Delaware · Private foundation
Rowe 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.
- $1.6M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 23%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 14
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $35M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 23% of the organizations Rowe Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $260k 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 | 14 | $1.3M | 0% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $1.6M | 23% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $1.9M | 23% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $1.7M | 18% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $1.6M | 43% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $765k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $1.3M | 36% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $250k | 0% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Young Men's Christian Association of Greater New York | $1,550,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Buck Institute for Research on Aging | $1,550,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Canisius University | $1,000,000 | 2 | 1% |
| The Vivian Beaumont Theaterinc D/B/A Lincoln Center Theater | $750,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Museum of the City of New York | $590,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Marine Biological Laboratory | $550,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Studentsponsor Partners Inc | $475,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Generations United Inc | $387,500 | 5 | 3% |
| The Urban Institute | $350,000 | 6 | 0% |
| New York Yacht Club Foundation | $300,000 | 3 | 3% |
Show all 31 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Rowe Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Rowe Family Foundation
- How much does Rowe Family Foundation give?
- Rowe Family Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $1,584,388 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 14 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Rowe Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (32%), Health (24%), Youth Development (15%).
- Who are Rowe Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Young Men's Christian Association of Greater New York ($1.6M), Buck Institute for Research on Aging ($1.6M), Canisius University ($1.0M).
- Does Rowe Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Rowe 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 Rowe Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, National Philanthropic Trust.
- Where is Rowe Family Foundation based?
- Rowe Family Foundation is based in DE.
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