· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| FREEDOM ALLIANCE | $10,000 |
| PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF TRAVERSE CITY | $10,000 |
| COVENANT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $8,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $5,000 |
| MUNSON HEALTHCARE REGIONAL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| WISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY - RACINE CAMPUS | $5,000 |
| TOPS VETERINARY REHABILITATION INC | $5,000 |
| JUPITER MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $5,000 |
| BELLE CITY VETERINARY HOSPITAL INC | $4,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY GRAND TRAVERSE REGION | $3,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $3,000 |
| FOOD RESCUE OF NORTHWEST MICHIGAN | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
FREEDOM ALLIANCE9× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +89%- MHMUNSON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONS9× · 2017–2025 · $40k · revenue +44%
- JMJupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $39k · revenue +158%
Funded once
- ROREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANone grant, 2023 · $2k
- JLJUPITER LIGHTHOUSEone grant, 2017 · $500
WISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETYgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $400 · revenue +61%
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.
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.
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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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American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…
The intrepid fallen heroes fund serves military personnel suffering traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress, and other severe injuries.the intrepid fallen heroes fund serves military personnel suffering traumatic brain injury,…
How this is measured
36 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. 36 of the 61 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ARMY EMERGENCY RELIEF ↗
- 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 HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC ↗
- Who funds LOXAHATCHEE RIVER HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHOLANGIOCARCINOMA FOUNDATION ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization John C and Mary Jane Howard Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John C and Mary Jane Howard Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Loxahatchee River Historical Society Inc: 6% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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