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Tower Family Fund Inc at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
107
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$2.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$8.2MHealth$7.5MHuman Services$5.6MEducation$5.0MHousing & Shelter$3.5MPhilanthropy$3.2MFood & Nutrition$1.8MScience & Tech$826kOther$0
02FY2025 · 107 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k17 grants · $60k
  • $10k–50k53 grants · $970k
  • $50k–250k30 grants · $2.7M
  • $250k+7 grants · $5.4M
$25,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$36M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER BUFFALO$2,000,000
MARTHA'S VINEYARD HOSPITAL$1,000,000
HARBORLIGHT COMMUNITY PARTNERS DBA HARBORLIGHT HOMES$1,000,000
POWER OF PLACE LEARNING COMMUNITIES INC$647,895
BUFFALO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA$250,000
BUFFALO AKG ART MUSEUM$250,000
BURCHFIELD-PENNEY ART CENTER$250,000
YMCA OF MARTHA'S VINEYARD$200,000
GLOUCESTER MARINE GENOMICS INSTITUTE$200,000
PENIKESE ISLAND SCHOOL$150,000
WALNUT HILL SCHOOL OF THE ARTS$125,000
DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE$110,000
ESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$100,000
CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION$100,000
HEALTHY AGING MV$100,000
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 (FY20–25, $5.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%COMMUNITY MISSIONS OF NIAGARA FRONTIER INC: $40k → 14%COMMUNITY MISSIONS OF NIAGARA FRONTIER INC: $25k → 14%COMMUNITY MISSIONS OF NIAGARA FRONTIER INC: $25k → 14%COMMUNITY MISSIONS OF NIAGARA FRONTIER INC: $25k → 14%YMCA OF THE NORTH SHORE INC: $1.3M → 10%COMMUNITY MISSIONS OF NIAGARA FRONTIER INC: $25k → 14%PINNACLE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $30k → 14%YMCA OF THE NORTH SHORE INC: $1.0M → 10%PINNACLE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $30k → 14%YMCA OF THE NORTH SHORE INC: $300k → 10%PINNACLE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $30k → 14%PINNACLE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $30k → 14%PINNACLE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $30k → 14%YMCA OF THE NORTH SHORE INC: $100k → 10%PINNACLE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $30k → 14%YMCA OF THE NORTH SHORE INC: $100k → 10%YMCA OF THE NORTH SHORE INC: $75k → 10%YMCA OF THE NORTH SHORE INC: $75k → 10%YMCA OF THE NORTH SHORE INC: $50k → 10%YMCA OF THE NORTH SHORE INC: $50k → 10%YMCA OF THE NORTH SHORE INC: $25k → 10%YMCA OF THE NORTH SHORE INC: $25k → 10%YMCA OF THE NORTH SHORE INC: $25k → 10%MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $75k → 8%MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $75k → 8%MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $57k → 8%MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $50k → 8%MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $50k → 8%MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $50k → 8%PATHWAYS FOR CHILDREN: $100k → 10%PATHWAYS FOR CHILDREN: $100k → 10%PATHWAYS FOR CHILDREN: $100k → 10%PATHWAYS FOR CHILDREN: $100k → 10%PATHWAYS FOR CHILDREN: $100k → 10%WELLSPRING HOUSE INC: $85k → 10%PATHWAYS FOR CHILDREN: $70k → 10%WELLSPRING HOUSE INC: $60k → 10%WELLSPRING HOUSE INC: $50k → 10%WELLSPRING HOUSE INC: $50k → 10%WELLSPRING HOUSE INC: $50k → 10%WELLSPRING HOUSE INC: $50k → 10%WELLSPRING HOUSE INC: $25k → 10%ACTION INC: $20k → 10%BUFFALO CITY MISSION: $25k → 13%BUFFALO CITY MISSION: $25k → 13%BUFFALO CITY MISSION: $25k → 13%BUFFALO CITY MISSION: $25k → 13%BUFFALO CITY MISSION: $25k → 13%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

NH
NY
MA
PA
CT
RI
CA
MD
AR
DC
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 7% of Tower Family Fund Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Tower Family Fund Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$32M · 144 repeat orgs$5.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

144 repeat relationships: 73 still active in FY2025, 71 since wound down; 26 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

144
46

Total granted

$32M
$3.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+11%

Still filing today

72%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.8M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureEnvironmentRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • YMCA OF THE NORTH SHORE INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $3.1M · revenue +121%
  • POWER OF PLACE LEARNING COMMUNITIES
    3× · 2023–2025 · $1.7M · revenue ×11 · 83% of their budget
  • BURCHFIELD PENNEY ART CENTER
    6× · 2020–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +51%

Funded once

  • NH
    NAVIGATOR HOMES
    one grant, 2024 · $1.0M
  • HH
    HARBORLIGHT HOMES
    one grant, 2024 · $1.0M
  • CP
    CHILMARK PRESCHOOL
    one grant, 2024 · $250k
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
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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3
Manhattanville University

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

Education
4
Brighton Marine Inc

Brighton marine, inc. provides military and veteran families with comprehensive campus-based quality health care, as well as affordable and supportive housing for at-risk veterans and their families.

Health
5
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
6
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
7
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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8
Boston Harbor Now Inc

Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…

Environment
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
Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corp

To manage the brooklyn navy yard for the city of new york, specifically to expand job opportunities for new yorkers by fostering the development of small businesses.

Community Improvement
11
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
12
Central Maine Healthcare Corporation

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Buffalo and Erie County; the most unlike its peers is Parker Hill Orthopedic Research Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

147 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 147 of the 221 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.

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
44
Early backer (in before they grew)
144/147
Grantees still filing
102/147
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $2,005,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDSTILLPOINT MARTHA'S VINEYARD INC: $1,331,106 · OtherSTILLPOINT MARTHA'S VINEYARD INCNAVIGATOR HOMES: $1,000,000 · OtherNAVIGATOR HOMESHARBORLIGHT HOMES: $1,000,000 · OtherHARBORLIGHT HOMESHARBORLIGHT COMMUNITY PARTNERS DBA HARBORLIGHT HOMES: $1,000,000 · OtherHARBORLIGHT COMMUNITY PARTNERS DBA HARBORLIGHT HO…BUFFALO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA: $888,000 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $600,000 · OtherGLOUCESTER MARINE GENOMICS INSTITUTE INCORPORATED: $825,000 · OtherISLAND GROWN INITIATIVE LTD: $805,000 · OtherNEW PROFIT INC: $600,000 · Other+105 more: $7,333,000 · Other+105 moreYMCA OF THE NORTH SHORE INC: $3,075,000 · Human ServicesYMCA OF THE NO…PATHWAYS FOR CHILDRENINC: $600,000 · Human ServicesPATHWAYS FOR C…MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $377,000 · Human ServicesMARTHA'S VINEY…WELLSPRING HOUSE INC: $370,000 · Human ServicesWELLSPRING HOU…PINNACLE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $180,000 · Human Services+11 more: $467,000 · Human Services+11 morePOWER OF PLACE LEARNING COMMUNITIES: $1,658,931 · EducationPOWER OF PLAC…WALNUT HILL CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $600,000 · EducationWALNUT HILL C…THE SAWYER LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $550,000 · EducationTHE SAWYER LI…CHOATE ROSEMARY HALL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $315,000 · EducationCHOATE ROSEMA…Opportunities Collaborative for Students with Special Needs Inc: $295,000 · EducationOpportunities…DAEMEN UNIVERSITY: $295,000 · EducationDAEMEN UNIVER…+15 more: $1,000,000 · Education+15 moreBURCHFIELD PENNEY ART CENTER: $1,438,000 · Arts & CultureBURCHFIELD PE…CAPE ANN MUSEUM INC: $1,220,000 · Arts & CultureCAPE ANN MUSE…ROCKPORT MUSIC INC: $600,000 · Arts & CultureROCKPORT MUSI…BUFFALO FINE ARTS ACADEMY: $500,000 · Arts & CultureBUFFALO FINE …GLOUCESTER STAGE COMPANY INC: $205,000 · Arts & CultureCIRCUIT ARTS INC: $168,000 · Arts & Culture+9 more: $568,500 · Arts & Culture+9 moreCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER BUFFALO INC: $2,140,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY F…ROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION: $640,000 · PhilanthropyROSWELL PAR…ESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $600,000 · PhilanthropyESSEX COUNT…MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $190,000 · Philanthropy+3 more: $300,000 · Philanthropy+3 moreDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $1,325,000 · HealthTHE HEALTH INITIATIVE INC: $200,000 · HealthNIAGARA FALLS MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER: $160,000 · HealthVineyard House Inc: $160,000 · HealthMOUNT ST MARY'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 · HealthMADONNA OF THE STREETS INC: $100,000 · HealthLUMINARY IMPACT FUND: $100,000 · HealthCCB FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · Health+12 more: $342,000 · HealthYMCA of Martha's Vineyard Inc: $805,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE FIELD FUND INC: $320,000 · Recreation & SportsKENAN CENTER INC: $110,000 · Recreation & Sports+3 more: $55,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$17,387,106Human Services$5,069,000Education$4,713,931Arts & Culture$4,699,500Philanthropy$3,870,000Health$2,637,000Recreation & Sports$1,290,000

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%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYMCA OF THE NORTH SHORE INC: $3,075,000 over 6y, 3.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER BUFFALO INC: $2,140,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPOWER OF PLACE LEARNING COMMUNITIES: $1,658,931 over 3y, 83% of budgetBURCHFIELD PENNEY ART CENTER: $1,438,000 over 6y, 12% of budgetSTILLPOINT MARTHA'S VINEYARD INC: $1,331,106 over 4y, 81% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $1,325,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCAPE ANN MUSEUM INC: $1,220,000 over 6y, 11% of budgetGLOUCESTER MARINE GENOMICS INSTITUTE INCORPORATED: $825,000 over 6y, 4.5% of budgetISLAND GROWN INITIATIVE LTD: $805,000 over 6y, 4.7% of budgetYMCA of Martha's Vineyard Inc: $805,000 over 6y, 4.9% of budgetROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION: $640,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetROCKPORT MUSIC INC: $600,000 over 6y, 4.1% of budgetESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $600,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetNEW PROFIT INC: $600,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetWALNUT HILL CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $600,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetPATHWAYS FOR CHILDRENINC: $600,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetTHE SAWYER LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $550,000 over 5y, 51% of budgetTHE OPEN DOOR CAPE ANN FOOD PANTRY INC: $535,000 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetBUFFALO FINE ARTS ACADEMY: $500,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetMARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $377,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetWELLSPRING HOUSE INC: $370,000 over 6y, 3.2% of budgetNIAGARA LUTHERAN HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $350,000 over 6y, 6.0% of budgetTHE FIELD FUND INC: $320,000 over 6y, 82% of budgetCHOATE ROSEMARY HALL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $315,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC: $300,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetOpportunities Collaborative for Students with Special Needs Inc: $295,000 over 6y, 40% of budgetDAEMEN UNIVERSITY: $295,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWoodwell Climate Research Center Inc: $250,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetGLOUCESTER STAGE COMPANY INC: $205,000 over 5y, 6.3% of budgetTHE HEALTH INITIATIVE INC: $200,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetMARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $190,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetPINNACLE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $180,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetRAW ART WORKS INC: $170,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetCIRCUIT ARTS INC: $168,000 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetNIAGARA FALLS MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER: $160,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetVineyard House Inc: $160,000 over 6y, 7.6% of budgetMV YOUTH INC: $158,900 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY MISSIONS OF THE NIAGARA FRONTIER INC: $150,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetTHE YARD INC: $150,000 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetCAPE ANN ART HAVEN INC: $150,000 over 5y, 17% of budgetMOUNT ST MARY'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 over 6y, 3.8% of budgetMontserrat College Of Art Inc: $145,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetARTPARK & COMPANY INC: $142,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetCITY MISSION SOCIETY INC: $135,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF NIAGARA FALLS INC: $130,000 over 6y, 15% of budgetHOSPICE FOUNDATION OF WNY INC: $125,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetGloucester Education Foundation Inc: $120,000 over 4y, 67% of budgetLEAP for Education Inc: $110,000 over 4y, 1.5% 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 YMCA OF THE NORTH SHORE INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER BUFFALO INC ↗
  • Who funds POWER OF PLACE LEARNING COMMUNITIES ↗
  • Who funds BURCHFIELD PENNEY ART CENTER ↗
  • Who funds STILLPOINT MARTHA'S VINEYARD INC ↗
  • Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds CAPE ANN MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds GLOUCESTER MARINE GENOMICS INSTITUTE INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds ISLAND GROWN INITIATIVE LTD ↗
  • Who funds YMCA of Martha's Vineyard Inc ↗
  • Who funds ROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ROCKPORT MUSIC INC ↗
  • Who funds ESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW PROFIT INC ↗
  • Who funds WALNUT HILL CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds PATHWAYS FOR CHILDRENINC ↗
  • Who funds THE SAWYER LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE OPEN DOOR CAPE ANN FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds BUFFALO FINE ARTS ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds WELLSPRING HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds NIAGARA LUTHERAN HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE FIELD FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds CHOATE ROSEMARY HALL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Opportunities Collaborative for Students with Special Needs Inc ↗
  • Who funds DAEMEN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc ↗

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 Peter and Elizabe…Community Foundation …The Western New York …Mother Cabrini Health…James H Cummings Foun…First Niagara Foundat…The John R Oishei Fou…The Baird FoundationThe Ralph C Wilson Jr…Grigg-Lewis Foundatio…Cullen FoundationMartha's Vineyard Ban…
The Peter and Elizabeth C Tower FoundationNY116.4× affinity58 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Tower Family Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tower Family Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 270%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Ccb Foundation Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Marthas Vineyard Youth Task Force Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Pathways for Childreninc: 86% of income from government
  • Health Imperatives Inc: 79% of income from government
  • Martha's Vineyard Mediation Program Inc: 71% of income from government
  • Northeast Native Network of Kinship and: 44% of income from government
  • Cape Ann Museum Inc: 38% of income from government
  • Martha's Vineyard Community Foundation Inc: 34% of income from government
  • Vista Life Innovations Inc: 33% of income from government
  • The Yard Inc: 28% of income from government
  • Gloucester Marine Genomics Institute Incorporated: 16% of income from government
  • Care Dimensions Inc: 14% of income from government
  • Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Leap for Education Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Wellspring House Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Raw Art Works Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Ymca of the North Shore Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Hospice of Martha's Vineyard Inc Dba Hospice and Palliative Care of Martha's: 5% of income from government
  • Rockport Music Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Montserrat College of Art Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Sassafras Earth Education Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Action Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Martha's Vineyard Community Services Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Cape Cod Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Essex County Community Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Harbor Homes of Martha's Vineyard Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Island Housing Trust Corporation: 1% of income from government
  • New England Baptist Hospital: 1% of income from government
  • Circuit Arts Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Cape Ann Art Haven Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Berklee College of Music Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Biodiversityworks Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Island Grown Initiative Ltd: 0% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
  • Choate Rosemary Hall Foundation Incorporated: 0% of income from government
  • Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
27get no government money at all
31report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
5rely 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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How do I get to Tower Family Fund Inc?

Find your warmest path to Tower Family Fund 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 221 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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The regranting layer
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