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Bowker Foundation Irrev Char Ta

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$80k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
8
Grants FY2025
10
Organizations funded FY2024
30%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$20,000
Organizations funded a year
6 to 10
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$1.4M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 30% of the organizations Bowker Foundation Irrev Char Ta funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
HealthReligionYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving8$80k50%
FY202410$85k30%
FY20236$75k33%
FY20227$77k43%
FY20217$65k43%
FY20209$76kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Youth Development$144kHuman Services$140kHealth$97kReligion$34kCivil Rights$16kHousing & Shelter$10kPhilanthropy$8kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($28k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bowker Foundation Irrev Char Ta supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYWCA Northeast Indiana Inc: $135,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetGirl Scouts of Northern Indiana Michiana Inc: $100,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetHealthier Moms and Babies Inc: $35,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetRedemption House Ministry Inc: $24,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetJunior Achievement of Northern in Inc: $16,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCenter for Nonviolence Inc: $16,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetMental Health America in Allen County Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetHope Alive Inc: $12,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetIndiana Women in Need Foundation Inc: $11,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetFort Wayne Medical Society Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIndiana Teen Challenge Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Northeast Indiana Inc: $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMatthew 25 Inc: $5,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Northeast Ind: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSt Joseph Missions Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCass Housing Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetIris Family Support Center Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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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 17.

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.

English-Bonter-Mitchell FdnPA34.7× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Bowker Foundation Irrev Char Ta

How much does Bowker Foundation Irrev Char Ta give?
Bowker Foundation Irrev Char Ta reported 8 grants totaling $80,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 10 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Bowker Foundation Irrev Char Ta fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (31%), Human Services (31%), Health (21%).
Who are Bowker Foundation Irrev Char Ta's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: YWCA Northeast Indiana Inc ($135k), Girl Scouts of Northern Indiana Michiana Inc ($100k), Healthier Moms and Babies Inc ($35k).
Does Bowker Foundation Irrev Char Ta fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Bowker Foundation Irrev Char Ta accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Bowker Foundation Irrev Char Ta?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include English-Bonter-Mitchell Fdn, Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne Inc, Edward M Wilson Foundation.
Where is Bowker Foundation Irrev Char Ta based?
Bowker Foundation Irrev Char Ta is based in MO.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 24 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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