The Tow Foundation Inc
EIN 066484045Total Given 2016–2024
$159.7M
1,718 grants · $17.7M avg/year
based on 9 yrs of IRS 990-PF records on file
$10M+/yr
major funder
capacity
$30K
typical mid grants · $5K–$75K
grant size
44%
supporter · 305/691 multi-year
repeat
$416.2M
Assets (2024)
691
Distinct Recipients
Focus Areas
Application Information
Accepts Unsolicited Proposals
No — Preselected Only
Phone
(203) 761-6604
Financial Trends
Giving Over Time
Total Assets Over Time
View financial data as table
| Year | Total Giving | Total Assets | Revenue | Grants |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | $17.3M | $226.8M | $8.3M | 161 |
| 2017 | $16.8M | $232.9M | $17.5M | 170 |
| 2018 | $19.4M | $212.4M | $11.3M | 203 |
| 2020 | $19.2M | $226.1M | $16.0M | 251 |
| 2021 | $16.0M | $435.1M | $215.1M | 224 |
| 2022 | $20.9M | $380.3M | $8.2M | 274 |
| 2023 | $23.9M | $403.5M | $14.4M | 222 |
| 2024 | $26.2M | $416.2M | $21.4M | 213 |
Grant Size Distribution
Based on 1718 grants on record
Minimum
$75
25th Pctl
$5K
Median
$30K
Average
$93K
75th Pctl
$75K
Maximum
$5.2M
Geographic Distribution
Texas Counties Served
0.2% of US grants
· Rank #16 of 30 states
$17K across
4 grants
3 of 254 counties
Top 3 counties
- 1 Collin
- 2 Travis
- 3 Bexar
Officers & Directors
LT
Leonard Tow
8+ yrs
Chairman
Leadership
ET
Emily Tow
4 yrs
President
Leadership
FT
Frank Tow
8+ yrs
Vice President
Leadership
AT
Andrew Tow
8+ yrs
Vice President
Leadership
DT
David Tobias
8+ yrs
Assistant Treasurer
Leadership
SS
Scott Schneider
8+ yrs
Treasurer
Leadership
AL
Amy Lefkof
8+ yrs
Secretary
Leadership
SR
Susan Ransden
6 yrs
Assistant Secretary
Leadership
MT
Molly Tow
5 yrs
Director
HJ
Hope Jackson
4 yrs
Director
TL
Teresa Law
8+ yrs
Director
OT
Olivia Tow
5 yrs
Director
BJ
Benjamin Jackson
Director
LT
Leonard Tow
8+ yrs
Chairman
Leadership
ET
Emily Tow
4 yrs
President
Leadership
AT
Andrew Tow
8+ yrs
Vice President
Leadership
FT
Frank Tow
8+ yrs
Vice President
Leadership
SS
Scott Schneider
8+ yrs
Treasurer
Leadership
DT
David Tobias
8+ yrs
Assistant Treasurer
Leadership
SR
Susan Ransden
6 yrs
Assistant Secretary
Leadership
AL
Amy Lefkof
8+ yrs
Secretary
Leadership
TL
Teresa Law
8+ yrs
Director
OT
Olivia Tow
5 yrs
Director
MT
Molly Tow
5 yrs
Director
HJ
Hope Jackson
4 yrs
Director
ET
Emily Tow
4 yrs
President
Leadership
LT
Leonard Tow
8+ yrs
Chairman
Leadership
FT
Frank Tow
8+ yrs
Vice President
Leadership
AT
Andrew Tow
8+ yrs
Vice President
Leadership
SS
Scott Schneider
8+ yrs
Treasurer
Leadership
DT
David Tobias
8+ yrs
Assistant Treasurer
Leadership
SR
Susan Ransden
6 yrs
Assistant Secretary
Leadership
AL
Amy Lefkof
8+ yrs
Secretary
Leadership
HJ
Hope Jackson
4 yrs
Director
MT
Molly Tow
5 yrs
Director
OT
Olivia Tow
5 yrs
Director
TL
Teresa Law
8+ yrs
Director
LT
Leonard Tow
8+ yrs
Chairman
Leadership
ET
Emily Tow
4 yrs
President
Leadership
FT
Frank Tow
8+ yrs
Vice President
Leadership
AT
Andrew Tow
8+ yrs
Vice President
Leadership
SS
Scott Schneider
8+ yrs
Treasurer
Leadership
DT
David Tobias
8+ yrs
Assistant Treasurer
Leadership
AL
Amy Lefkof
8+ yrs
Secretary
Leadership
SR
Susan Ransden
6 yrs
Assistant Secretary
Leadership
TL
Teresa Law
8+ yrs
Director
OT
Olivia Tow
5 yrs
Director
MT
Molly Tow
5 yrs
Director
HJ
Hope Jackson
4 yrs
Director
EJ
Emily Tow Jackson
4 yrs
President & Exec. Director
Leadership
LT
Leonard Tow
8+ yrs
Chairman
Leadership
AT
Andrew Tow
8+ yrs
Vice President
Leadership
FT
Frank Tow
8+ yrs
Vice President
Leadership
DT
David Tobias
8+ yrs
Assistant Treasurer
Leadership
SS
Scott Schneider
8+ yrs
Treasurer
Leadership
AL
Amy Lefkof
8+ yrs
Secretary
Leadership
SR
Susan Ransden
6 yrs
Assistant Secretary
Leadership
MT
Molly Tow
5 yrs
Director
OT
Olivia Tow
5 yrs
Director
TL
Teresa Law
8+ yrs
Director
LT
Leonard Tow
8+ yrs
Chairman
Leadership
EJ
Emily Tow Jackson
4 yrs
President & Exec. Director
Leadership
FT
Frank Tow
8+ yrs
Vice President
Leadership
AT
Andrew Tow
8+ yrs
Vice President
Leadership
SS
Scott Schneider
8+ yrs
Treasurer
Leadership
SR
Susan Ransden
6 yrs
Assistant Secretary
Leadership
DR
David Z Rosensweig
3 yrs
Secretary
Leadership
AL
Amy Lefkof
8+ yrs
Director
TL
Teresa Law
8+ yrs
Director
MS
Maureen Strafford
3 yrs
Director
DT
David Tobias
8+ yrs
Director
LT
Leonard Tow
8+ yrs
Chairman
Leadership
EJ
Emily Tow Jackson
4 yrs
President & Exec. Director
Leadership
AT
Andrew Tow
8+ yrs
Vice President
Leadership
FT
Frank Tow
8+ yrs
Vice President
Leadership
SS
Scott Schneider
8+ yrs
Treasurer
Leadership
DR
David Z Rosensweig
3 yrs
Secretary
Leadership
TL
Teresa Law
8+ yrs
Director
PC
Pamela Castori
2 yrs
Outgoing Director
MS
Maureen Strafford
3 yrs
Director
DT
David Tobias
8+ yrs
Director
AL
Amy Lefkof
8+ yrs
Director
LT
Leonard Tow
8+ yrs
Chairman
Leadership
EJ
Emily Tow Jackson
4 yrs
President & Exec. Director
Leadership
AT
Andrew Tow
8+ yrs
vice President
Leadership
FT
Frank Tow
8+ yrs
Vice President
Leadership
SS
Scott Schneider
8+ yrs
Treasurer
Leadership
DR
David Z Rosensweig
3 yrs
Secretary
Leadership
TL
Teresa Law
8+ yrs
Director
PC
pamela Castori
2 yrs
Director
MS
Maureen Strafford
3 yrs
Director
DT
David Tobias
8+ yrs
Director
AL
Amy Lefkof
8+ yrs
Director
Grants Awarded (1,718 total)
| Purpose | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barnard College | New York, NY | $5,220,500 | 2016 Annual Gala donation, The Tow Family Award for Pedagogy and Pro | 2016 |
| Barnard College | New York, NY | $5,220,300 | 2017 ANNUAL GALA DONATION | 2017 |
| Barnard College | New York, NY | $5,213,275 | TOW FOUNDATION PUBLIC SERVICE INTERNSHIP AND RESEARCH FELLOWS PROGRAM | 2018 |
| Barnard College | New York, NY | $5,000,000 | BOLD STANDARD CAMPAIGN: 10 CLAIRE TOW ENDOWED PROFESSORS | 2020 |
| Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center | New York, NY | $3,020,000 | Michael G. Harris Facility Grant, The Tow Foundation Fellowship Program in Molecular Imaging and Nan | 2016 |
| Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center | New York, NY | $2,515,000 | MSK SKIN CANCER INFORMATICS PROGRAM PROPOSAL | 2018 |
| Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center | New York, NY | $1,600,000 | THE INITIATIVE IN RADIOTHERANOSTICS AT MSK | 2023 |
| Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center | New York, NY | $1,600,000 | THE INITIATIVE IN RADIOTHERANOSTICS | 2024 |
| Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center | New York, NY | $1,600,000 | THE INITIATIVE IN RADIOTHERANOSTICS AT MSK | 2022 |
| Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center | New York, NY | $1,500,000 | CREATION OF THE CENTER FOR DEVELOPMENTAL ONCOLOGY | 2021 |
| New York Genome Center Inc | New York, NY | $1,500,000 | RESTRICTED FUNDING - NEW SEQUENCING TECHNOLOGY EQUIPMENT | 2021 |
| Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center | New York, NY | $1,500,000 | CREATION OF THE CENTER FOR DEVELOPMENTAL ONCOLOGY | 2022 |
| New York Genome Center Inc | New York, NY | $1,400,000 | WOMEN'S GENETICS CENTER -THE CENTER OF EXCELLENCE IN WOMENS CLINICAL GENOMIC HEALTHCARE | 2023 |
| New York Genome Center Inc | New York, NY | $1,400,000 | THE CENTER OF EXCELLENCE IN WOMENS CLINICAL GENOMIC HEALTHCARE | 2024 |
| New York Society for the Relief of Ruptured & Crippled Maintaining the Hosp | New York, NY | $1,240,000 | REALIZING THE PROMISE OF PRECISION MEDICINE AND TISSUE REGENERATION IN AUTOIMMUNE AND MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASES | 2023 |
| Nys for the Relief of Ruptured & Crippled Maintaining the Hospital for Spec | New York, NY | $1,240,000 | PRECISION MEDICINE AND TISSUE REGENERATION IN AUTOIMMUNE AND MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASES | 2024 |
| Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York | New York, NY | $1,225,000 | CHALLENGE GRANT FOR RESEARCH AND CLINICAL CARE | 2017 |
| Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center | New York, NY | $1,200,000 | THE TOW INITIATIVE IN COMPUTATIONAL IMMUNO-ONCOLOGY | 2024 |
| Hospital for Special Surgery | New York, NY | $1,120,000 | LEVERAGING GENOMICS TO PREVENT AND REPAIR TISSUE DAMAGE | 2018 |
| Hospital for Special Surgery | New York, NY | $1,120,000 | LEVERAGING GENOMICS TO PREVENT AND REPAIR TISSUE DAMAGE | 2020 |
| New York Society for the Relief of Ruptured & Crippled Maintaining | New York, NY | $1,120,000 | LEVERAGING GENOMICS TO PREVENT AND REPAIR TISSUE DAMAGE | 2021 |
| Hospital For Special Surgery | New York, NY | $1,120,000 | David Z. Rosensweig Genomics Research Center | 2016 |
| Hospital for Special Surgery | New York, NY | $1,120,000 | HSS: 2013 DAVID Z. ROSENSWEIG GENOMICS RESEARCH CENTER | 2017 |
| New York Society for the Relief of Ruptured & Crippled Maintaining | New York, NY | $1,120,000 | LEVERAGING GENOMICS TO PREVENT AND REPAIR TISSUE DAMAGE | 2022 |
| Cuny Graduate School of Journalism Foundation | New York, NY | $1,055,000 | STEPHEN B. SHEPARD PRIZE FOR INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING ANNUAL AWARDS | 2017 |