· Private foundation
John C and Mary Jane Howard 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k45 grants · $104k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $73k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MALTZ JUPITER THEATER INC | $37,500 |
| BATTLE CREEK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $15,054 |
| PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF TRAVERSE CITY | $10,000 |
| FREEDOM ALLIANCE | $10,000 |
| COVENANT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $8,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $5,000 |
| JUPITER MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| TOPS VETERINARY REHABILITATION INC | $5,000 |
| WISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY - RACINE CAMPUS | $5,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $5,000 |
| MUNSON HEALTHCARE REGIONAL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| BELLE CITY VETERINARY HOSPITAL INC | $4,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $3,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY GRAND TRAVERSE REGION | $3,000 |
| NATIONAL PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 64% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
44 repeat relationships — 37 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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
FREEDOM ALLIANCE9× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +112%- MHMUNSON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONS9× · 2017–2025 · $40k · revenue +44%
- JMJupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $39k · revenue +129%
Funded once
- ROREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANone grant, 2023 · $2k
- JLJUPITER LIGHTHOUSEone grant, 2017 · $500
WISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETYgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $400 · revenue +61%
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.
Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.
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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.
The mission of the marine corps association (mca) is to support the marine corps by disseminating knowledge of military art and science among marines, provide opportunities for professional development for marines, and to foster the spirit…
The air & space forces association (afa) is a nonprofit, independent, professional military, and aerospace education association. the association's mission is to promote dominant u.s. air and space forces as the foundation of a strong…
Sarasota memorial healthcare foundation is the philanthropic partner that helps sarasota memorial health care system bring world-class care to our community.
To improve, maintain and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
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The special forces foundation provides immediate and ongoing support to the special forces community and their families.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Special Operations Warrior Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Metropolitan Museum of Art. 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 39 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.
36 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. 36 of the 61 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 FREEDOM ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds BATTLE CREEK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MUNSON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONS ↗
- Who funds Jupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY - GRAND TRAVERSE REGION ↗
- Who funds TRAVERSE HEALTH CLINIC AND COALITION ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIORS FAMILY SUPPORT INC ↗
- Who funds NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ARMY EMERGENCY RELIEF ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST MICHIGAN SUPPORTIVE HOUSING ↗
- Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds SOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OPERATION HOMEFRONT INC ↗
- Who funds LOXAHATCHEE RIVER HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHOLANGIOCARCINOMA FOUNDATION ↗
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: Grand Traverse Regional Community Foundation · The Art and Mary Schmuckal Family Foundation · Oleson Foundation · Consumers Energy Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment 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 John C and Mary Jane Howard 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Loxahatchee River Historical Society Inc — 6% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% 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.