· Private foundation
Bowker Foundation Irrev Char Ta
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YWCA NORTHEAST INDIANA INC | $20,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHERN INDIANA MICHIANA | $15,000 |
| ASSOCIATED CHURCHES OF FORT WAYNE IND IN | $10,000 |
| HEALTHIER MOMS AND BABIES INC | $10,000 |
| WOMEN'S FUND OF GREATER FORT WAYNE | $7,500 |
| HOPE ALIVE INC | $7,000 |
| MATTHEW 25 INC | $5,500 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NE INDIANA | $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 (FY20–25, $151k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 7% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +76% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 6 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, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k 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
- YNYWCA NORTHEAST INDIANA INC6× · 2020–2025 · $135k · revenue +115%
- GSGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHERN INDIANA MICHIANA INC6× · 2020–2025 · $100k · revenue +14%
- HMHEALTHIER MOMS AND BABIES INC5× · 2021–2025 · $35k · revenue +156%
Funded once
- FWFORT WAYNE MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -45%
- ITINDIANA TEEN CHALLENGE INCone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +16%
- CHCASS HOUSING INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +39%
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.
New hope of indiana, inc. is a leader in providing holistic services and resources to persons with disabilities and their families while advocating to advance the opportunities for those in need of support.
At indiana guardianship services, inc., we are dedicated to providing our clients with the same compassion, attention, and patience as our own family. through competence, service, and dignity, we uphold the values of the national…
See schedule o.power's mission is to help women reclaim their lives from addiction and related emotional health issues and improve the well-being of future generations. we provide a range of gender-responsive, trauma-informed drug and…
Empowering individuals to build stronger families and communities.
Provide services in response to individual need
Dedicated to the improvement of the quality of life for persons who are affected by mental illness. provide support, education, advocacy and resources to nami indiana affiliates. provide help line available to anyone. the state…
Assist indiana provides advocacy, specialized services, interventions and support to trauma victims. utilizing proven efforts through trauma informed care approach along with best practices, we eliminate the negative effects of violence in…
Hoosier Families is a non-profit organization that provides Community Based programs for Indiana children and families. Hoosier Families is committed to utilizing evidence-based practices to strengthen, rebuild and reunite the individuals…
Our mission is to provide professional counseling with the highest level of ethical standards to individuals in the community . We believe in health, healing, hope, growth, recovery and transformation as foundational goals for everyone and…
Project home indy, co. (phi) provides a nurturing residential environment to teenage women who are pregnant or parenting and have been subjected to unstable living conditions. located in indianapolis, phi is committed to using a holistic…
Provide mentoring activities to empower at-risk youth in our community to make positive life choices, enabling them to maximize their personal potential.
Hamilton center exists to provide quality behavioral healthcare, wellness, and human development services to our community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northeast Indiana Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cass Housing Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 24 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 YWCA NORTHEAST INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHERN INDIANA MICHIANA INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTHIER MOMS AND BABIES INC ↗
- Who funds Redemption House Ministry Inc ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHERN IN INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR NONVIOLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA IN ALLEN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE ALIVE INC ↗
- Who funds INDIANA WOMEN IN NEED FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FORT WAYNE MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INDIANA TEEN CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC ↗
- Who funds MATTHEW 25 INC ↗
- Who funds CASS HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds IRIS FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST IND ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH MISSIONS INC ↗
- Who funds BRING IT 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: English-Bonter-Mitchell Fdn · Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne Inc · Edward M Wilson Foundation · Dr Louis a and Anne B Schneider Fdn · Kuhne Charles Char Fdn T-W Main · The James Foundation Inc · Zollner Foundation · The Waterfield Foundation Inc · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Howard P Arnold Foundation Inc · Parkview Health System Inc · The St Joseph Community Health Foundation Inc
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 Bowker Foundation Irrev Char Ta 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.