· Private foundation
The Debra K Howe Charitable Trust
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $50k–250k4 grants · $688k
- $250k+4 grants · $2.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION INC | $1,000,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $550,881 |
| THE NOVA FOUNDATION INC | $406,542 |
| BELLA'S ANGELS | $308,247 |
| FLORIDA HEALTH CARE EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| ST MARYS HEALTH WAGON INC | $193,995 |
| PALM HEALTH FOUNDATION | $173,845 |
| MIAMI RESCUE MISSION | $120,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +111% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.6M 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
- SMST MARYS HEALTH WAGON INC6× · 2020–2025 · $2.8M · revenue +4%
- BABELLA'S ANGELS INC6× · 2020–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +269% · 43% of their budget
- NVNorthern Virginia Community College Educational Foundation Inc3× · 2020–2022 · $1.1M · revenue +249%
Funded once
- HSHearthstone Senior Communities Incone grant, 2022 · $53k · revenue +21%
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.
Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…
The Organization supports and furthers the interests of Grace Medical Home, Inc., a Florida not-for-profit corporation that is exempt from federal income tax under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. The Organization operates…
Inova health system foundation is the parent of inova health system (ihs). ihs provides healthcare and related services throughout northern virginia and the greater metropolitan washington, d.c. area, including certain contiguous counties…
Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…
The mission of the foundation for health care continuums is to strengthen each community we serve by providing a wide spectrum of housing and health care services that honor the evolving, aging population.
To increase access to quality healthcare and improve the overall health of the community.
None
St. Marys Foundation for Children, Inc. is dedicated to the enhancement of health, safety and quality of life for children with special needs.
Support organization
Assisted Living and Nursing Care
To be a medical home reflecting the heart of Christ by offering the highest level of health care to those in our community who need it most.
We provide lodging, meals, and religious and emotional support services to needy families of patients who travel to Tulsa, Oklahoma for medical treatments.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Florida Health Care Education & Development Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Nova Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 12 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 ST MARYS HEALTH WAGON INC ↗
- Who funds BELLA'S ANGELS INC ↗
- Who funds Northern Virginia Community College Educational Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Palm Healthcare Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds NOVA Foundation ↗
- Who funds Miami Rescue Mission Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ABILITY EXPERIENCE ↗
- Who funds QUANTUM HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA HEALTH CARE EDUCATION & DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Hearthstone Senior Communities Inc ↗
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.
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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 Debra K Howe Charitable Trust 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, a single department, or state — 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.