California · Private foundation
The Rowe Family Foundation
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.
- $20k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 6
- Grants FY2025
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 10
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $22k
- 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 Rowe Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 6 | $20k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 7 | $33k | 14% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $25k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $45k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 2 | $8k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $25k | 75% |
| FY2019 | 5 | $12k | 60% |
| FY2018 | 5 | $4k | 100% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cultural Sanctuaries Foundation | $30,000 | 3 | 28% |
| Ecolife Conservation | $28,750 | 5 | 0% |
| Grauer Foundation for Education | $22,019 | 4 | 0% |
| Lockwood Animal Rescue Center | $20,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Eddie Adams Workshop Organization Inc | $10,000 | 4 | 1% |
| W O L F | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Cheetah Conservation Fund | $4,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Blue Star Families Inc | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Los Angeles Parks Foundation | $3,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Sunbird Initiative | $2,500 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 21 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cultural Sanctuaries Foundation | $30,000 | 3 | 28% |
| Ecolife Conservation | $28,750 | 5 | 0% |
| Grauer Foundation for Education | $22,019 | 4 | 0% |
| Lockwood Animal Rescue Center | $20,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Eddie Adams Workshop Organization Inc | $10,000 | 4 | 1% |
| W O L F | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Cheetah Conservation Fund | $4,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Blue Star Families Inc | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Los Angeles Parks Foundation | $3,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Sunbird Initiative | $2,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Better Birth Shasta County | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Wild Philanthropy Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Last Prisoner Project | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Charles W Bowers Museum Corporation | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Trinity Animal Shelter Auxilary Tasa | $2,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Encinitas Coastal Rotary Club Inc | $1,100 | 2 | 1% |
| International Rescue Committee INC | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Los Angeles Police Museum | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Emilio Nares Foundation | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Devil Pups Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| American Rose Society | $500 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($31k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Rowe Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 19 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · Sempra Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About The Rowe Family Foundation
- How much does The Rowe Family Foundation give?
- The Rowe Family Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $19,600 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 10 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Rowe Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (34%), Animals (19%), Education (13%).
- Who are The Rowe Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Cultural Sanctuaries Foundation ($30k), Ecolife Conservation ($29k), Grauer Foundation for Education ($22k).
- Does The Rowe Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Rowe Family Foundation 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 Rowe Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Rancho Santa Fe Foundation, Sempra Foundation, National Philanthropic Trust.
- Where is The Rowe Family Foundation based?
- The Rowe Family Foundation is based in CA.
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