· Private foundation
Towle Family Foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k4 grants · $100k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $1.0M
- $250k+3 grants · $1.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Principia School | $1,000,000 |
| Washington Universtiy | $250,000 |
| Universal Gifted Savings Inc | $250,000 |
| Mad Agriculture | $200,000 |
| Cedars Camp | $150,000 |
| Camp Newfound Owatonna | $150,000 |
| Adventure Unlimited | $150,000 |
| Ellwood House | $100,000 |
| Rodale Institute | $100,000 |
| Active Discovery | $60,000 |
| University City Children's Center | $60,000 |
| City Academy | $50,000 |
| Camp Leelanau Kohanna Foundation | $25,000 |
| Universal Giving | $25,000 |
| Peace Haven | $25,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $875k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 3% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
23 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $450k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CNCamp Newfound Owatonna Corporation8× · 2017–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +48%
- AUADVENTURE UNLIMITED8× · 2017–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +122%
- TPThe Principia Corporation5× · 2017–2021 · $998k · revenue +88%
Funded once
- CCHERISHABILITYgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +36%
- TCThe Campership Fundone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
- TATHE ALBERT BAKER FUNDone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -119%
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.
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.
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…
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.
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 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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
Providing a christ centered education to over 400 students through a creative and interactive learning environment using the charlotte mason method and various curriculum.
How this is measured
22 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. 22 of the 28 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 Camp Newfound Owatonna Corporation ↗
- Who funds ADVENTURE UNLIMITED ↗
- Who funds The Principia Corporation ↗
- 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 UNIVERSAL GIFTED SAVINGS INC ↗
- Who funds MAD AGRICULTURE ↗
- Who funds Rodale Institute ↗
- Who funds UniversalGiving ↗
- Who funds CRYSTAL LAKE CAMPS INC ↗
- Who funds ACTIVEDISCOVERY CLUB ↗
- Who funds LONGYEAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAPE ELEUTHERA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHERISHABILITY ↗
- Who funds The Campership Fund ↗
- Who funds THE ALBERT BAKER FUND ↗
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 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Towle Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Towle Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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