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The Richard R 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k153 grants · $75k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL COMMITTEE ON AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY INC | $23,000 |
| ACLU FOUNDATION | $11,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA | $11,000 |
| OXFAM AMERICA | $6,000 |
| GUTTMACHER INSTITUTE | $6,000 |
| AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL USA | $6,000 |
| YADDO THE CORPORATION OF | $5,000 |
| HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH | $4,500 |
| FOS FEMINISTA | $4,000 |
| CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS | $3,500 |
| ENGENDERHEALTH | $3,000 |
| PEOPLES' SYMPHONY CONCERTS | $2,500 |
| MSI UNITED STATES | $2,500 |
| FREEDOM HOUSE | $1,500 |
| CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS | $1,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 85% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +34% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
221 repeat relationships — 149 still active in FY2024, 72 since wound down; 7 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- NCNATIONAL COMMITTEE ON AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY INC6× · 2019–2024 · $91k · revenue +29%
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC6× · 2019–2024 · $47k · revenue +43%
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC6× · 2019–2024 · $47k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- TCTHE CORPORATION OF YADDOone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -33%
IPASone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue -14%
GREENWOOD GARDENSone grant, 2019 · $500 · revenue -48%
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.
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
Organization mission the observer research foundation america orf america is an independent, non-partisan, and nonprofit organization in washington dc dedicated to addressing policy challenges facing the united states, india, and their…
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
The committee to protect journalists promotes press freedom worldwide and defends the right of journalists to report the news safely and without fear of reprisal. cpj ensures the free flow of news and commentary by taking action wherever…
Usp's mission is to improve global health through public standards and related programs that help ensure the quality, safety, and benefit of medicines and foods.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Partnership to End Homelessness Inc and the most unlike its peers is Down the Block. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 47 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
222 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. 222 of the 274 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 NATIONAL COMMITTEE ON AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OXFAM-AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Guttmacher Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds PEOPLES' SYMPHONY CONCERTS ↗
- Who funds ENGENDERHEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds THE CORPORATION OF YADDO ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION WESTERN HEMISPHERE REGION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS ↗
- Who funds PLOUGHSHARES FUND INC ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM HOUSE ↗
- Who funds MAP International Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE ↗
- Who funds Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc ↗
- Who funds THE LEGAL AID SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF THE THIRD STREET MUSIC SCHOOL SETTLEMENT ↗
- Who funds TECHNOSERVE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH PRACTICE INC ↗
- Who funds PHYSICIANS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY ↗
- Who funds SEARCH AND CARE INC ↗
- Who funds MSI US ↗
- Who funds ARTSCONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND ↗
- Who funds MARTINA ARROYO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID ↗
- Who funds Physicians For Reproductive Health ↗
- Who funds LEGAL SERVICES NYC ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE 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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Investors Foundation Inc · The Ford Foundation · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc · The Sidley Austin Foundation · Tides Foundation · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Union 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 Richard R Howe 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Family Connections Inc — 83% of income from government
- Art Pride New Jersey Foundation Inc — 69% of income from government
- 180 Turning Lives Around — 61% of income from government
- Kessler Foundation Inc — 54% of income from government
- Christopher Reeve Foundation — 49% of income from government
- Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Preservation New Jersey Inc — 28% of income from government
- Epilepsy Foundation of America — 22% of income from government
- Isaiah House Inc — 21% of income from government
- Conserve Wildlife Foundation of New Jersey Inc — 14% of income from government
- United Way of Northern New Jersey Inc — 3% of income from government
- The National Federation of the Blind — 2% of income from government
- Feed the Children Inc — 1% of income from government
- Sage Eldercare — 1% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Silver Hill Hospital Inc — 0% of income from government
- Oxfam-America Inc — 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.
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