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Stowe Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$73k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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.

Education$260kReligion$82kHealth$30kRecreation & Sports$15kArts & Culture$9kYouth Development$8kCivil Rights$3kPhilanthropy$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $53k
$2,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$267k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HARVARD COLLEGE$40,000
HARVARD CHAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH$12,500
SYLVESTER MANOR EDUCATIONAL FARM$5,000
SPEYER LEGACY SCHOOL$3,000
SHELTER ISLAND FOOD PANTRY$2,000
WATER TO THRIVE$2,000
UNION CHAPEL$2,000
JOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY - CENTER FOR TALENTED YOUTH$1,000
MAHARISHI INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY$1,000
PROMISE PROJECT$1,000
ALLEN STEVENSON SCHOOL$1,000
SHELTER ISLAND FRIENDS OF MUSIC$1,000
EPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK$1,000
DILLER-QUAILE SCHOOL OF MUSIC$500
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 47% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%HARVARD COLLEGE: $40k → 8%HARVARD CHAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH: $13k → 16%CAST: $1k → 7%CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY: $3k → 17%WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY: $2k → 28%WATER TO THRIVE: $2k → 10%PHILANTROPHY ROUNDTABLE: $1k → 14%MAHARISHI INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY: $1k → 14%SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER: $1k → 18%GREENS FARMS CHURCH: $1k → 9%JOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY - CENTER FOR TALENTED YOUTH: $1k → 11%BOWDOIN COLLEGE: $50k → 7%HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION: $25k → 8%HARVARD CHAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH: $10k → 16%UNION CHAPEL IN THE GROVE: $4k → 7%FUND FOR PARK AVENUE: $1k → 17%BOWDOIN COLLEGE: $40k → 7%HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION: $25k → 8%HARVARD CHAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH: $10k → 16%UNION CHAPEL IN THE GROVE: $3k → 7%HARVARD COLLEGE: $25k → 8%HARVARD CHAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH: $10k → 16%UNION CHAPEL IN THE GROVE: $3k → 7%HARVARD COLLEGE: $10k → 8%UNION CHAPEL: $2k → 7%PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE: $10k → 8%UNION CHAPEL: $2k → 7%THE EPISCOPAL SCHOOL: $2k → 17%SYLVESTER MANOR EDUCATIONAL FARM: $5k → 7%EPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $2k → 17%SHELTER ISLAND FOOD PANTRY: $2k → 7%EPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $2k → 17%TEAM GO SAIL FOUNDATION: $5k → 7%TEAM GO SAIL FOUNDATION: $5k → 7%RAZOM (FOR UKRAINE): $2k → 17%METROPOLITAN OPERA: $4k → 17%SPEYER LEGACY SCHOOL: $20k → 17%SPEYER LEGACY SCHOOL: $13k → 17%SPEYER LEGACY SCHOOL: $5k → 17%SPEYER LEGACY SCHOOL: $3k → 17%SPEYER LEGACY SCHOOL: $3k → 17%ALLEN STEVENSON SCHOOL: $3k → 17%BRICK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $35k → 17%BRICK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $25k → 17%THE BRICK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $9k → 17%DILLER-QUAILE SCHOOL OF MUSIC: $2k → 17%TRINITY SCHOOL: $25k → 17%TRINITY SCHOOL: $4k → 17%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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$450k · 17 repeat orgs$28k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +4% for those funded once.

17 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
13

Total granted

$450k
$16k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+4%

Still filing today

47%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationInternationalArts & CultureCrime & LegalRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • BC
    Bowdoin College
    2× · 2023–2024 · $90k · revenue +27%
  • TS
    THE SPEYER LEGACY SCHOOL
    5× · 2019–2025 · $43k · revenue +37%
  • TE
    THE EPISCOPAL SCHOOL IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK
    4× · 2022–2025 · $5k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • MO
    METROPOLITAN OPERA
    one grant, 2023 · $4k
  • WC
    Wildlife Conservation Societygraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +43%
  • TE
    THE EPISCOPAL SCHOOL
    one grant, 2019 · $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
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
2
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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3
New York City Charter School of the Arts

New york city charter school of the arts (the "school") inspires a diverse community of young people to engage with the arts as a pathway to rich and rigorous academic scholarship and a creative, purposeful life.

Education
4
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
5
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.

—
6
Brooklyn Law School

To provide students with the knowledge, skills, ethical values needed for a career in law.

Education
7
South Shore Charter School

The mission of south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…

Education
8
The Storm King School

The storm king school, a global community, prepares students by inspiring them toward academic success and confidence in an inclusive and diverse learning environment that embraces character, balance, and trust.

Education
9
The Ideal School of Manhattan

An independent school providing a comprehensive educational program for children from K through 12th grade.

Education
10
The York School

York school is an award-winning, private, coed college-prep school for grades 8-12, that develops confident and authentic leaders. we offer an academically challenging experiential program for bright, kind, and driven students in an…

Education
11
The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

—
12
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Episcopal School in the City of New York; the most unlike its peers is Wildlife Conservation Society. 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

19 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. 19 of the 37 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/19
Grantees still filing
12/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HARVARD COLLEGE: $75,000 · OtherHARVARD COLLEGETHE BRICK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $68,500 · OtherTHE BRICK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHHARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION: $50,000 · OtherHARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATIONHARVARD CHAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH: $42,500 · OtherHARVARD CHAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTHTRINITY SCHOOL: $29,500 · OtherTRINITY SCHOOL+19 more: $51,000 · Other+19 moreBowdoin College: $90,000 · EducationBowdoin CollegeTHE SPEYER LEGACY SCHOOL: $43,026 · EducationTHE SPEYER LEGACY SCHOOLPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $10,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard C…THE EPISCOPAL SCHOOL IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $5,000 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · EducationRAZOM INC: $3,000 · InternationalWater to Thrive: $2,000 · InternationalSAVE VENICE INC: $895 · InternationalSYLVESTER MANOR EDUCATIONAL FARM INC: $5,000 · Food & NutritionTHE DILLER-QUAILE SCHOOL OF MUSIC INC: $4,000 · Arts & CultureNORTH FORK ARTS CENTER INC: $1,000 · Arts & CultureCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $4,500 · Recreation & SportsSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $2,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$316,500Education$149,026International$5,895Food & Nutrition$5,000Arts & Culture$5,000Recreation & Sports$4,500Crime & Legal$2,000

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 budgetBowdoin College: $90,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SPEYER LEGACY SCHOOL: $43,026 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ALLEN-STEVENSON SCHOOL: $5,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EPISCOPAL SCHOOL IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DILLER-QUAILE SCHOOL OF MUSIC INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRAZOM INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH FORK ARTS CENTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAHARISHI INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHELTER ISLAND FRIENDS OF MUSIC INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFUND FOR PARK AVENUE NEW YORK INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAVE VENICE INC: $895 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.

  • Who funds Bowdoin College ↗
  • Who funds THE SPEYER LEGACY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
  • Who funds THE ALLEN-STEVENSON SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds THE EPISCOPAL SCHOOL IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds SYLVESTER MANOR EDUCATIONAL FARM INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE DILLER-QUAILE SCHOOL OF MUSIC INC ↗
  • Who funds RAZOM INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Wildlife Conservation Society ↗
  • Who funds Water to Thrive ↗
  • Who funds KNICKERBOCKER GREYS ↗
  • Who funds THE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE ↗
  • Who funds NORTH FORK ARTS CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds MAHARISHI INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds SHELTER ISLAND FRIENDS OF MUSIC INC ↗
  • Who funds FUND FOR PARK AVENUE NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds SAVE VENICE 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.

Jewish Communal FundThe Goldman Sachs Cha…Vanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Jewish Communal FundNY13.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Stowe Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Stowe Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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 37 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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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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