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The Rowan 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.

$34k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
9
Grants FY2025
7
Organizations funded FY2024
14%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$5,000
Organizations funded a year
6 to 8
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$334k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 14% of the organizations The Rowan Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEnvironmentEducationPhilanthropyArts & CultureFood & NutritionOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving8$31k25%
FY20247$33k14%
FY20238$34k25%
FY20228$36k38%
FY20216$27k50%
FY20206$30k33%
FY20198$53k38%
FY20186$33k17%
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$175kHuman Services$35kEnvironment$35kReligion$25kArts & Culture$24kPhilanthropy$21kEducation$7kFood & Nutrition$5kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 11 grantees
All grantees of The Rowan Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Facial Pain Association Inc$60,00092%
Tidewell Hospice Inc$46,00070%
The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc$30,00060%
Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc$22,00040%
The Oaks Women's Club Inc$5,00014%
Tidewell Foundation Inc$5,00010%
Gary Sinise Foundation$5,00010%
The Players Inc$5,00011%
All Faiths Food Bank Inc$5,00010%
Selah Freedom Inc$2,50010%
PEO Educational Loan Fund$1,50010%

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($120k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Rowan Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Facial Pain Association Inc: $60,000 over 9y, 1.7% of budgetTidewell Hospice Inc: $46,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc: $30,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAlzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc: $22,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Oaks Women's Club Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetTidewell Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGary Sinise Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Players Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetAll Faiths Food Bank Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSelah Freedom Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPEO Educational Loan Fund: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.

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.

Gulf Coast Community Foundation IncFL15.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · Boscia Family Foundation · Manatee Community Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Sarasota Co Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

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Find your warmest path to The Rowan 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.

About The Rowan Foundation Inc

How much does The Rowan Foundation Inc give?
The Rowan Foundation Inc reported 9 grants totaling $34,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 8 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Rowan Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (53%), Human Services (11%), Environment (11%).
Who are The Rowan Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Facial Pain Association Inc ($60k), Tidewell Hospice Inc ($46k), The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc ($30k).
Does The Rowan Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Rowan Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Rowan Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc, Boscia Family Foundation, Manatee Community Foundation Inc.
Where is The Rowan Foundation Inc based?
The Rowan Foundation Inc is based in FL.

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 23 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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