Nicholas Howley
Profile Summary
Nicholas Howley is a Florida-based U.S. manufacturing billionaire, born in 1962, with an estimated net worth of ~$2.0 billion RTB. SEC records link his insider filings to TransDigm Group Inc. SEC EDGAR
Business & SEC Activity
Howley has 303 reported insider filings in SEC EDGAR records, all associated with TransDigm Group Inc. SEC EDGAR Recent filings include Form 4 reports dated from March through June 2026; Form 4 is used by corporate insiders to report changes in their ownership of company securities. The records also include a Form 144 dated June 18, 2026, which is a notice of a proposed sale of restricted or control securities, and a Form 4/A amendment dated June 24, 2026. SEC EDGAR
Philanthropy
Three Howley-related foundations reported combined assets of $135.9 million and combined grants paid of $24.1 million in the listed tax years. ProPublica 990 The Howley Foundation UA 05192016 in Cleveland reported $99.6 million in assets and $22.5 million in grants paid for tax year 2023; a Howley Family Foundation in Bluffton, South Carolina reported $1.5 million in assets and $106,500 in grants paid for 2023. ProPublica 990 A separate Howley Family Foundation in Cleveland reported $34.7 million in assets and $1.5 million in grants paid for tax year 2015. ProPublica 990
Political Activity
Federal Election Commission records show 76 contributions totaling $550,832 between March 16, 1990, and August 25, 2025. FEC The party breakdown was $324,400 to Republican recipients, $224,427 classified as unknown, and $2,005 to Democratic recipients. FEC Listed top recipients include the NRSC ($94,400), National Republican Senatorial Committee ($64,800), NRSC Targeted State Victory Fund ($50,000), Romney Victory Inc ($50,000), and Republican National Committee ($33,100). FEC
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U.S. Presence
Philanthropy
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Political Contributions
By Party
Every party on file is listed here. The bars are rounded for display; unrounded they total exactly $550,832.
Top Recipients
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SEC Filings
Associated Companies
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Recent Insider Filings
Score Breakdown
The giving score is a weighted average of 2 components. The formula is open and versioned — the weight percentages below show how much each component contributes to the final score.
Evidenced charitable giving — built on what they actually give each year, not parked assets. Dominated by generosity (annual giving relative to net worth — the share of your fortune you give), plus the absolute scale of that giving, plus a small nudge for signing the Giving Pledge (a commitment, not a realized action).
Data: ProPublica 990 charitable disbursements, net worth, The Giving Pledge registry
How much sourced public record we hold about this person — net worth, SEC filings, foundation 990s, news coverage, Wikidata. It measures our coverage, not how open the person is. Each further kind of record scores higher, up to eight. Political donation records matched to a person by name alone are not counted: they may belong to someone else with the same name. From October 7, 2026, our own AI-written summary and the profile photo are not counted either — neither is a public record — so grades that leaned on them moved down that day.
Data: SEC EDGAR, ProPublica 990s, GDELT / NewsAPI, Wikidata
Formula (v2): Giving score = 65% x Philanthropy + 35% x Data coverage
Scored on 10/16/2026 on a 0–100 scale. The score uses only the signals we have populated data for. Goal Impact, Controversy, and Community Approval are deferred until that data exists — Phase 1 goal adoption, controversy detection, and community votes respectively.
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