· Private foundation
Rowe Family Foundation Inc Co James C Rowe
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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
75% of Rowe Family Foundation Inc Co James C Rowe’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Yampa Valley Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 10 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year Rowe Family Foundation Inc Co James C Rowe named its own grantees at scale: 14 organizations, $28k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k20 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MILWAUKEE COLLEGE PREP | $11,200 |
| FOURTH CHURCH OF CHRIST SCIENTIST | $3,000 |
| MILKWORKS | $2,000 |
| FRIENDS OF MONTESSORI CHILDRENS ROO | $2,000 |
| UNITED WAY | $1,200 |
| YAMPA VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC | $1,000 |
| CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| LEFTHAND FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT | $1,000 |
| AMVETS | $500 |
| SHOREWOOD SEED FOUNDATION | $500 |
| DRYLANDS AGROECOLOGY RESEARCH FOUND | $500 |
| FRIENDS OF STEAMBOAT LAKE STATE PAR | $500 |
| MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC | $500 |
| COLLEGE POSSIBLE | $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 (FY20–24, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
19 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2020, 10 since wound down; 35 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- MSMCPREPARATORY SCHOOL OF WISCONSIN INC5× · 2020–2024 · $32k · revenue +21%
ALL-IN MILWAUKEE INC3× · 2022–2024 · $20k · revenue +245%- OZOMAHA ZOO FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $10k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- AAACTON ACADEMYgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $14k · revenue +31%
- UWUNITED WAY OF THE YAMPA VALLEYgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +33%
HUNGER TASK FORCE INCone grant, 2021 · $4k · revenue -29%
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.
University school of milwaukee cultivates excellence in learning, leadership, and citizenship for prekindergarten through 12th grade students. students are engaged, known, and valued within our passionate independent school community…
Woodlands school, inc. is a public charter non-profit school authorized through the univerity of wisconsin-milwaukee using a character-based education approach to prepare children for lifelong learning in a rapidly changing world.
A charter school providing motivation to inner city children to promote a successful future
In service of learning, we practice responsive and progressive education, and strive for equity. in service of the whole person, we embrace unique gifts, experiences, and relationships. in service of social justice, we foster…
A community of diverse families and educators that offers quality montessori education in a nurturing environment that enriches, empowers, and inspires children to reach their potential and encourages parents to become involved with their…
We take a joyful, community-oriented approach to raising engaged citizens, deep learners, and brave adventurers with the skills, creativity, and heart needed to better the world.
Our mission is to seed a new model of public education that ensures young children are on track to succeed in a college or career preparatory program from birth through high school graduation.
West Ridge Academy Charter School is a K-8 Public School with the vision to prepare each student with an exemplary educational experience allowing each student to meet his or her highest academic and character potential.
We empower young people to explore and grow their unique intellectual, ethical, and creative capabilities, and to treasure diversity and growth in others.
Mission: educating youngsters to become an informed, committed, and difference-making generation. vision: educating children to graduate as informed, engaged, ethically minded citizens of the world that they inherit. purpose: milwaukee…
Our vision is for wisconsin to be the model for excellence in equitable school counseling practice, exemplified by the advocacy, leadership, and expertise of the members of the wsca.
The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is City Forward Collective Inc and the most unlike its peers is Drylands Agroecology Research 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 29 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 55 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 YAMPA VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MCPREPARATORY SCHOOL OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds ALL-IN MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds ACTON ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF MONTESSORI CHILDREN'S ROOM ↗
- Who funds OMAHA ZOO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTH ROUTT COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds MILKWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE YAMPA VALLEY ↗
- Who funds HUNGER TASK FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE PARK FRIENDS LTD ↗
- Who funds STRINGS MUSIC FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds UNITED COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ROUTT COUNTY CRISIS SUPPORT ↗
- Who funds Drylands Agroecology Research Foundation ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST ROCKY MOUNTAIN CASA ↗
- Who funds GRIEF'S JOURNEY THE COLLECTIVE FOR HOPE ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC ↗
- Who funds BOOK TRAILS 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: Colorado Gives Foundation · Craig-Scheckman Family Foundation · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Arzbaecher Family Foundation · Husco Foundation · Charter Manufacturing Company Foundation Inc · Herbert H Kohl Charities Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · Impactassetsinc · The Ayco Charitable 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 Rowe Family Foundation Inc Co James C Rowe 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.