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The Howe 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.

$16k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
0181% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Housing & Shelter$60kArts & Culture$55kRecreation & Sports$19kHuman Services$18kFood & Nutrition$16kEducation$6kEnvironment$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $6k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$5,276
Median grant
1
States reached
$874k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Every Meal$10,000
Individual grant recipient$5,276
Breck School$500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–18, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%GRACE NEIGHBORHOOD NURSERY SCHOOL: $100 → 11%YMCA OF THE GREATER TWIN CITIES: $18k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

50%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$95k · 5 repeat orgs$95k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +119% since the first grant, against +75% for the ones you funded once.

5 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
7

Total granted

$95k
$84k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+119%
+75%

Still filing today

60%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’23’24’25
Human ServicesFood & NutritionEducationArts & CultureHousing & ShelterRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • WA
    WOMEN'S ADVOCATES INC
    3× · 2017–2024 · $60k · revenue +206%
  • BA
    BICYCLE ALLIANCE OF MINNESOTA
    2× · 2017–2018 · $10k · revenue +70%
  • SH
    SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND
    2× · 2017–2018 · $6k · revenue +119%

Funded once

  • MM
    MINNESOTA MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ARTgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +75%
  • YM
    YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH
    one grant, 2017 · $18k · revenue -6%
  • WB
    WHITE BEAR CENTER FOR THE ARTS
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue -11%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Women's Foundation of Minnesota

Women's Foundation of Minnesota is a statewide community foundation investing in ending systemic inequities and driving innovation for gender and racial justice. WFM applies an Intersectional Equity Framework inclusive of gender, race,…

Philanthropy
2
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

3
United Way of Ne Minnesota

United way of northeastern minnesota invests in nonprofits, programs, and collaborations that equip and empower, creating opportunities for people to thrive in our communities.

4
Minnesota Business Partnership

The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…

5
St Paul Transportation Management Organization

Move minnesota leads the movement for an equitable and sustainable transportation system that puts people first. we are passionate about connecting communities, ending the climate crisis, expanding access to jobs and resources, and…

Environment
6
Minnesota Women Lawyers

To advance the success of women attorneys and strive for a just society.

7
Minnesota Children's Museum

Minnesota Children's Museum is dedicated to providing children with a fun, hands-on and stimulating environment to explore and discover. The museum helps to instill a lifelong love of learning by nurturing the real-world skills children…

Arts & Culture
8
The Blake School

The blake school provides students with an excellent education in a diverse and supportive community. students participate in academic, artistic and athletic activities in preparation for college, life-long learning, community services and…

Education
9
Minnesota Council on Foundations

MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.

10
The Great Northern Winter Festival

The great northern celebrates our cold, creative winters through ten days of diverse programming that invigorate mind and body. in an era of changing climate that threatens our signature season, we seek to create community, inspire action,…

Arts & Culture
11
Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and Industry

The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…

12
Women Winning

To encourage, promote, support, and elect pro-choice women of all political parties to all levels of public office in minnesota.

Public Benefit

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Mens Christian Association of the North and the most unlike its peers is Nellie Stone Johnson Scholarship Program. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

11 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 14 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

WOMEN'S ADVOCATES INC — $60,000 · Housing & ShelterWOMEN'S ADVOCATES INCMINNESOTA MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART — $50,000 · Arts & CultureMINNESOTA MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ARTWHITE BEAR CENTER FOR THE ARTS — $5,000 · Arts & CultureWHITE BEAR CENTER FOR THE ARTSIndividual grant recipient — $17,707 · OtherIndividual …Individual grant recipient — $1,179 · OtherIndividual …Park Spanish Immersion Elementary School — $700 · OtherYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH — $18,445 · Human ServicesYOUNG MENS …+1 more — $100 · Human ServicesEVERY MEAL — $10,000 · Food & NutritionEVERY MEA…SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND — $6,000 · Food & NutritionSECOND HA…BICYCLE ALLIANCE OF MINNESOTA — $10,000 · Recreation & SportsNELLIE STONE JOHNSON SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM — $5,000 · EducationBreck School — $500 · EducationNORTHEASTERN MINNESOTANS FOR WILDERNESS — $5,000 · Environment
Housing & Shelter$60,000Arts & Culture$55,000Other$19,586Human Services$18,545Food & Nutrition$16,000Recreation & Sports$10,000Education$5,500Environment$5,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWOMEN'S ADVOCATES INC — $60,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetMINNESOTA MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART — $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTH — $18,445 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBICYCLE ALLIANCE OF MINNESOTA — $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetEVERY MEAL — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWHITE BEAR CENTER FOR THE ARTS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNORTHEASTERN MINNESOTANS FOR WILDERNESS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBreck School — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Mightycause Charitable FoundationFL16.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Howe 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Howe Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Howe Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 14 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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