· Private foundation
Rowny Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MIT | $7,500 |
| RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA CHAPTER | $4,200 |
| WOLF TRAP FOUNDATION FOR PERFORMING ARTS | $4,000 |
| ROUND HOUSE THEATRE | $3,000 |
| NATIONAL MS SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| REDUCING AND IMPROVING BIRTH AND HEALTH OUTCOMES | $300 |
| BEACON ACADEMY | $300 |
| AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH | $300 |
| LEARNING ALLY | $300 |
| AUTISTIC SELF ADVOCACY NETWORK | $300 |
| SMYAL | $300 |
| PREVENT CANCER FOUNDATION | $300 |
| TRANS LIFELINE | $300 |
| GEORGETOWN | $300 |
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 (FY17–24, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 73% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- RHROUND HOUSE THEATRE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $88k · revenue +68%
- WTWOLF TRAP FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS3× · 2022–2024 · $12k · revenue +10%
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC3× · 2020–2022 · $10k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- TFTHE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIESone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +3%
- PFPartnership for Responsible Growth Incone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue -55%
- MAMIT ANNUAL FUNDone grant, 2017 · $2k
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.
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
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.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.
Making our government work better is a daunting task, and we are a small organization seeking to transform a government that employs millions of civilians and manages trillions of dollars in taxpayer revenue needed to protect public…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland, school of medicine, administrative support services are provided to the physician practices of the university of maryland, including but not limited to information technology,…
The r street institute is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, public-policy research organization ("think tank"). our mission is to engage in policy research and outreach to promote free markets and limited, effective government. (continued on…
Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan "fact tank" that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. Pew Research Center generates a foundation of facts that enriches the public dialogue and…
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Miriam's Kitchen and the most unlike its peers is Running Start. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
48 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. 48 of the 69 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 ROUND HOUSE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds WOLF TRAP FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SOME INC ↗
- Who funds THE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES ↗
- Who funds Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ↗
- Who funds Partnership for Responsible Growth Inc ↗
- Who funds SUNFLOWER BAKERY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds Learning Ally Inc ↗
- Who funds SMYAL Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW HAVEN READS COMMUNITY BOOK BANK INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds National Kidney Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds HOPKINS SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Project Miracle ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S TABLE INC ↗
- Who funds PEACETECH LAB INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL SOCIETY OF PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS ↗
- Who funds DAVIS DIRECTION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF CENTRAL MARYLANDINC ↗
- Who funds THE CARTER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds AUTISTIC SELF ADVOCACY NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds Prevent Cancer Foundation aka Cancer Research & Prevention Fndn ↗
- Who funds BEACON ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
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: The Gary and Pennie Abramson Charitable Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Spm Foundation Inc · Posner-Wallace Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · Lester Poretsky Family Foundation Inc · The Martin Family Charitable Foundation Inc · America's Charities · Ge Aerospace Foundation · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · American Endowment 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 Rowny Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Greater Washington Jewish Coalition Contd — 28% of income from government
- New Haven Reads Community Book Bank Inc — 13% of income from government
- Round House Theatre Inc — 5% of income from government
- Interfaith Works — 4% of income from government
- Learning Ally Inc — 4% of income from government
- Weachieve Inc — 1% of income from government
- Beacon Academy Inc — 1% of income from government
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.