· Private foundation
The Howe 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $213k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITY OF MUSCATINE | $1,008,975 |
| WESLEY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $80,000 |
| JUDICIAL WATCH | $70,000 |
| MUSCATINE CHARITIES INC | $30,000 |
| HOOVER PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY | $30,000 |
| UNITED WAY | $30,000 |
| FRIENDS OF MUSCATINE FFA | $25,000 |
| ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIO | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN JUNIOR GOLF ASSOC | $25,000 |
| STEM MATTERS INC | $15,000 |
| IOWA STATE UNIV FOUNDATION | $12,632 |
| FLICKINGER LEARNING CENTER | $10,000 |
| YOUTH SPORTS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| MUSCATINE FIREFIGHTERS CHARITABLE A | $5,000 |
| TULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $816k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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
Which US states its grants reach
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 +25% since the first grant, against -24% for those funded once.
32 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $107k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- KRKing's Ridge Christian School2× · 2017–2018 · $350k · revenue +33%
- RIROCK IN PREVENTION INC7× · 2017–2023 · $340k · revenue +142%
IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2024 · $252k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- MBMUSCATINE - BEYOND 2000one grant, 2018 · $290k · revenue -99% · 43% of their budget
- GIGREATSCHOOLS INCone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue -24%
- IWIowa Wesleyan Universityone grant, 2022 · $35k · revenue -150%
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.
Common good iowa engages iowans to create and advocate for research-based public policy that makes life better and more equitable for all who make iowa home.
True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.
To deter and reduce crime, especially juvenile delinquency and gang activity, through organized neighborhoods by improving community living conditions and strengthening families.
The missouri western state university foundation is a not-for-profit charitable organization that functions solely to support the mission of missouri western state university, as stated in the university's mission statement. the foundation…
The foundation is organized to further the growth and development of private colleges and universities of higher education in iowa.
Dedicated to developing students who desire to love god and others, and are academically prepared for gods unique plan for their lives.
Our mission is to strengthen the university of iowa through alumni engagement. we do this through our communications, alumni programs, and events.
The university of iowa center for advancement's mission is to advance the university of iowa through engagement and philanthropy. we serve our alumni and friends in the state and the region, throughout the country, and around the world. we…
The morningside university experience cultivates a passion for life-long learning and a dedication to ethical leadership and civic responsibility.
Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…
Mica helps families experencing poverty meet their needs, build on their strengths, and achieve their goals.
To educate men & women to lead responsible lives by means of a curriculum grounded in liberal arts learning and complemented and extended by professional and practical experience, through the total academic and co-curricular experience,…
How this is measured
30 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. 30 of the 62 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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER MUSCATINE ↗
- Who funds MUSCATINE COMMUNITY Y ↗
- Who funds King's Ridge Christian School ↗
- Who funds ROCK IN PREVENTION INC ↗
- Who funds MUSCATINE CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds MUSCATINE - BEYOND 2000 ↗
- Who funds IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FLICKINGER LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds MUSCATINE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MUSCATINE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOC ↗
- Who funds MUSCATINE CENTER FOR SOCIAL ACTION ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST HARVEST EMM ↗
- Who funds YOUTH SPORTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BABY FOLD ↗
- Who funds Woodford Humane Society Inc ↗
- Who funds GREATSCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds Iowa Wesleyan University ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American Junior Golf Association Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS 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: HNI Charitable Foundation · KENT CORPORATION CHARITABLE FOUNDATION fka KENT-STEIN FOUNDATION · New Hope Foundation · Roy J Carver Charitable Trust · Community Foundation of Greater Muscatine · Jensen Private Foundation Inc · United Way of Muscatine Iowa · Quad Cities Golf Classic Charitable Foundation · Stanley Consultants Charitable Foundation · Holthues Trust · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · American Endowment Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Howe Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Howe Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Tulsa Community Foundation: 11% of income from government
How this is measured
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