· Private foundation
The Howard Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of The Howard Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year The Howard Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $46k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k12 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $28k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WHITE MEMORIAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $18,000 |
| CONVERSE COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER TRIANGLE | $2,500 |
| FRIENDS OF THE HOWARD HOUSE | $2,500 |
| UNC-CH KENAN FLAGLER BUSINESS SCHOO | $2,000 |
| STEP UP MINISTRIES | $1,500 |
| YMCA OF THE TRIANGLE ANNUAL FUND | $1,500 |
| WAKEMED FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| NC MUSEUM OF HISTORY | $1,250 |
| NC PUBLIC TV FOUNDATION INC | $1,250 |
| RALEIGH FINE ARTS SOCIETY INC | $1,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE NC MUSEUM OF NAT SC | $1,000 |
| MEREDITH COLLEGE | $1,000 |
| GRAND TETON NATL PARK FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
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 (FY18–18, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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 +54% since the first grant, against +44% for those funded once.
13 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2020, 0 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
CONVERSE UNIVERSITY6× · 2018–2023 · $60k · revenue +54%
GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION5× · 2019–2023 · $10k · revenue +281%- RFRALEIGH FINE ARTS SOCIETY INC3× · 2018–2020 · $3k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- TYThe Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598)graduatedone grant, 2018 · $4k · revenue +44%
- UKUNC-CH Kenan-Flagler Businessone grant, 2018 · $2k
- NCNORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF HISTORY ASSOCIATES INCone grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue -36%
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.
To organize members of the medical profession to advance medical science.
Brevard college is committed to an experiential liberal arts education that encourages personal growth and inspires artistic, intellectual, and social action.
Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Greensboro College provides a liberal arts education grounded in the traditions of the United Methodist Church and fosters the intellectual, social, and spiritual development of all students while supporting their individual needs.
At unc health foundation, we inspire philanthropic support for unc health and unc school of medicine that transforms healthcare and provides hope to the people of north carolina and communities around the world.
Marietta college (mc) provides a strong foundation for a lifetime of leadership, critical thinking, and problem solving. we achieve this mission by offering undergraduates a contemporary liberal arts education and graduate students an…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.
The nc ahec program provides and supports educational activities and services with a focus on primary care in rural communities and those with less access to resources to recruit, train, and retain the workforce needed to create a healthy…
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 22 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 DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds CONVERSE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598) ↗
- Who funds RALEIGH FINE ARTS SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF HISTORY ASSOCIATES INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF WAKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MEREDITH COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE MEDICAL MINISTRY 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: Bell Koonce Burnette Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Howard Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Howard Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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