· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PLEASANT ST UNITED METHODIST CHU | $6,253 |
| SUNSET HOME OF WATERVILLE | $2,317 |
| PREACHERS AID SOC OF NEW ENGLAND | $2,317 |
| WOMENS SOCIETY CHRISTIAN | $2,317 |
| GOODWILL HOME ASSN | $2,317 |
| KENTS HILL SCHOOL | $2,317 |
| WINSLOW PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $927 |
| WINSLOW CONGREG CHURCH | $464 |
| CHRISTIAN CIVIC LEAGUE | $464 |
| UNITED BAPT CHURCH OF OAKLAND | $464 |
| UNITED METHODIST | $464 |
| METH CHURCH OF OAKLAND | $464 |
| THE MAINE CHILDREN'S HOME | $371 |
| SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENTS ASSOCIATION | $232 |
| AMERICAN MISSIONARY SOC | $186 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SHSUNSET HOME OF WATERVILLE8× · 2018–2025 · $18k · revenue +84%
- KHKENTS HILL SCHOOL8× · 2018–2025 · $18k · revenue +27%
- GWGood Will Home Association8× · 2018–2025 · $18k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- SSSCHOOL SUPERINTENDENTS ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2025 · $232
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.
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.
How this is measured
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 23 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 SUNSET HOME OF WATERVILLE ↗
- Who funds KENTS HILL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Preachers' Aid Society of New England ↗
- Who funds Good Will Home Association ↗
- Who funds Piney Woods School ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds WATERVILLE AREA BOYS & GIRLS CLUB ↗
- Who funds PINE TREE SOCIETY 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Bowden William H funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bowden William H. Bigger dots raise more.
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