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Bowanabee Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
50% of Bowanabee Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 13 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Bowanabee Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 12 organizations, $253k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k9 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $179k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COLORADO UNIVERSITY BUFF CLUB | $50,000 |
| CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST | $33,900 |
| CEO FORUM INC | $33,000 |
| IMPACT INVESTING CHARITABLE FOUNDATION I | $26,500 |
| UNITED IN PURPOSE | $25,000 |
| CALVARY BIBLE CHURCH | $15,400 |
| HARVEST PRAYER MINISTRIES | $15,000 |
| BOULDER LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $10,145 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| THE NEW YORK CITY LEADERSHIP CENTER INC | $10,000 |
| ECDUSIS FOUNDATION | $7,772 |
| WRESTLE LIKE A GIRL | $5,179 |
| COMPASSION INTERNATIONAL | $3,324 |
| PDS FOUNDATION | $2,400 |
| FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES | $2,300 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
13 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2023, 3 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2024, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $583k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- CFCEO FORUM INC3× · 2022–2024 · $100k · revenue +4%
Compassion International Incorporated5× · 2020–2024 · $11k · revenue +16%- FOFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES2× · 2023–2024 · $7k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- NCNATIONAL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $3.1M
- NCNATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $850k
- TSThe Signatry Corporation Incone grant, 2022 · $250k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
As part of the body of Christ, to see that every young person in every people group in every nation has the opportunity to make an informed decision to be a follower of Jesus Christ and become a part of the local church.
Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.
Kingdom advisors is a discipleship ministry serving christian financial professionals. the organization encourages, educates, and empowers christian financial professionals with biblical wisdom to be effective disciples of jesus christ in…
The international leadership institute (ili) changes history by accelerating the spread of the gospel through training and mobilizing leaders of leaders to reach their nations. ili accomplishes this purpose through cutting edge leadership…
Walk thru the bible (wtb) ignites passion for god's word. by developing a global network of influential pastors and leaders and then resourcing them with tools and training, wtb fulfills its role in the great commission.
To assist the church, primarily in closed countries, in the establishment of continuing indigenous church-based training centers in which servant leaders are equipped to develop growing and reproducing churches.
With a desire to see the Gospel proclaimed in all nations, we exist to make and multiply disciples of the next generation through the vehicles of church-planting missions and missional leadership training.
The Organization is a cooperative undertaking by churches with shared doctrinal beliefs to lead people to become fully devoted followers of Christ by inspiring Christ-centered Bible exploration and experiences.
The specific purpose of this corporation is to present a biblical, christian ministry of the gospel, hope, encouragement and strength to as many people as possible. the intent of those who will conduct this corporation's work is to present…
to spread the gospel to the world by planting and serving churches, training local Christian leaders and to transform the world through prayer,
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
Bible Translation and acts of Christian Services
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Life and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 22 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 25% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 40 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ↗
- Who funds ILLUMINATIONS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CEO FORUM INC ↗
- Who funds United in Purpose ↗
- Who funds ONECRY GLOBAL MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
- Who funds PastorServe Inc ↗
- Who funds Boulder Police Foundation ↗
- Who funds Christianity Today International ↗
- Who funds ECDYSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds Wrestle Like a Girl Inc ↗
- Who funds WLDFORCE INC ↗
- Who funds Beyond Pesticides ↗
- Who funds BIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP ↗
- Who funds WE GROW DREAMS INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
- Who funds DENVER BOTANIC GARDENS INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Bowana Foundation · The Maclellan Foundation Inc · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Servant Foundation · The Signatry Charitable Trust · National Philanthropic Trust · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Bowanabee Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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