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The Rowe Family Charitable Trust
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE | $15,000 |
| OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| BALLETROX | $10,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $10,000 |
| EAGLE VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CENTRE STREET FOOD PANTRY | $6,000 |
| EAGLE VALLEY LAND TRUST | $5,000 |
| NEWTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $5,000 |
| CONCORD NH PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOR JANE COGSWELL SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $5,000 |
| PBS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| WBUR | $5,000 |
| WORLD WILDLIFE FUND | $5,000 |
| NPR | $5,000 |
| WGBH | $4,000 |
| ROCKY MOUNTAIN PBS | $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 (FY20–24, $51k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
12 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
- MFMARGARET FULLER NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE5× · 2020–2024 · $50k · revenue +40%
- EIEDVESTORS INC4× · 2020–2023 · $33k · revenue +62%
EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE2× · 2023–2025 · $20k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- TKTHE KELLY S BRUSH FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue -23%
- CTCRADLES TO CRAYONS INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +141%
- PPPROJECT PLACESone grant, 2021 · $1k
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.
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The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.
As Greater Boston's community foundation, the Boston Foundation devotes its resources to expanding opportunities, improving lives and strengthening communities. See Schedule OThe Foundation fulfills this mission in three principal ways:…
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
Spoonfuls is an organization that facilitates the recovery and distribution of healthy, perishable food that would otherwise be discarded. spoonfuls works efficiently to deliver this food directly to the community organizations and…
Food Rescue - The Organization rescues excess fresh food from Bay Area businesses, schools and non-profits and immediately delivers the food to safety net partners - such as senior housing centers, after-school programs, and homeless…
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To gather and share quality food and nurture partnerships so that no one in vermont will go hungry.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Margaret Fuller Neighborhood House and the most unlike its peers is World Wildlife Fund Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 24 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
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 THE OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARGARET FULLER NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF EAGLE RIVER VALLEY ↗
- Who funds EDVESTORS INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds BALLETROX INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRE STREET FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds EAGLE VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RAR-MA INC ↗
- Who funds NEWTON FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds PBS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EAGLE VALLEY LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE KELLY S BRUSH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds CRADLES TO CRAYONS 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: Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Rowe Family Charitable Trust 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.
- Balletrox Inc — 15% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Oregon Community Foundation — 2% of income from government
- Edvestors Inc — 1% 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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