Maryland · Private foundation
John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $2.7M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 82
- Grants FY2025
- 72
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 67 to 88
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $66M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 18% of the organizations John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $565k 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 | 82 | $2.7M | 27% |
| FY2024 | 72 | $2.9M | 18% |
| FY2023 | 71 | $2.9M | 18% |
| FY2022 | 67 | $3.0M | 21% |
| FY2021 | 76 | $3.0M | 58% |
| FY2020 | 88 | $3.2M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Building Bridges Across the River Inc | $1,275,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Washington School for Girls | $720,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Washington and Affiliate | $600,000 | 6 | 1% |
| The DC Central Kitchen Inc | $535,000 | 5 | 0% |
| So What Else Inc | $465,000 | 6 | 7% |
| One World Education | $290,000 | 6 | 7% |
| The Washington Ballet | $260,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Central Union Mission | $260,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Arlington Free Clinic Inc | $255,000 | 4 | 2% |
| The Montgomery County Coalition for the Homeless Inc | $250,000 | 4 | 1% |
Show all 151 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 43 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 137 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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 Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · Greater Washington Community Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · Dimick Foundation John M Lynham Jr Trustee · William S Abell Foundation Inc · World Bank Community Connections Fund · Nora Roberts Foundation · Corina Higginson Trust Co Laura Ford Trustee · Joseph E & Marjorie B Jones Foundation Corporation · Venable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundation
- How much does John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundation give?
- John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundation reported 82 grants totaling $2,685,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 67 and 88 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (19%), Housing & Shelter (16%), Human Services (13%).
- Who are John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Building Bridges Across the River Inc ($1.3M), Washington School for Girls ($720k), Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Washington and Affiliate ($600k).
- Does John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, Clark-Winchcole Foundation, Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company.
- Where is John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundation based?
- John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundation is based in MD.
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