· Private foundation
The Howe Foundation Inc
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YMCA OF MCDONOUGH COUNTY | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $5,000 |
| BROWARD HOUSING SOLUTIONS | $3,000 |
| WESTERN ILLINOIS MUSEUM | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–20, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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 +32% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 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, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- SCSECOND CHANCE SOCIETY INC5× · 2017–2021 · $10k · revenue +39%
- WIWESTERN ILLINOIS MUSEUM2× · 2024–2025 · $4k · revenue +32%
CENTER FOR ACTION AND CONTEMPLATION2× · 2018–2019 · $4k · revenue +101%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $8k
- MCMCDONOUGH COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -64%
- CMCONTEMPLATIVE MIND IN SOCIETYone grant, 2017 · $4k
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.
We serve men whose lives have fallen apart due to addiction, homelessness, or some other major life challenge. We provide discipleship, recovery homes, sober living communities, and work therapy.
The Coalition is to eliminate homelessness by providing education on homelessness issues, advocating for issues that help homeless people, networking with advocates throughout Florida, and promoting involvement
To empower its peers with disabilities to lead and control their own lives.
To provide affordable and high quality mental health counseling services to individuals and families in need.
Spca florida exists to eliminate animal suffering and to engage the entire community in the welfare and well-being of animals.we accomplish this by advancing model programs to promote the adoption of healthy animals, prevent dog and cat…
Sexual violence shatters lives, wounds communities and perpetuates injustice. the florida council against sexual violence leads, informs and inspires the people of florida to create safe and just communities.
Through empathetic compassion, we ae committed to connecting individuals and families to resources that offer multiple pathways to long-term, sustainable recovery.
Providing a safe,structured recovery environment for persons suffering from alcohlism and drug addiction allowing for the application of the twelve steps to return persons to society usefully whole
Lutheran services florida brings god's healing, hope, and help to people in need in the name of jesus christ.
Improving the lives of animals by fostering the human-animal bond.
The tulsa area united way unites people and resources to improve lives and strengthen our communities.
Empowering people with disabilities by providing services that promote independence, equality and intergration, enhancing their quality of life.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Samaritan Well Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lambda South Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 24 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 SECOND CHANCE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds MCDONOUGH COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TSIC INC DBA/TAKE STOCK IN CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds WESTERN ILLINOIS MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR ACTION AND CONTEMPLATION ↗
- Who funds THE SAMARITAN WELL INC ↗
- Who funds Salvations Dog and Cat Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN VETERANS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHARLES E KUBLY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TSR Adventures Inc ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN LIFE COMMUNITIES ↗
- Who funds LAMBDA SOUTH 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Open a dossier: 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 Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Tsic Inc Dba/Take Stock in Children — 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.