New York · Private foundation
Tower Family Fund 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.
- $9.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 107
- Grants FY2025
- 99
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 9%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 99 to 128
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $36M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 9% of the organizations Tower Family Fund Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 31% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.4M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 99 | $7.0M | 26% |
| FY2024 | 99 | $7.8M | 9% |
| FY2023 | 125 | $6.3M | 16% |
| FY2022 | 128 | $6.4M | 16% |
| FY2021 | 121 | $4.2M | 12% |
| FY2020 | 126 | $5.1M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| YMCA of the North Shore Inc | $3,075,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | $2,005,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Power of Place Learning Communities | $1,658,931 | 3 | 83% |
| Burchfield Penney Art Center | $1,438,000 | 6 | 12% |
| Stillpoint Martha's Vineyard Inc | $1,331,106 | 4 | 81% |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc | $1,325,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Cape Ann Museum Inc | $1,220,000 | 6 | 11% |
| Gloucester Marine Genomics Institute Incorporated | $825,000 | 6 | 5% |
| Island Grown Initiative Ltd | $805,000 | 6 | 5% |
| YMCA of Martha's Vineyard Inc | $805,000 | 6 | 5% |
Show all 154 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 62 recipients with no EIN on record ($8.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Tower Family Fund Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 7 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 135 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Peter and Elizabeth C Tower Foundation · Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · The Western New York Foundation · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · James H Cummings Foundation Inc · First Niagara Foundation · The John R Oishei Foundation · The Baird Foundation · The Ralph C Wilson Jr Foundation · Grigg-Lewis Foundation Inc · Cullen Foundation · Martha's Vineyard Bank Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Tower Family Fund Inc
- How much does Tower Family Fund Inc give?
- Tower Family Fund Inc reported 107 grants totaling $9,147,895 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 99 and 128 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Tower Family Fund Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (21%), Health (19%), Human Services (14%).
- Who are Tower Family Fund Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: YMCA of the North Shore Inc ($3.1M), Mass General Brigham Incorporated ($2.0M), Power of Place Learning Communities ($1.7M).
- Does Tower Family Fund Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Tower Family Fund 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 Tower Family Fund Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Peter and Elizabeth C Tower Foundation, Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc, The Western New York Foundation.
- Where is Tower Family Fund Inc based?
- Tower Family Fund Inc is based in NY.
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