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Bowdoin Apartments Corporation at a glance

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Bowdoin Apartments Corporation

To support affordable housing through below market rate loans and grants and facilitate technical assistance through the due diligence process to 501(c) organizations.

$668k
Granted FY2025still arriving
23
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Housing & Shelter$1.8MHuman Services$500kCommunity Improvement$145kReligion$75kEducation$35kHealth$15k
02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k21 grants · $490k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $175k
$25,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE RESETTLEMENT PARTNERSHIP INC$100,000
SAIL HOMES INC$75,000
PAWTUCKET CENTRAL FALLS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$25,000
CLAY ARSENAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$25,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WEST BAY & NORTHERN RHODE ISLAND INC$25,000
BRIDGEPORT NEIGHBORHOOD TRUST$25,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER LOWELL$25,000
THE CURTIS HOUSE$25,000
DIGNITY FIRST$25,000
THE NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPERS INC$25,000
NEW MILFORD AFFORDABLE HOUSING INC$25,000
BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC$25,000
CATHEDRAL SQUARE CORPORATION$25,000
BETHEL AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF NEW HAVEN$25,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY YORK COUNTY MAINE$25,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $425k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 71% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%SAIL HOMES INC: $75k → 7%YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC: $15k → 11%ROCHESTER COMMUNITY CARE HOME INC: $15k → 9%BELKNAP HOUSE: $20k → 9%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF NORTHERN MIDDLESEX COUNTY INC: $50k → 7%BELKNAP HOUSE: $15k → 9%FOSTER FORWARD: $20k → 14%BELKNAP HOUSE: $15k → 9%REHOBOTH EMPOWERMENT GROUP INC: $25k → 11%SAN JUAN CENTER INC: $25k → 11%SAN JUAN CENTER INC: $20k → 11%SAN JUAN CENTER INC: $15k → 11%THE BRIDGE HOUSE INC: $100k → 10%SAN JUAN CENTER INC: $15k → 11%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
NH
NY
MA
CT
RI
CA
CO
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.1M · 32 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against +35% for those funded once.

32 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
36

Total granted

$2.1M
$750k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+35%

Still filing today

94%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $435k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Housing & ShelterHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementPublic BenefitHealthEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CS
    CATHEDRAL SQUARE CORPORATION
    6× · 2019–2025 · $130k · revenue +73%
  • SH
    SMITH HILL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
    2× · 2018–2020 · $115k · revenue +132%
  • VO
    Volunteers of America Northern New England
    6× · 2018–2025 · $100k · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • TB
    The Bridge House Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -11%
  • YM
    YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF NORTHERN MIDDLESEX COUNTY INC
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue +4%
  • TO
    THE OPEN DOOR SHELTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +45%
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.

04Its 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
Habitat Community Housing Development Inc

Development of affordable housing

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2
Habitat for Humanity of N West Ct

Habitat for humanity of northwest ct, inc. is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to construct and rehabilitate homes for needy individuals and families in northwest connecticut.

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3
Lowell Area Housing Inc Dba Schneider Manor
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4
Southern Maine Affordable Housing

To provide quality affordable housing

Housing & Shelter
5
Northern Berkshire Habitat for Humanity Inc

Provide low cost housing

Housing & Shelter
6
Habitat for Humanity of Worcester County Inc

To build and rehabilitate houses which are sold to low-income families through no-interest loans

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7
Connecticut Housing Coalition Inc

The connecticut housing coalition works to expand housing opportunity and to increase the quantity and quality of affordable housing available to people with low and moderate incomes in connecticut through advocacy, education and…

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8
Habitat for Humanity Nantucket Inc

To build and/or renovate sustainable homes with the help of volunteers, in-kind contributions of labor and materials, and the active participation of habitat families.

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9
Eastern Connecticut Housing Opportunities Inc

Eastern connecticut housing opportunities, inc. is a non-profit organization organized to provide affordable housing to low-income families of southeastern connecticut.

Housing & Shelter
10
Habitat for Humanity of Greater New Haven Inc

Habitat for humanity of greater new haven inc., builds and renovates affordable homes in the greater new haven, ct area with volunteer labor and the future low income first time home-buyers who purchase these homes at below cost. habitat…

Housing & Shelter
11
Habitat for Humanity - Central Berkshire

Cbhfh, an affordable housing developer who brings people together to build homes, communities and hope. cbhfh partners with low and moderate income families to build and rehabilitate simple, decent, energy efficient homes for home…

Housing & Shelter
12
Habitat for Humanity of Greater Portland

To create decent, affordable housing for those in need, and to make decent shelter a matter of conscience with people everywhere.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is South Shore Habitat for Humanity Inc; the most unlike its peers is Sha Development Corp. 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

78 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 78 of the 81 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
27
Early backer (in before they grew)
74/78
Grantees still filing
52/78
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CATHEDRAL SQUARE CORPORATION: $130,000 · OtherCATHEDRAL SQUARE CORPORATIONSMITH HILL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $115,000 · OtherSMITH HILL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER NEWBURGH INC: $105,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER NEWBURGH INCTHE RESETTLEMENT PARTNERSHIP INC: $100,000 · OtherTHE RESETTLEMENT PARTNERSHIP INCVolunteers of America Northern New England: $100,000 · OtherVolunteers of America Northern New EnglandHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF CAPE COD INC: $100,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF CAPE COD INCPEMI-VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $95,000 · OtherPEMI-VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INCHABITAT FOR HUMANITY NORTH CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC: $70,000 · OtherNH Capital Region Habitat for Humanity: $60,000 · OtherREVITALIZE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $55,000 · Other+21 more: $610,000 · Other+21 moreHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER LOWELL INC: $120,000 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER L…SOUTH SHORE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $85,000 · Housing & ShelterSOUTH SHORE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY …BRIDGEPORT NEIGHBORHOOD TRUST: $75,000 · Housing & ShelterBRIDGEPORT NEIGHBORHOOD TRUSTHABITAT FOR HUMANITY GREATER BOSTON INC: $65,000 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR HUMANITY GREATER BOST…OLNEYVILLE HOUSING CORPORATION: $65,000 · Housing & ShelterOLNEYVILLE HOUSING CORPORATIONHOPE PARTNERSHIP INC: $40,000 · Housing & ShelterCOMMUNITY HOUSING OF MAINE INC: $40,000 · Housing & ShelterAffordable Housing Education & Development Inc: $40,000 · Housing & Shelter+23 more: $425,000 · Housing & Shelter+23 moreThe Bridge House Inc: $100,000 · Human ServicesThe Bridge Hous…SAN JUAN CENTER INC: $75,000 · Human ServicesSAN JUAN CENTER…SUPPORTED ACCESS TO INDEPENDENT LIVING INC: $75,000 · Human ServicesSUPPORTED ACCES…YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF NORTHERN MIDDLESEX COUNTY INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MENS CHRI…Belknap House: $50,000 · Human ServicesBelknap HouseREHOBOTH EMPOWERMENT GROUP INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesREHOBOTH EMPOWE…BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesBRIDGEPORT RESC…FOSTER FORWARD: $20,000 · Human ServicesYWCA CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesROCHESTER COMMUNITY CARE HOME INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesALLSTON BRIGHTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $70,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMONS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $45,000 · Community ImprovementCLAY ARSENAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $25,000 · Community ImprovementVET'S REST STOP INC: $85,000 · Public BenefitMONTACHUSETT VETERANS OUTREACH CENTER I: $15,000 · Public BenefitCAPE COD TIMES NEIGHBORS FUND INC: $25,000 · PhilanthropyTHE CURTIS HOUSE: $25,000 · PhilanthropyMONITOR MY HEALTH INC: $25,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY OF HOPE INCORPORATED: $15,000 · Health
Other$1,540,000Housing & Shelter$955,000Human Services$450,000Community Improvement$140,000Public Benefit$100,000Philanthropy$50,000Health$40,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCATHEDRAL SQUARE CORPORATION: $130,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER LOWELL INC: $120,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetSMITH HILL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $115,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER NEWBURGH INC: $105,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetThe Bridge House Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetVolunteers of America Northern New England: $100,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF CAPE COD INC: $100,000 over 6y, 26% of budgetPEMI-VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $95,000 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetVET'S REST STOP INC: $85,000 over 4y, 20% of budgetSOUTH SHORE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $85,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetSAN JUAN CENTER INC: $75,000 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetBRIDGEPORT NEIGHBORHOOD TRUST: $75,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY NORTH CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC: $70,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetALLSTON BRIGHTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $70,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY GREATER BOSTON INC: $65,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetOLNEYVILLE HOUSING CORPORATION: $65,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetNH Capital Region Habitat for Humanity: $60,000 over 3y, 34% of budgetREVITALIZE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $55,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF NORTHERN MIDDLESEX COUNTY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSOUTHEAST NH HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $50,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetBelknap House: $50,000 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY YORK COUNTY MAINE: $50,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCOMMONS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $45,000 over 2y, 95% of budgetPAWTUCKET CENTRAL FALLS DEVELOPMENT CORP: $40,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetNEW MILFORD AFFORDABLE HOUSING INC: $40,000 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetHOPE PARTNERSHIP INC: $40,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetCOMMUNITY HOUSING OF MAINE INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAffordable Housing Education & Development Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCommunity of Hope Incorporated: $35,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetCARRIE P CHANDLER HOUSING DEV CORP: $30,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetCOMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF SOUTH BERKSHIRE INC: $30,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetTHE OPEN DOOR SHELTER INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFRANKLIN HOMESTEAD INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetCLAY ARSENAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $25,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WEST BAY AND NORTHERN RHODE ISLAND INC: $25,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetGREATER BRISTOL HOMES CO: $25,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY FOR RI SOUTH COUNTY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION FOR BETTER HOUSING INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE CALEB FOUNDATION INC INITIATIVES IN AFFORDABLE HOUSING: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBuzzards Bay Area Habitat For Humanity Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetBRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFOSTER FORWARD: $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNORTH SHORE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COALIT: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNEW HAVEN JEWISH COMMUNITY COUNCIL HOUSING CORPORATION D/B/A THE TOWERS: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUpper Valley Habitat for Humanity Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetWORCESTER COMMON GROUND INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBETHANY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% 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.

Td Charitable Foundat…Habitat for Humanity …Peoples United Commun…Charlesbank HomesEastern Bank Foundati…New Hampshire Charita…Webster Bank Charitab…Liberty Bank Foundati…Agnes M Lindsay TrustUnited Way Of Massach…Eversource Energy Fou…The Harborone Foundat…
Td Charitable FoundationME28.9× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Td Charitable Foundation · Habitat for Humanity International Inc · Peoples United Community Foundation · Charlesbank Homes · Eastern Bank Foundation · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Webster Bank Charitable Foundation · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc · The Harborone 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 Bowdoin Apartments Corporation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bowdoin Apartments Corporation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • Commons Community Development Corporation: 97% of income from government
  • Cathedral Square Corporation: 73% of income from government
  • Lamoille Housing Partnership Inc: 73% of income from government
  • Vietnam Veterans Workshop Inc Dba New England Center and Home for Veterans: 66% of income from government
  • Montachusett Veterans Outreach Center I: 17% of income from government
  • The Open Door Shelter Inc: 14% of income from government
  • Neighborhood Housing Services of New Haven Inc: 13% of income from government
  • New Haven Jewish Community Council Housing Corporation D/B/a the Towers: 10% of income from government
  • The Caleb Foundation Inc Initiatives in Affordable Housing: 9% of income from government
  • Worcester Common Ground Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Washington County Mental Health Services Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Bethany Community Services Inc: 0% of income from government
  • North Shore Community Development Coalit: 0% of income from government
  • Orford Village Housing Development Corp C/O Malcolm Barlow Atty: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
4rely on government for over half their income
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 81 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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