How much did ROWBOAT FAMILY FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 70% of ROWBOAT FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

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2019

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2020

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2021

make road

2022

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2023

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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 12 grants

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

$90,000

Median grant

States reached

$368k

Total assets

Largest grants

PUSH BUFFALO INC$185,000
TIDES FOUNDATION$175,000
CENTER FOR PROGRESSIVE REFORM$120,000
INVESTIGATIVE POST$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

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–21, $65k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20% — the area typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$6.2M · 12 repeat orgs$560k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$6.2M

$452k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+75%

+107%

Still filing today

67%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $108k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Arts & CultureCommunity ImprovementCivil RightsEnvironmentPhilanthropyEducationOther

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

TIDES FOUNDATION
4× · 2020–2024 · $485k · revenue +23%
IP
INVESTIGATIVE POST
3× · 2021–2024 · $185k · revenue +75%
CI
CLASSCRITS INC
6× · 2017–2023 · $153k · revenue +2227% · 91% of their budget

Funded once

AF
ASSOCIATION FOR THE PROMOTION OF POLITICAL ECONOMY & LAW
one grant, 2017 · $200k
MV
MOVEMENT VOTER PROJECT
one grant, 2023 · $100k
DF
DATA FOR PROGRESS EDUCATION FUND
one grant, 2020 · $30k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Contemporary Policy Institute

Philanthropy

New York Public Interest Research Group

The new york public interest research group fund nypirg is a non-partisan, nonprofit, research and public education organization dedicated to enhancing the public voice in critical public policy debates in order to strengthen democracy,…

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Center for Constitutional Rights

The center for constitutional rights stands with social justice movements and communities under threat-fusing litigation, advocacy and narrative shifting to dismantle systems of oppression regardless of the risk.

Civil Rights

Global Policy Forum Inc

Research and education of United Nations activities

International

New Jersey Policy Perspective Inc

New jersey policy perspective (njpp) is a nonpartisan think tank that drives policy change to advance economic, social, and racial justice through evidence-based, independent research, analysis, and strategic communications.

Arts & Culture

Communities Resist Inc

Core is a communnity-based law office that partners with communities of color in brooklyn and queens to combat predatory capitalism, gentrification and structural racism.

Housing & Shelter

The Center for Media Justice

Our mission is to build a powerful movement for a more just and participatory media and digital world, with human rights for all.

Civil Rights

Citizens Project

Citizens project is a fearless, bold advocate and an engaging voice that empowers and challenges our entire community to embrace equity, inclusion, and justice.

Human Services

Documented Ltd

Documented uses community-driven journalism to serve low-wage immigrants with critical information, enhancing their agency and helping immigrant communities in New York

Human Services

Center for International Policy Inc

The center for international policy is a woman-led, progressive, independent nonprofit center for research, education, and advocacy working to advance a more peaceful, just, and sustainable u.s. approach to foreign policy. through…

International

Northern Manhattan Coalition

to educate, defend and protect the rights of immigrants. Recognized by the Board of Immigration Appeals, NMCIR is committed to expanding access to legal immigration services, participating in policy making and community organizing.

Community Improvement

Center for Civic Progress Inc

Center for Civic Progress, Inc. exists to spur the revitalization of New York by supporting multifaceted voter turnout, education, and engagement initiatives.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for Artistic Activism Inc and the most unlike its peers is Tides Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

18 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

18/18

Grantees still filing

14/18

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$4,866,173Environment$615,000Philanthropy$495,000Arts & Culture$267,394Employment$225,000Education$153,000Community Improvement$125,000

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.

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.

Amalgamated Charitable Foundation IncDC15× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Wallace Global Fund II · The Western New York Foundation · Windward Fund · Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo · New Venture Fund · The Ford Foundation · Tides Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 organisation 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.

2024

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0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: CLASSCRITS INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~4 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 23.3× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 821713227 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on CLASSCRITS INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 4 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 91% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Rowboat Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Rowboat Family Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

ROWBOAT FAMILY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

18 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Rowboat Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph

ROWBOAT FAMILY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

18 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Rowboat Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph