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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.

$29k
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$100kHealth$33kEducation$29kScience & Tech$23kPublic Safety & Disaster$13kEnvironment$8kHousing & Shelter$7kEmployment$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$300
Median grant
7
States reached
$618k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $100 → 14%DAVIS DIRECTION FOUNDATION: $1k → 8%LEARNING ALLY: $500 → 11%LEARNING ALLY: $200 → 11%SMYAL: $500 → 14%MONTGOMERY HOSPICE INC: $200 → 8%SMYAL: $500 → 14%SMYAL: $500 → 14%SMYAL: $300 → 14%SMYAL: $300 → 14%SMYAL: $300 → 14%SMYAL YOUTH CENTER: $100 → 14%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

MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
WV
VA
MD
DC
AL
GA
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$200k · 32 repeat orgs$32k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +10% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
32

Total granted

$200k
$26k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+10%

Still filing today

78%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureInternationalPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • RH
    ROUND HOUSE THEATRE INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $88k · revenue +68%
  • WT
    WOLF TRAP FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
    3× · 2022–2024 · $12k · revenue +10%
  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $10k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • TF
    THE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +3%
  • PF
    Partnership for Responsible Growth Inc
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue -55%
  • MA
    MIT ANNUAL FUND
    one grant, 2017 · $2k
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 George Washington University

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…

Education
2
Open Markets Institute

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.

Education
3
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
4
American Association for the Advancement of Science

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,…

Science & Tech
5
The Rand Corporation

Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.

Public Benefit
6
Partnership for Public Service Inc

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…

Employment
7
University of Maryland Facultyphysicians Inc

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,…

Health
8
R Street Institute

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…

Education
9
Pew Research Center

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…

Social Science
10
University of Maryland Physicians Pa

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…

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11
United States Naval Institute

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.

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12
University of Maryland Neurology Associates Pa

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Miriam's Kitchen; 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.
04the grantee network

48 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. 48 of the 69 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/48
Grantees still filing
34/48
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ROUND HOUSE THEATRE INC: $88,000 · Arts & CultureROUND HOUSE THEATRE INCWOLF TRAP FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $12,000 · Arts & CultureWOLF TRAP FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS+1 more: $1,100 · Arts & CultureMIT: $31,500 · OtherMITALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA CHAPTER: $7,700 · OtherALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION NATIONAL CA…SOME INC: $7,250 · OtherSOME INCTHE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES: $5,000 · OtherTHE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES+35 more: $20,700 · Other+35 moreNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $8,500 · HealthAMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH: $3,300 · HealthNational Kidney Foundation Inc: $1,500 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $1,100 · HealthAUTISTIC SELF ADVOCACY NETWORK INC: $900 · HealthPrevent Cancer Foundation aka Cancer Research & Prevention Fndn: $900 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $750 · Health+2 more: $750 · HealthRensselaer Polytechnic Institute: $5,000 · EducationPartnership for Responsible Growth Inc: $5,000 · EducationNEW HAVEN READS COMMUNITY BOOK BANK INC: $2,000 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $1,700 · EducationHOPKINS SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $1,400 · EducationBEACON ACADEMY INC: $900 · EducationTHE MALALA FUND: $600 · EducationWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $10,000 · InternationalPEACETECH LAB INC: $1,000 · InternationalTHE CARTER CENTER INC: $1,000 · InternationalLearning Ally Inc: $2,600 · Human ServicesSMYAL Inc: $2,500 · Human ServicesDAVIS DIRECTION FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $600 · Human ServicesGreater Washington Jewish Coalition Contd: $300 · Human Services+2 more: $300 · Human ServicesSUNFLOWER BAKERY INC: $4,900 · Employment
Arts & Culture$101,100Other$72,150Health$17,700Education$16,600International$12,000Human Services$7,300Employment$4,900

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 budgetROUND HOUSE THEATRE INC: $88,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetWOLF TRAP FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $8,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSOME INC: $7,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRensselaer Polytechnic Institute: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPartnership for Responsible Growth Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetSUNFLOWER BAKERY INC: $4,900 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH: $3,300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLearning Ally Inc: $2,600 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSMYAL Inc: $2,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNEW HAVEN READS COMMUNITY BOOK BANK INC: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $1,800 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $1,700 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNational Kidney Foundation Inc: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOPKINS SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $1,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC: $1,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetProject Miracle: $1,100 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMARTHA'S TABLE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEACETECH LAB INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL SOCIETY OF PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDAVIS DIRECTION FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF CENTRAL MARYLANDINC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CARTER CENTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUTISTIC SELF ADVOCACY NETWORK INC: $900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPrevent Cancer Foundation aka Cancer Research & Prevention Fndn: $900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBEACON ACADEMY INC: $900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MALALA FUND: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROBERT F KENNEDY CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERFAITH WORKS: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRunning Start: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBETHESDA-CHEVY CHASE RESCUE SQUAD INC: $450 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTranslifeline DBA Trans Lifeline: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Washington Jewish Coalition Contd: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDC PAWS RESCUE: $250 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWEACHIEVE INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMONTGOMERY HOSPICE INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMONTGOMERY COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBETHESDA FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

The Gary and Pennie A…The Morris and Gwendo…Greater Washington Co…Spm Foundation IncPosner-Wallace Founda…Clark-Winchcole Found…Lester Poretsky Famil…The Martin Family Cha…America's CharitiesGe Aerospace Foundati…T Rowe Price Program …American Endowment Fo…
The Gary and Pennie Abramson Charitable FoundationMD17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.

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 69 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home