How much does The Bob and Aubyn Howe Foundation give?

The Bob and Aubyn Howe Foundation reported 3 grants totaling $32,773 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 9 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.

What does The Bob and Aubyn Howe Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2023, its largest causes are Education (96%), Arts & Culture (1%), Health (1%).

Who are The Bob and Aubyn Howe Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2019 to FY2023: University of Texas ($1.0M), Riverbend Baptist Church ($6k), National Multiple Sclerosis Society ($5k).

Does The Bob and Aubyn Howe Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Bob and Aubyn Howe Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Where is The Bob and Aubyn Howe Foundation based?

The Bob and Aubyn Howe Foundation is based in TX.

The Bob and Aubyn Howe Foundation

The Bob and Aubyn Howe Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Bob and Aubyn Howe Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$33k

Granted FY2023

Grants FY2023

States reached

$29k

Largest

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 2023.

Education$1.1MArts & Culture$12kHealth$11kReligion$6kAnimals$5kPhilanthropy$5kFood & Nutrition$3kHuman Services$1k

02FY2023 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

Under $10k2 grants · $4k
$10k–50k1 grant · $29k

$2,500

Median grant

States reached

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AUSTIN	$29,273
RIVERBEND CHURCH	$2,500
AUSTIN CLUBHOUSE	$1,000

02The need

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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Its human-services grants (FY19–19, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

13%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$151k · 5 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +61% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2023, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$151k

$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+61%

+13%

Still filing today

20%

67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationFood & NutritionPublic BenefitOther

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

UO
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AUSTIN
3× · 2019–2023 · $133k
NW
NATIONAL WASP MUSEUM
3× · 2019–2021 · $8k
RB
RIVERBEND BAPTIST CHURCH
2× · 2022–2023 · $6k

Funded once

UO
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS
one grant, 2022 · $1.0M
NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY
one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue -18%
CC
CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC
one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -29%

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.

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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National Committee for Quality Assurance

Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.

Health

American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement

National Comprehensive Cancer Network

To define and advance quality, effective, equitable, and accessible cancer care and prevention so all people can live better lives.

Health

Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health

America's Health Insurance Plans Inc

Ahip is the national trade association representing the health insurance industry. ahip's members provide health care coverage, services and solutions to more than 200 million americans. we are committed to market-based solutions and…

Membership Benefit

University Health Inc

Primary functions are the coordination and delivery of health care resources and services, health care education for the hospital service area, long range analysis of health care needs and development of programs, and arranging for…

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Uchicago Medicine Network Inc

Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…

Health

Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education

American Society of Clinical Oncology Inc

See schedule o:asco is a professional oncology society committed to conquering cancer through research, education, and promotion of the highest quality patient care.

Health

United States Telecom Association

See schedule oustelecom exists to ensure members can compete, grow and thrive to build a world where families, enterprises and communities are connected through the power of broadband.our member companies have committed a considerable…

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Asco Association

Asco association promotes the common business interests of its members by: (1) advocating for policies that improve the quality of cancer care; (2) maintaining the highest standards of oncology medical care through programs supporting…

Community Improvement

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Canine Companions for Independence Inc; the most unlike its peers is National Multiple Sclerosis 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

11 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. 11 of the 19 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

11/11

Grantees still filing

6/11

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,151,773Health$7,000Human Services$6,000Philanthropy$5,000Arts & Culture$3,000Food & Nutrition$2,000Public Benefit$1,000Education$1,000

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Bob and Aubyn Howe Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bob and Aubyn Howe Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get 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 · 0–20%

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.

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