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Towle Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k5 grants · $105k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $1.2M
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Principia School | $250,000 |
| Family Leadership Center | $230,000 |
| Camp Newfound Owatonna | $150,000 |
| Cedars Camp | $150,000 |
| Washington Universtiy | $150,000 |
| Adventure Unlimited | $150,000 |
| Ellwood House | $100,000 |
| City Academy | $100,000 |
| Rodale Institute | $76,000 |
| Peace Haven | $50,000 |
| Universal Giving | $50,000 |
| Cape Eleuthera Foundation | $25,000 |
| University City Children's Center | $25,000 |
| Camp Leelanau Kohanna Foundation | $25,000 |
| Active Discovery | $20,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $875k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 3% 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 +36% since the first grant, against +36% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $281k 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
- TPThe Principia Corporation5× · 2017–2021 · $998k · revenue +88%
- CNCamp Newfound Owatonna Corporation7× · 2017–2024 · $875k · revenue +48%
- AUADVENTURE UNLIMITED7× · 2017–2024 · $855k · revenue +122%
Funded once
- CCHERISHABILITYgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +36%
- TATHE ALBERT BAKER FUNDone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -119%
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.
Lorien Wood is a Pre-K through 12th grade Christian school with the mission of 'outfitting a stalwart and faithful fellowship for a noble adventure'. We fulfill this vision by seeking to come alongside parents as they nurture a child's…
The mission of the school is to produce educated men of good character, prepared for both scholastic achievement in college and productive citizenship in adult society.
We consider ourselves a miracle institution full of inspiration and absolute faith in Gods hands. We do so daily in teaching our students, interacting with our diverse parent body and our location in Chicago which makes us ever more…
Icr supports christ's church through science, education, and media to glorify jesus as creator, refute darwinism, equip pastors, reshape biology with design, and defend the gospel using scripture-affirming, miracle-validating research.
The Avery Coonley School elevates high-achieving and gifted learners through immersion in a mutually talented community where intellect, curiosity, and creativity are enhanced by optimal challenge.
Cherry Hills Christian School awakens the educational experience by preparing students to live fully for God in a rapidly changing world, knowing they are His masterpieces, uniquely designed for His purpose.
The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…
By providing an excellent academic curriculum, offering a variety of extra-curricular activities, and assembling a caring, culturally diverse community, we, with support of parents and local churches, empower students from christian…
We take a joyful, community-oriented approach to raising engaged citizens, deep learners, and brave adventurers with the skills, creativity, and heart needed to better the world.
TWCA is an independent, Christ-centered college preparatory school that integrates learning with biblical faith and challenges our students to reach their highest potential - intellectually, creatively, physically, and socially - for the…
Providing a christ centered education to over 400 students through a creative and interactive learning environment using the charlotte mason method and various curriculum.
Colorado christian academy provides an innovative christ-centered education that prioritizes academic achievements and individual development of the whole child. in relationship with parents, we will build healthy foundations that result…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Adventure Unlimited and the most unlike its peers is The Campership Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 26 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 Principia Corporation ↗
- Who funds Camp Newfound Owatonna Corporation ↗
- Who funds ADVENTURE UNLIMITED ↗
- Who funds Family Leadership Center Inc ↗
- Who funds PEACE HAVEN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Cedars Camps Inc ↗
- Who funds CITY ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CAMP LEELANAU AND KOHAHNA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY CITY CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds ELLWOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds UniversalGiving ↗
- Who funds CRYSTAL LAKE CAMPS INC ↗
- Who funds LONGYEAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Rodale Institute ↗
- Who funds CAPE ELEUTHERA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHERISHABILITY ↗
- Who funds ACTIVEDISCOVERY CLUB ↗
- Who funds THE ALBERT BAKER FUND ↗
- Who funds The Campership Fund ↗
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 Isabel Foundation · Tenacre Foundation · Powell Crown Foundation · Asher Student Foundation · The Campership Fund · The Daycroft School Foundation Inc · Joseph Warren Foundation · Mueller Hoisel Wanger Charitable Foundation Inc · The Harding Foundation 2108-01-44 · The Tiny Tiger Foundation · James W Garvey Family Charitable Trust · Spaulding Family 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 Towle 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.
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