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The Tow 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.

$47M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
206
Grants FY2025
156
Organizations funded FY2024
22%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$100,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$5,000,000
Organizations funded a year
156 to 204
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
12
Total assets, FY2025
$314M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 22% of the organizations The Tow Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.2M 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
Arts & CultureEducationHealthCrime & LegalHuman ServicesCivil RightsOther
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 arriving143$34M17%
FY2024156$24M22%
FY2023163$21M21%
FY2022204$19M25%
FY2021179$14M24%
FY2020181$17M31%
FY2019157$19M22%
FY2018198$19M49%
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$53MHealth$46MCrime & Legal$26MArts & Culture$19MPhilanthropy$4.7MCivil Rights$3.2MYouth Development$2.9MHuman Services$2.0MOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

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

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All grantees of The Tow Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center$22,465,00080%
Barnard College$21,653,87582%
New York Genome Center Inc$8,200,00072%
New York Shakespeare Festival$4,617,80092%
Bard College$4,575,91090%
The Brooklyn College Foundation Inc$4,345,17096%
Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism Cuny Foundation Inc$4,010,00079%
University of New Haven$3,848,33490%
Vera Institute of Justice Inc$3,680,00094%
New York Society for the Relief of the Ruptured and Crippled Maintaining The$3,480,00030%
The Norwalk Hospital Association$3,116,24990%
University of Miami$3,025,00040%
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts Inc$3,000,00031%
Catalyst Ct Inc$2,370,100911%
Research Foundation of the City University of New York$2,250,00070%
The Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth$1,825,000913%
New York Public Radio$1,741,86570%
Center for Childrens Advocacy Inc$1,580,47599%
WGBH Educational Foundation$1,513,00070%
Robin Hood Foundation$1,200,00050%
Connecticut Children's Foundation Inc$1,132,00041%
The Marshall Project Inc$1,083,00092%
Immigrant Justice Corps Inc$1,000,0001n/a
Youth Justice Network Inc$950,00093%
Hudson Link for Higher Education in Prison Inc$938,32094%
Justice Innovation Inc$923,18850%
The Fortune Society Inc$905,50090%
The Groundtruth Project Inc$900,00082%
William J Brennan Center for Justice Inc$900,00090%
The Osborne Association Inc$886,90081%
Juvenile Law Center$884,64093%
Justleadershipusa Inc$805,00088%
The Futuro Media Group$800,00027%
Children's Defense Fund$753,30091%
Fountain House Inc$751,00041%
Youth Represent Inc$750,00098%
Center for Community Alternatives Inc$720,00091%
Community Partners in Action Inc$705,25091%
The Gault Center$700,00096%
National Youth Justice Network$680,000740%
Legal Action Center of the City of New York Inc$660,00092%
Katal Center for Equity Health and Justice Inc$652,000916%
Civil Rights Corps$650,00024%
Solutions Journalism Network Inc$650,00062%
The National Black Theatre Workshop$650,00033%
The Vivian Beaumont Theaterinc D/B/A Lincoln Center Theater$619,35090%
Justice Policy Institute$600,000812%
Domus Kids Inc$598,75091%
John Jay College Foundation Inc$560,25044%
The Innocence Project Inc$557,50061%
The Sentencing Project$550,00062%
Common Justice Inc$540,00082%
Fund for the City of New York Inc$535,00050%
Center for Children's Law and Policy$530,00076%
St Ann's Warehouse Inc$525,00072%
Our Piece of the Pie Inc$521,25082%
Connecticut Voices for Children Inc$505,00098%
Roca Inc$500,00050%
Recidiviz Inc$500,00021%
The Better Angels Society Inc$500,00015%
Dwight Hall at Yale$500,00046%
Correctional Association of New York$500,00087%
Medical Justice Allianceinc$500,000362%
Rehabilitation Through the Arts Inc$499,95597%
Wnet$492,35090%
Trace Media Inc$450,00033%
Hour Children Inc$450,00082%
New York Focus Inc$450,00038%
Connecticut Legal Services Inc$440,00091%
Coalition for Juvenile Justice$430,000910%
Connecticut Council for Philanthropy$401,25186%
Worth Rises Inc$400,00028%
Girltrek Incorporated$400,00027%
Pen American Center Inc$400,00031%
Westchester Children's Association Inc$385,25099%
Kennesaw State University Research and Service Foundation Inc$385,00041%
Kids in Crisis Inc$370,20081%
Youth Continuum Inc$370,00091%
Roundabout Theatre Company Inc$361,72460%
Friends of Karen Inc$360,00081%
Goodnation Foundation Inc$360,00051%
Council on Criminal Justice Inc$350,00021%
Freedom Reads Inc$350,00043%
Indiespace Inc$350,000412%
Alliance of Families for Justice Inc$350,00055%
Connecticut News Project Inc$350,00044%
Rivet Global Inc$350,00029%
Clifford Beers Community Care Center Inc$335,00070%
Connecticut Youth Services Association Inc$335,00088%
Homeboy Industries$334,0001n/a
Tapestry Family Services Inc$334,00014%
Mixteco Indigena Community Organizing Project$334,00013%
Our Children's Trust$334,000142%
St Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center$334,0001n/a
Urban Justice Center$325,00050%
New York Theatre Workshop Inc$315,38061%
Wesleyan University$305,00060%
Center for Employment Opportunities Inc$300,00030%
Civic News Company$300,00013%
New York City Environmental Justice Alliance Inc$300,00025%
The Foundation for City College$300,00020%
Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc$286,24020%
Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc$285,00030%
The College and Community Fellowship Inc$285,00087%
Connecticut Coalition to End Homelessness Inc$285,00072%
Council of State Governments$275,00040%
Congregations Linked in Urban Strategy to Effect Renewal Inc$270,00071%
Soho Repertory Theatre Inc$267,42554%
Community Bonds Inc$266,000510%
African Caribbean American Parents of Children With Disabilities Inc$265,000812%
Fostering Media Connections$260,00073%
Atlantic Theater Company$255,38051%
Child Health and Development Institute of Connecticut Inc$250,00012%
Good Call NYC$250,00048%
Ars Nova Theater I Inc$236,10042%
Manhattan Class Company Inc$225,00041%
Family Reentry Inc$225,000417%
The Center For Nuleadership On Urban Solutions Inc$225,00025%
Partnership for Strong Communities$220,00054%
The Opportunity Agenda Inc$220,00063%
Sanctuary for Families Inc$216,00061%
Project Model Offender Reintergration Experience Inc$215,00051%
Nunchi Health$212,0001n/a
New York Women's Foundation Inc$209,00041%
Committee to Protect Journalists Inc$205,00030%
Brooklyn Arts Council Inc$201,00025%
Cortico Corporation$200,00016%
Drug Policy Alliance$200,00040%
Frederick Douglass Project for Justice$200,000221%
Church World Service Inc$200,00010%
Forward Impact$200,00023%
The Just Trust for Education$200,0001n/a
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Connecticut Inc$200,00018%
The Research Foundation for The State University of New York$200,00030%
UTEC Inc$198,00021%
Peer Health Exchange Inc$198,00022%
Sunset Park Health Council Inc$194,00020%
Manhattan Theatre Club Inc$190,00040%
The Forum for Youth Investment$185,00041%
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Connecticut Inc$180,00082%
Als United Greater New York Inc$179,58581%
Campaign for Youth Justice$175,00037%
We Are Unchained Inc$170,0004n/a
North Carolina Community Action Association$170,00021%
Primary Stages Company Inc$167,17043%
The New 42nd Street Inc$159,53040%
The Actors' Fund of America$159,20040%
The Connecticut Players Foundation Inc D/B/A Long Wharf Theatre$157,55061%
Brooklyn Law School$150,00020%
University of Wisconsin Foundation$150,00010%
The Omowale Project Inc$150,000131%
Clubbed Thumb Inc$150,00034%
Measures for Justice Institute$150,00012%
Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corp$150,00030%
Renaissance Philanthropy Fund$150,00010%
The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press$150,0001n/a
Waterbury Youth Services Inc$135,00032%
Philanthropy New York Inc$134,74090%
Homebridge Ventures Inc$125,000316%
Women Against Mass Incarceration In$125,000473%
Lineage Project Inc$120,000420%
Lifebridge Community Services Inc$120,00021%
Business Capacity Development Alliance Inc$115,00027%
Soul Shoppe Programs$112,00029%
The Arnold Gold Foundation$108,80032%
American Theatre Wing Inc$107,61081%
A Little Piece of Light Inc$105,00038%
Womens Community Justice Association Inc$105,00038%
The Legal Aid Society$105,00030%
Rattlestick Productions Inc$103,60046%
California School-Based Health Alliance$100,00023%
The City University of New York School of Law Foundation Inc$100,00011%
Partners for Justice Inc$100,00021%
Nami of Connecticut Inc$100,00026%
Volunteers of Legal Service Inc$100,00029%
Xiente$100,00021%
Sing Sing Prison Museum$100,000211%
The Ladies of Hope Ministries Inc$100,00014%
Community Resources for Justice Inc$100,00010%
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Foundation$98,00020%
The Flea Theater Inc$85,00026%
Home for Contemporary Theatre and Art Ltd dba HERE Art Center$84,50044%
Berklee College of Music Inc$83,50010%
Vineyard Theatre and Workshop Center Inc$82,50012%
Page Seventy-Three Productions Inc$82,50019%
The Civilians Inc$82,500111%
The New Group Inc$82,50012%
Women's Project & Productions Inc$82,50015%
The Bushwick Starr Inc$82,50013%
Teatro Circulo LTD$82,500111%
Ma-Yi Filipino Theatre Ensemble Inc Dba Ma-Yi Theater Company$82,50018%
Life Unbolted Inc$78,000326%
Playwrights Horizons Inc$75,00011%
Als United Mid-Atlantic$68,33181%
Theatre for a New Audience Inc$67,25021%
The University of Connecticut Foundation Inc$65,00030%
National Center for Family Philanthropy Inc$64,60090%
Grantmakers for Effective Organizations$61,96080%
The Aopa Foundation Inc$55,00030%
The Bridge Fund of New York Inc$55,00021%
The Phoenix Association Inc$53,000343%
Helping Educate to Advance the Rights of the Deaf$52,50023%
Louisiana Parole Project Inc$50,00011%
New York University$50,00010%
Drop Lwop New England$50,000156%
The Lit Fund$50,00013%
Council of Churches of Greater Bridgeport Inc$50,0001n/a
Technology Association of Grantmakers Inc$45,00031%
Eye to Eye Inc Dba the Neurodiversity Alliance$45,00070%
Greater Bridgeport Community Enter$40,00022%
Beam Center Inc$35,00070%
Ballona Wetland Land Trust$30,000223%
Charlotte Center for Legal Advocacy Inc$30,00060%
Media Impact Funders Inc$28,00071%
The Vermont Center for Ecostudies Inc$27,00051%
Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc$27,00040%
Career Resources Inc$26,85030%
Planned Parenthood South Atlantic Inc$26,50060%
The Irish Repertory Theatre Companyinc$25,50021%
Women's Reproductive Rights Assistance Project$25,00010%
Project Music Heals US Inc$25,00015%
The Second Stage Theatre Inc$25,00010%
Signature Theatre Company Inc$25,00010%
American Museum of the Moving Image$25,00010%
The Brigid Alliance Inc$25,00010%
Future 5 Inc$25,00011%
Operation Smile Inc$25,00010%
Rutgers University Foundation$25,00010%
Re-Entry Rocks Inc$25,000124%
Capital B News Inc$25,00010%
Trustees of Boston University$25,00010%
Freedom School Partners Inc$25,00060%
Day One Early Learning Community Inc$25,00011%
Planned Parenthood Mar Monte Inc$24,00050%
United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc$23,50010%
Act of Connecticut$22,50040%
Legal Aid of North Carolina Inc$22,50050%
The Ridgefield Playhouse for Movies and the Performing Arts Inc$22,50050%
Mass General Brigham Incorporated$22,00030%
Martha's Vineyard Chamber Music Society Inc$20,00048%
Music in the Park Atl$20,0004n/a
Citizens Options Unlimited Inc$20,00010%
Yellowstone Forever$20,00030%
Essie Justice Group$20,00040%
Peak Grantmaking Inc$19,26890%
Hospice of Martha's Vineyard Inc Dba Hospice and Palliative Care of Martha's$19,25042%
Peace First Inc$19,00040%
Los Angeles Regional Food Bank$17,50010%
New Canaan EMS Inc$17,50043%
The Center for Reproductive Rights Inc$17,00060%
Massachusetts Advocates for Children Inc$16,00050%
Autism Speaks Inc$15,50040%
Marin Theatre Company$15,50050%
Jack M Barrack Hebrew Academy$15,30030%
Congregation Organized for a New Ct$15,00013%
Youth Policy Institute of Iowa$15,00011%
Visiting Nurse & Hospice of Fairfield County Inc$15,00030%
Rvnahealth Inc$15,00020%
Danbury Hospital & New Milford Hospital Foundation Inc$15,00030%
Feeding Westchester Inc$12,50020%
Southern Poverty Law Center Inc$12,50060%
Greater Boston Food Bank Inc$12,50020%
San Francisco Food Bank$12,50020%
City Harvest Inc$12,00030%
Connecticut Yankee Council Inc Boy Scouts of America$12,00030%
Share Food Program$11,00020%
Johns Hopkins University$10,00010%
Housing Plus Solutions Inc$10,00010%
North Texas Food Bank$10,00020%
The Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City$10,0001n/a
Pound Ridge Fire Departmentinc$10,00023%
The Bail Project Inc$10,00020%
Pound Ridge Lions Ambulance Corps$10,00022%
Lung Transplant Project Foundation$10,00011%
Georgetown University$10,00010%
International Rescue Committee INC$10,00030%
National Network of Abortion Funds Inc$10,00010%
White Bird Clinic$10,00020%
Food Bank for New York City$10,00010%
Washington Scholarship Fund Inc$9,50062%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$9,00030%
Sky's the Limit Fund$9,00021%
Freed Seed Federation Inc$8,00042%
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Northern California Inc$8,00020%
Philabundance$8,00060%
Victim Rights Law Center Inc$8,00030%
St Luke's Foundation Inc$7,50020%
Refugee Support Services of the Carolinas Inc$7,50031%
Bala Cynwyd Memorial Library$7,50052%
Chinese Historical Society of America$7,50020%
Congregation Beth Am Israel$7,5004n/a
Ackerman Institute for the Family$7,00020%
Planned Parenthood Southeastern Pa$7,00060%
Global Empowerment Mission Inc$7,00010%
Accessportsamerica Inc$6,50030%
Color of Changeorg Education Fund$6,00010%
Martha's Vineyard Community Services Inc$6,00020%
Boys & Girls Club of Greenwich$6,00010%
NAACP Legal Defense & Educ Fund Inc$5,75020%
Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc$5,20020%
Sundance Institute$5,20010%
Carolina Refugee Resettlement Agency Inc$5,00010%
Children of Promise NYC$5,00010%
Initiate Justice$5,0001n/a
Mv Center for Education and Training (Mv$5,00011%
Temple Beth El$5,0001n/a
Women Against Abuse Inc$5,00010%
New Haven International Festival of Arts and Ideas Inc$5,00010%
Compassionate Care ALS Inc$5,00010%
Peacejam Foundation$5,00010%
Partners Creating Community Inc$5,00010%
Community Food Advocates Inc$5,00011%
Mass General Brigham Incorporated$5,0001n/a
Childkind International Inc$5,0001n/a
Pacific House Inc$5,00010%
Northeast Lincoln Park Sharei Simcha$5,0001n/a
Refugee & Immigrant Center for Education & Legal Services$5,00010%
Queens College Foundation Inc$5,00010%
Redwood Credit Union Community Fund Inc$5,00010%
The Cultural Landscape Foundation$5,00020%
National Religious Campaign Against Torture$5,00010%
The Cure Starts Now Inc$5,00010%
Dalmatian Dreams Dba Dream Foundation$5,00010%
Central Park Conservancy Inc$5,00010%
Equal Justice Initiative$5,00010%
Lloyd Center for the Environment Inc$5,00011%
Middlesex United Way Inc$5,00010%
Bring on the Music Inc$5,00010%
Organ Alliance Inc$5,00011%
Sunrise Movement Education Fund$5,00010%
Life Camps Incorporated$5,00010%
Jorge M Perez Art Museum of Miami-Dade County Inc$5,00010%
Job Path Inc$5,00020%
Connecticut Bar Foundation$5,00010%
World Central Kitchen Inc$5,00010%
Americares Foundation Inc$5,00010%
New York City Parents of Lesbians and Gay Men Inc$5,00011%
The Impossible Dream Inc$5,00022%
Kents Hill School$5,00010%
Our Space Inc$5,0002n/a
Center for Disaster Philanthropy Inc$5,00010%
Voices of September 11 Inc$4,88011%
Friends of the Cynwyd Trail Inc$4,50052%
Metropolitan New York Coordinating Council on Jewish Poverty$4,50020%
The Communications Network$4,35110%
Huntington's Disease Foundation$4,25010%
Musicares Foundation Inc$4,00010%
Global Poverty Project Inc$4,00010%
Globalgiving Foundation Inc$3,50010%
Human Development Services Westchester Inc$3,50030%
The Winifred Masterson Burke Rehabilitation Hospital$3,50020%
Community Coalition for Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment$3,35010%
NATIONAL BLACK WOMENS HEALTH PROJECT dba BLACK WOMENS HEALTH IMPERATIVE$3,35010%
Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated$3,00030%
The Lenfest Institute for Journalism Special Asset Fund of Tpf$3,00020%
Vanderbilt University Medical Center$3,00010%
Paralyzed Veterans of America$3,00020%
Trevor Project Inc$3,00030%
Natural Resources Defense Council Inc$3,00030%
Island Food Pantry of Martha's Vineyard Inc$3,00010%
Center for Transformative Action$3,00010%
The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous Inc$3,00020%
Free Library of Philadelphia Foundation$2,75020%
New Bedford Light$2,50010%
The Food Bank of Lower Fairfield County Inc$2,50010%
Connecticut Center for Arts & Technology$2,50010%
The Mount Kisco Interfaith Food Pantry Inc$2,5001n/a
New Bedford Symphony Orchestra Association Inc$2,50010%
Community Center of Northern Westchester Inc$2,50010%
Smile Train Inc$2,50020%
The Connecticut Women's Consortium Inc$2,50010%
Chilmark Town Affairs Council Inc$2,5001n/a
Citizens for Juvenile Justice Inc$2,50010%
Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education$2,50030%
ScholarCHIPS Inc$2,50013%
ourBRIDGE Inc$2,50011%
Project Citizenship Inc$2,50010%
Equestrian Aid Foundation$2,50011%
Two Coyotes Wilderness School Inc$2,00020%
Everylibrary Institute Nfp$2,00010%
Bayview Futures Fka Center for Youth Wellness$2,00010%
American Bar Association$2,00010%
Long Island Crisis Center Inc$2,00010%
Ladies of Virtue$2,00010%
United Tastes of America (Bnai Keshat)$2,0001n/a
Southwest Community Health Center Inc$2,00010%
The Rotary Club of Bronxville Fdtn$2,000150%
The Salvation Army$2,0001n/a
Shake on the Lake Inc$2,00031%
Police Athletic League Inc$2,00020%
HIAS and Council Migration Service of Philadelphia Inc$2,00020%
An Claidheamh Soluis Inc$2,00020%
Building One Community Corp$1,77520%
Gramatan Village Inc$1,50020%
Avon Theatre Film Center Inc$1,50010%
Groundwork Bridgeport Inc$1,50020%
Glsen Inc$1,50020%
Western States Center$1,50020%
Stamford Rotary Trust Fund$1,50011%
Connecticut Challenge Inc DBA Mission Your Mission CT Challenge$1,50010%
New York Immigration Coalition Inc$1,45020%
Getabout Inc$1,0001n/a
Dj Henry Dream Fund Inc$1,00010%
All Hands and Hearts Smart Response Inc$1,00010%
NAMI National$1,00010%
Lifting Up Westchester Inc$1,00010%
Deaf West Theatre Company Inc$1,00010%
Team Gleason Foundation$1,00010%
Speakup$1,00010%
Smith Memorial Playground & Playhouse Inc$1,00010%
United Jewish Charities of Greater Charlotte Inc$1,00010%
Uncommon Schools Inc$1,00010%
Sierra Club$1,00010%
Sustainable Port Chester Alliance Inc$1,0002n/a
Disabled American Veterans$1,00010%
Macular Degeneration Association$1,00010%
Connecticut Foodshare Inc$1,00020%
Center for Biological Diversity Inc$1,00010%
Save the Sound$1,00010%
Water for People$1,00010%
Bridgeport Animal Rescue Crew Inc$1,0001n/a
New York Historical Society$1,00010%
West Harlem Environmental Action Inc$1,00010%
Sacred Heart University Incorporated$1,00010%
New Profit Inc$1,00010%
Center for American Progress$1,00010%
Community Service Society of New York$1,00010%
Crohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc$75010%
Composers Now Inc$75010%
Boys & Girls Club of Bay County Inc$65010%
EVLoves LLC$60010%
Endeavor Therapeutic Horsemanship Inc$50010%
Pennenvironment Inc$50010%
The Jordan Porco Foundation$50010%
Pennenvironment Research & Policy Center Inc$50010%
Casa Ruby Inc$5001n/a
GivenGain Foundation USA$50010%
Delta Research & Educational Foundation$50010%
Alexs Lemonade Stand Foundation$50010%
Planned Parenthood of Southern New England Inc$50010%
Anti-Defamation League$50010%
Homes With Hope$50010%
The Community Fund of Bronxville Eastchester Tuckahoe Inc$50010%
Pennsylvania HIAS Indigent Immigrant Legal Services$50010%
Anne Ohare McCormick Memorial Fund Inc$50011%
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc$50010%
Clean Air Task Force Inc$50010%
Narberth Community Food Bank$5001n/a
AARP Foundation$50010%
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention$50010%
Facing History & Ourselves Inc$50010%
Ali Forney Center Inc$50010%
Parents & Friends of Lower Fairfield County Ctr Inc$30031%
Pro Publica Inc$20010%
White Plains Hospital Medical Center$15010%
Hope For The Warriors$15010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 85 recipients with no EIN on record ($18M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Tow Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 9 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMemorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center: $22,465,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetBarnard College: $21,653,875 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetNew York Genome Center Inc: $8,200,000 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetNew York Shakespeare Festival: $4,617,800 over 9y, 1.6% of budgetBard College: $4,575,910 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetThe Brooklyn College Foundation Inc: $4,345,170 over 9y, 6.2% of budgetCraig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism Cuny Foundation Inc: $4,010,000 over 7y, 8.8% of budgetUniversity of New Haven: $3,848,334 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetVera Institute of Justice Inc: $3,680,000 over 9y, 3.6% of budgetNew York Society for the Relief of the Ruptured and Crippled Maintaining The: $3,480,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Norwalk Hospital Association: $3,116,249 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $3,025,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLincoln Center for the Performing Arts Inc: $3,000,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCatalyst Ct Inc: $2,370,100 over 9y, 11% of budgetResearch Foundation of the City University of New York: $2,250,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetThe Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth: $1,825,000 over 9y, 13% of budgetNew York Public Radio: $1,741,865 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetCenter for Childrens Advocacy Inc: $1,580,475 over 9y, 8.7% of budgetWGBH Educational Foundation: $1,513,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetRobin Hood Foundation: $1,200,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetConnecticut Children's Foundation Inc: $1,132,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetThe Marshall Project Inc: $1,083,000 over 9y, 1.7% of budgetYouth Justice Network Inc: $950,000 over 9y, 2.9% of budgetHudson Link for Higher Education in Prison Inc: $938,320 over 9y, 4.0% of budgetJustice Innovation Inc: $923,188 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetThe Fortune Society Inc: $905,500 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetThe Groundtruth Project Inc: $900,000 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetWilliam J Brennan Center for Justice Inc: $900,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetThe Osborne Association Inc: $886,900 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetJuvenile Law Center: $884,640 over 9y, 2.9% of budgetJustleadershipusa Inc: $805,000 over 8y, 7.7% of budgetThe Futuro Media Group: $800,000 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetChildren's Defense Fund: $753,300 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetFountain House Inc: $751,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetYouth Represent Inc: $750,000 over 9y, 7.6% of budgetCenter for Community Alternatives Inc: $720,000 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetCommunity Partners in Action Inc: $705,250 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetThe Gault Center: $700,000 over 9y, 6.2% of budgetNational Youth Justice Network: $680,000 over 7y, 40% of budgetLegal Action Center of the City of New York Inc: $660,000 over 9y, 1.6% of budgetKatal Center for Equity Health and Justice Inc: $652,000 over 9y, 16% of budgetCivil Rights Corps: $650,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetSolutions Journalism Network Inc: $650,000 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetThe National Black Theatre Workshop: $650,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetThe Vivian Beaumont Theaterinc D/B/A Lincoln Center Theater: $619,350 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetJustice Policy Institute: $600,000 over 8y, 12% of budgetDomus Kids Inc: $598,750 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetJohn Jay College Foundation Inc: $560,250 over 4y, 3.7% 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 200.

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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.

Fairfield County's Community Foundation IncCT56.7× affinity39 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · The New York Community Trust · The Lucille Lortel Foundation Inc · The Ford Foundation · Surdna Foundation Inc · Public Welfare Foundation Inc · New York Women's Foundation Inc · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · Booth Ferris Foundation Xxxxx4008 · The Shubert Foundation Inc

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 Tow 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.

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About The Tow Foundation Inc

How much does The Tow Foundation Inc give?
The Tow Foundation Inc reported 206 grants totaling $46,839,114 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 156 and 204 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Tow Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (33%), Health (28%), Crime & Legal (16%).
Who are The Tow Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center ($22M), Barnard College ($22M), New York Genome Center Inc ($8.2M).
Does The Tow Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Tow 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 Tow Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc, The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc, William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund.
Where is The Tow Foundation Inc based?
The Tow Foundation Inc is based in CT.

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 554 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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