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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 FY2025still arriving
31
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$48k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.

Education$153kCrime & Legal$120kFood & Nutrition$85kHuman Services$68kCommunity Improvement$49kEmployment$26kArts & Culture$24kPhilanthropy$21kOther$0
02FY2025 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k28 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $70k
$1,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MOUNTAINEER FOOD BANK INC$48,000
FOOD HELPERS DBA GREATER WASHINGTON COUNTY FOOD BANK$12,000
LEGAL AID OF WEST VIRGINIA INC$10,170
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON INC$5,000
WVU AT PARKERSBURG FOUNDATION INC$2,500
THE MID-OHIO VALLEY SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC$2,500
UNITED WAY OF MONONGALIA AND PRESTON COUNTIES INC$1,500
WASHINGTON COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$1,000
WASHINGTON AND JEFFERSON COLLEGE$1,000
FRIENDS OF HAPPY RETREAT INC$1,000
KIDS OF KANAWHA INC$1,000
THE SALVATION ARMY$1,000
BERKELEY COUNTY CONGREGATIONAL COOPERATIVE ACTION PROJECT INC$1,000
CASA OF THE EASTERN PANHANDLE INC$1,000
BERKELEY COUNTY BACKPACK PROGRAM INC$1,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 76% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%OFF THE FLOOR PITTSBURGH: $1k → 11%IGNITE A BETTER WORLD FOUNDATION: $3k → 8%MORGAN COUNTY HOMELESS COALITION INC: $750 → 16%LEWIS COUNTY FAMILY RESOURCE NETWORK INC: $500 → 18%JACKSON COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1k → 18%SCOTTS RUN SETTLEMENT HOUSE: $750 → 19%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $1k → 6%OFF THE FLOOR PITTSBURGH: $750 → 11%IGNITE A BETTER WORLD FOUNDATION: $3k → 8%JCCF INC: $1k → 18%IGNITE A BETTER WORLD FOUNDATION: $2k → 8%EMPTY BOWLS MONONGALIA: $750 → 19%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICES OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA: $1k → 12%EMPTY BOWLS MONONGALIA: $750 → 19%YMCA OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $2k → 11%WASHINGTON CITY MISSION: $2k → 12%WASHINGTON CITY MISSION INC: $1k → 12%WASHINGTON CITY MISSION INC: $1k → 12%YWCA OF CHARLESTON WEST VIRGINIA INC: $5k → 18%CATHOLIC CHARITIES WEST VIRGINIA: $1k → 18%KANAWHA PASTORAL COUNSELING CENTER INC: $700 → 18%THE WEST VIRGINIA CASA ASSOCIATION INC: $500 → 18%YWCA OF CHARRLESTON WEST VIRGINIA: $500 → 18%THE HEALING HOUSE INC: $1k → 18%KANAWHA HOSPICE CARE INC: $500 → 18%HEALING HOUSE: $500 → 18%BOB BURDETTE CENTER I: $500 → 18%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$432k · 41 repeat orgs$220k to everyone else

41 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

41
68

Total granted

$432k
$193k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+5%
+5%

Still filing today

83%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureCrime & LegalFood & NutritionHealthOther

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

  • LA
    LEGAL AID OF WEST VIRGINIA INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $100k · revenue +50%
  • WV
    WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2018–2024 · $93k · revenue +16%
  • DT
    DISCOVER THE REAL WEST VIRGINIA FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $28k · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • WE
    WVMA EDUCATIONAL FUND INC
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +5%
  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
    one grant, 2018 · $15k
  • MU
    MARSHALL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCORPORATEDgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue +284%

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

04Your field

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.

1
Mountain State Justice Inc

Mountain state justice provides free legal services to low income people in west virginia and assures that low income people have access to the court system.

Crime & Legal
2
Communityworks in West Virginia Inc

Communityworks in west virignia (cwwv) creates housing and community development solutions for all west virginians through a network of member organizations. cwwv carries out its mission by providing effective training and technical…

Housing & Shelter
3
Wayne County Community Services Organization

Establish, conduct, implement, operate, coordinate and finance programs for the benefit of the low-income, minority, elderly, disadvantaged and handicapped citizens of wayne county, wv

Community Improvement
4
West Virginia Bar Foundation Inc

Improve the administration of justice and the provision of legal services for west virginia's citizens.

Crime & Legal
5
West Virginia State University Research & Development Corporation

To foster, support, and assist in any research and economic development activities consistent with the educational objectives and mission of west virginia state university.

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6
West Virginia Community Voices Inc

To improve the health and health care quality for the residents of west virginia.

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7
Wv Helping Hands
Human Services
8
Valley Comprehensive Community Health Center Inc

Valley healthcare system shall improve our community's health by delivering the highest quality behavioral healthcare guided by our consumer's needs.

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9
Eastern West Virginia Community Action Agency Inc

Eastern West Virginia Community Action Agency serves the disadvantaged people by determining their needs; advocating for and providing programs that help remove them from the causes of poverty.

Housing & Shelter
10
West Virginia Chamber of Commerce

The west virginia chamber of commerce provides opportunities for broad based prosperity throughout west virginia.

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11
Philanthropy West Virginia Inc

Strengthening philanthropy in the mountain state.

Philanthropy
12
Central Wv Community Action Assoc Inc

Central west virginia community action association, inc.s mission is to provide pathways to economic independence for all families by leading community initiatives that address the root causes of poverty.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wvu At Parkersburg Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Orchardview Stables. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyPittsburgh Regional Develop…Faith-Based Health & Aging …Performing Arts Organizatio…Labor Unions and Apprentice…Animal Rescue and WelfareMember Social ClubsFaith-Based Emergency Assis…Community Hospital SystemsIndependent and Charter Sch…Senior and Disabled Afforda…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%6%<5yr12%11%5–10yr19%10%10–20yr19%21%20–35yr16%23%35–55yr17%29%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%1%<5yr12%3%5–10yr19%8%10–20yr19%32%20–35yr16%21%35–55yr17%35%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/94
the rest of the field
9%
1,216/14,254

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

87 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. 87 of the 126 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
85/87
Grantees still filing
46/87
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DISCOVER THE REAL WEST VIRGINIA — $20,000 · OtherDISCOVER THE REAL WEST VIRGINIAHABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $15,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITYIndividual grant recipient — $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE — $15,000 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSEIndividual grant recipient — $14,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientFOOD HELPERS DBA GREATER WASHINGTON COUNTY FOOD BANK — $13,000 · OtherFOOD HELPERS DBA GREATER WASHINGTON COU…Individual grant recipient — $12,000 · OtherWVU AT PARKERSBURG FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · Other+69 more — $115,650 · Other+69 moreWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $93,250 · EducationWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOU…WVMA EDUCATIONAL FUND INC — $25,000 · EducationWVMA EDUCATIONAL FUND INCMARSHALL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED — $15,000 · EducationMARSHALL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATI…THE EDUCATION ALLIANCE-BUSINESS AND COMMUNITY FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC — $15,000 · EducationTHE EDUCATION ALLIANCE-BUSIN…WASHINGTON & JEFFERSON COLLEGE — $7,000 · Education+5 more — $12,000 · Education+5 moreLEGAL AID OF WEST VIRGINIA INC — $100,170 · Crime & LegalLEGAL AID OF WEST V…MONONGALIA COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC — $4,500 · Crime & Legal+5 more — $9,824 · Crime & Legal+5 moreMOUNTAINEER FOOD BANK INC — $58,000 · Food & NutritionMOUNTAINEER…FOOD HELPERS — $5,500 · Food & NutritionFOOD HELPER…+5 more — $3,500 · Food & NutritionTHE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF WEST VIRGINIA INC — $12,500 · Human ServicesIGNITE A BETTER WORLD FOUNDATION — $6,500 · Human ServicesYWCA OF CHARLESTON WEST VIRGINIA INC — $5,500 · Human ServicesWASHINGTON CITY MISSION — $3,500 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH — $2,000 · Human ServicesJCCF INC — $2,000 · Human ServicesOFF THE FLOOR PITTSBURGH — $1,750 · Human ServicesEmpty Bowls Monongalia — $1,500 · Human ServicesHEALING HOUSE — $1,500 · Human Services+10 more — $7,200 · Human ServicesDISCOVER THE REAL WEST VIRGINIA FOUNDATION INC — $27,500 · Community ImprovementWASHINGTON COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $4,750 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF MONONGALIA AND PRESTON COUNITES INC — $4,000 · PhilanthropyEASTERN WEST VIRGINIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $3,500 · PhilanthropyTHE GREATER KANAWHA VALLEY FOUNDATION — $2,000 · PhilanthropyTHE CHERRY RIVER FOUNDATION INC — $500 · Philanthropy
Other$229,650Education$167,250Crime & Legal$114,494Food & Nutrition$67,000Human Services$43,950Community Improvement$27,500Philanthropy$14,750

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLEGAL AID OF WEST VIRGINIA INC — $100,170 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $93,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNTAINEER FOOD BANK INC — $58,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDISCOVER THE REAL WEST VIRGINIA FOUNDATION INC — $27,500 over 5y, 6.7% of budgetWVMA EDUCATIONAL FUND INC — $25,000 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetMARSHALL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE EDUCATION ALLIANCE-BUSINESS AND COMMUNITY FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF WEST VIRGINIA INC — $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWVU AT PARKERSBURG FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetWASHINGTON & JEFFERSON COLLEGE — $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetIGNITE A BETTER WORLD FOUNDATION — $6,500 over 3y, 10% of budgetCANONSBURG EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL INSTITUTE INC — $6,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetYWCA OF CHARLESTON WEST VIRGINIA INC — $5,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD HELPERS — $5,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHARLESTON INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $4,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMONONGALIA COUNTY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC — $4,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF MONONGALIA AND PRESTON COUNITES INC — $4,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHOSPICE OF THE PANHANDLE INC — $3,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON CITY MISSION — $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEASTERN WEST VIRGINIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJEFFERSON COUNTY COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC — $3,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHORSES WITH HEARTS INC — $2,750 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCASA OF THE EASTERN PANHANDLE INC — $2,750 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAnimal Friends Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUMMIT LEGAL AID — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOME OF PITTSBURGH — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCamden-Clark Foundation Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE MID-OHIO VALLEY SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC — $2,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetMYLAN PARK FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBERKELEY COUNTY MEALS ON WHEELS INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF HAPPY RETREAT INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMORGANTOWN COMMUNITY RESOURCES — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKeep Your Faith Corporation Inc — $2,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetJCCF INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSHEPHERD UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF BLACK DIAMOND COUNCIL INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GREATER KANAWHA VALLEY FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMONONGALIA ARTS CENTER ASSOCIATION — $2,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetOFF THE FLOOR PITTSBURGH — $1,750 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE EASTERN PANHANDLE INC — $1,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Bar Association Fund for Justice and Education — $1,574 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetParkersburg Art Center Inc — $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetVOICES FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetEVERYCHILD NOW — $1,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetEmpty Bowls Monongalia — $1,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHEALING HOUSE — $1,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budget
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.

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.

The Greater Kanawha V…Encova Foundation of …Truist West Virginia …Bernard McDonough Fou…Claude Worthington Be…Milan Puskar Foundati…Parkersburg Area Comm…Eqt FoundationEastern West Virginia…Pallottine Foundation…United Way of the Eas…Firstenergy Foundation
The Greater Kanawha Valley FoundationWV50.6× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Bowles Rice Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your 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
    29report 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

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 126 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

    Source object · view filing

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