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The Debra K Howe Charitable Trust at a glance

· 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.

$3.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$1.0M
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, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$5.1MEducation$2.1MHuman Services$1.3MRecreation & Sports$407kHousing & Shelter$360kEmployment$200k
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $50k–250k4 grants · $688k
  • $250k+4 grants · $2.3M
$308,247
Median grant
3
States reached
$3.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BELLA'S ANGELS: $605k → 11%BELLA'S ANGELS: $308k → 11%BELLA'S ANGELS: $162k → 11%BELLA'S ANGELS: $130k → 11%BELLA'S ANGELS: $65k → 11%BELLA'S ANGELS: $12k → 11%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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.7M · 8 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +126% since the first grant, against +21% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
1

Total granted

$7.7M
$53k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+126%
+21%

Still filing today

88%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.6M went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesEducationHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • SM
    ST MARYS HEALTH WAGON INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $2.8M · revenue +4%
  • BA
    BELLA'S ANGELS INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +269% · 43% of their budget
  • NV
    Northern Virginia Community College Educational Foundation Inc
    3× · 2020–2022 · $1.1M · revenue +249%

Funded once

  • HS
    Hearthstone Senior Communities Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $53k · revenue +21%
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
Mercy Health

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…

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2
Grace Medical Home Foundation Inc

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…

Human Services
3
Inova Health System Foundation

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…

Health
4
Arbor Research Collaborative for Health

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…

Health
5
The Foundation for Health Care Continuums

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.

Health
6
North Florida Medical Centers Inc

To increase access to quality healthcare and improve the overall health of the community.

Health
7
St Vincent's Medical Center Foundation Inc

None

Health
8
St Marys Foundation for Children Inc

St. Marys Foundation for Children, Inc. is dedicated to the enhancement of health, safety and quality of life for children with special needs.

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9
Bridgewater HealthCare Foundation Inc

Support organization

Health
10
Bridgewater Home Inc

Assisted Living and Nursing Care

Human Services
11
Grace Medical Home Inc

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.

Health
12
Philos Hospitality Inc

We provide lodging, meals, and religious and emotional support services to needy families of patients who travel to Tulsa, Oklahoma for medical treatments.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Florida Health Care Education & Development Foundation Inc; 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.
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 12 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
10/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST MARYS HEALTH WAGON INC: $2,795,360 · HealthST MARYS HEALTH WAGON INCPalm Healthcare Foundation Inc: $956,879 · HealthPalm Healthcare Foundation IncQUANTUM HOUSE INC: $230,000 · HealthQUANTUM HOUSE INC+1 more: $53,470 · HealthNorthern Virginia Community College Educational Foundation Inc: $1,060,000 · OtherNorthern Virginia Community Coll…Individual grant recipient: $714,109 · OtherIndividual grant recipientNOVA Foundation: $406,542 · OtherNOVA FoundationTHE ABILITY EXPERIENCE: $305,010 · OtherTHE ABILITY EXPERIENCEFLORIDA HEALTH CARE EDUCATION & DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 · OtherFLORIDA HEALTH CARE EDUCATION & …BELLA'S ANGELS INC: $1,281,929 · Human ServicesBELLA'S ANGELS …STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILL…Miami Rescue Mission Inc: $360,000 · Housing & Shelter
Health$4,035,709Other$2,685,661Human Services$1,281,929Education$1,000,000Housing & Shelter$360,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetST MARYS HEALTH WAGON INC: $2,795,360 over 6y, 8.5% of budgetBELLA'S ANGELS INC: $1,281,929 over 6y, 43% of budgetNorthern Virginia Community College Educational Foundation Inc: $1,060,000 over 3y, 20% of budgetPalm Healthcare Foundation Inc: $956,879 over 6y, 5.4% of budgetMiami Rescue Mission Inc: $360,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetTHE ABILITY EXPERIENCE: $305,010 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetQUANTUM HOUSE INC: $230,000 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetHearthstone Senior Communities Inc: $53,470 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

Network for GoodNational Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Network for GoodDC8.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 The Debra K Howe Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Debra K Howe Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    3report 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.

    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 12 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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