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Rowboat Family 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $935k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PUSH BUFFALO INC | $185,000 |
| TIDES FOUNDATION | $175,000 |
| INVESTIGATIVE POST | $120,000 |
| CENTER FOR PROGRESSIVE REFORM | $120,000 |
| PUBLIC ACCOUNTABLITY INITIATIVE | $100,000 |
| OUR CITY BUFFALO | $90,000 |
| COMMUNITY VOICES HEARD | $75,000 |
| PARTNERSHIP FOR PUBLIC GOOD | $70,000 |
| JUSTICE FOR MIGRANT FAMILIES | $35,000 |
| CLEAN AIR COALITION OF WNY | $15,000 |
| BAIRD FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SECURE FAMILY FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
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 (FY20–21, $65k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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 +162% since the first grant, against -20% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 3 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $108k 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
- PUPEOPLE UNITED FOR SUSTAINABLE HOUSING INC8× · 2017–2024 · $3.4M · revenue +239%
- PAPUBLIC ACCOUNTABILITY INITIATIVE INC7× · 2017–2024 · $805k · revenue +266%
- LCLPE COLLECTIVE INC DBA CLASS CRITS INC6× · 2017–2023 · $153k · revenue ×23 · 91% of their budget
Funded once
- AFASSOCIATION FOR THE PROMOTION OF POLITICAL ECONOMY & LAWone grant, 2017 · $200k
- MVMOVEMENT VOTER PROJECTone grant, 2023 · $100k
- DFDATA FOR PROGRESS EDUCATION FUNDone grant, 2020 · $30k
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.
Partnership for the Public Good, Inc. is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to help build a more just, sustainable, and culturally vibrant community through action-oriented research, policy development, and citizen engagement.
Through legal advocacy, education, media relations, civic engagement and grassroots mobilzation, cair-ny empowers the american muslim community against discrimination.
Worker Justice Center of New York, Inc. (WJCNY) pusues juistice for those denied hian rights, with a focus on agricultural and other low-wage workers, through legal representation, community empowerment and advocacy for institutional…
We join our clients in the struggle to organize, assert their rights and protect their homes. we work to ensure that community voices are centered in the decisions that impact their lives and neighborhoods.
Ccr is a non-profit legal and educational organization dedicated to advancing and protecting the rights guaranteed by the united states constitution the universal declaration of human rights. ccr stands with social justice movements…
Justice catalyst takes on social justice issues that fall between the cracks of traditional advocacy models. by connecting advocates with diverse specialties and applying a cross-disciplinary approach to the law, justice catalyst develops…
A grassroots membership-based organization building power for low and moderate-income communities in new york state.
CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.
To use investigative journalism through the prism of new york city to identify urban problems, examine their causes. explore solutions, and equip communities to tak action
Advocacy institute supports social justice organizations to build the advocacy skills, knowledge and power they need to shape government policy for a more just and equitable new york.
Bold Impact is a national nonprofit dedicated to supporting a democracy where all communities get to thrive.
/The Rules is a global network of activists, organizers, designers, coders, researchers, writers and others dedicated to changing the rules that create inequality, climate change, and poverty around the world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make the Road New York and the most unlike its peers is The Baird Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 15 years old; the field is 15. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 30 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 PEOPLE UNITED FOR SUSTAINABLE HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC ACCOUNTABILITY INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR PROGRESSIVE REFORM INC ↗
- Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Community Voices Heard Inc ↗
- Who funds INVESTIGATIVE POST INC ↗
- Who funds LPE COLLECTIVE INC DBA CLASS CRITS INC ↗
- Who funds OUR CITY BUFFALO INC ↗
- Who funds CLEAN AIR COALITION OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds JUSTICE FOR MIGRANT FAMILIES WNY ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL URBAN HISTORY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Make The Road States Inc ↗
- Who funds MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER ↗
- Who funds New York Communities Organizing Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds Solutions Project Inc ↗
- Who funds FEED BUFFALO INC ↗
- Who funds The Baird Foundation ↗
- Who funds NEW GEORGIA PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Make the Road New York ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN AMERICAN CENTER FOR CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR ARTISTIC ACTIVISM INC ↗
- Who funds BETTER MARKETS 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: Wallace Global Fund II · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · New York Foundation · The Western New York Foundation · Tides Foundation · The Schmidt Family Foundation · Windward Fund · Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · The Ford Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Rowboat 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.
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