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Rowley 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.

$72k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Health$559kEducation$240kAnimals$229kArts & Culture$71kHousing & Shelter$70kPhilanthropy$60kHuman Services$60kYouth Development$45kOther$0
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $2k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$5.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Christel House International Inc$50,000
Woman of Wonder$10,000
Healthy Equitable Living Project$10,000
PACC911$1,750
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 (FY20–23, $477k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 69% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Charity Global Inc: $50k → 17%Victorias Voice Foundation: $136k → 13%Ellis Marsalis Center: $10k → 23%Victorias Voice Foundation: $100k → 13%Victorias Voice Foundation: $31k → 13%Friends of the Carpenter: $50k → 9%Ryan House: $50k → 11%Friends of the Carpenter: $20k → 9%Ryan House: $30k → 11%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
WI
NY
IN
UT
AZ
LA
FL
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 23% of Rowley Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Rowley Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 23% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

56%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$771k · 7 repeat orgs$617k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against -20% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
18

Total granted

$771k
$607k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
-20%

Still filing today

86%
72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyAnimalsHealthHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • VV
    VICTORIA'S VOICE FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $267k · revenue +59%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE CARPENTER
    2× · 2020–2021 · $70k · revenue +62%
  • DC
    DIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX
    2× · 2020–2022 · $39k · revenue +63%

Funded once

  • CF
    CELEBRITY FIGHT NIGHT FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2019 · $145k · revenue -89%
  • PR
    Pupster Rescue
    one grant, 2020 · $67k · revenue -100% · 57% of their budget
  • CHARITY GLOBAL INC
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -11%
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
The Arizona Pet Project

The arizona pet project creates systemic change and provides resources, so no families are forced to balance their own basic needs of food, shelter, and safety and the needs of their companion animals, often the only meaningful connection…

Animals
2
The Dons of Arizona
Education
3
Alliance for Arizona Animal Protection

Prevention of animal cruelty and intervention on behalf of animals being abused.

Animals
4
Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation

Phoenix children's hospital foundation supports phoenix children's hospital through fundraising ensuring that the hospital continues to stay on the leading edge of pediatric medicine and is equipped to fulfill its mission to advance hope,…

Health
5
Scarritt Foundation

We believe pets uplift people. we provide access to critical veterinary care for families in financial hardship and support 501(c)(3) organizations that rescue, rehabilitate, and rehome animals.

Animals
6
Arizona Healthiest State Foundation
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7
Pro-Choice Arizona

Pro-Choice Arizona centers abolition and reproductive justice values to prioritize community needs. We advance reproductive equity, pregnancy and family justice, and abortion access for all folks living in Arizona through direct service…

Health
8
Celestial Zoo Pet Rescue

To help homeless pets find their forever home. it includes fostering, medicdal and microchipping them.

Animals
9
Arizona Community Foundation

To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.

Philanthropy
10
Noah's Animal House Foundation

To remove the "no pets allowed" sign on the doors of domestic violence shelters. women should not have to choose between leaving their abuser and leaving their pets behind to be abused.

Animals
11
Mary's Shelter

Believing in the value of every life, mary's path empowers vulnerable teen mothers in foster care and their babies to create lives of dignity, hope and self-sufficiency.

Human Services
12
Dogtopia Foundation

Placing service dogs and training to support returning us veterans with disabilities that require service animals.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Homeward Bound; the most unlike its peers is The Victoria Siegel Foundation Inc. 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

20 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. 20 of the 26 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
7/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VICTORIA'S VOICE FOUNDATION INC: $267,200 · Human ServicesVICTORIA'S VOICE FOUNDATION INCRYAN HOUSE: $80,000 · Human ServicesRYAN HOUSEFRIENDS OF THE CARPENTER: $70,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF THE CARPENTERCHARITY GLOBAL INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesCHARITY GLOBAL INC+1 more: $10,000 · Human ServicesPACC911: $74,366 · OtherPACC911Pupster Rescue: $67,000 · OtherPupster RescueTHE VICTORIA SIEGEL FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · OtherTHE VICTORIA SIEGEL FOUNDATION I…Liberty Wildlife Inc: $25,000 · OtherLiberty Wildlife IncIndividual grant recipient: $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherDesert Mission Honor Health: $15,000 · OtherDIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX: $39,000 · OtherDIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY…WOMAN OF WONDER: $30,000 · OtherWOMAN OF WONDERPhoenix Children's Hospital: $25,000 · OtherPhoenix Children's Hospital+3 more: $25,000 · Other+3 moreCHRISTEL HOUSE INTERNATIONAL INC: $210,000 · InternationalCHRISTEL HOUSE IN…CELEBRITY FIGHT NIGHT FOUNDATION INC: $145,000 · PhilanthropyCELEBRITY FI…KIDS FIRST FUND INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyKIDS FIRST F…SAVING PAWS RESCUE AZ: $50,000 · AnimalsLOVEPUP FOUNDATION: $14,000 · AnimalsICAN IMPROVING CHANDLER AREA NEIGHBORHOODS: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL ARIZONA: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentSundance Institute: $41,000 · Arts & Culture
Human Services$477,200Other$395,366International$210,000Philanthropy$155,000Animals$64,000Youth Development$45,000Arts & Culture$41,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVICTORIA'S VOICE FOUNDATION INC: $267,200 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetCHRISTEL HOUSE INTERNATIONAL INC: $210,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCELEBRITY FIGHT NIGHT FOUNDATION INC: $145,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetRYAN HOUSE: $80,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CARPENTER: $70,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetPupster Rescue: $67,000 over 1y, 57% of budgetCHARITY GLOBAL INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAVING PAWS RESCUE AZ: $50,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetSundance Institute: $41,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX: $39,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOMAN OF WONDER: $30,000 over 3y, 31% of budgetLiberty Wildlife Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetPhoenix Children's Hospital: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetICAN IMPROVING CHANDLER AREA NEIGHBORHOODS: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL ARIZONA: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLOVEPUP FOUNDATION: $14,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetHOMEWARD BOUND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetELLIS MARSALIS CENTER FOR MUSIC INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetKIDS FIRST FUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 37% 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.

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.

Arizona Community Fou…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…American Express Foun…The Yelp FoundationThe Blackbaud Giving …Morgan Stanley Global…Charities Aid Foundat…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Network for GoodNatl Christian Charit…
Arizona Community FoundationAZ16.3× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arizona Community Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Express Foundation · The Yelp Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc

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 Rowley Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rowley Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 Rowley Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Rowley 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 26 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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