· Private foundation
The Towe Family Foundation
Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
98% of The Towe Family Foundation’s FY2021 grant dollars went to The Community Foundation For Northeast Florida Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2021 names 4 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year The Towe Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 14 organizations, $70k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k20 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $31k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| STANWICH CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH | $20,000 |
| GREENWICH CENTER FOR HOPE & RENEWAL | $11,000 |
| JACKSONVILLE CHILDRENS CHORUS | $6,000 |
| FLORIDA RECOVERY SCHOOLS | $5,000 |
| CHICAGO HOPE CHURCH | $5,000 |
| RED BIRD MINISTRIES | $3,000 |
| THE TRINITY FORUM | $3,000 |
| CUMMER MUSEUM OF ART | $2,500 |
| TIGER ACADEMY | $2,500 |
| KIPP JACKSONVILLE | $2,500 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $1,050 |
| ST ANDREWS SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| TELEMACHUS | $1,000 |
| WOODS CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC | $1,000 |
| UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS | $1,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY19–20, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 20% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +135% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2020, 1 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2021, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- TFTRINITY FORUM INC2× · 2020–2021 · $8k · revenue +50%
- KJKIPP JACKSONVILLE INC2× · 2019–2020 · $5k · revenue +185%
- WCWOODS CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC2× · 2019–2020 · $2k · revenue +135%
Funded once
DUKE UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +44%- YOYMCA OF FL'S FIRST COASTone grant, 2019 · $3k
THE MICHAEL LISNOW RESPITE CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +30%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
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…
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
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.
Chi prepares graduates of the christel house schools operated by its affiliated entities, which chi funds and oversees, to achieve upward economic mobility, demonstrate good citizenship, and become empowered to identify and realize their…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida Inc and the most unlike its peers is Meddybemps Lake Land Trust. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 34 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR NORTHEAST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds Meddybemps Lake Land Trust ↗
- Who funds GREENWICH CENTER FOR HOPE AND RENEWAL INC ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TRINITY FORUM INC ↗
- Who funds THE JACKSONVILLE CHILDREN'S CHORUS INC ↗
- Who funds KIPP JACKSONVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds GREENWICH CHAPLAINCY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Redbird Ministries ↗
- Who funds WOODS CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOCUSED ULTRASOUND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL LISNOW RESPITE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CRUDEM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds UNITED AGAINST POVERTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE LORD'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN HEALING MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds IN MEDIAS RES ↗
- Who funds THE INSTITUTE OF WORLD POLITICS ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida Inc · United Way Worldwide · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Towe Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Lord's Place Inc — 12% of income from government
- Kipp Jacksonville Inc — 7% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.