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The Richard R Howe Foundation at a glance

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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.

$120k
Granted FY2024still arriving
156
Grants FY2024still arriving
24
States reached
$23k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

International$243kHealth$132kCivil Rights$85kReligion$56kArts & Culture$38kCrime & Legal$14kHuman Services$12kFood & Nutrition$9kOther$0
02FY2024 · 156 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k153 grants · $75k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
$200
Median grant
24
States reached
$2.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
MAP INTERNATIONAL$1,000
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:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HILLSIDES: $150 → 14%JACOB A RIIS NEIGHBORHOOD SETTLEMENT: $100 → 13%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $100 → 14%180 TURNING LIVES AROUND INC: $100 → 6%HILLSIDES: $150 → 14%JACOB A RIIS NEIGHBORHOOD SETTLEMENT: $100 → 13%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $100 → 14%180 TURNING LIVES AROUND INC: $100 → 6%HILLSIDES: $100 → 14%JACOB A RIIS NEIGHBORHOOD SETTLEMENT: $100 → 13%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $100 → 14%180 TURNING LIVES AROUND INC: $100 → 6%HILLSIDES: $150 → 14%JACOB A RIIS NEIGHBORHOOD SETTLEMENT: $100 → 13%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $100 → 14%180 TURNING LIVES AROUND INC: $100 → 6%HILLSIDES: $150 → 14%180 TURNING LIVES AROUND INC: $100 → 6%HILLSIDES: $150 → 14%180 TURNING LIVES AROUND INC: $100 → 6%NEIGHBORHOOD YOUTH ASSOCIATION: $100 → 14%KESSLER FOUNDATION: $100 → 4%NEIGHBORHOOD YOUTH ASSOCIATION: $100 → 14%KESSLER FOUNDATION: $100 → 4%NEIGHBORHOOD YOUTH ASSOCIATION: $100 → 14%KESSLER FOUNDATION: $100 → 4%AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND: $150 → 7%AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND: $150 → 7%CHILDREN'S AID: $150 → 17%CHILDREN'S AID: $150 → 17%CHILDREN'S AID: $150 → 17%CHILDREN'S AID: $150 → 17%HEALTH ADVOCATES FOR OLDER PEOPLE INC: $250 → 17%HEALTH ADVOCATES FOR OLDER PEOPLE INC: $250 → 17%SEARCH AND CARE: $500 → 17%SEARCH AND CARE: $500 → 17%SEARCH AND CARE: $500 → 17%SEARCH AND CARE: $500 → 17%SEARCH AND CARE: $500 → 17%WORLD FOOD PROGRAM USA: $250 → 14%WORLD FOOD PROGRAM USA: $200 → 14%WORLD FOOD PROGRAM USA: $200 → 14%WORLD FOOD PROGRAM USA: $200 → 14%COVENANT HOUSE: $250 → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $250 → 17%COVENANT HOUSE: $200 → 17%CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $150 → 17%CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NH
MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
SD
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
KY
VA
MD
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
DC
OK
AL
GA
TX
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$607k · 221 repeat orgs$20k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +24% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

221
45

Total granted

$607k
$16k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+24%

Still filing today

84%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalHealthHuman ServicesEnvironmentCivil RightsEducationOther
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

  • NC
    NATIONAL COMMITTEE ON AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $91k · revenue +29%
  • AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $47k · revenue +49%
  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $47k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • TC
    THE CORPORATION OF YADDO
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -33%
  • IPAS
    one grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue -14%
  • WC
    WEILL CORNELL MEDICINE
    one grant, 2021 · $500
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
Open Markets Institute

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.

Education
2
American Association for the Advancement of Science

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,…

Science & Tech
3
Actionaid Usa

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…

Social Science
4
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
5
Project Drawdown

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;…

Education
6
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(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.

International
7
New York University

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.

Education
8
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

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.

Crime & Legal
9
Observer Research Foundation America

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…

International
10
New York Genome Center Inc

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.

Health
11
Committee to Protect Journalists Inc

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…

Civil Rights
12
United States Pharmacopeial Convention

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.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Partnership to End Homelessness Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

222 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

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)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
220/222
Grantees still filing
170/222
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATIONAL COMMITTEE ON AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY INC: $90,800 · InternationalNATIONAL COMMITTEE ON AMERICAN FOREIGN …OXFAM-AMERICA INC: $31,500 · InternationalOXFAM-AMERICA INCHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $16,000 · InternationalHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INCENGENDERHEALTH INC: $12,500 · InternationalENGENDERHEALTH INC+37 more: $64,725 · International+37 moreYADDO THE CORPORATION OF: $55,500 · OtherYADDO THE CORPORATION OFAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL USA: $33,000 · OtherAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL USAGuttmacher Institute Inc: $28,500 · OtherGuttmacher Institute IncIPPFWHR: $10,000 · Other+85 more: $72,590 · Other+85 moreAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $47,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN CIVIL…THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $15,500 · Civil RightsTHE CENTER FOR…CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS: $6,500 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR CON…+8 more: $7,800 · Civil Rights+8 morePLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $47,000 · HealthPLANNED PARE…CENTER FOR COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH PRACTICE INC: $3,000 · Health+27 more: $17,845 · Health+27 morePEOPLES' SYMPHONY CONCERTS: $15,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CORPORATION OF YADDO: $10,100 · Arts & CultureSOCIETY OF THE THIRD STREET MUSIC SCHOOL SETTLEMENT: $4,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA INC: $3,350 · Arts & CultureARTSCONNECTION INC: $2,250 · Arts & CultureMARTINA ARROYO FOUNDATION: $2,000 · Arts & CultureSEARCH AND CARE INC: $2,500 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $1,150 · Human ServicesTHE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $900 · Human ServicesHILLSIDES: $850 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE: $800 · Human ServicesUSA FOR UNFPA INC: $700 · Human Services180 TURNING LIVES AROUND: $600 · Human ServicesKessler Foundation Inc: $600 · Human ServicesNATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC: $600 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY SERVICE SOCIETY OF NEW YORK: $500 · Human ServicesHEALTH ADVOCATES FOR OLDER PEOPLE INC: $500 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $450 · Human ServicesDOWN THE BLOCK: $400 · Human ServicesAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC: $400 · Human ServicesJACOB A RIIS NEIGHBORHOOD SETTLEMENT: $400 · Human Services+2 more: $550 · Human ServicesTHE LEGAL AID SOCIETY: $4,250 · Crime & LegalLEGAL SERVICES NYC: $1,850 · Crime & LegalNative American Heritage Association: $1,100 · Crime & LegalSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $800 · Crime & LegalTHE NEW YORK BAR FOUNDATION: $700 · Crime & LegalAMERICAN BAR FOUNDATION: $500 · Crime & LegalEQUAL JUSTICE AMERICA INC: $350 · Crime & Legal
International$215,525Other$199,590Civil Rights$76,800Health$67,845Arts & Culture$36,700Human Services$11,900Crime & Legal$9,550

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNATIONAL COMMITTEE ON AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY INC: $90,800 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $47,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $47,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetOXFAM-AMERICA INC: $31,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGuttmacher Institute Inc: $28,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $16,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $15,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPEOPLES' SYMPHONY CONCERTS: $15,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetENGENDERHEALTH INC: $12,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CORPORATION OF YADDO: $10,100 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetINTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION WESTERN HEMISPHERE REGION: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS: $6,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPLOUGHSHARES FUND INC: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFREEDOM HOUSE: $5,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMAP International Inc: $5,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc: $4,850 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LEGAL AID SOCIETY: $4,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIETY OF THE THIRD STREET MUSIC SCHOOL SETTLEMENT: $4,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTECHNOSERVE INC: $3,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA INC: $3,350 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH PRACTICE INC: $3,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPHYSICIANS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY: $2,650 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSEARCH AND CARE INC: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMSI US: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARTSCONNECTION INC: $2,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $2,050 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY INC: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMARTINA ARROYO FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetPhysicians For Reproductive Health: $1,900 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID: $1,900 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLEGAL SERVICES NYC: $1,850 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $1,700 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Corps: $1,625 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $1,600 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCONCERN WORLDWIDE (US) INC: $1,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPATHFINDER INTERNATIONAL: $1,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE POPULATION COUNCIL INC: $1,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Institute of Rural Reconstruction: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $1,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $1,300 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VALERIE FUND: $1,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR RESEARCH ON SCHIZOPHRENIA AND DEPRESSION: $1,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND: $1,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GREATER NEWARK HOLIDAY FUND: $1,250 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $1,200 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCOMPASSION & CHOICES: $1,200 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT ON GOVERNMENT OVERSIGHT INC: $1,200 over 6y, 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 NATIONAL COMMITTEE ON AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA 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 UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY INC ↗
  • Who funds MARTINA ARROYO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Physicians For Reproductive Health ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID ↗
  • Who funds LEGAL SERVICES NYC ↗
  • Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE 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.

The Hyde and Watson F…The New York Communit…Investors Foundation …The Ford FoundationBristol-Myers Squibb …Community Foundation …Mother Cabrini Health…Wellspring Philanthro…The Sidley Austin Fou…Tides FoundationThe Robert Wood Johns…Union Foundation
The Hyde and Watson FoundationNJ40.8× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Richard R Howe Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Richard R Howe Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 180%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 21%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
18get no government money at all
38report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
4rely on government for over half their income
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 Richard R Howe Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Richard R Howe Foundation 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 274 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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