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Rowland Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
41
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$3.8MEducation$2.7MHuman Services$2.3MHousing & Shelter$2.3MPhilanthropy$1.6MYouth Development$1.0MSocial Science$400kCrime & Legal$375kOther$0
02FY2025 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $365k
  • $50k–250k27 grants · $2.0M
$50,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$36M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE BOSTON FOUNDATION - FBO FAMILYAID BOSTON INC$200,000
THE BOSTON FOUNDATION - FBO ROSIE'S PLACE INC$125,000
THE BOSTON FOUNDATION - FBO ROXBURY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC$119,000
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY$100,000
THE BOSTON FOUNDATION - FBO REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT ASSISTANCE CENTER$100,000
THE BOSTON FOUNDATION - FBO BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC$75,000
THE BOSTON FOUNDATION - FBO UASPIRE INC$75,000
THE BOSTON FOUNDATION - FBO INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART$75,000
THE BOSTON FOUNDATION - FBO LITERATIONS$75,000
THE BOSTON FOUNDATION - FBO CASA MYRNA VAZQUEZ INC$75,000
THE BOSTON FOUNDATION - FBO UNCORNERED$75,000
THE BOSTON FOUNDATION - FBO ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM INC$75,000
THE BOSTON FOUNDATION$70,000
THE BOSTON FOUNDATION - FBO BOSTON MUSIC PROJECT$65,000
THE BOSTON FOUNDATION - FBO BOSTON CHILDREN'S CHORUS INC$50,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–23, $2.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $30k → 8%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $30k → 8%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $30k → 8%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $30k → 8%CASA MYRNA VAZQUEZ: $90k → 16%NEXT STEP FUND INC: $40k → 8%CASA MYRNA VASQUEZ: $65k → 16%NEXT STEP FUND INC: $40k → 8%CASA MYRNA VASQUEZ: $65k → 16%NEXT STEP FUND INC: $30k → 8%CASA MYRNA VAZQUEZ: $65k → 16%NEXT STEP FUND INC: $30k → 8%CASA MYRNA VAZQUEZ: $65k → 16%EAST END HOUSE INC: $55k → 8%CASA MYRNA VAZQUEZ: $65k → 16%EAST END HOUSE INC: $50k → 8%EAST END HOUSE INC: $50k → 8%SMART FROM THE START: $100k → 16%NEXT STEP FUND INC: $30k → 8%SMART FROM THE START: $75k → 16%SMART FROM THE START: $75k → 16%SMART FROM THE START: $50k → 16%SMART FROM THE START: $50k → 16%SMART FROM THE START: $50k → 16%REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT ASSISTANCE CENTER: $160k → 16%REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT ASSISTANCE CENTER: $150k → 16%REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT ASSISTANCE CENTER: $40k → 16%REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT ASSISTANCE CENTER: $40k → 16%REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT ASSISTANCE CENTER: $25k → 16%COLLEGE BOUND DORCHESTER: $75k → 16%COLLEGE BOUND DORCHESTER: $60k → 16%COLLEGE BOUND DORCHESTER: $50k → 16%COLLEGE BOUND DORCHESTER: $50k → 16%COLLEGE BOUND DORCHESTER: $25k → 16%JULIE'S FAMILY LEARNING PROGRAM: $40k → 16%JULIE'S FAMILY LEARNING PROGRAM: $40k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$15M · 78 repeat orgs$620k to everyone else

78 repeat relationships: 35 still active in FY2025, 43 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

78
11

Total granted

$15M
$395k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%
+76%

Still filing today

51%
27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $225k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • FB
    FAMILYAID BOSTON INC
    6× · 2018–2023 · $1.1M · revenue +270%
  • RP
    ROSIE'S PLACE INC
    6× · 2018–2023 · $532k · revenue +71%
  • LC
    LITERATIONS CORP
    6× · 2018–2023 · $420k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • TR
    THE ROWLAND INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2018 · $100k
  • TB
    THE BOSTON FOUNDATION - FBO COLLEGE BOUND DORCHESTER INC
    one grant, 2024 · $75k
  • FI
    FAMILY INDEPENDENCE INITIATIVE
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
3
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

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4
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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5
Boston Arts Summer Institute Inc
Recreation & Sports
6
New England Lawboston

New england law/boston dedicates itself to preparing students to be successful lawyers and leaders in the public and private sectors through integrated practical, theoretical and ethical education of the highest caliber and to contributing…

Education
7
Boston After School & Beyond Inc

Boston after school & beyond, inc. is a public private partnership that pursues a unified after-school and summer learning system that promotes stakeholder alignment, a focus on results, and access to learning opportunities, particularly…

Education
8
Breakthrough Greater Boston Inc

To inspire excitement for learning, create paths to and through college, and promote careers in education.

Education
9
Buckingham Browne & Nichols School

Bb&n, an all gender day school in cambridge, massachusetts, was established in 1974 by the merger of two independent schools, the buckingham school and the browne & nichols school, founded respectively in 1889 and 1883. located on multiple…

Education
10
Boston Center for the Arts Inc

Boston center for the arts (bca) is a not-for-profit performing and visual arts campus that supports working artists to create, perform, and exhibit new works; develops new audiences; and connects the arts to the community.

Arts & Culture
11
Trustees of Boston College

Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…

Education
12
Bentley University

Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Center for Teen Empowerment Inc; the most unlike its peers is North Bennet Street School. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

46 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 46 of the 96 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/46
Grantees still filing
40/46
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FAMILYAID BOSTON INC: $1,080,000 · OtherFAMILYAID BOSTON INCTHE BOSTON FOUNDATION - FBO FAMILYAID BOSTON INC: $400,000 · OtherA SAFE PLACE INC: $315,000 · OtherROWLAND INSTITUTE AT HARVARD: $300,000 · OtherMORE THAN WORDS INC: $295,000 · OtherTHE BOSTON FOUNDATION - FBO REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT ASSISTANCE CENTER: $275,000 · Other+57 more: $5,078,000 · Other+57 moreTHE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC: $450,000 · Arts & CultureTHE INSTITUTE OF …ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM INC: $390,000 · Arts & CultureISABELLA STEWART …BOSTON ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC: $350,000 · Arts & CultureBOSTON ARTS ACADE…BOSTON CHILDREN'S CHORUS INC: $320,000 · Arts & CultureBOSTON CHILDREN'S…BOSTON YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS INC: $273,000 · Arts & CultureBOSTON YOUTH SYMP…BOSTON BALLET INC: $200,000 · Arts & CultureBOSTON BALLET INCBOSTON MUSIC PROJECT INC: $140,000 · Arts & CultureBOSTON MUSIC PROJ…ARTISTS FOR HUMANITY INC: $120,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN REPERTORY THEATRE CO INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $100,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $46,000 · Arts & CultureCASA MYRNA VAZQUEZ INC: $415,000 · Human ServicesCASA MYRNA VAZQU…REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT ASSISTANCE CENTER: $415,000 · Human ServicesREFUGEE & IMMIGR…SMART FROM THE START INC: $400,000 · Human ServicesSMART FROM THE S…UNCORNERED INC: $260,000 · Human ServicesUNCORNERED INCHORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $260,000 · Human ServicesHORIZONS FOR HOM…THE NEXT STEP FUND INC: $170,000 · Human ServicesTHE NEXT STEP FU…EAST END HOUSE INC: $155,000 · Human ServicesEAST END HOUSE I…CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $120,000 · Human ServicesJulies Family Learning Program Inc: $80,000 · Human ServicesUASPIRE INC: $425,000 · EducationUASPIRE INCNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $300,000 · EducationNORTHEASTER…BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC: $240,000 · EducationBERKLEE COL…North Bennet Street School: $200,000 · EducationNorth Benne…NEW ENGLAND CENTER FOR ARTS & TECHNOLOGY INC: $195,000 · EducationNEW ENGLAND…CAMBRIDGE COLLEGE INC: $150,000 · EducationCAMBRIDGE C…+1 more: $20,000 · EducationLITERATIONS CORP: $420,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC: $221,000 · Youth DevelopmentY2Y NETWORK INC: $175,000 · Youth DevelopmentROSIE'S PLACE INC: $532,000 · Housing & ShelterPOLITICAL ASYLUMIMMIGRATION REPRESENTATION PROJECT INC: $375,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$7,743,000Arts & Culture$2,489,000Human Services$2,275,000Education$1,530,000Youth Development$816,000Housing & Shelter$532,000Crime & Legal$375,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFAMILYAID BOSTON INC: $1,080,000 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetROSIE'S PLACE INC: $532,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC: $450,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetUASPIRE INC: $425,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetLITERATIONS CORP: $420,000 over 6y, 6.9% of budgetCASA MYRNA VAZQUEZ INC: $415,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT ASSISTANCE CENTER: $415,000 over 5y, 6.6% of budgetSMART FROM THE START INC: $400,000 over 6y, 3.8% of budgetISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM INC: $390,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetPOLITICAL ASYLUMIMMIGRATION REPRESENTATION PROJECT INC: $375,000 over 5y, 5.1% of budgetBOSTON ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC: $350,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetBOSTON CHILDREN'S CHORUS INC: $320,000 over 6y, 3.1% of budgetA SAFE PLACE INC: $315,000 over 6y, 6.4% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $300,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMORE THAN WORDS INC: $295,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetBOSTON YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS INC: $273,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetUNCORNERED INC: $260,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetHORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $260,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetBERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC: $240,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC: $221,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetAppalachian Mountain Club: $220,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBOSTON BALLET INC: $200,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetDUET INC: $200,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetNorth Bennet Street School: $200,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetNEW ENGLAND CENTER FOR ARTS & TECHNOLOGY INC: $195,000 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetY2Y NETWORK INC: $175,000 over 5y, 5.9% of budgetTHE NEXT STEP FUND INC: $170,000 over 5y, 4.3% of budgetCAMBRIDGE COLLEGE INC: $150,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBOSTON MUSIC PROJECT INC: $140,000 over 6y, 4.6% of budgetARTISTS FOR HUMANITY INC: $120,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $120,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBETHEL INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE: $110,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetBoston Foundation Inc: $105,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetAMERICAN REPERTORY THEATRE CO INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR TEEN EMPOWERMENT INC: $90,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetJulies Family Learning Program Inc: $80,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetTHE BASEBALL INC: $80,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetEMMANUEL MUSIC INC: $75,000 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetCHAMELEON ARTS ENSEMBLE OF BOSTON INC: $36,000 over 6y, 3.5% of budgetTHE MATCH FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMASSPOETRY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetTHE SPORTSMEN'S TENNIS & ENRICHMENT CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds FAMILYAID BOSTON INC ↗
  • Who funds ROSIE'S PLACE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC ↗
  • Who funds UASPIRE INC ↗
  • Who funds LITERATIONS CORP ↗
  • Who funds CASA MYRNA VAZQUEZ INC ↗
  • Who funds REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT ASSISTANCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds SMART FROM THE START INC ↗
  • Who funds ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds POLITICAL ASYLUMIMMIGRATION REPRESENTATION PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON CHILDREN'S CHORUS INC ↗
  • Who funds A SAFE PLACE INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds MORE THAN WORDS INC ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS INC ↗
  • Who funds UNCORNERED INC ↗
  • Who funds HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC ↗
  • Who funds Appalachian Mountain Club ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON BALLET INC ↗
  • Who funds DUET INC ↗
  • Who funds North Bennet Street School ↗
  • Who funds NEW ENGLAND CENTER FOR ARTS & TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
  • Who funds Y2Y NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NEXT STEP FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds EAST END HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds CAMBRIDGE COLLEGE INC ↗

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.

Boston Foundation IncEastern Bank Foundati…Liberty Mutual Founda…Cummings Foundation G…Combined Jewish Phila…Bushrod H Campbell & …The Klarman Family Fo…United Way Of Massach…Edvestors IncWilliam E Schrafft an…Riley Mabel Louise Tr…The Cabot Family Char…
Boston Foundation IncMA46.9× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · The Klarman Family Foundation · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Edvestors Inc · William E Schrafft and Bertha E Schrafft Charitable Trust · Riley Mabel Louise Tr Uwill · The Cabot Family Charitable Trust

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Rowland Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rowland Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • A Safe Place Inc: 45% of income from government
  • More Than Words Inc: 24% of income from government
  • Uncornered Inc: 24% of income from government
  • Horizons for Homeless Children: 21% of income from government
  • The Next Step Fund Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Boston Music Project Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Refugee & Immigrant Assistance Center: 8% of income from government
  • Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
  • Smart From the Start Inc: 7% of income from government
  • The Center for Teen Empowerment Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Emmanuel Music Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Casa Myrna Vazquez Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Familyaid Boston Inc: 4% of income from government
  • East End House Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Cradles to Crayons Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Artists for Humanity Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Boston Children's Chorus Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Appalachian Mountain Club: 1% of income from government
  • The Institute of Contemporary Art Inc: 1% of income from government
  • The Baseball Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Cambridge College Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Berklee College of Music Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Uaspire Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Boston Ballet Inc: 0% of income from government
  • American Repertory Theatre Co Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Boston Arts Academy Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Museum of Fine Arts: 0% of income from government
  • Rosie's Place Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Boston Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Rowland Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Rowland Foundation Inc 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 96 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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