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· Private foundation

The Gary and Leslie Howard Family Foundation

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.

$210k
Granted FY2024still arriving
22
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$77k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02Its granteesRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$1.1MHuman Services$93kHealth$30kArts & Culture$30kAnimals$13kYouth Development$10kCommunity Improvement$10kRecreation & Sports$8kOther$0
02FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 22 grants below total $170,881, the rows itemized in this filing. The $209,921 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $39,040 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k18 grants · $44k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $77k
$4,029
Median grant
5
States reached
$3.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DU 2024-25 Scholarship$76,500
Freedom Service Dogs$30,000
The Daniels College of Business Faculty Fellowship$10,000
USC School of Cinematic Arts$10,000
There With Care$5,000
CSU Global Business Academy$5,000
Seed and Spark Shadow Dancing$5,000
Be Beautiful Be Yourself Fashion Show (Global Down Syndrome Foundation)$5,000
Arapahoe Hockey Inc (Kryzhynka Kyiv Hockey Team's Journey to Colorado)$5,000
Horizons at Colorado Academy$5,000
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital$4,029
U.S. Friends of Hoedspruit Endangered Species Centre, Inc$2,000
Tee It Up Dawg Nation$1,500
Eagle Valley Land Trust$1,200
HERD - Hoedspruit Elephant Rehabilitation and Development adopting Timisa$1,000
02Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

45%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$267k · 7 repeat orgs$326k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
21

Total granted

$267k
$207k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-13%
+26%

Still filing today

71%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $119k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
HealthEducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentAnimalsOther
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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF DENVER
    2× · 2022–2023 · $139k · revenue +4%
  • FS
    FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $80k · revenue +17%
  • US
    USC SCHOOL OF CINEMATIC ARTS
    2× · 2022–2024 · $20k

Funded once

  • CS
    COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · $82k
  • CS
    COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $75k · revenue +31%
  • GD
    GLOBAL DOWN SYNDROME FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +23%
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.

03Its 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
Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education
2
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
3
Denver Zoological Foundation

Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.

Animals
4
The Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration

Promote and fund research into developing better diagnostic processes, therapies, and cures for frontotemporal degeneration (ftd); provide information, education, support and advocacy to persons diagnosed with ftd, their families and…

Health
5
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University

Stanford university is one of a select group of american universities that have achieved eminence in both undergraduate and graduate education and research - cont'd sch o.

Education
6
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
7
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

To cure cf and provide all people with cf the opportunity to lead long, fulfilling lives by funding research and drug development, partnering with the cf community, and advancing high-quality, specialized care.

Health
8
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
9
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
10
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
11
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
12
Denver Scholarship Foundation

Denver scholarship foundation (dsf) inspires and empowers denver public schools (dps) students to enroll in and graduate from postsecondary institutions of higher education by providing the tools, knowledge, and financial resources for…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Colorado State University Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

12 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. 12 of the 44 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY: $81,950 · OtherCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITYDU 2024-25 Scholarship: $76,500 · OtherDU 2024-25 ScholarshipUSC SCHOOL OF CINEMATIC ARTS: $20,000 · OtherUSC SCHOOL OF CINEMATIC ARTSUniversity of Southern California / School of Cinematic Arts: $10,000 · OtherThe Daniels College of Business Faculty Fellowship: $10,000 · Other+30 more: $63,037 · Other+30 moreUNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $139,499 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF DENVERCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $75,050 · EducationCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONFREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC: $80,000 · Human ServicesFREEDOM SERVICE D…THERE WITH CARE: $13,175 · Human ServicesTHERE WITH CAREGLOBAL DOWN SYNDROME FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthPROJECT ALS INC: $6,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $4,029 · HealthEAGLE VALLEY LAND TRUST: $2,200 · EnvironmentTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $1,000 · Animals
Other$261,487Education$214,549Human Services$93,175Health$20,029Environment$2,200Animals$1,000

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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $139,499 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC: $80,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $75,050 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHERE WITH CARE: $13,175 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGLOBAL DOWN SYNDROME FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPROJECT ALS INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOLORADO DREAM FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $4,029 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEAGLE VALLEY LAND TRUST: $2,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUSA HOCKEY FOUNDATION: $1,029 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN ALPINE CLUB: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DENVER ↗
  • Who funds FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THERE WITH CARE ↗
  • Who funds GLOBAL DOWN SYNDROME FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT ALS INC ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO DREAM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds EAGLE VALLEY LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds USA HOCKEY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
  • Who funds THE AMERICAN ALPINE CLUB ↗

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.

National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
National Philanthropic TrustPA10.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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.

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 44 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $266k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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