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The Charles Rowe 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k15 grants · $55k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $105k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DURHAM ACADEMY | $105,000 |
| GIVEWELL | $7,500 |
| THE JED FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| FRIENDS OF THE RAPPAHANNOCK | $5,000 |
| MICAH ECUMENICAL MINISTRY | $5,000 |
| FREDERICKSBURG FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| LOISANN'S HOPE HOUSE | $4,000 |
| CENTRAL VA BATTLEFIELD TRUST | $3,000 |
| THURMAN BRISBEN HOMELESS | $3,000 |
| LEGAL AID WORKS | $3,000 |
| YMCA OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE | $2,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY OF FREDERICKSBURG | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| FRIENDS OF RADNOR LAKE | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% 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.
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.
18 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- DADURHAM ACADEMY INC2× · 2023–2024 · $210k · revenue +12%
- TCTHE CLEAR FUND7× · 2018–2024 · $53k · revenue +648%
- FOFRIENDS OF RADNOR LAKE7× · 2018–2024 · $38k · revenue +671%
Funded once
- DGDOWNTOWN GREENS INCone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -89%
TRIANGLE LAND CONSERVANCY INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue +354%
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.
Greenways for nashville promotes, supports, and enhances a system of greenways and open space in nashville and davidson county.
The organization's primary mission is conserving land where people and nature can thrive by creating green corridors linking existing public lands using conservation easments and outright purchase.
To restore and protect clean water and healthy ecosystems for rivers in tennessee by employing scientific expertise and collaborative relationships to develop, promote, and support broad community stewardship and action.
Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.
To conserve and restore the natural resources through land conservation, water resources stewardship and environmental outreach across central pennsylvania.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Ctnc conserves land in ways that inspire and enable people to build resilient, just communities. we carry out our mission in collaboration with other conservation organizations and the communities we serve. our goal is to lessen the…
To conserve the unique character of tennessee's natural and historic landscapes and sites for future generations.
Forwardtn is a non-profit project dedicated to elevating voices of forward-thinking tennesseans who want a balanced approach to government where policy affecting the wellbeing of people's lives is shaped by evidence and results, instead of…
The north carolina conservation network supports, trains, and coordinates diverse groups and directly advocates to achieve equitable and sustainable solutions for our environment.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nashville Conflict Resolution Ctr and the most unlike its peers is Charity Global Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 21 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 DURHAM ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN GREENS INC ↗
- Who funds TRIANGLE LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds THE CLEAR FUND ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF RADNOR LAKE ↗
- Who funds THE JED FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE RAPPAHANNOCK ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID WORKS ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Middle Tennessee (6273) ↗
- Who funds YWCA NASHVILLE & MIDDLE TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds CHARITY GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE CONFLICT RESOLUTION CTR ↗
- Who funds LOISANN'S HOPE HOUSE ↗
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: Community Foundation of the Rappahannock River Region Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 The Charles Rowe Family Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.
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