· Private foundation
R O W Foundation
Its FY2024 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 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k26 grants · $82k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $165k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $57k
- $250k+2 grants · $3.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DIRECT RELIEF | $2,381,400 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,173,112 |
| HOSPITAL PROVINCIAL GENERAL DE REFERENCE DE BUKAVU | $57,180 |
| UNIVERSITY TEACHING HOSPITAL | $36,904 |
| HEALEY INTERNATIONAL RELIEF FOUNDATION | $29,960 |
| WEST ATLANTIC BRAIN & STROKE FOUNDATION | $28,152 |
| RWANDA PEDIATRIC ASSOCIATION | $25,000 |
| MAP INTERNATIONAL | $16,704 |
| PRETOLA GLOBAL HEALTH AND CONSULTING | $15,000 |
| QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL | $13,020 |
| RACHAEL K FOUNDATION | $9,708 |
| CARE EPILEPSY ETHIOPIA | $7,632 |
| MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL | $6,950 |
| ARABKIR UNITED CHILDREN'S CHARITY FOUNDATION | $6,684 |
| SAVE HAVEN COMMUNITY SERVICES | $5,700 |
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 (FY17–22, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 84% 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.
42 repeat relationships: 30 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
DIRECT RELIEF2× · 2023–2024 · $2.4M · revenue +6%
AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC3× · 2020–2023 · $878k · revenue +28%- HIHEALEY INTERNATIONAL RELIEF FOUNDATION INC4× · 2021–2024 · $81k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- CPCuatro por Venezuelaone grant, 2020 · $16M
- GGrantsone grant, 2019 · $616k
- DRDirect Reliefone grant, 2020 · $569k
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.
Enable, empower, and strengthen the multi-faceted health ministry and mission of the Seventh-day Adventist Church throughout the world.
Provide free medical assistance to poor people in 3rd world countries
We help haitians heal haitians with a commitment to serving the poor and creating a reliable, consistent and sustainable healthcare system in haiti.
To provide sustainable, equitable and effecient health care services to the most vulnerable individuals and communities around the world.
To permanently improve the health status of communities around the world by providing sustainable and affordable quality healthcare and disaster relief services and social welfare projects
To conduct and support programs and activities aimed at solving some of the world's greatest public health challenges, with a specific focus on enabling health workers to have the greatest possible impact on the health of the people they…
To provide free healthcare services
MedGlobal is a humanitarian non-governmental organization working to serve vulnerable communities around the world by providing innovative, free, and sustainable healthcare. Our health services support refugees, displaced persons, and…
Innovating health international (ihi) is a non-profit dedicated to treating chronic diseases and addressing women's health issues in haiti and malawi. what we do- working with local partners, we aim to increase access to treatment and…
International relief teams is a non-profit international relief and development organization dedicated to allieviating human suffering by providing critical assistance to victims of disaster, profound poverty and neglect worldwide
Delivering life changing care in rural Guatemala through a regional eye center, general medical and surgical care, maternal health and child nutrition programs.
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 80 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 DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds CUATRO POR VENEZUELA ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HEALEY INTERNATIONAL RELIEF FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BROTHER'S BROTHER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds CURE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds MAP International Inc ↗
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 Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization R O W Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from R O W Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Salvadoran American Humanitarian Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
- Healey International Relief Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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