· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| Goodwin Living Found Hospice | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +14% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
18 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. 18 of the 42 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 YELLOW RIBBON FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THANKS USA ↗
- Who funds ACT FOR ALEXANDRIA ↗
- Who funds THE FATHER MCKENNA CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR ALEXANDRIA'S CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds ALEXANDRIA ROTARY FOUNDATION ↗
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Howard Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Howard Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Yellow Ribbon Fund Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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