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Bowen Engineering Corporation Endowment
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $58k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $59k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL INDIANA | $55,000 |
| BUTLER UNIVERSITY | $21,500 |
| BOILER BUILT FUND | $15,000 |
| THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF INDIANAPOLIS | $12,500 |
| FIRST BAPTIST ATHLETICS | $10,000 |
| THE LAWNMOWER PROJECT | $8,000 |
| MARIAN UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| HOLLIDAY PARK FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| INDY AQUATIC MASTERS | $5,000 |
| TEENWORKS | $5,000 |
| CENTER FOR LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT | $5,000 |
| TINDLEY ACCELERATED SCHOOLS | $5,000 |
| BALL STATE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +53% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
- BBBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $225k · revenue +33%
- RIRose-Hulman Institute of Technology6× · 2017–2022 · $150k · revenue +65%
- BUButler University7× · 2019–2025 · $97k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- SCShepherd Community Incgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue +64%
Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Indianapolisone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -8%- BSBall State University Foundation Incone grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue +23%
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 University of Indianapolis champions lifelong learning through relevant and innovative education that fosters experiential learning, diverse perspectives, service for impact, and a global mindset.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Enroll indy helps families choose schools that meet their children's needs by providing a one-stop enrollment process, school information that is relevant and easy to understand, and data to inform school improvement in indianapolis,…
The Indiana University Foundation (IUF) maximizes private philanthropic support for Indiana University by fostering lifelong relationships with key stakeholders and providing advancement leadership and fundraising services for (Continued…
Indiana tech is a private, independent, and non-denominational university. students are prepared for active participation in the complex, global society of the 21st century and are motivated toward a life of significance and worth. about…
Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…
The indiana university alumni association activates and supports the global alumni network- encouraging alumni to grow a lifelong connection with indiana university, and inspiring their ongoing generosity toward each other and the…
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
To mobilize people, ideas, and investments to make this a community where all individuals have equitable opportunity to reach their full potential - no matter place, race or identity.
Benedictine University is an inclusive academic community dedicated to teaching and learning, scholarship and service, truth and justice, as inspired by the Catholic intellectual tradition, the social teaching of the Church, and the…
The Independent Colleges of Indiana (ICI) advances and strengthens the competitive standing of its 29 member independent, nonprofit, regionally accredited, degree granting colleges and universities. ICI works to ensure opportunity, access,…
To deliver preeminent medical care and service to our patients and communities through outstanding and innovative medical leadership and practice, while participating in and supporting excellence in education and research. We achieve this…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Indianapolis and the most unlike its peers is Holliday Park Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 49 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
19 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. 19 of the 32 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 BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds Butler University ↗
- Who funds The Children's Museum of Indianapolis Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds Tindley Accelerated Schools Inc ↗
- Who funds INDY AQUATIC MASTERS INC ↗
- Who funds OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds MARTIN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TEENWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds HOLLIDAY PARK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Shepherd Community Inc ↗
- Who funds Ace Mentor Program of Indiana Inc ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Indianapolis ↗
- Who funds Marian University ↗
- Who funds THE IMMIGRANT WELCOME CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Ball State University Foundation 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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · Eugene & Marilyn Glick Foundation · Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust · The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Maurer Family Foundation Inc · United Way of Central Indiana Inc · Bowen Family Foundation Inc · The Ackerman Foundation · Eli Lilly and Company Foundation
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 Bowen Engineering Corporation Endowment 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.
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