How much does Bowen Family Foundation give?

Bowen Family Foundation reported 21 itemized grants totaling $367,400, out of $484,090 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 16 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Bowen Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (38%), Recreation & Sports (12%), International (11%).

Who are Bowen Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Unbound Now ($175k), Tris Speaker Youth Club ($135k), Reach Therapeutic Riding Center ($106k).

Does Bowen Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Bowen Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Cooper Foundation, Ascension Providence, Waco Foundation.

Where is Bowen Family Foundation based?

Bowen Family Foundation is based in TX.

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Bowen Family Foundation

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$484k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 21
Itemized grants FY2025: 10
Organizations funded FY2024: 60%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $367k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $15,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $56,000
Organizations funded a year: 5 to 16; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 2
Total assets, FY2025: $285k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 60% of the organizations Bowen Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 52% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $116k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthHuman ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	21	$367k	38%
FY2024	10	$224k	60%
FY2023	16	$418k	63%
FY2022	5	$60k	60%
FY2021	6	$110k	83%
FY2020	5	$104k	80%
FY2018	7	$110k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Health$394kRecreation & Sports$125kInternational$115kHuman Services$96kYouth Development$81kCommunity Improvement$71kEducation$52kArts & Culture$35kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Unbound Now	$175,000	4	2%
Tris Speaker Youth Club	$135,000	5	76%
Reach Therapeutic Riding Center	$106,000	2	29%
McLennan County Medical Education and Research Foundation	$100,000	2	2%
Cheyanna's Champions 4 Children	$73,500	3	5%
Mentoring Alliance	$55,500	4	0%
Inspiracion Inc	$55,000	3	10%
New Braunfels Youth Collaborative	$51,000	1	n/a
Advocacy Center for Crime Victims and Children	$45,000	3	1%
Guardian Therapeutic Horsemanship Inc	$35,000	2	19%

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All grantees of Bowen Family Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Unbound Now	$175,000	4	2%
Tris Speaker Youth Club	$135,000	5	76%
Reach Therapeutic Riding Center	$106,000	2	29%
McLennan County Medical Education and Research Foundation	$100,000	2	2%
Cheyanna's Champions 4 Children	$73,500	3	5%
Mentoring Alliance	$55,500	4	0%
Inspiracion Inc	$55,000	3	10%
New Braunfels Youth Collaborative	$51,000	1	n/a
Advocacy Center for Crime Victims and Children	$45,000	3	1%
Guardian Therapeutic Horsemanship Inc	$35,000	2	19%
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation	$30,000	1	0%
Jmb Fishing Foundation Inc	$30,000	1	79%
The Arc of McLennan County	$30,000	1	5%
Creative Waco	$30,000	2	1%
Meals on Wheels Waco	$30,000	2	1%
Council for Life	$30,000	2	1%
Waco Isd	$25,120	3	n/a
Heart of Texas Region Mental Health Mental Retardation Center	$25,000	1	n/a
Together For Good Inc	$25,000	2	3%
Greater Waco Collective Impact Initiative	$25,000	1	4%
Children's Cancer Association	$20,000	1	1%
Real Life Real Music Foundation	$20,000	1	12%
Community Cancer Association	$20,000	2	7%
Greater Waco Legal Services	$20,000	1	2%
Heart of Texas Center of Business Excellence	$18,000	1	n/a
New Braunfels Downtown Association Inc	$16,000	1	n/a
Central Texas Youth Services Bureau	$15,000	1	n/a
Partnerships for Children	$15,000	1	1%
The Onestar Foundation	$12,471	1	0%
Brazos Education Foundation Inc	$12,000	1	8%
American Cancer Society Inc	$10,500	2	0%
Waco Boys & Girls Club	$10,000	1	2%
God in Your Game	$10,000	1	n/a
Candlelight Ranch Foundation	$10,000	1	1%
Transformation Waco	$10,000	1	n/a
Imagination Library of Waco	$10,000	1	n/a
St Pauls Episcopal Day School	$10,000	1	n/a
Jab Cares	$7,500	1	4%
Talitha Koum Institute	$7,500	1	0%
Cook Children's Health Care System	$7,500	1	0%
Make-A-Wish Foundation of America	$7,370	1	0%
Raising Wheels Foundation	$7,000	1	n/a
BACA International Inc	$5,500	1	0%

Bowen Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 32 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 32.

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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.

Cooper FoundationTX28.4× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Cooper Foundation · Ascension Providence · Waco Foundation · Margaret Cb & S Spencer N Brown Foundation Inc · United Way of Waco-McLennan County · Bernard & Audre Rapoport Foundation · The Fentress Foundation · Baylor University · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Clifton Foundation · The McClane Brown Family Foundation · Hillcrest Baptist Medical Center

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.

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About Bowen Family Foundation

How much does Bowen Family Foundation give?: Bowen Family Foundation reported 21 itemized grants totaling $367,400, out of $484,090 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 16 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Bowen Family Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (38%), Recreation & Sports (12%), International (11%).
Who are Bowen Family Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Unbound Now ($175k), Tris Speaker Youth Club ($135k), Reach Therapeutic Riding Center ($106k).
Does Bowen Family Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Bowen Family Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Cooper Foundation, Ascension Providence, Waco Foundation.
Where is Bowen Family Foundation based?: Bowen Family Foundation is based in TX.