West Virginia · Private foundation
Bowles Rice 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.
- $100k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 31
- Grants FY2025
- 36
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 61%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $48,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 41
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 61% of the organizations Bowles Rice Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 39% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k 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 | 29 | $99k | 45% |
| FY2024 | 36 | $86k | 61% |
| FY2023 | 31 | $78k | 65% |
| FY2022 | 41 | $95k | 54% |
| FY2021 | 25 | $74k | 88% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $75k | 89% |
| FY2019 | 5 | $76k | 40% |
| FY2018 | 5 | $70k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Legal Aid of West Virginia Inc | $100,170 | 8 | 0% |
| West Virginia University Foundation Inc | $93,250 | 5 | 0% |
| Mountaineer Food Bank Inc | $58,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Discover the Real West Virginia Foundation Inc | $27,500 | 5 | 7% |
| Wvma Educational Fund Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 9% |
| Marshall University Foundation Incorporated | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Education Alliance-Business and Community for Public Schools Inc | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Children's Home Society of West Virginia Inc | $12,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Wvu at Parkersburg Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Washington & Jefferson College | $7,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 90 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 32 recipients with no EIN on record ($158k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bowles Rice Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation · Encova Foundation of West Virginia · Truist West Virginia Foundation Inc · Bernard McDonough Foundation Inc · Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation · Milan Puskar Foundation Inc · Parkersburg Area Community Foundation Inc (Previously Pacf Inc) · Eqt Foundation · Eastern West Virginia Community Foundation · Pallottine Foundation of Huntington West Virginia · United Way of the Eastern Panhandle · Firstenergy Foundation
How this is measured
About Bowles Rice Foundation
- How much does Bowles Rice Foundation give?
- Bowles Rice Foundation reported 31 grants totaling $100,170 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 41 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Bowles Rice Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (23%), Crime & Legal (18%), Food & Nutrition (13%).
- Who are Bowles Rice Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Legal Aid of West Virginia Inc ($100k), West Virginia University Foundation Inc ($93k), Mountaineer Food Bank Inc ($58k).
- Does Bowles Rice Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 61% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bowles Rice 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 Bowles Rice Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation, Encova Foundation of West Virginia, Truist West Virginia Foundation Inc.
- Where is Bowles Rice Foundation based?
- Bowles Rice Foundation is based in WV.
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