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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 FY2025still arriving
206
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$5.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% 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
02FY2025 · 206 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k22 grants · $89k
  • $10k–50k20 grants · $530k
  • $50k–250k108 grants · $12M
  • $250k+56 grants · $34M
$100,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$314M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK$5,000,000
MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER$1,600,000
VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM$1,422,021
NEW YORK GENOME CENTER INC$1,400,000
THE HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERIES$1,240,000
MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER$1,200,000
LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC$1,000,000
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI$1,000,000
VERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE INC$1,000,000
IMMIGRANT JUSTICE CORPS$1,000,000
UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAVEN$1,000,000
VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM$700,000
NORWALK HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION$600,000
NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL$500,000
CONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC$500,000
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 (FY17–25, $9.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MIXTECO INDIGENA COMMUNITY ORGANIZING PROJECT: $334k → 10%TAPESTRY FAMILY SERVICES: $334k → 18%TIDES CENTER: $150k → 14%TIDES CENTER: $150k → 14%TIDES CENTER: $100k → 14%RIVET GLOBAL INC: $250k → 16%TIDES CENTER: $75k → 14%YOUTH CONTINUUM: $50k → 12%RIVET GLOBAL INC: $100k → 16%TIDES CENTER: $175k → 10%YOUTH CONTINUUM: $50k → 12%TIDES CENTER: $50k → 10%LIFEBRIDGE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $70k → 9%FREEDOM READS INC: $200k → 12%OUR PIECE OF THE PIE INC: $150k → 11%OUR PIECE OF THE PIE INC: $100k → 11%OUR PIECE OF THE PIE: $51k → 11%CONNECTICUT VOICES FOR CHILDREN: $75k → 12%CONNECTICUT VOICES FOR CHILDREN INC: $75k → 12%CENTER FOR CHILDREN'S LAW AND POLICY INC: $130k → 14%CONNECTICUT VOICES FOR CHILDREN: $75k → 12%CENTER FOR CHILDREN'S LAW AND POLICY: $75k → 14%CENTER FOR CHILDREN'S LAW AND POLICY: $75k → 14%CENTER FOR CHILDREN'S LAW AND POLICY INC: $60k → 14%CENTER FOR CHILDREN'S LAW AND POLICY INC: $60k → 14%CENTER FOR CHILDREN'S LAW AND POLICY INC: $60k → 14%CENTER FOR CHILDREN'S LAW AND POLICY INC: $60k → 14%CHILD HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE OF CONNECTICUT: $250k → 11%NEW YORK WOMENS FOUNDATION: $100k → 17%NEW YORK WOMENS FOUNDATION: $100k → 17%YOUTH JUSTICE NETWORK INC: $100k → 17%FRIENDS OF ISLAND ACADEMY INC: $100k → 17%YOUTH JUSTICE NETWORK INC: $100k → 17%FRIENDS OF ISLAND ACADEMY INC: $100k → 17%YOUTH JUSTICE NETWORK INC: $100k → 17%YOUTH JUSTICE NETWORK INC: $100k → 17%YOUTH JUSTICE NETWORK INC: $100k → 17%YOUTH JUSTICE NETWORK INC: $100k → 17%FRIENDS OF ISLAND ACADEMY INC: $100k → 17%JOHN JAY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $250k → 17%JOHN JAY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $250k → 17%TIDES CENTER: $200k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $104k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $104k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $100k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $100k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $75k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $75k → 17%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
VT
WA
MT
IL
WI
NY
MA
OR
NV
WY
IA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
TN
NC
DC
LA
AL
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$169M · 301 repeat orgs$13M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

301 repeat relationships: 119 still active in FY2025, 182 since wound down; 24 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

301
216

Total granted

$169M
$6.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+12%

Still filing today

85%
74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7.1M 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
Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesEducationCrime & LegalCivil 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER
    8× · 2018–2025 · $22M · revenue +70%
  • BARNARD COLLEGE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $22M · revenue +60%
  • NY
    NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL
    9× · 2017–2025 · $4.6M · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • NY
    NEW YORK SOCIETY FOR THE RELIEF OF RUPTURED & CRIPPLED MAINTAINING THE HOSP
    one grant, 2023 · $1.2M
  • MS
    MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER
    one grant, 2017 · $1.0M
  • CC
    CORTICO CORPORATION
    one grant, 2022 · $200k · revenue +8%
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
City Report Inc

CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.

Arts & Culture
2
Public Media Nj Inc

To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse

Arts & Culture
3
International Center for Research On Women

The international center for research for women (icrw) is a global research institute, with a mission to advance rights and opportunities for women, girls, and structurally excluded populations with actionable evidence and solutions.

International
4
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
5
Manhattan Institute for Policy Research Inc

The manhattan institute is a community of scholars, journalists, activists, and civic leaders dedicated to advancing opportunity, individual liberty, and the rule of law in america and its great cities.

Public Benefit
6
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
7
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
8
Institute for Americas Future Inc

Iaf's purpose is to conduct research and publicize findings concerning citizen's attitudes about economic options confronting america. iaf is devoted to fostering a robust and democratic debate about ideas that will shape our country's…

Education
9
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Opportunity Agenda Inc; the most unlike its peers is Re-Entry Rocks 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

458 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. 458 of the 554 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)
83
Early backer (in before they grew)
447/458
Grantees still filing
284/458
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BARNARD COLLEGE: $21,653,875 · EducationBARNARD COLLEGETHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $19,305,507 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN…BARD COLLEGE: $4,575,910 · EducationBARD COLLEGETHE BROOKLYN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $4,345,170 · EducationTHE BROOKLYN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCCRAIG NEWMARK GRADUATE SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM CUNY FOUNDATION INC: $4,010,000 · EducationCRAIG NEWMARK GRADUATE SCHOOL OF JOURN…University of New Haven: $3,848,334 · EducationUniversity of New HavenUniversity of Miami: $3,025,000 · Education+15 more: $8,578,320 · Education+15 moreMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $22,465,000 · HealthMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERIN…NEW YORK GENOME CENTER INC: $8,200,000 · HealthNEW YORK GENOME CENTER …NEW YORK SOCIETY FOR THE RELIEF OF THE RUPTURED AND CRIPPLED MAINTAINING THE: $3,480,000 · HealthNEW YORK SOCIETY FOR TH…The Norwalk Hospital Association: $3,116,249 · HealthThe Norwalk Hospital As…+7 more: $3,876,500 · Health+7 moreHOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY: $4,480,000 · OtherHOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL S…CATALYST CT INC: $2,370,100 · OtherCATALYST CT INCCRAIG NEWMARK GRADUATE SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM AT CUNY: $1,510,000 · OtherCENTER FOR CHILDRENS ADVOCACY INC: $1,580,475 · Other+81 more: $29,782,520 · Other+81 moreNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $4,617,800 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK SH…LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $3,000,000 · Arts & CultureLINCOLN CEN…NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $1,741,865 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK PU…WGBH Educational Foundation: $1,513,000 · Arts & CultureWGBH Educat…THE FUTURO MEDIA GROUP: $800,000 · Arts & Culture+26 more: $8,335,524 · Arts & Culture+26 moreVERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE INC: $3,680,000 · Crime & LegalTHE CAMPAIGN FOR THE FAIR SENTENCING OF YOUTH: $1,825,000 · Crime & LegalIMMIGRANT JUSTICE CORPS INC: $1,000,000 · Crime & LegalJUSTICE INNOVATION INC: $923,188 · Crime & LegalJUVENILE LAW CENTER: $884,640 · Crime & LegalJUSTLEADERSHIPUSA INC: $805,000 · Crime & LegalYOUTH REPRESENT INC: $750,000 · Crime & LegalLEGAL ACTION CENTER OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC: $660,000 · Crime & LegalJustice Policy Institute: $600,000 · Crime & LegalRECIDIVIZ INC: $500,000 · Crime & LegalMEDICAL JUSTICE ALLIANCEINC: $500,000 · Crime & Legal+9 more: $2,355,000 · Crime & LegalTIDES CENTER: $1,220,000 · Human ServicesYouth Justice Network Inc: $950,000 · Human ServicesJOHN JAY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $560,250 · Human ServicesTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $557,500 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR CHILDREN'S LAW AND POLICY: $530,000 · Human ServicesOUR PIECE OF THE PIE INC: $521,250 · Human ServicesCONNECTICUT VOICES FOR CHILDREN INC: $505,000 · Human ServicesHOUR CHILDREN INC: $450,000 · Human ServicesWESTCHESTER CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION INC: $385,250 · Human ServicesYOUTH CONTINUUM INC: $370,000 · Human ServicesFREEDOM READS INC: $350,000 · Human ServicesRIVET GLOBAL INC: $350,000 · Human ServicesTAPESTRY FAMILY SERVICES INC: $334,000 · Human ServicesMIXTECO INDIGENA COMMUNITY ORGANIZING PROJECT: $334,000 · Human Services+9 more: $2,000,000 · Human ServicesVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM: $4,881,389 · PhilanthropyROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $1,200,000 · PhilanthropyFUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC: $535,000 · PhilanthropyCONNECTICUT COUNCIL FOR PHILANTHROPY: $401,251 · PhilanthropyGoodnation Foundation Inc: $360,000 · PhilanthropyTHE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC: $300,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $301,845 · Philanthropy
Education$69,342,116Health$41,137,749Other$39,723,095Arts & Culture$20,008,189Crime & Legal$14,482,828Human Services$9,417,250Philanthropy$7,979,485

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $22,465,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetBARNARD COLLEGE: $21,653,875 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $19,305,507 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK GENOME CENTER INC: $8,200,000 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM: $4,881,389 over 3y, 0.1% 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 budgetTIDES CENTER: $1,220,000 over 6y, 0.1% 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 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 MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER ↗
  • Who funds BARNARD COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK GENOME CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
  • Who funds BARD COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds THE BROOKLYN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CRAIG NEWMARK GRADUATE SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM CUNY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds University of New Haven ↗
  • Who funds VERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK SOCIETY FOR THE RELIEF OF THE RUPTURED AND CRIPPLED MAINTAINING THE ↗
  • Who funds The Norwalk Hospital Association ↗
  • Who funds University of Miami ↗
  • Who funds LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds CATALYST CT INC ↗
  • Who funds Research Foundation of the City University of New York ↗
  • Who funds THE CAMPAIGN FOR THE FAIR SENTENCING OF YOUTH ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR CHILDRENS ADVOCACY INC ↗
  • Who funds WGBH Educational Foundation ↗
  • Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
  • Who funds ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MARSHALL PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds IMMIGRANT JUSTICE CORPS INC ↗
  • Who funds Youth Justice Network Inc ↗
  • Who funds HUDSON LINK FOR HIGHER EDUCATION IN PRISON INC ↗
  • Who funds JUSTICE INNOVATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE FORTUNE SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE GROUNDTRUTH PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE OSBORNE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds JUVENILE LAW CENTER ↗

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 Co…The Howard Gilman Fou…William Caspar Graust…The New York Communit…The Lucille Lortel Fo…The Ford FoundationSurdna Foundation IncPublic Welfare Founda…New York Women's Foun…The Andrew W Mellon F…Booth Ferris Foundati…The Shubert Foundatio…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Tow Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Tow Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 120%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Community Partners in Action Inc: 90% of income from government
  • Connecticut Youth Services Association Inc: 88% of income from government
  • Roca Inc: 78% of income from government
  • Youth Continuum Inc: 76% of income from government
  • Clifford Beers Community Care Center Inc: 75% of income from government
  • Connecticut Coalition to End Homelessness Inc: 54% of income from government
  • Kids in Crisis Inc: 49% of income from government
  • Utec Inc: 46% of income from government
  • Catalyst Ct Inc: 37% of income from government
  • Career Resources Inc: 35% of income from government
  • Lifebridge Community Services Inc: 32% of income from government
  • Connecticut Council for Philanthropy: 24% of income from government
  • African Caribbean American Parents of Children With Disabilities Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Our Piece of the Pie Inc: 21% of income from government
  • Connecticut Legal Services Inc: 18% of income from government
  • Big Brothers Big Sisters of Connecticut Inc: 15% of income from government
  • Freedom Reads Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Domus Kids Inc: 7% of income from government
  • University of Miami: 5% of income from government
  • Center for Childrens Advocacy Inc: 5% of income from government
  • The Vermont Center for Ecostudies Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc: 3% of income from government
  • University of New Haven: 2% of income from government
  • Project Music Heals Us Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Wesleyan University: 1% of income from government
  • Wgbh Educational Foundation: 1% of income from government
  • Berklee College of Music Inc: 1% of income from government
  • The Connecticut Players Foundation Inc D/B/a Long Wharf Theatre: 1% of income from government
  • The Norwalk Hospital Association: 1% of income from government
  • Cortico Corporation: 0% of income from government
  • Partnership for Strong Communities: 0% of income from government
  • Rutgers University Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
12get no government money at all
51report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
6rely on government for over half their income
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.
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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.

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 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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$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