· Private foundation
Bowden William H
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PLEASANT ST UNITED METHODIST CHU | $6,253 |
| KENTS HILL SCHOOL | $2,317 |
| PREACHERS AID SOC OF NEW ENGLAND | $2,317 |
| GOODWILL HOME ASSN | $2,317 |
| WOMENS SOCIETY CHRISTIAN | $2,317 |
| SUNSET HOME OF WATERVILLE | $2,317 |
| WINSLOW PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $927 |
| UNITED BAPT CHURCH OF OAKLAND | $464 |
| UNITED METHODIST | $464 |
| METH CHURCH OF OAKLAND | $464 |
| CHRISTIAN CIVIC LEAGUE | $464 |
| WINSLOW CONGREG CHURCH | $464 |
| THE MAINE CHILDREN'S HOME | $371 |
| SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENTS ASSOCIATION | $232 |
| WATERVILLE AREA BOYS & GIRLS CLU | $186 |
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 (FY18–25, $19k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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.
22 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $232 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
- GWGood Will Home Association8× · 2018–2025 · $18k · revenue +6%
- KHKENTS HILL SCHOOL8× · 2018–2025 · $18k · revenue +27%
- SHSUNSET HOME OF WATERVILLE8× · 2018–2025 · $18k · revenue +84%
Funded once
- SSSCHOOL SUPERINTENDENTS ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2025 · $232
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.
The Pine School's mission is to promote academic, artistic, and athletic excellence.
Private k-12 day and boarding school for approximately 180 students.
The organization is committed to developing each student's full intellectual, artistic and physical potential. students are encouraged to challenge themselves intellectually, to pursue rigorous learning for its own sake, (see schedule…
Committed to excellence in the education of young women in a diverse community, linden hall provides a rigorous and multifaceted college-prepatory experience where each student is nurtured and inspired to reach her highest potential.
Pinewood is an independent college preparatory school dedicated to academic excellence and character developement. through the core values of risk, truth, and exploration, the school enriches community - locally and globally.
Maine Life Care Retirement Community (dba Piper Shores) offers a vibrant retirement living lifestyle that enriches residents by providing a continuum of the highest quality of care and service. Piper Shores will help all residents realize…
The mission of Hyde Schools is to renew and transform lives through in-depth programs of family-based character education, involving the values of courage, integrity, leadership, curiosity and concern.
Rippowam Cisqua School creates independent thinkers, confident communicators, and engaged leaders who respect and contribute meaningfully to a diverse and increasingly complex global society.
Hampshire country school is a place of possibilities for high-ability, neurodiverse students enrolling in later elementary or middle school who have not found success in traditional educational environments. hampshire country school offers…
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
Independent school offering programs for infants, toddlers, preschool, and elementary school aged children with and without hearing loss.
Saint Marys School in Raleigh NC is an independent college-preparatory girls boarding and day school dedicated to academic excellence and personal achievement for grades 9 - 12.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Good Will Home Association and the most unlike its peers is Sunset Home of Waterville. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 23 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 Good Will Home Association ↗
- Who funds KENTS HILL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SUNSET HOME OF WATERVILLE ↗
- Who funds Preachers' Aid Society of New England ↗
- Who funds WATERVILLE AREA BOYS & GIRLS CLUB ↗
- Who funds Piney Woods School ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds PINE TREE SOCIETY 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
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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 Bowden William H 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.