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The Towe Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$70k
Granted FY2020
22
Grants FY2020
11
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

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

10
’19
14
’20
4
’21

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2021.

Philanthropy$1.1MHealth$36kReligion$27kEducation$24kHuman Services$16kEnvironment$15kArts & Culture$10kInternational$3kOther$0
02FY2020 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k20 grants · $39k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $31k
$1,050
Median grant
11
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
KIPP JACKSONVILLE$2,500
TIGER ACADEMY$2,500
CUMMER MUSEUM OF ART$2,500
THE SALVATION ARMY$1,050
GREENWICH CHAPLAINCY SERVICES$1,000
FOCUSED ULTRASOUND FOUNDATION$1,000
WOODS CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC$1,000
UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS$1,000
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MICHAEL LISNOW RESPITE CENTER: $1k → 8%RED BIRD MINISTRIES: $3k → 14%GREENWICH CENTER FOR HOPE & RENEWAL: $11k → 9%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
IL
MA
OH
CT
CO
VA
DE
TN
NC
DC
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.

40%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$56k · 12 repeat orgs$83k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +135% since the first grant, against +30% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
6

Total granted

$56k
$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+135%
+30%

Still filing today

50%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21
EducationHuman ServicesHealthInternationalPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther
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

  • TF
    TRINITY FORUM INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $8k · revenue +50%
  • KJ
    KIPP JACKSONVILLE INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $5k · revenue +185%
  • WC
    WOODS CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $2k · revenue +135%

Funded once

  • DUKE UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +44%
  • YO
    YMCA OF FL'S FIRST COAST
    one grant, 2019 · $3k
  • UH
    UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS HEALTH SYSTEM INC
    one grant, 2019 · $1k
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
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
2
Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

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

Health
3
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
4
University Family Physicians Inc

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…

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5
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

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

Health
6
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
7
Good Shepherd Hospice Foundation Inc

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.

—
8
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
9
Good Samaritan Hospital Foundation

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.

—
10
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

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

Health
11
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.

—
12
Christel House International Inc

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…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

19 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. 19 of the 34 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
13/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR NORTHEAST FLORIDA INC: $1,113,617 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR NORTHEAST FLORIDA INC+1 more: $8,000 · PhilanthropyFLORIDA RECOVERY SCHOOLS: $25,000 · OtherSTANWICH CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH: $20,000 · OtherCHICAGO HOPE CHURCH: $5,000 · OtherCUMMER MUSEUM OF ART: $3,750 · OtherTIGER ACADEMY: $2,500 · OtherST ANDREWS SCHOOL: $2,500 · OtherYMCA OF FL'S FIRST COAST: $2,500 · Other+14 more: $12,850 · OtherDUKE UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · EducationKIPP JACKSONVILLE INC: $4,500 · EducationWOODS CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · Education+1 more: $50 · EducationMeddybemps Lake Land Trust: $15,000 · EnvironmentGREENWICH CENTER FOR HOPE AND RENEWAL INC: $11,000 · Human ServicesRedbird Ministries: $3,000 · Human ServicesTHE MICHAEL LISNOW RESPITE CENTER INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesTHE JACKSONVILLE CHILDREN'S CHORUS INC: $6,000 · Arts & CultureGREENWICH CHAPLAINCY SERVICES INC: $3,000 · HealthFOCUSED ULTRASOUND FOUNDATION: $2,000 · Health
Philanthropy$1,121,617Other$74,100Education$16,550Environment$15,000Human Services$15,000Arts & Culture$6,000Health$5,000

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 budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR NORTHEAST FLORIDA INC: $1,113,617 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetGREENWICH CENTER FOR HOPE AND RENEWAL INC: $11,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRINITY FORUM INC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE JACKSONVILLE CHILDREN'S CHORUS INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetKIPP JACKSONVILLE INC: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREENWICH CHAPLAINCY SERVICES INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetRedbird Ministries: $3,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetWOODS CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFOCUSED ULTRASOUND FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL LISNOW RESPITE CENTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCRUDEM FOUNDATION INC: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTIAN HEALING MINISTRIES INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LORD'S PLACE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED AGAINST POVERTY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE OF WORLD POLITICS: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIN MEDIAS RES: $50 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.

The Community Foundat…United Way WorldwideThe Ayco Charitable F…Renaissance Charitabl…Natl Christian Charit…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…The Pfizer Foundation…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…American Endowment Fo…
The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida IncFL17.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • The Lord's Place Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Kipp Jacksonville Inc: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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 34 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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