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Form 990-PFTax year 2025EIN 20-4437551

Christopher R Howell Memorial Foundation

A private foundation in Kirtland, OH. Its return for tax year 2025 lists 4 grants and $43,281 paid in grants.

Tax year 2025 (period ending Dec 31, 2025), read from the IRS e-file on Nov 11, 2026. Returns reach the IRS 5 to 18 months after the year they describe.

How to apply

Preselected only

The return checks the box saying the foundation gives only to preselected organizations and does not accept unsolicited requests.

Assets and giving by year

1 return on file

Tax year 2025 is the only return we have read for this foundation so far.

  • Tax year 2025

    $43,281

    Grants listed
    4
    Assets, end of year
    $724,252

Grants paid in 2025

4 grants, largest first

As listed on the return. Grants to individuals show as “Individual”, with purpose and amount only.

  1. Gilmour AcademyGates Mills, OH

    Organizational grant

    $25,000
  2. Friends of Breakthrough SchoolsCleveland, OH

    Organizational grant

    $10,000
  3. Kirtland Kiwanis FoundationKirtland, OH

    Organizational grant

    $5,000
  4. Individual

    Scholarship

    $3,281

Where the money goes

By cause: grants to organizations we matched to the IRS list of exempt organizations, by their category.

  1. Education1 grant $10,00067% of the total
  2. Philanthropy and grantmaking1 grant $5,00033% of the total

By State

Grants to organizations with a US address, latest year.

  1. Ohio3 grants $40,000

Officers, directors and trustees

4 people as filed

As filed on the return, with average hours per week and pay from the foundation.

  • Rodney HowellPRESIDENT Hours 1Pay $0
  • Joan HowellVICE PRESIDENT Hours 1Pay $0
  • Jennifer KiminasTREASURER Hours 1Pay $0
  • Mark TrubianoSECRETARY Hours 1Pay $0

The return

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