· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| MICAH ECUMENICAL MINISTRY | $5,000 |
| FREDERICKSBURG FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE RAPPAHANNOCK | $5,000 |
| LOISANN'S HOPE HOUSE | $4,000 |
| CENTRAL VA BATTLEFIELD TRUST | $3,000 |
| THURMAN BRISBEN HOMELESS | $3,000 |
| LEGAL AID WORKS | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| FRIENDS OF RADNOR LAKE | $2,000 |
| YMCA OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE | $2,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY OF FREDERICKSBURG | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 21 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Charles Rowe Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Charles Rowe Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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