· Private foundation
The Fowler Family Charitable Foundation Inc
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $58k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRIENDS OF HILDENE INC | $25,000 |
| SOUTHWESTERN VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER INC | $20,000 |
| SOFT BONES | $13,200 |
| THE DORSET EQUINE RESCUE INC | $5,000 |
| BALTUSROL GOLF CLUB LEND A HAND INC | $5,000 |
| HILTON HEAD ISLAND DEEP WELL PROJECT | $2,000 |
| PORT ROYAL SOUND FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| PALMETTO ANIMAL LEAGUE | $1,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC | $1,000 |
| DORSET THEATRE FESTIVAL | $1,000 |
| EVERY CURE INC | $1,000 |
| MAYO CLINIC | $1,000 |
| ARLINGTON RESCUE SQUAD INC | $500 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE LOWCOUNTRY INC | $500 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE LOWCOUNTRY INC | $100 |
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 (FY17–19, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 4%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +62% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 2 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, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k 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
- FOFRIENDS OF HILDENE INC7× · 2017–2025 · $135k · revenue +35%
- TDThe Dorset Equine Rescue Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $92k · revenue +684%
- SBSOFT BONES INCTHE US9× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +142%
Funded once
- MPMorgan Pressel Foundation Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +27%
- LMLe Moyne Collegeone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +4%
- HHHILTON HEAD ISLAND FOUNDATION TO SUPPORT YOUTH SPORTS INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +148%
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.
To care for and comfort our patients, residents, and their loved ones and to improve the health status of the communities we serve. the purpose of the organization is also to promote and support the development and maintenance of a highly…
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.
To enhance, every day, the health of our patients, our families and our communities. We do that through a range of health care services for people of all ages, in a variety of care settings.
To serve the people of the Saratoga region by providing them access to excellence in healthcare in a supportive and caring environment.
South shore hospital's primary exempt purpose is to provide health care services to the community including surgical, medical and other treatment of the sick and injured. south shore health system has an overarching mission for every…
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Svhc realty,inc. was formed for the purpose of acting as a supporting organization to southwestern vermont healthcare corporation (svhc), itself a taxexempt entity, which, among other activities, operates southwestern vermont medical…
To support salem health, salem health west valley and related organizations.
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment and compassion of ourfamily of caregivers.
The hospital's mission is to provide high quality care to the sick and injured, on both an inpatient and outpatient basis, without regard to race, creed, national origin, age, gender, disability, or ability to pay. (continued on schedule…
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment and compassion of ourfamily of caregivers.
To engage and inspire our community to support caromont health in providing compassionate, exceptional and highly reliable care.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Southwestern Vermont Medical Center and the most unlike its peers is Morgan Pressel Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
26 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. 26 of the 28 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 FRIENDS OF HILDENE INC ↗
- Who funds The Dorset Equine Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds SOFT BONES INCTHE US ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWESTERN VERMONT HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWESTERN VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE BALTUSROL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HILTON HEAD ISLAND DEEP WELL PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds DORSET THEATRE FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN VERMONT ARTS CENTER INC PO BOX 617 ↗
- Who funds HILTON HEAD REGIONAL HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds PORT ROYAL SOUND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PALMETTO ANIMAL LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF MADISON NJ ↗
- Who funds Morgan Pressel Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Le Moyne College ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds Community Foundation of the Lowcountry ↗
- Who funds COASTAL DISCOVERY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds HILTON HEAD ISLAND FOUNDATION TO SUPPORT YOUTH SPORTS INC ↗
- Who funds Arlington Rescue Squad Inc ↗
- Who funds THE WESTON PLAYHOUSE THEATER ↗
- Who funds EVERY CURE INC ↗
- Who funds PLAY FOR PINK INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds Carlos Otis Stratton Mountain Clinic 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.
Open a dossier: Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · The Vermont Community Foundation · Truettner Family Foundation · Heritage Classic Foundation · Community Foundation of the Lowcountry · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Prentice Foundation Inc · Alcyon Foundation · Palmetto Electric Trust · The Rodgers Family Foundation Inc · Vermont Council on the Arts Inc · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc
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 Fowler Family Charitable Foundation Inc 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.
- Young Men's Christian Association of Madison Nj — 1% of income from government
- Southwestern Vermont Medical Center — 1% of income from government
- The Weston Playhouse Theater — 0% of income from government
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.