· Private foundation
The Howard Dynasty 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $10,000 |
| GARY SINISE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| KIDS IN NEED FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $10,000 |
| MANNA HOUSE | $5,000 |
| FRESNO MISSION | $5,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $65k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
4 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 4 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, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
- RMRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE3× · 2022–2025 · $35k
GARY SINISE FOUNDATION2× · 2024–2025 · $30k · revenue +5%- WFWILDLAND FIREFIGHTER FOUNDATION2× · 2021–2022 · $20k · revenue -10%
Funded once
- THTHE HEART OF THE HORSEone grant, 2020 · $40k
- VTValley Teen Ranchgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +443%
- IGInternational Guiding Eyes Inc DBA Guide Dogs of Americaone grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue -9%
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.
The tahoe nordic search and rescue team (tnsar) ... was conceived in 1976 as a response to the death of a boy lost off the back side of northstar-at-tahoe ski area during a blizzard. there was, at the time, no organized backcountry team to…
The mission of Wayfinder Family Services is to ensure that children, youth and adults facing challenges always have a place to turn. Founded in 1953 as the Foundation for the Junior Blind, the organization initially enabled visually…
The vision of the csfc is to partner with the fire service and supplier partners across the state of colorado in their efforts to protect all of colorado's life and property from fire and other disasters. it is a dynamic organization,…
California casa was founded in 1987. its mission is to ensure that children and youth in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems have both a voice and the services they need to thrive. we achieve this by strengthening and empowering…
Food in need of distribution, inc. (find food bank) is dedicated to relieving hunger, the causes of hunger, and the problems associated with hunger through awareness, education, and mobilization of resources and community involvement.
To help solve the most challenging issues facing youth and families in northern california by providing tailored services from counseling and therapy to alternative placements with an end result of permanently connecting our young clients…
The mission of the corporation is to prevent child abuse, preserve the family, and treat children who have been abused and neglected.
To provide children and youth in arizona a safe environment, free from abuse and neglect, by creating strong and successful families.
On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…
Guided by jewish values, the karsh family social service center improves the lives of the underserved by providing critical and accessible social services through direct service or collaboration with other providers, (continued on schedule…
Fly's mission is to partner with youth to unlock their potential, disrupt the pipeline to prison, and advance justice in california and beyond. fly envisions a country where all kids grow up valued and supported, and the pipeline to prison…
Burn survivor recovery support - the firefighters burn institute (ffbi) is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization founded by sacramento fire captain cliff haskell and the sacramento area fire fighters local 522 in 1973, for the purpose of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ticket to Dream Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Hillside Ptc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 20 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 GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Valley Teen Ranch ↗
- Who funds International Guiding Eyes Inc DBA Guide Dogs of America ↗
- Who funds WILDLAND FIREFIGHTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GIVE KIDS ART ↗
- Who funds CAST (CATCH A SPECIAL THRILL) FOR KIDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KINGS COMMUNITY ACTION ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds A SENSE OF HOME ↗
- Who funds YOSEMITE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KIDS IN NEED FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TICKET TO DREAM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRESNO RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL CALIFORNIA FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Hillside PTC ↗
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 Howard Dynasty 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 or a single department — 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.
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