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The 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.
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 $10k8 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $39k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Hampden-Sydney College | $22,500 |
| The Child & Family Network Centers | $16,000 |
| Washington Schools For Girls | $5,000 |
| Belle Haven Cares Fund | $5,000 |
| Catholic Charities | $2,500 |
| Gonzaga College HS | $1,000 |
| The Campagna Center | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Goodwin Living Found Hospice | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
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, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 85% 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 +36% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 10 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- HCHAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE9× · 2017–2025 · $163k · revenue +76%
- TCTHE CHILD AND FAMILY NETWORK CENTERS INC7× · 2017–2025 · $36k · revenue +91%
- TCTHE CAMPAGNA CENTER INC5× · 2020–2025 · $27k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- TUTrinity UMCone grant, 2024 · $25k
- TMThe Mary Lead Us Campaignone grant, 2020 · $5k
- SOSISTERS OF PROVIDENCE OF SAINT MARY-OF-THE-WOODSone grant, 2022 · $3k
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 mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
The Academy is a pre-kindergarten through grade eight independent school preparing girls and boys in the metropolitan Washington, DC area for competitive secondary schools. The Academy is a diverse independent day school committed to…
Capitol Hill Day School is a co-educational independent school serving students from pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. Capitol Hill Day School deeply engages a diverse community of students in connecting the classroom with the larger…
Mclean school's small classes and abilities model prepare bright students in kindergarten through twelfth grade, including those with dyslexia, anxiety, and attention issues, for college success.
To prepare students to excel as high-achieving scholars and leaders in high school, college and beyond.
Wla combines best practices in teaching and learning, with the latest in educational technology to create an unparalleled high school experience. students will graduate from wla prepared for college, career, and lives of public leadership.
Provide students with the academic foundation and ambition to earn a college degree.
To provide a rigorous, classical education to public school middle and high school students from across the district of columbia.
To build life champions by providing high quality academic, tennis and wellness instruction to low-income students in dc at-risk of academic failure.
The mission of the nonprofit, nonpartisan close up foundation is to empower young people for a lifetime of active citizenship through civic education programs, professional development for educators, and classroom resources.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Center for Alexandria's Children and the most unlike its peers is For the Win Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
18 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. 18 of the 42 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 HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON SCHOOL FOR GIRLS ↗
- Who funds THE CHILD AND FAMILY NETWORK CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE CAMPAGNA CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Capitol Learning Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds BELLE HAVEN CARES FUND ↗
- Who funds THANKS USA ↗
- Who funds YELLOW RIBBON FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ALEXANDRIA ROTARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ACT FOR ALEXANDRIA ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR ALEXANDRIA'S CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds THE FATHER MCKENNA CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Move2Learn ↗
- Who funds ALIVE Inc ↗
- Who funds ST COLETTA OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds FOR THE WIN INC ↗
- Who funds HIGHER ACHIEVEMENT PROGRAM 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: Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Inc · Bruhn-Morris Family Foundation Inc · Act for Alexandria · Calvert and Sally Simmons Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · Blackburn Foundation · The Herget Family Charitable Foundation · Move2Learn · Ivakota Assoc Inc · The Maple Tree Fund
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 Family Foundation 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.
- Yellow Ribbon Fund Inc — 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.
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