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The Snow Family Foundation at a glance

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The Snow Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$222k
Granted FY2025still arriving
59
Grants FY2025still arriving
13
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$480kReligion$399kHealth$298kPhilanthropy$203kHuman Services$150kArts & Culture$146kRecreation & Sports$116kScience & Tech$81kOther$0
02FY2025 · 59 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k52 grants · $77k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $145k
$1,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE FLORIDA KEYS$35,000
SOUTHSIDE FAMILY SCHOOL$25,000
MARATHON RECREATION CENTER$25,000
ANSELM HOUSE$20,004
BAPTIST HEALTH SOUTH FLORIDA$20,000
NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION$10,000
MARATHON HS SCHOLARSHIP FUND$10,000
AMERICAN SCIENTIFIC ASSOCIATION$5,500
LAKE WAPOGASSET LUTHERAN BIBLE CAMP$5,200
UNION GOSPEL MISSION$5,000
THE SALVATION ARMY$5,000
WILBERFORCE ACADEMY$5,000
NATIONAL COMEDY CENTER$4,500
UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY$4,000
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION$4,000
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 (FY17–24, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 44% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%WOMEN'S SHELTER AND SUPPORT CENTER: $100 → 9%SAFESPACE: $1k → 10%PREBLE STREET: $1k → 7%PREBLE STREET: $1k → 7%PREBLE STREET: $1k → 7%YMCA CAMP ONYAHSA: $2k → 18%YMCA CAMP ONYAHSA: $1k → 18%YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $250 → 18%YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $200 → 18%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

ME
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
NV
IA
OH
PA
CT
CA
UT
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
TN
NC
DC
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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 75 repeat orgs$420k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.

75 repeat relationships: 40 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

75
89

Total granted

$1.9M
$407k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+1%

Still filing today

53%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
ReligionEducationHealthInternationalHuman ServicesEnvironmentOther
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

  • SF
    SOUTHSIDE FAMILY CHARTER SCHOOL
    6× · 2018–2025 · $341k · revenue +78%
  • BH
    Baptist Health South Florida Inc
    8× · 2018–2025 · $128k · revenue +57%
  • DA
    DOMESTIC ABUSE SHELTER INC
    3× · 2018–2020 · $100k · revenue +120%

Funded once

  • MM
    MANGROVE MIKE'S ENDEAVORS PAYING FORWARD
    one grant, 2020 · $60k
  • KP
    KEYS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $40k
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
Christianity Today International

Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.

Religion
2
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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3
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…

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4
Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education
5
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
6
MRIGlobal

To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.

Science & Tech
7
University of Minnesota Foundation Investment Advisors

To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…

Education
8
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
9
University of Northwestern - St Paul

See schedule o. founded in 1902, university of northwestern - st. paul is a nondenominational christian university that integrates the educational philosophy of "faith, learning and living" through two focuses: higher education and media.…

Education
10
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
11
Pew Research Center

Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan "fact tank" that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. Pew Research Center generates a foundation of facts that enriches the public dialogue and…

Social Science
12
Evangel University

Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Minneapolis Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Former Troopers Helping Hands 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

93 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. 93 of the 183 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
87/93
Grantees still filing
57/93
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

KAIR: $133,000 · OtherKAIRIndividual grant recipient: $131,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMARATHON HS SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $95,000 · OtherMARATHON HS SCHOLARSHIP FUNDMARATHON RECREATION CENTER: $75,000 · OtherMARATHON RECREATION CENTERMANGROVE MIKE'S ENDEAVORS PAYING FORWARD: $60,000 · OtherAnselm House: $50,004 · OtherKEYS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $50,000 · OtherNATIONAL CHRISTIAN FUND: $45,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $40,000 · OtherFLORIDA KEYS LAND & SEA TRUST INC: $64,500 · OtherFLORIDA KEYS LAND & SEA TRUST INC+120 more: $436,615 · Other+120 moreSOUTHSIDE FAMILY CHARTER SCHOOL: $340,600 · EducationSOUTHSIDE FAMILY …FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $13,200 · Education+9 more: $7,650 · EducationBaptist Health South Florida Inc: $127,500 · HealthBaptist Heal…NATIONAL KIDNEY DONATION ORGANIZATION: $60,000 · HealthNATIONAL KID…COALITION TO MODIFY NOTA INC: $55,000 · HealthCOALITION TO…AUTISM SOCIETY OF THE KEYS INC: $12,400 · HealthWAIT LIST ZERO: $12,000 · Health+4 more: $800 · HealthSAT-7 NORTH AMERICA: $73,400 · ReligionPrepare Ministries: $21,000 · ReligionSEEDS MINISTRIES INC: $20,000 · ReligionWILBERFORCE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE: $20,000 · ReligionInterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA: $9,250 · Religion+7 more: $8,620 · ReligionNATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC: $45,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE FLORIDA KEYS: $40,000 · PhilanthropyWCA FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · PhilanthropyCHAUTAUQUA REGION COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $22,330 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY INC: $11,500 · Philanthropy+4 more: $2,450 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL COMEDY CENTER INC: $99,500 · Arts & CultureSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $7,000 · Arts & CultureThe Musical Arts Association: $5,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MARATHON COMMUNITY THEATRE INC: $5,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $2,500 · Arts & CultureDOMESTIC ABUSE SHELTER INC: $100,000 · Human Services+6 more: $8,200 · Human Services
Other$1,180,119Education$361,450Health$267,700Religion$152,270Philanthropy$146,280Arts & Culture$119,000Human Services$108,200

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

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSOUTHSIDE FAMILY CHARTER SCHOOL: $340,600 over 6y, 9.5% of budgetBaptist Health South Florida Inc: $127,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetDOMESTIC ABUSE SHELTER INC: $100,000 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetNATIONAL COMEDY CENTER INC: $99,500 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetSAT-7 NORTH AMERICA: $73,400 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetFLORIDA KEYS LAND & SEA TRUST INC: $64,500 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetNATIONAL KIDNEY DONATION ORGANIZATION: $60,000 over 3y, 31% of budgetCOALITION TO MODIFY NOTA INC: $55,000 over 2y, 40% of budgetAnselm House: $50,004 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetNATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC: $45,000 over 3y, 44% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE FLORIDA KEYS: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC: $35,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWCA FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCHAUTAUQUA REGION COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $22,330 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetPrepare Ministries: $21,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetWILBERFORCE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE: $20,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetPIGEON KEY FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetFLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $13,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAUTISM SOCIETY OF THE KEYS INC: $12,400 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetWAIT LIST ZERO: $12,000 over 1y, 38% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY INC: $11,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSCHOODIC INSTITUTE AT ACADIA NATIONAL PARK: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetInterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA: $9,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNION GOSPEL MISSION INC: $7,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetDOLPHIN RESEARCH CENTER INC: $6,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMarathon Wild Bird Center Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 7.6% of budgetThe Musical Arts Association: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MARATHON COMMUNITY THEATRE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetHaight Ashbury Psychological Services: $5,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetENGLISH LANGUAGE INSTITUTE IN CHINA: $3,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPREBLE STREET: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF Jamestown NEW YORK: $2,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCUP OF COLD WATER MINISTRIES: $2,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNATURAL HERITAGE TRUST: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLAKEWOOD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $2,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetFORMER TROOPERS HELPING HANDS INC: $2,200 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetBOCA HELPING HANDS INC: $2,001 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMISS CARLY'S INC: $1,650 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREVELATION MEDIA INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetARRIVE MINISTRIES: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMARATHON YACHT CLUB EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetJERUSALEM UNIVERSITY COLLEGE: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetITALIAN AMERICAN CHARITY GOLF ASSOCIATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetGod's World Publications Inc: $1,300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSAFESPACE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 SOUTHSIDE FAMILY CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds Baptist Health South Florida Inc ↗
  • Who funds DOMESTIC ABUSE SHELTER INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL COMEDY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds SAT-7 NORTH AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds FLORIDA KEYS LAND & SEA TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL KIDNEY DONATION ORGANIZATION ↗
  • Who funds COALITION TO MODIFY NOTA INC ↗
  • Who funds Anselm House ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE FLORIDA KEYS ↗
  • Who funds MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC ↗
  • Who funds WCA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CHAUTAUQUA REGION COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Prepare Ministries ↗
  • Who funds SEEDS MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds WILBERFORCE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds PIGEON KEY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds AUTISM SOCIETY OF THE KEYS INC ↗
  • Who funds WAIT LIST ZERO ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF SOUTHERN CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY 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.

Chautauqua Region Com…Ralph C Sheldon Found…Reginald a & Elizabet…Ttee Uw Jessie Smith …Hultquist Foundation …Community Foundation …Carnahan-Jackson Foun…The Sexton Family Fou…The Ralph C Wilson Jr…Gebbie Foundation IncOcean Reef Community …The K Foundation
Chautauqua Region Community Foundation IncNY27.7× affinity11 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Chautauqua Region Community Foundation Inc · Ralph C Sheldon Foundation Inc · Reginald a & Elizabeth S Lenna Fdn Inc Dba Lenna Foundation · Ttee Uw Jessie Smith Darrah-Charita · Hultquist Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · Carnahan-Jackson Foundation · The Sexton Family Foundation · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · Gebbie Foundation Inc · Ocean Reef Community Foundation Inc · The K 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 Snow Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Snow Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 23%
  • Safespace Inc: 25% of income from government
  • Domestic Abuse Shelter Inc: 23% of income from government
  • Mote Marine Laboratory Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Dolphin Research Center Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.

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 183 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home