· Private foundation
John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k69 grants · $1.8M
- $50k–250k12 grants · $905k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Rockville Community Nursery School | $200,000 |
| Boys and Girls Club of Greater Washington | $100,000 |
| Building Bridges Across the River | $100,000 |
| Arlington Free Clinic | $70,000 |
| Central Union Mission | $65,000 |
| DC Central Kitchen | $65,000 |
| Aspire Afterschool Learning | $55,000 |
| One World Education | $50,000 |
| Fair Chance | $50,000 |
| Montgomery County Coalition for the Homeless | $50,000 |
| Barker Adoption Foundation | $50,000 |
| St Ann's Center | $50,000 |
| Neighborhood Health | $40,000 |
| District Alliance for Safe Housing | $40,000 |
| Kitchen of Purpose | $40,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $2.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 93% 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
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.
122 repeat relationships: 60 still active in FY2025, 62 since wound down; 22 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $620k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BBBUILDING BRIDGES ACROSS THE RIVER INC6× · 2020–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +178%
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER WASHINGTON AND AFFILIATE6× · 2020–2025 · $600k · revenue +74%
- TDTHE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC5× · 2020–2025 · $535k · revenue +52%
Funded once
- GCGlenbrook Cooperative Nursery Schoolone grant, 2024 · $300k
- BFBread for the Cityone grant, 2021 · $200k
- CACAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $150k · revenue +39%
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.
We support the holistic needs of individuals and families at risk of or experiencing homelessness. Housing is our starting point. Seeing people thrive is our finish line.
Pathways to housing dc prevents and ends homelessness for persons living with serious psychiatric disabilities and other complex health challenges.
We deliver healthy delicious meals to our home-bound neighbors. With a vision of creating a more interconnected resilient and compassionate community our program supports entire family systems. In 2024 236 volunteers delivered 55,642 meals…
Our mission is to dramatically improve the early career outcomes of dc youth and young adults of color by creating innovative programs and by mobilizing employers, educators, and city leaders to create a local, diverse talent pipeline. our…
We are making maryland healthier by connecting residents to insurance and care, educating the community about healthier living, and advocating a more equitable health care system.
Community of hope's mission is to improve health, end homelessness, and partner with communities to make washington, dc more equitable.
Low-income housing.
Capitol Hill Day School is a co-educational independent school serving students from pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. Capitol Hill Day School deeply engages a diverse community of students in connecting the classroom with the larger…
Moveable feast's mission is to improve the health of marylanders experiencing food insecurity and chronic illness by preparing and delivering medically tailored meals and providing nutrition education, thereby achieving racial, social, and…
To create and advance high quality, diverse educational communities that teach children the foundations of life-long learning and social responsibility.
Building changes advances equitable responses to homelessness in washington state, with a focus on children, youth, and families. we work at the intersection of housing, education, and health systems, partnering with communities and public…
The washington area community investment fund (wacif) is a nonprofit community loan fund focused on increasing equity and economic opportunity in the washington, dc area's underserved communities. wacif's mission is driven is driven by…
How this is measured
143 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 143 of the 194 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 BUILDING BRIDGES ACROSS THE RIVER INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON SCHOOL FOR GIRLS ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER WASHINGTON AND AFFILIATE ↗
- Who funds THE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds SO WHAT ELSE INC ↗
- Who funds ONE WORLD EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds THE WASHINGTON BALLET ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL UNION MISSION ↗
- Who funds ARLINGTON FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds THE MONTGOMERY COUNTY COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds LA COCINA VA ↗
- Who funds Friendship Place ↗
- Who funds The Barker Adoption Foundation ↗
- Who funds ROCKVILLE COMMUNITY NURSERY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FOOD & FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSING UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds FOR LOVE OF CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Western Fairfax Christian Ministries ↗
- Who funds BRIGHT BEGINNINGS INC ↗
- Who funds ASPIRE AFTERSCHOOL LEARNING ↗
- Who funds THRIVE DC ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds N STREET VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds FAIR CHANCE ↗
- Who funds DANCE INSTITUTE OF WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds NEW FUTURES ↗
- Who funds Little Lights Urban Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds INSIGHT MEMORY CARE CENTER ↗
- Who funds DC Affordable Law Firm ↗
- Who funds Mobile Medical Care Inc ↗
- Who funds HOPE AND A HOME ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Bethesda Cares Inc: 100% of income from government
- The Montgomery County Coalition for the Homeless Inc: 19% of income from government
- Mobile Medical Care Inc: 17% of income from government
- Imagination Stage Inc: 13% of income from government
- St Anns Center for Children Youth and Families: 6% of income from government
- Cornerstone Montgomery: 3% of income from government
- Arts for the Aging Inc: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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