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Bowker Foundation Irrev Char Ta at a glance

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Bowker Foundation Irrev Char Ta

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$80k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% 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
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $55k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%INDIANA WOMEN IN NEED FOUNDATION INC: $6k → 16%INDIANA WOMEN IN NEED FOUNDATION: $5k → 16%YWCA NORTHEAST INDIANA INC: $30k → 12%YWCA NORTHEAST INDIANA INC: $25k → 12%YWCA NORTHEAST INDIANA INC: $20k → 12%YWCA NORTHEAST INDIANA INC: $20k → 12%YWCA NORTHEAST INDIANA INC: $20k → 12%YWCA NORTHEAST INDIANA INC: $20k → 12%SCAN INC: $5k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$372k · 10 repeat orgs$86k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +76% since the first grant, against +13% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
10

Total granted

$372k
$58k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+76%
+13%

Still filing today

100%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentHealthInternationalCrime & LegalEducationOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • YN
    YWCA NORTHEAST INDIANA INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $135k · revenue +115%
  • GS
    GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHERN INDIANA MICHIANA INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $100k · revenue +14%
  • HM
    HEALTHIER MOMS AND BABIES INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $35k · revenue +85%

Funded once

  • FW
    FORT WAYNE MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -45%
  • IT
    INDIANA TEEN CHALLENGE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +16%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST IND
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -29%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
New Hope of Indiana Inc

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.

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2
Indiana Guardianship Services

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…

Human Services
3
Pennsylvania Organization for Women in Early Recovery

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…

Health
4
Children's Bureau Inc

Empowering individuals to build stronger families and communities.

Human Services
5
New Hope Services Inc

Provide services in response to individual need

Human Services
6
Nami Indiana Inc

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…

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7
Assist Indiana Inc

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…

Human Services
8
Hoosier Families Inc

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…

Human Services
9
Turning Point Inc

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…

Health
10
Project Home Indy Co

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…

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11
Southern Indiana Mentoring Academy 100 Inc

Provide mentoring activities to empower at-risk youth in our community to make positive life choices, enabling them to maximize their personal potential.

Youth Development
12
Hamilton Center Inc

Hamilton center exists to provide quality behavioral healthcare, wellness, and human development services to our community.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northeast Indiana Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
12/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YWCA NORTHEAST INDIANA INC: $135,000 · Human ServicesYWCA NORTHEAST INDIANA INCINDIANA WOMEN IN NEED FOUNDATION INC: $11,000 · Human ServicesINDIANA WOMEN IN NEED FOUNDATION INC+1 more: $5,000 · Human ServicesGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHERN INDIANA MICHIANA INC: $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHERN IN…BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF NORTHEAST IND: $5,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $3,000 · Youth DevelopmentHOPE ALIVE INC: $12,000 · OtherHOPE ALIVE INCASSOCIATED CHURCHES OF FORT WAYNE IND INC: $10,000 · OtherASSOCIATED CHURCHES OF…INDIANA TEEN CHALLENGE INC: $10,000 · OtherINDIANA TEEN CHALLENGE…BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC: $8,000 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTE…WOMEN'S FUND OF GREATER FORT WAYNE: $7,500 · OtherWOMEN'S FUND OF GREATE…Individual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recip…BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NE INDIANA: $5,000 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTE…STILLWATER HOSPICE: $5,000 · OtherSTILLWATER HOSPICELS FOUNDATION: $5,000 · OtherLS FOUNDATIONMENTAL HEALTH AMERICA IN ALLEN COUNTY INC: $15,000 · OtherMENTAL HEALTH AMERICA …ST JOSEPH MISSIONS INC: $5,000 · OtherST JOSEPH MISSIONS INCCASS HOUSING INC: $5,000 · OtherCASS HOUSING INCHEALTHIER MOMS AND BABIES INC: $35,000 · HealthHEALTHIER MO…FORT WAYNE MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · HealthFORT WAYNE M…MATTHEW 25 INC: $5,500 · HealthMATTHEW 25 I…Redemption House Ministry Inc: $24,000 · ReligionJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHERN IN INC: $16,000 · InternationalCENTER FOR NONVIOLENCE INC: $16,000 · Crime & Legal
Human Services$151,000Youth Development$108,000Other$92,500Health$50,500Religion$24,000International$16,000Crime & Legal$16,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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-Mitche…Community Foundation …Edward M Wilson Found…Dr Louis a and Anne B…Kuhne Charles Char Fd…The James Foundation …Zollner FoundationThe Waterfield Founda…Lincoln Financial Fou…Howard P Arnold Found…Parkview Health Syste…The St Joseph Communi…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Bowker Foundation Irrev Char Ta funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bowker Foundation Irrev Char Ta. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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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