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Bowen Family Foundation

Sponsor fundraising events for the benefit of local charities.

$274k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Health$394kRecreation & Sports$125kInternational$115kHuman Services$96kYouth Development$81kCommunity Improvement$71kEducation$52kArts & Culture$35kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 10 grants below total $224,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $273,690 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $49,690 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $111k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$524k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WACO FAMILY MEDICINE$50,000
REACH THERAPEUTIC RIDING$50,000
INSPIRACION INC$20,000
GUARDIAN THERAPEUTIC HORSEMANSHIP$20,000
UNBOUND GLOBAL$20,000
HEART OF TEXAS CENTER OF BUSINESS EXCELLENCE$18,000
THE MENTORING ALLIANCE$18,000
TOGETHER FOR GOOD$15,000
COOK CHILDRENS HEALTH CARE SYSTEM$7,500
BIKERS AGAINST CHILD ABUSE$5,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $88k) 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.

area typical 10%COUNCIL FOR LIFE: $20k → 14%TOGETHER FOR GOOD: $15k → 16%JAB CARES: $8k → 10%ARC OF MCLENNAN: $30k → 16%MEALS ON WHEELS: $15k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

57%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$589k · 9 repeat orgs$436k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +12% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

9 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
20

Total granted

$589k
$320k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
0%

Still filing today

89%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

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

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

’18’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementEducationYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • UNBOUND NOW
    3× · 2021–2024 · $140k · revenue +816%
  • CC
    CHEYANNA'S CHAMPIONS 4 CHILDREN
    3× · 2021–2023 · $74k · revenue +78%
  • MA
    MENTORING ALLIANCE
    3× · 2021–2024 · $46k · revenue +140%

Funded once

  • TA
    THE ARC OF MCLENNAN COUNTY
    one grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue -55%
  • JF
    JMB FISHING FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $30k · 79% of their budget
  • CF
    CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $30k · revenue +29%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Waco Community Development Corporation Dba Grassroots Community Development

To achieve a brighter future for children, neighbors and communities by inspiring and cultivating healthy neighborhoods.

Community Improvement
2
Texas Center for Child and Family Studies

To strengthen the lives of children and families.

Human Services
3
Texans Care for Children Inc

Texans Care for Children shapes public policies and brings Texans together to make children a statewide priority. We work so kids can have what they need to be healthy, secure, and thriving and so every Texan can have the best start to…

Crime & Legal
4
Childrens Advocacy Center of West Texas Inc

The Organizations mission is to bring unity and efficiency to investigations of child abuse through the use of a multi-disciplinary team and, thereby, to provide the best possible services to victims of child abuse and their families.

Crime & Legal
5
Texas Children's

To create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education, and research.

Health
6
Cook Children's Medical Center

Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease and injury.

Health
7
Cook Children's Health Plan

Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease, and injury.

Health
8
Cook Children's Physician Network

Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease, and injury.

Health
9
Cook Children's Medical Center - Prosper

Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease and injury.

Health
10
Raise Texas

RAISE Texas advances equitable policies and programs that foster financial security and economic mobility for low- and moderate-income Texans. We equip, innovate and advocate to reduce disparities, remove barriers and build opportunities…

Human Services
11
Texas Children's Hospital Foundation

To create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education and research.

Health
12
Texas Oncology Foundation Inc

Texas oncology foundation is organized exclusively for religious, charitable, scientific, literary, and educational purposes, including, for the purpose of making distributions to organizations that qualify as exempt organizations under…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of America and the most unlike its peers is New Braunfels Downtown Association 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 27 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number28%7%<5yr16%10%5–10yr20%21%10–20yr16%28%20–35yr10%17%35–55yr10%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value28%5%<5yr16%20%5–10yr20%20%10–20yr16%13%20–35yr10%31%35–55yr10%11%55yr+

The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 8% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
8%
3/36
the rest of the field
16%
6,682/42,163

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.

04the grantee network

30 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. 30 of the 36 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/30
Grantees still filing
14/30
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MCLENNAN COUNTY MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $100,000 · HealthMCLENNAN COUNTY MEDICAL EDUC…CHEYANNA'S CHAMPIONS 4 CHILDREN — $73,500 · HealthCHEYANNA'S CHAMPIONS 4 CHILD…JMB FISHING FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 · HealthJMB FISHING FOUNDATION INCCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION — $30,000 · HealthCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATIONAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $10,500 · HealthCommunity Cancer Association — $10,000 · Health+1 more — $7,500 · HealthUNBOUND NOW — $140,000 · Youth DevelopmentUNBOUND NOWMENTORING ALLIANCE — $45,500 · Youth DevelopmentMENTORING ALLIANCETRIS SPEAKER YOUTH CLUB — $125,000 · Recreation & SportsTRIS SPEAKER YOUTH…REACH THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER — $50,000 · Recreation & SportsREACH THERAPEUTIC …HEART OF TEXAS REGION MENTAL HEALTH MENTAL RETARDATION CENTER — $25,000 · OtherHEART OF TEXAS REGI…REAL LIFE REAL MUSIC FOUNDATION — $20,000 · OtherREAL LIFE REAL MUSI…GUARDIAN THERAPEUTIC HORSEMANSHIP INC — $20,000 · OtherGUARDIAN THERAPEUTI…WACO ISD — $19,720 · OtherWACO ISDHEART OF TEXAS CENTER OF BUSINESS EXCELLENCE — $18,000 · OtherHEART OF TEXAS CENT…Brazos Education Foundation Inc — $12,000 · OtherBrazos Education Fo…WACO BOYS & GIRLS CLUB — $10,000 · OtherWACO BOYS & GIRLS C…ST PAULS EPISCOPAL DAY SCHOOL — $10,000 · OtherST PAULS EPISCOPAL …MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA — $7,370 · OtherRAISING WHEELS FOUNDATION — $7,000 · OtherWACO FOUNDATION — $19,898 · OtherWACO FOUNDATIONCREATIVE WACO — $15,000 · OtherCREATIVE WACOTHE ARC OF MCLENNAN COUNTY — $30,000 · Human ServicesTHE ARC OF…COUNCIL FOR LIFE — $20,000 · Human ServicesCOUNCIL FO…MEALS ON WHEELS WACO — $15,000 · Human ServicesMEALS ON W…Together For Good Inc — $15,000 · Human ServicesTogether F…JAB CARES — $7,500 · Human ServicesJAB CARESBACA International Inc — $5,500 · Human ServicesBACA Inter…INSPIRACION INC — $40,000 · EducationINSPIRACI…ADVOCACY CENTER FOR CRIME VICTIMS AND CHILDREN — $35,000 · EducationADVOCACY …IMAGINATION LIBRARY OF WACO — $10,000 · EducationIMAGINATI…GREATER WACO COLLECTIVE IMPACT INITIATIVE — $25,000 · Community ImprovementNEW BRAUNFELS DOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION INC — $16,000 · Community ImprovementTHE ONESTAR FOUNDATION — $12,471 · Community ImprovementTALITHA KOUM INSTITUTE — $7,500 · Community Improvement
Health$261,500Youth Development$185,500Recreation & Sports$175,000Other$183,988Human Services$93,000Education$85,000Community Improvement$60,971

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNBOUND NOW — $140,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetTRIS SPEAKER YOUTH CLUB — $125,000 over 4y, 76% of budgetMCLENNAN COUNTY MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetCHEYANNA'S CHAMPIONS 4 CHILDREN — $73,500 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetREACH THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER — $50,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetMENTORING ALLIANCE — $45,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetINSPIRACION INC — $40,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetADVOCACY CENTER FOR CRIME VICTIMS AND CHILDREN — $35,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTHE ARC OF MCLENNAN COUNTY — $30,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetJMB FISHING FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 over 1y, 79% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER WACO COLLECTIVE IMPACT INITIATIVE — $25,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetREAL LIFE REAL MUSIC FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetCOUNCIL FOR LIFE — $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetWACO FOUNDATION — $19,898 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCREATIVE WACO — $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS WACO — $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTogether For Good Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetTHE ONESTAR FOUNDATION — $12,471 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBrazos Education Foundation Inc — $12,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $10,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWACO BOYS & GIRLS CLUB — $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCommunity Cancer Association — $10,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetTALITHA KOUM INSTITUTE — $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetJAB CARES — $7,500 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetCook Children's Health Care System — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA — $7,370 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBACA International Inc — $5,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
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.

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.

Cooper FoundationAscension ProvidenceWaco FoundationMargaret Cb & S Spenc…United Way of Waco-Mc…Bernard & Audre Rapop…The Fentress Foundati…Baylor UniversityCommunities Foundatio…Clifton FoundationThe McClane Brown Fam…Hillcrest Baptist Med…
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

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 Family Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 36 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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