Foundation Inc · The Goodman Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Henderson County Inc · Ruth & Jacques Sartisky Foundation · Fernandez Pave the Way Foundation · Walnut Cove Members Association Inc · Td Charitable 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 James a and Mayme H Rowland 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.
- American Whitewater — 5% of income from government
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.