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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.

$1.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$185k
Largest
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Housing & Shelter$3.4MPublic Benefit$1.6MPhilanthropy$505kArts & Culture$277kSocial Science$230kEmployment$225kEducation$153kCommunity Improvement$125kOther$0
02FY2024 · 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
3
States reached
$368k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

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%, 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.

area typical 11%MAKE THE ROAD STATES: $55k → 20%MAKE THE ROAD STATES: $10k → 20%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.7M · 11 repeat orgs$550k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
15

Total granted

$5.7M
$442k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+162%
-20%

Still filing today

91%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $108k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentArts & CultureCivil RightsCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterPublic BenefitOther

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

  • PU
    PEOPLE UNITED FOR SUSTAINABLE HOUSING INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $3.4M · revenue +239%
  • PA
    PUBLIC ACCOUNTABILITY INITIATIVE INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $805k · revenue +266%
  • LC
    LPE COLLECTIVE INC DBA CLASS CRITS INC
    6× · 2017–2023 · $153k · revenue ×23 · 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.

1
Partnership for the Public Good Inc

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.

Community Improvement
2
Council On American-Islamic Relations of New York

Through legal advocacy, education, media relations, civic engagement and grassroots mobilzation, cair-ny empowers the american muslim community against discrimination.

Civil Rights
3
Worker Justice Center of New York Inc

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…

Crime & Legal
4
Communities Resist Inc

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.

Housing & Shelter
5
Center for Constitutional Rights

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…

Civil Rights
6
Justice Catalyst Inc

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…

Civil Rights
7
New York Communities for Change Inc

A grassroots membership-based organization building power for low and moderate-income communities in new york state.

Civil Rights
8
City Report Inc

CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.

Arts & Culture
9
City Limits News Inc

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

Public Benefit
10
Advocacy Institute Inc

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.

Civil Rights
11
Bold Impact

Bold Impact is a national nonprofit dedicated to supporting a democracy where all communities get to thrive.

Arts & Culture
12
Rules Foundation

/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 FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%5%<5yr15%27%5–10yr19%32%10–20yr20%27%20–35yr13%5%35–55yr11%5%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%1%<5yr15%6%5–10yr19%5%10–20yr20%80%20–35yr13%8%35–55yr11%0%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/22
the rest of the field
12%
4,939/42,575

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.

04the grantee network

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 20172025, 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
8/22
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PEOPLE UNITED FOR SUSTAINABLE HOUSING INC — $3,361,174 · Housing & ShelterPEOPLE UNITED FOR SUSTAINABLE HOUSING INCPUBLIC ACCOUNTABILITY INITIATIVE INC — $805,000 · Public BenefitPUBLIC ACCOUN…CENTER FOR PROGRESSIVE REFORM INC — $600,000 · EnvironmentCENTER FOR …CLEAN AIR COALITION OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC — $85,000 · EnvironmentCLEAN AIR C…+1 more — $15,000 · EnvironmentTIDES FOUNDATION — $485,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $10,000 · PhilanthropyASSOCIATION FOR THE PROMOTION OF POLITICAL ECONOMY & LAW — $199,500 · OtherASSOCIATION FOR…MOVEMENT VOTER PROJECT — $100,000 · OtherMOVEMENT VOTER …PARTNERSHIP FOR PUBLIC GOOD — $85,000 · OtherPARTNERSHIP FOR…DATA FOR PROGRESS EDUCATION FUND — $30,000 · OtherLPE COLLECTIVE INC DBA CLASS CRITS INC — $153,000 · OtherLPE COLLECTIVE …OUR CITY BUFFALO INC — $90,000 · OtherOUR CITY BUFFAL…JUSTICE FOR MIGRANT FAMILIES WNY — $75,000 · OtherJUSTICE FOR MIG…Make The Road States Inc — $65,000 · OtherMake The Road S…+11 more — $95,499 · Other+11 moreINVESTIGATIVE POST INC — $185,000 · Arts & CultureGLOBAL URBAN HISTORY PROJECT INC — $72,394 · Arts & CultureAFRICAN AMERICAN CENTER FOR CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureCommunity Voices Heard Inc — $225,000 · Employment
Housing & Shelter$3,361,174Public Benefit$805,000Environment$700,000Philanthropy$495,000Other$892,999Arts & Culture$267,394Employment$225,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPEOPLE UNITED FOR SUSTAINABLE HOUSING INC — $3,361,174 over 8y, 19% of budgetPUBLIC ACCOUNTABILITY INITIATIVE INC — $805,000 over 7y, 25% of budgetCENTER FOR PROGRESSIVE REFORM INC — $600,000 over 7y, 13% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION — $485,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Voices Heard Inc — $225,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetINVESTIGATIVE POST INC — $185,000 over 3y, 22% of budgetLPE COLLECTIVE INC DBA CLASS CRITS INC — $153,000 over 6y, 91% of budgetOUR CITY BUFFALO INC — $90,000 over 1y, 84% of budgetCLEAN AIR COALITION OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC — $85,000 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetJUSTICE FOR MIGRANT FAMILIES WNY — $75,000 over 3y, 24% of budgetGLOBAL URBAN HISTORY PROJECT INC — $72,394 over 2y, 25% of budgetMake The Road States Inc — $65,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNew York Communities Organizing Fund Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSolutions Project Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Baird Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetNEW GEORGIA PROJECT INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMake the Road New York — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAFRICAN AMERICAN CENTER FOR CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT INC — $10,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetCENTER FOR ARTISTIC ACTIVISM INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBETTER MARKETS INC — $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Wallace Global Fund IIDC15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Rowboat Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Rowboat Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 30 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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