· Private foundation
Js Howe Family 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 $10k7 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $246k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $422k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FREEDOM FOUNDATION | $114,000 |
| MARINE CORPS HERITAGE FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE | $80,000 |
| ASSUMPTION CHURCH | $76,500 |
| FOUNDATIONS IN EDUCATION INC | $51,580 |
| Individual grant recipient | $35,000 |
| OIC OF AMERICA INC | $30,000 |
| EARTH PLACETHE NATURE DISCOVERY CENTER | $25,070 |
| MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON | $25,000 |
| TRUSTEES OF TUFTS UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| FEEDING AMERICA | $20,000 |
| THIRD OPTION FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE | $20,000 |
| YOUNG AMERICA'S FOUNDATION | $11,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $844k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 9% 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 +26% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
40 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 3 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k 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
- FFFREEDOM FOUNDATION3× · 2023–2025 · $378k · revenue +23%
- CFCONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $179k · revenue +97%
MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC7× · 2017–2025 · $172k · revenue +99%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $101k
- WLWESTPORT LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INCone grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue -34%
- COCHURCH OF THE ASSUMPTION CRISIS FUNDone grant, 2017 · $43k
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.
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 University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope Community Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Freedom Foundation. 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 40 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 — 2% 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.
58 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. 58 of the 109 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 MARINE CORPS HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds Los Cabos Children's Foundation ↗
- Who funds Foundations in Education Inc ↗
- Who funds EARTHPLACE INC ↗
- Who funds CARDINAL SHEHAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT ACADEMY OIC ↗
- Who funds WESTPORT LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THIRD OPTION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITIES INDUSTRIALIZATION CENTERS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds Young America's Foundation ↗
- Who funds COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds YANKEE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY ↗
- Who funds NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION 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: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · New Canaan Community Foundation Inc · The Aiello Charitable Foundation Inc · Horizon Foundation Inc · Synchrony Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Js Howe Family 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.
- The Center for Family Justice Inc — 49% of income from government
- Horizons Inc — 39% of income from government
- Catalyst Ct Inc — 37% of income from government
- Applied Behavioral Rehabilitation Instit — 35% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- The Walden Woods Project — 6% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
- Barnstable Land Trust Inc — 4% of income from government
- Cardinal Shehan Center Inc — 4% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% 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.