Oklahoma · Private foundation
Bowen Foundation
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.
- $862k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 54
- Grants FY2025
- 53
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $240,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 53 to 83
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $7.5M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations Bowen Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 25% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $203k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 54 | $862k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 53 | $817k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 59 | $748k | 10% |
| FY2022 | 64 | $1.5M | 25% |
| FY2021 | 76 | $807k | 8% |
| FY2020 | 78 | $762k | 15% |
| FY2019 | 83 | $1.1M | 33% |
| FY2017 | 80 | $1.5M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rebuilding Together Okc Inc | $1,415,500 | 8 | 40% |
| University of Oklahoma Foundation Inc | $671,760 | 5 | 0% |
| National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum | $661,265 | 8 | 1% |
| Wings Special Needs Community Inc | $560,000 | 4 | 4% |
| Blaze's Tribute Equine Rescue Inc | $415,000 | 8 | 13% |
| Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs Inc | $410,500 | 8 | 2% |
| Ringling United Methodist Church | $302,250 | 7 | n/a |
| Hearts for Hearing Foundation | $272,500 | 8 | 2% |
| Teen Recovery Solutions Inc | $240,000 | 8 | 6% |
| Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma Inc | $231,250 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 105 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 66 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Bowen Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 90 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Inasmuch Foundation · American Fidelity Foundation · El and Thelma Gaylord Foundation · Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc · Communities Foundation of Oklahoma · Cresap Family Foundation · Harris Foundation Inc · Sarkeys Foundation · Fred Jones Family Foundation · The Merrick Foundation · Kirkpatrick Foundation Inc · Rainbolt Family Foundation
How this is measured
About Bowen Foundation
- How much does Bowen Foundation give?
- Bowen Foundation reported 54 grants totaling $862,275 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 53 and 83 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Bowen Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (18%), Education (14%), Human Services (10%).
- Who are Bowen Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Rebuilding Together Okc Inc ($1.4M), University of Oklahoma Foundation Inc ($672k), National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum ($661k).
- Does Bowen Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bowen Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Bowen Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Inasmuch Foundation, American Fidelity Foundation, El and Thelma Gaylord Foundation.
- Where is Bowen Foundation based?
- Bowen Foundation is based in OK.
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