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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 FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Environment$59kAnimals$33kEducation$23kHealth$19kArts & Culture$13kScience & Tech$10kInternational$3kYouth Development$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$2,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$22k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CULTURAL SANCTUARIES FOUNDATION$10,000
LOS ANGELES PARKS FOUNDATION$3,000
EDDIE ADAMS WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION INC$2,500
BETTER BIRTH SHASTA COUNTY$2,500
SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION (KPBS)$1,100
RODERICK SENIOR CENTER$500
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 82% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LOCKWOOD ANIMAL RESCUE CENTER: $10k → 10%BOWERS MUSEUM: $2k → 10%SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION (KPBS): $6k → 11%TRINITY BIRTH CENTER FOR WOMENS HEALTH AND EDUCATION: $10k → 11%BETTER BIRTH SHASTA COUNTY: $3k → 14%LOS ANGELES PARKS FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $500 → 14%TRINITY ANIMAL SHELTER AUXILIARY: $2k → 17%EDDIE ADAMS WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION INC: $3k → 16%WILD PHILANTHROPY: $2k → 17%JUBILEE USA: $1k → 14%WOLF SANCTUARY: $5k → 11%LAST PRISONER PROJECT: $2k → 12%HANDS OF PEACE: $2k → 14%CHEETAH CONSERVATION FUND: $2k → 9%LOCKWOOD ANIMAL RESCUE CENTER: $10k → 10%SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION (KPBS): $1k → 11%TRINITY BIRTH CENTER FOR WOMENS HEALTH AND EDUCATION: $5k → 11%LOS ANGELES POLICE MUSEUM: $1k → 14%RODERICK SENIOR CENTER: $500 → 17%EDDIE ADAMS WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION INC: $3k → 16%JUBILEE USA: $500 → 14%HANDS OF PEACE: $500 → 14%CHEETAH CONSERVATION FUND: $1k → 9%SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION (KPBS): $1k → 11%EDDIE ADAMS WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION INC: $3k → 16%CHEETAH CONSERVATION FUND: $1k → 9%SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION (KPBS): $1k → 11%EDDIE ADAMS WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION INC: $3k → 16%SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION (KPBS): $600 → 11%JOAN B KROC INSTITUTE FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE - USD: $1k → 11%GRAUER FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION: $7k → 11%GRAUER FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION: $5k → 11%GRAUER FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION: $5k → 11%GRAUER FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION: $5k → 11%BLUE STAR FAMILIES INC: $3k → 11%ECOLIFE CONSERVATION: $13k → 11%ECOLIFE CONSERVATION: $6k → 11%ECOLIFE CONSERVATION: $5k → 11%ECOLIFE CONSERVATION: $3k → 11%ECOLIFE CONSERVATION: $3k → 11%LABS AND MORE: $2k → 11%INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE: $1k → 11%EMILIO NARES FOUNDATION: $1k → 11%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

IL
NY
CA
CO
VA
NM
DC
LA
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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$145k · 11 repeat orgs$30k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +8% since the first grant, against -1% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
14

Total granted

$145k
$24k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
-1%

Still filing today

73%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsEducationEnvironmentInternationalHuman ServicesPublic BenefitOther
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

  • CS
    CULTURAL SANCTUARIES FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2025 · $30k · revenue ×22 · 28% of their budget
  • EC
    ECOLIFE CONSERVATION
    5× · 2019–2024 · $29k · revenue +1%
  • GF
    GRAUER FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $22k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • WO
    W O L F
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -17%
  • BS
    BLUE STAR FAMILIES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +96%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $2k
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
Wildlife Sos

Protecting india's precious wildlife from poaching, habitat loss, and human exploitation since 1995.

Animals
2
World Vets

To improve the health & well-being of animals through veterinary aid, response, training, research & local capacity building worldwide. We provide services to companion animals, horses, street dogs, livestock and marine animals including…

Animals
3
Asia Wild

Asia Wild is committed to rescuing and protecting the welfare of animals worldwide. They support small, locally-focused organizations that tirelessly combat numerous issues that threaten wildlife survival, including poaching, abuse,…

Animals
4
Panthera Corporation

Panthera's mission is the conservation of the world's 40 wild cat species, many of which are endangered or threatened. panthera develops, implements and oversees wild cat conservation strategies on a global scale.

Animals
5
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
6
California Wolf Center

California Wolf Center is dedicated to the return of wild wolves to their natural habitat and to the people who share the landscape with them. We foster communities coming together to ensure wolves, livestock, and people thrive in todays…

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7
Wildlife Protection Solutions

To protect endangered species.

Animals
8
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
9
Animal Survival International Usa Inc

Animal Survival International (ASI) works to help wildlife around the world whose survival is threatened by climate change, habitat destruction, the illegal wildlife trade, poor legislation and inadequate law enforcement.

Animals
10
Lincoln Park Zoological Society

Lincoln park zoo is dedicated to connecting people with nature by providing a free, family-oriented wildlife experience in the heart of chicago and by advancing the highest quality of animal care, horticulture, education, science and…

Animals
11
Wildlife Conservation Society

The wildlife conservation society (wcs) saves wildlife and wild places worldwide through science, conservation action, education, and inspiring people to value nature.

Animals
12
San Francisco Zoological Society

To connect all people with wildlife, inspire caring for nature, and advance conservation action.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Los Angeles Parks Foundation; the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee Inc. 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

20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 28 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
11/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TRINITY BIRTH CENTER FOR WOMENS HEALTH AND EDUCATION: $15,000 · OtherTRINITY BIRTH CENTER FOR WOMEN…SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION (KPBS): $10,300 · OtherSAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY RES…BETTER BIRTH SHASTA COUNTY: $2,500 · OtherBETTER BIRTH SHASTA COUNTYIndividual grant recipient: $2,000 · OtherWILD PHILANTHROPY INC: $2,000 · OtherSunbird Initiative: $2,500 · OtherSunbird InitiativeLAST PRISONER PROJECT: $2,000 · OtherCHARLES W BOWERS MUSEUM CORPORATION: $2,000 · Other+9 more: $8,100 · Other+9 moreGRAUER FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION: $22,019 · EducationGRAUER FOUNDATION FO…EDDIE ADAMS WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION INC: $10,000 · EducationEDDIE ADAMS WORKSHOP…Lockwood Animal Rescue Center: $20,000 · AnimalsLockwood Animal Resc…W O L F: $5,000 · AnimalsW O L FCheetah Conservation Fund: $4,000 · AnimalsCheetah Conservation…TRINITY ANIMAL SHELTER AUXILARY TASA: $2,000 · AnimalsTRINITY ANIMAL SHELT…CULTURAL SANCTUARIES FOUNDATION: $30,000 · Human ServicesCULTURAL SANCTUARIE…ECOLIFE CONSERVATION: $28,750 · EnvironmentECOLIFE CONSERVATI…+1 more: $500 · EnvironmentBLUE STAR FAMILIES INC: $3,000 · Public BenefitLOS ANGELES PARKS FOUNDATION: $3,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$46,400Education$32,019Animals$31,000Human Services$30,000Environment$29,250Public Benefit$3,000Recreation & Sports$3,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCULTURAL SANCTUARIES FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 3y, 28% of budgetECOLIFE CONSERVATION: $28,750 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetGRAUER FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION: $22,019 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLockwood Animal Rescue Center: $20,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetEDDIE ADAMS WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION INC: $10,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetW O L F: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCheetah Conservation Fund: $4,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBLUE STAR FAMILIES INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSunbird Initiative: $2,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWILD PHILANTHROPY INC: $2,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetLAST PRISONER PROJECT: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHARLES W BOWERS MUSEUM CORPORATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRINITY ANIMAL SHELTER AUXILARY TASA: $2,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetENCINITAS COASTAL ROTARY CLUB INC: $1,100 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES POLICE MUSEUM: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEmilio Nares Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDEVIL PUPS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN ROSE SOCIETY: $500 over 1y, 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.

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.

Rancho Santa Fe Found…Sempra FoundationNational Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Rancho Santa Fe FoundationCA15.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Rowe Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Rowe Family 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 28 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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