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Bowanabee 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
78% of Bowanabee Foundation’s FY2025 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. FY2025 names 8 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| THE NEW YORK CITY LEADERSHIP CENTER INC | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
15 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2023, 4 since wound down; 15 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 FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CFCEO FORUM INC3× · 2022–2024 · $100k · revenue +4%
Compassion International Incorporated6× · 2020–2025 · $14k · 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
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.
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.
Biglife international inc. empowers believers worldwide to reach and disciple their own people for jesus christ.
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.
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.
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…
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.
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.
The Signatry advances the Christian faith by carrying out its mission, "to inspire and facilitate revolutionary biblical generosity across generations to solve the world's greatest problems," through financial and other support of I.R.C.…
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…
Church planting among the least evangelized peoples of the world through recruiting, training, sending, and serving field workers.
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.
Bibleproject's mission is to help people experience the bible as a unified story that leads to jesus. this is achieved by creating biblical videos to be regularly released on a newly-created youtube channel. (continued on schedule o.)each…
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…
How this is measured
20 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. 20 of the 41 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ↗
- Who funds ILLUMINATIONS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CEO FORUM INC ↗
- Who funds United in Purpose ↗
- Who funds THE RIDGE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Christianity Today International ↗
- Who funds ONECRY GLOBAL MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
- Who funds PastorServe Inc ↗
- Who funds Boulder Police Foundation ↗
- Who funds ECDYSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- 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 American Diabetes Association ↗
- Who funds DENVER BOTANIC GARDENS INC ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Bowanabee Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bowanabee Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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