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The James Howell Foundation Inc

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.

$112k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$333kEducation$57kEnvironment$44kAnimals$1kInternational$300Social Science$250Other$0
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $9k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $103k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$935k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INDEPENDENT CURATORS INTL$35,000
PORTLAND ART MUSEUM$29,150
DIA ART FOUNDATION$29,000
MONOGRAPH OF JAMES HOWELL$10,162
ASSOCIATION OF ART CURATORS$5,000
BOMB MAGAZINE$1,500
AMERICAN FEDERATION OF ARTS$1,336
QUEENS MUSEUM$1,000
CREATIVE CAPITAL$150
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY23–24, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CREATIVE CAPITAL: $3k → 17%CREATIVE CAPITAL: $150 → 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.
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.

52%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$231k · 12 repeat orgs$210k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +60% since the first grant, against +34% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
13

Total granted

$231k
$177k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+60%
+34%

Still filing today

50%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CulturePublic BenefitInternationalSocial ScienceEnvironmentEducationOther
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

  • IC
    INDEPENDENT CURATORS INTERNATIONAL
    5× · 2020–2024 · $62k · revenue +65%
  • DC
    DIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $39k · revenue +38%
  • TC
    THE CHINATI FOUNDATION
    3× · 2020–2023 · $8k · revenue +116%

Funded once

  • LB
    LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
  • MS
    MADISON SQUARE PARK CONSERVANCY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $24k · revenue +74%
  • MS
    MADISON SQ PARK CONSERVANCY
    one grant, 2021 · $20k
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
Kadist Collection Manager Inc
Arts & Culture
2
Berggruen Institute
Education
3
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…

Arts & Culture
4
Clyfford Still Museum

Home to the art and legacy of the american painter clyfford still, we invite all to explore the potential of individual creative endeavor.

Arts & Culture
5
Museum of the City of New York

The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…

Arts & Culture
6
San Diego Museum of Art

To inspire, educate and cultivate curiosity through great works of art.

Arts & Culture
7
California Institute of Contemporary Art
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8
Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute

Munson-williams-proctor arts institute (mwpai) is a fine arts center dedicated to serving diverse audiences by advancing the appreciation, understanding, and enjoyment of the arts. the art institute aims to promote interest and…

Arts & Culture
9
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
10
The Phillips Collection

The phillips collection is the oldest museum of modern and contemporary art in the u.s. in addition to presentation of works from the permanent collection and special exhibitions, the museum maintains active educational, academic,…

Arts & Culture
11
Institute of Contemporary Art Miami Inc

The institute of contemporary art, miami (ica miami), is dedicated to promoting the work of contemporary artists, and to the exchange of art and ideas throughout the miami region and internationally. through an energetic calendar of…

Arts & Culture
12
Mint Museum of Art Inc

The mint museum welcomes all to be inspired and transformed through the power of art and creativity.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The American Federation of Arts Inc; the most unlike its peers is Queens Museum of Art. 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

17 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. 17 of the 29 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
11/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA: $100,000 · OtherLA BIENNALE DI VENEZIAMONOGRAPH OF JAMES HOWELL: $56,905 · OtherMONOGRAPH OF JAMES HOWELLHUNTER COLLEGE: $34,900 · OtherHUNTER COLLEGEMADISON SQ PARK CONSERVANCY: $20,000 · OtherMADISON SQ PARK CONSERVANCYASSOCIATION OF ART CURATORS: $10,000 · Other+10 more: $22,777 · Other+10 moreINDEPENDENT CURATORS INTERNATIONAL: $62,000 · Arts & CultureINDEPENDENT CURATORS INTERNATIONALDIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $38,760 · Arts & CultureDIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INCPORTLAND ART MUSEUM: $29,150 · Arts & CulturePORTLAND ART MUSEUMTHE CHINATI FOUNDATION: $8,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CHINATI FOUNDATIONBUFFALO FINE ARTS ACADEMY: $8,000 · Arts & CultureBUFFALO FINE ARTS ACADEMY+4 more: $3,336 · Arts & CultureMADISON SQUARE PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $24,000 · EnvironmentTHE HUNTER COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $14,000 · EducationARTTABLE INC: $6,000 · Public BenefitCREATIVE CAPITAL FOUNDATION: $2,650 · Human ServicesWHALE TRUST: $1,025 · Science & Tech
Other$244,582Arts & Culture$149,246Environment$24,000Education$14,000Public Benefit$6,000Human Services$2,650Science & Tech$1,025

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetINDEPENDENT CURATORS INTERNATIONAL: $62,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetDIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $38,760 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPORTLAND ART MUSEUM: $29,150 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMADISON SQUARE PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $24,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE HUNTER COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $14,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHINATI FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBUFFALO FINE ARTS ACADEMY: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetARTTABLE INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCREATIVE CAPITAL FOUNDATION: $2,650 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ART PUBLICATIONS INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF ARTS INC: $1,336 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWHALE TRUST: $1,025 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetQUEENS MUSEUM OF ART: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUDD FOUNDATION: $800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetACUMEN FUND INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES: $200 over 1y, 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.

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.

Arison Arts FoundationAg FoundationThe Alice M & Thomas …The Horace W Goldsmit…Terra Foundation for …The Andy Warhol Found…The Andrew W Mellon F…The Ford FoundationThe Goldman Sachs Cha…Tides FoundationNational Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…
Arison Arts FoundationFL17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arison Arts Foundation · Ag Foundation · The Alice M & Thomas J Tisch Foundation Inc · The Horace W Goldsmith Foundation · Terra Foundation for American Art · The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · The Ford Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Tides Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 James Howell Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The James Howell Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Portland Art Museum: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report 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.
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How do I get to The James Howell Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The James Howell Foundation Inc 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 29 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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