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The Howley 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.

$29M
Granted FY2024still arriving
60
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$2.9M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$87MReligion$2.4MHealth$2.4MArts & Culture$1.9MCommunity Improvement$1.1MCivil Rights$156kPhilanthropy$54kYouth Development$49kOther$0
02FY2024 · 60 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $190k
  • $50k–250k27 grants · $3.5M
  • $250k+23 grants · $25M
$185,500
Median grant
8
States reached
$132M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GILMOUR ACADEMY$2,938,908
DREXEL FUND$2,453,697
ST JOSEPH PREPATORY SCHOOL$2,386,450
Individual grant recipient$2,153,617
MERION MERCY ACADEMY$1,808,373
WILLIAMSON COLLEGE$1,720,000
CRISTO REY NETWORK$1,653,800
AMERICAN FEDERATION FOR CHILDREN$1,500,000
MALVERN PREPARATORY SCHOOL$1,473,012
INDEPENDENCE MISSION SCHOOLS$1,111,000
ST MARTIN DE PORRES HIGH SCHOOL$738,236
ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME$693,250
PENNSYLVANIA COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY$533,872
CRISTO REY PHILADELPHIA HIGH SCHOOL$502,291
BASILICA SCHOOL OF ST MARY STAR OF THE SEA$500,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 81% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%PENNSYLVANIA COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY: $534k → 12%AMERICAN FEDERATION FOR CHILDREN: $1.5M → 14%DREXEL FUND: $2.5M → 13%CRISTO REY NETWORK: $1.7M → 14%INDEPENDENCE MISSION SCHOOLS: $1.1M → 7%AMERICAN FEDERATION FOR CHILDREN: $1.5M → 14%CRISTO REY NETWORK: $1.6M → 14%INDEPENDENCE MISSION SCHOOLS: $818k → 7%AMERICAN FEDERATION FOR CHILDREN: $750k → 14%CRISTO REY NETWORK: $1.4M → 14%INDEPENDENCE MISSION SCHOOLS: $534k → 7%AMERICAN FEDERATION FOR CHILDREN: $750k → 14%CRISTO REY NETWORK: $1.3M → 14%FAITH IN THE FUTURE: $518k → 7%ST JOSEPH PREPATORY SCHOOL: $2.4M → 22%CRISTO REY NETWORK: $877k → 14%FAITH IN THE FUTURE: $505k → 7%ST JOSEPH PREPATORY SCHOOL: $1.5M → 22%CRISTO REY NETWORK: $828k → 14%WILLIAMSON COLLEGE: $1.7M → 10%CRISTO REY NETWORK: $733k → 14%WILLIAMSON COLLEGE: $1.7M → 10%ST JOSEPH PREPATORY SCHOOL: $1.5M → 22%CRISTO REY NETWORK: $679k → 14%WILLIAMSON COLLEGE: $1.3M → 10%MALVERN PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $1.5M → 6%ST JOSEPH PREPATORY SCHOOL: $884k → 22%MERION MERCY ACADEMY: $1.8M → 7%MERION MERCY ACADEMY: $576k → 7%MERION MERCY ACADEMY: $513k → 7%WEST CATHOLIC PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL: $524k → 22%DREXEL UNIVERSITY: $2.8M → 22%DREXEL UNIVERSITY: $1.4M → 22%DREXEL UNIVERSITY: $1.4M → 22%DREXEL UNIVERSITY: $1.0M → 22%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $649k → 22%ST MARTIN DE PORRES HIGH SCHOOL: $995k → 17%ST MARTIN DE PORRES HIGH SCHOOL: $923k → 17%ST MARTIN DE PORRES HIGH SCHOOL: $914k → 17%ST MARTIN DE PORRES HIGH SCHOOL: $831k → 17%ST MARTIN DE PORRES HIGH SCHOOL: $806k → 17%SMDP CAPITAL CAMPAIGN: $800k → 17%ST MARTIN DE PORRES HIGH SCHOOL: $738k → 17%ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME: $910k → 17%ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME: $693k → 17%GILMOUR ACADEMY: $2.9M → 17%GILMOUR ACADEMY: $2.9M → 17%GILMOUR ACADEMY: $2.6M → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
WI
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
NC
DC
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$88M · 63 repeat orgs$6.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.

63 repeat relationships: 44 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

63
24

Total granted

$88M
$1.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+22%

Still filing today

43%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.4M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyCivil RightsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CR
    CRISTO REY NETWORK
    8× · 2017–2024 · $9.0M · revenue +211%
  • DU
    DREXEL UNIVERSITY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $7.0M · revenue +10%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FEDERATION FOR CHILDREN INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $4.5M · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • SC
    SMDP CAPITAL CAMPAIGN
    one grant, 2020 · $800k
  • SJ
    ST JAMES SCHOOL
    one grant, 2022 · $120k
  • CS
    CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -40%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
The Peak School

The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…

Education
2
The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

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3
Mastery Charter High School

All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.

Education
4
The Seed Public Charter School of Washington Dc

The seed public charter school of washington, dc is a public college-preparatory boarding school whose primary mission is to provide an outstanding intensive educational program that prepares children, both academically and socially, for…

Education
5
School One

Creative, collaborative, and college preparatory, school one students write with purpose and participate actively. each student is well-known and valued for their emerging strengths. small by design for 50 years, classes average nine…

Education
6
Cristo Rey Brooklyn High School

Cristo rey brooklyn is a catholic high school partnering with families of all creeds to educate deserving young people from underserved communities to become men and women of faith, purpose, and service. by integrating a rigorous…

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7
Darrow School

Darrow school is dedicated to serving students with diverse backgrounds and abilities, building on each student's talents and interests to inspire enduring confidence for success in college and life. this mission is accomplished through…

Education
8
The Public School of Germantown

Germantown academy inspires students to be independent in thought; confident in expression; compassionate in spirit; collaborative in action; and honorable in deed. germantown academy is a private school educating students from pre-k…

Education
9
The Columbus Academy

The columbus academy aspires to be an inclusive community where all differences consistent with the mission of the school are valued, respected, and integrated into the education process.

Education
10
Delphi Schools Inc

Delphi school's mission is to draw out the best in every student through effective educational materials and empower young adults to bring positive change in the world through reason, creativity and integrity.

Education
11
Episcopal Academy

Challenging and nurturing mind, body, and spirit, we inspire boys and girls to lead lives of purpose, faith, and integrity.

Education
12
Providence Englewood School Corporation

Providence englewood school corporation is a pre-kindergarten through 8th grade charter school serving the englewood community. our mission is to prepare our students for responsible citizenship and a successful high school career leading…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seton Education Partners; the most unlike its peers is The Drexel Fund. 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

40 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. 40 of the 103 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/40
Grantees still filing
28/40
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GILMOUR ACADEMY INC: $8,911,232 · OtherGILMOUR ACADEMY INCST JOSEPH PREPATORY SCHOOL: $6,627,277 · OtherST JOSEPH PREPATORY SCHOOLWILLIAMSON COLLEGE: $4,722,500 · OtherWILLIAMSON COLLEGEIndividual grant recipient: $4,619,990 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMERION MERCY ACADEMY: $3,443,398 · OtherMERION MERCY ACADEMYFAITH IN THE FUTURE: $2,414,045 · OtherST JOSEPH ACADEMY: $2,012,224 · OtherBENEDICTINE HIGH SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $1,881,400 · Other+58 more: $15,789,669 · Other+58 moreCRISTO REY NETWORK: $9,042,717 · EducationCRISTO REY NETWORKDREXEL UNIVERSITY: $7,043,744 · EducationDREXEL UNIVERSITYSaint Martin de Porres High School: $5,731,011 · EducationSaint Martin de Porres High SchoolAMERICAN FEDERATION FOR CHILDREN INC: $4,500,000 · EducationAMERICAN FEDERATION FOR CHILDREN INCINDEPENDENCE MISSION SCHOOLS: $3,422,000 · EducationINDEPENDENCE MISSION SCHOOLSCRISTO REY PHILADELPHIA HIGH SCHOOL: $2,832,090 · EducationCRISTO REY PHILADELPHIA HIGH SCHOOLTHE DREXEL FUND: $2,453,697 · EducationTHE DREXEL FUNDMALVERN PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $1,857,012 · EducationElevate 215: $1,559,999 · Education+17 more: $3,918,256 · Education+17 moreTHE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC: $1,760,250 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $121,320 · Arts & CultureSETON EDUCATION PARTNERS: $500,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $4,000 · PhilanthropyFOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC: $155,500 · Civil RightsBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST OHIO: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentEFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY: $8,750 · Youth Development
Other$50,421,735Education$42,360,526Arts & Culture$1,881,570Philanthropy$504,000Civil Rights$155,500Youth Development$23,750

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCRISTO REY NETWORK: $9,042,717 over 8y, 20% of budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY: $7,043,744 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetSaint Martin de Porres High School: $5,731,011 over 8y, 8.1% of budgetAMERICAN FEDERATION FOR CHILDREN INC: $4,500,000 over 4y, 17% of budgetINDEPENDENCE MISSION SCHOOLS: $3,422,000 over 8y, 3.3% of budgetCRISTO REY PHILADELPHIA HIGH SCHOOL: $2,832,090 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetTHE DREXEL FUND: $2,453,697 over 1y, 27% of budgetMALVERN PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $1,857,012 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetTHE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC: $1,760,250 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetElevate 215: $1,559,999 over 5y, 9.8% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $1,007,425 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GESU SCHOOL INC: $574,250 over 6y, 3.5% of budgetSAINT JAMES SCHOOL: $534,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetSETON EDUCATION PARTNERS: $500,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCHRIST SCHOOL INC: $480,250 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetLIGUORI INC: $334,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetLOGAN HOPE: $226,750 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetSCHOOL CHOICE OHIO INC: $200,000 over 2y, 9.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC: $155,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF BREAKTHROUGH SCHOOLS: $115,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetChurch Farm School: $90,247 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE WOODLYNDE SCHOOL CORPORATION: $90,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetEDWINS LEADERSHIP & RESTAURANT INSTITUTE: $55,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetTHE STUDIOS OF KEY WEST: $47,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetURBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $44,656 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE FLEA THEATER INC: $31,320 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetHOPE PARTNERSHIP FOR EDUCATION: $30,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHEATRE EXILE COMPANY: $27,500 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetEdChoice Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST OHIO: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWYOMING SEMINARY COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $13,334 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR ARTS-INSPIRED LEARNING: $10,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCLEVELAND PUBLIC THEATRE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetEFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY: $8,750 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetKEY WEST LITERARY SEMINAR INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budget
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 CRISTO REY NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds DREXEL UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Saint Martin de Porres High School ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FEDERATION FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds INDEPENDENCE MISSION SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds CRISTO REY PHILADELPHIA HIGH SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds THE DREXEL FUND ↗
  • Who funds MALVERN PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds Elevate 215 ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds THE GESU SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds SAINT JAMES SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds SETON EDUCATION PARTNERS ↗
  • Who funds CHRIST SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds LIGUORI 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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.

Business Leadership O…Connelly FoundationThe Cleveland Foundat…Central Pennsylvania …The Maguire FoundationThe Veale FoundationHenkels FoundationThe Philadelphia Foun…Paul E Kelly Foundati…Catholic Community Fo…The Lozick Family Fou…The Fedeli Family Cha…
Business Leadership Organized for Catholic SchoolsPA43.1× affinity19 shared granteesties to 6 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Business Leadership Organized for Catholic Schools · Connelly Foundation · The Cleveland Foundation · Central Pennsylvania Scholarship Fund · The Maguire Foundation · The Veale Foundation · Henkels Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · Paul E Kelly Foundation · Catholic Community Foundation · The Lozick Family Foundation · The Fedeli Family Charitable Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Howley Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Howley Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    15report 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, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 103 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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