Connecticut · 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.
- $680k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 25
- Grants FY2025
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $114,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 17 to 48
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.9M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Js Howe Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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 | 24 | $680k | 13% |
| FY2024 | 23 | $495k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 24 | $698k | 29% |
| FY2022 | 22 | $382k | 36% |
| FY2021 | 48 | $551k | 67% |
| FY2020 | 26 | $364k | 46% |
| FY2019 | 27 | $404k | 52% |
| FY2018 | 17 | $201k | 82% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marine Corps Heritage Foundation | $514,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Freedom Foundation | $378,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Connecticut Foodshare Inc | $178,833 | 6 | 0% |
| Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc | $172,449 | 7 | 0% |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc | $170,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Los Cabos Children's Foundation | $168,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Foundations in Education Inc | $154,680 | 3 | 1% |
| Earthplace Inc | $153,962 | 9 | 1% |
| Cardinal Shehan Center Inc | $131,924 | 8 | 2% |
| Summit Academy Oic | $121,000 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 59 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 48 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Js Howe Family Foundation supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: 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
How this is measured
About Js Howe Family Foundation
- How much does Js Howe Family Foundation give?
- Js Howe Family Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $680,050 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 48 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Js Howe Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (19%), Education (19%), Religion (14%).
- Who are Js Howe Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Marine Corps Heritage Foundation ($514k), Freedom Foundation ($378k), Connecticut Foodshare Inc ($179k).
- Does Js Howe Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Js Howe Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Js Howe Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc, New Canaan Community Foundation Inc, The Aiello Charitable Foundation Inc.
- Where is Js Howe Family Foundation based?
- Js Howe Family Foundation is based in CT.
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