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Bowden-Massey Foundation at a glance

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Bowden-Massey Foundation

Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2k
Granted FY2020
3
Grants FY2020
2
States reached
$1k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Health$235kEducation$6kEnvironment$2kRecreation & Sports$2kCivil Rights$1kArts & Culture$500Youth Development$200Other$0
02FY2020 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UT HEALTH SAN ANTONIO$1,000
NATIONAL ASSOC OF MENTAL ILLNESS$1,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS$200
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST SERVICE COMMITTEE: $1k → 8%INTERNATNL SOC OF BIPOLAR DISORDERS: $100k → 11%SAN ANTONIO SYMPHONY: $10k → 16%TELLURIDE FOUNDATION: $2k → 7%AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: $1k → 14%NATIONAL ASSOC OF MENTAL ILLNESS: $1k → 7%INTERNATNL SOC OF BIPOLAR DISORDERS: $80k → 11%SAN ANTONIO RIVER FOUNDATION: $2k → 16%TELLURIDE HISTORICAL MUSEUM: $500 → 7%NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS: $500 → 7%INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF BIPOLAR DISORDERS: $50k → 11%SAN ANTONIO PUBLIC LIBRARY: $3k → 16%NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS: $500 → 7%SAN ANTONIO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $2k → 16%UT HEALTH SAN ANTONIO PRESIDENT'S COUNCIL: $1k → 16%UNIV OF TEXAS HEALTH SCA PRES COUNC: $1k → 16%UT HEALTH SAN ANTONIO: $1k → 16%BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS: $200 → 16%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 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
American Society of International Law

To foster the study of international law and to promote international relations on the basis of law and justice.

International
2
Society for American Archaeology

SAA empowers its members to understand humanity's past through ethically-based scientific and humanistic investigation, to promote preservation of archaeological resources and cultural heritage through support of legislation and education,…

Arts & Culture
3
American Theological Library Association

The mission of atla is to foster the study of theology and religion by enhancing the development of theological and religious studies libraries and librarianship.

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4
National Audubon Society Inc

We work towards a future where birds thrive across the americas because audubon is a powerful, diverse, and ever-growing force for conservation. (continued on schedule o).

Environment
5
Association of American Law Schools Inc

The association of american law schools' mission is to uphold and advance excellence in legal education.

Education
6
International Association for Suicide Prevention

IASP is dedicated to preventing suicide and suicidal behaviour alleviating its effects and providing a forum for academics mental health professionals crisis workers volunteers and suicide survivors.

Human Services
7
The American Academic Research Inst in Iraq (D/B/a Tarii)

Promotion of scholarly research on and in iraq and ancient mesopotamia. taarii raises funds for graduate and post-graduate fellowships for americans and for iraqi academics to perform research work on iraq in a broad range of disciplines.

International
8
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
9
Sociedad Interamericana De Prensa Inc

Between 2024 and 2025, the committee on freedom of the press and information, together with its subcommittees on impunity and chapultepecsalta, participated in approximately nine activities. these included a panel discussion entitled…

Education
10
American Law Institute

The institute's mission, as set out in its certificate of incorporation, is to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice, and to…

Crime & Legal
11
American Association of State Colleges and Universities

Aascu is a washington, d.c. based higher education association that represents the sector of over 500 regional public colleges, universities, and systems whose members share a learning and teaching centered culture, a commitment to…

Education
12
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

See schedule ouniversity corporation for atmospheric research (ucar), on behalf of, and in cooperation with its member university members, is engaged in the management of long-term atmospheric and related research and educational…

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Telluride Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Unitarian Universalist Service Committee 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 16 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

INTERNATNL SOC OF BIPOLAR DISORDERS: $180,000 · OtherINTERNATNL SOC OF BIPOLAR DISORDERSIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · Other+7 more: $7,200 · OtherINTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR BIPOLAR DISORDERS: $50,000 · HealthINTERNATIONAL SOCIETY …+1 more: $1,000 · HealthSAN ANTONIO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $2,000 · Arts & CultureSAN ANTONIO RIVER FOUNDATION: $1,500 · EnvironmentTELLURIDE FOUNDATION: $1,500 · Recreation & SportsAMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: $1,000 · EducationUnitarian Universalist Service Committee Inc: $1,000 · International
Other$197,200Health$51,000Arts & Culture$2,000Environment$1,500Recreation & Sports$1,500Education$1,000International$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetINTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR BIPOLAR DISORDERS: $50,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetSAN ANTONIO PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTELLURIDE FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAMI National: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnitarian Universalist Service Committee Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTelluride Historical Museum Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA10.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Bowden-Massey Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bowden-Massey Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.

    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 16 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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