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Angela J Bowen Conservancy Foundation at a glance

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Angela J Bowen Conservancy 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.

$4.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$2.1M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Environment$9.6MPublic Benefit$1.4MEducation$200kAnimals$165k
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $100k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $105k
  • $250k+4 grants · $4.4M
$105,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$38M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CAPITOL LAND TRUST$2,072,000
CITY OF OLYMPIA$1,450,000
LAND TRUST FOR THE MISSISSIPPI COASTAL PLAIN$630,570
OLYMPIAECOSYSTEMS$284,661
HEERNETT ENVIRONMENTAL FOUNDATION INC$105,000
FRIENDS OF THE ANIMAL SHELTER IN HANCOCK COUNTY$35,000
MISSISSIPPI SPAY AND NEUTER$30,000
OLYMPIA SCHOOL DISTRICT$20,000
FRIENDS OF JACKSON COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER PETS$15,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%HEERNETT ENVIRONMENTAL FOUNDATION INC: $105k → 10%OLYMPIA COALITION FOR ECOSYSTEMS PRESERVATION: $2.1M → 9%MISSISSIPPI SPAY AND NEUTER: $30k → 10%FRIENDS OF JACKSON COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER: $25k → 16%HEERNETT ENVIRONMENTAL FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 10%OLYMPIA COALITION FOR ECOSYSTEMS PRESERVATIONS: $1.3M → 9%FRIENDS OF JACKSON COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER PETS: $15k → 16%OLYMPIAECOSYSTEMS: $305k → 9%OLYMPIAECOSYSTEMS: $285k → 9%OLYMPIA COALITION FOR ECOSYSTEMS PRESERVATION: $250k → 9%OLYMPIA COALITION FOR ECOSYSTEMS PRESERVATION: $105k → 9%OLYMPIA TUMWATER FOUNDATION: $200k → 9%OLYMPIA SCHOOL DISTRICT: $20k → 9%CITY OF TENINO WA: $440k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.2M · 5 repeat orgs$4.2M to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
2

Total granted

$7.2M
$640k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+71%

Still filing today

100%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.6M went to new ones.

50%100%’19’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentAnimalsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • OE
    OLYMPIA ECOSYSTEMS
    6× · 2019–2025 · $4.3M · revenue -3% · 94% of their budget
  • LT
    LAND TRUST FOR THE MISSISSIPPI COASTAL PLAIN
    2× · 2024–2025 · $2.6M · revenue 0% · 79% of their budget
  • HE
    HEERNETT ENVIRONMENTAL FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $110k · revenue 0%

Funded once

  • CO
    CITY OF TENINO WA
    one grant, 2024 · $440k
  • OT
    Olympia Tumwater Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $200k · revenue +71% · 26% of their budget
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Mississippi Animal Project

Animal Rescue

Animals
2
Sos Lost Pet Rescue Nw Inc

Decrease over population of feral cats by trapping and doing spay or neuter. Provide veterinarian care to kittens. Take owner relinquishments of pets they can no longer care for. Taking in abandoned animals and providing veterinary care.…

Animals
3
Somes-Meynell Wildlife Sanctuary
—
4
Humane Society of Hardy County Inc

The Humane Society Hardy County strives reduce feral animal populations while enhancing the health of our communities and providing for those animals that may be adopted, a safe, nurturing, and healthy environment.

Animals
5
Northbound Rescue Society

Canine and feline rescue including medical care transportation and alter to low income communities vetting and rehousing of animals from north western Mississippi to New England provided vetting to over 750 canines 50 felines. We also…

Animals
6
J&R Aquatic Animal Rescue
Environment
7
Pom and the Hound Animal Refuge

Animal Welfare

—
8
Hart

Animal shelter and rescue

Animals
9
Tennessee River Rescues

we exist to spay and neuter unwanted pets in our local area trying to find them a home to thrive in until the end of their time

Animals
10
Nw Arkansas Animal Rescue Inc

To rescue animals

Animals
11
Bailey Animal Rescue Trust
Animals
12
Beaverhead Animal Shelter

The mission is to protect and care for homeless animals in the Dillon and Beaverhead county area.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Land Trust for the Mississippi Coastal Plain; the most unlike its peers is Heernett Environmental Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

8 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. 8 of the 11 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OLYMPIA ECOSYSTEMS: $4,344,161 · EnvironmentOLYMPIA ECOSYSTEMSLAND TRUST FOR THE MISSISSIPPI COASTAL PLAIN: $2,630,570 · EnvironmentLAND TRUST FOR THE MISSISSIPPI COASTAL PLAINCAPITOL LAND TRUST: $2,072,000 · EnvironmentCAPITOL LAND TRUST+1 more: $110,000 · EnvironmentCITY OF OLYMPIA: $1,450,000 · OtherCITY OF OLYMPIACITY OF TENINO WA: $440,000 · OtherCITY OF TENINO WAOlympia Tumwater Foundation: $200,000 · OtherOlympia Tumwater Fou…+1 more: $20,000 · OtherFriends of the Animal Shelter Hancock County: $95,000 · AnimalsFRIENDS OF JACKSON COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER PETS: $40,000 · AnimalsMISSISSIPPI SPAY AND NEUTER (SPAN): $30,000 · Animals
Environment$9,156,731Other$2,110,000Animals$165,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOLYMPIA ECOSYSTEMS: $4,344,161 over 6y, 94% of budgetLAND TRUST FOR THE MISSISSIPPI COASTAL PLAIN: $2,630,570 over 2y, 79% of budgetOlympia Tumwater Foundation: $200,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetHEERNETT ENVIRONMENTAL FOUNDATION INC: $110,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetFriends of the Animal Shelter Hancock County: $95,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetFRIENDS OF JACKSON COUNTY ANIMAL SHELTER PETS: $40,000 over 2y, 16% of budget
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.

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.

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Angela J Bowen Conservancy Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Angela J Bowen Conservancy Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Angela J Bowen Conservancy Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Angela J Bowen Conservancy Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 11 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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