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Bowling Green Community Foundation
The Bowling Green Community Foundation, a nonprofit entity, exists to improve the quality of life in the Bowling Green area by providing funding and support for programs that will enhance the health, welfare, and vitality of the Bowling Green community.
- $391k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 5
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 5
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 100%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $35k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $7,231
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $7,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 8
- FY2022 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $13M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 100% of the organizations Bowling Green Community Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k 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 | 5 | $35k | 60% |
| FY2024 | 5 | $31k | 100% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $60k | 88% |
| FY2022 | 3 | $19k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Downtown Foundation Inc | $23,353 | 3 | 14% |
| Wood County Hospital Association | $13,650 | 2 | 0% |
| Foundation 22 | $11,250 | 1 | n/a |
| Brown Bag Food Project | $7,500 | 1 | 5% |
| Bowling Green Save Our Neighborhoods Group | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Bowling Green Band Boosters Association | $7,500 | 1 | 14% |
| Connecting Kids to Meals Inc | $7,500 | 1 | 0% |
| BG Dog Parks | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Horizon Youth Theatre | $7,231 | 1 | n/a |
| Wood County Educational Service Center | $7,135 | 1 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Downtown Foundation Inc | $23,353 | 3 | 14% |
| Wood County Hospital Association | $13,650 | 2 | 0% |
| Foundation 22 | $11,250 | 1 | n/a |
| Brown Bag Food Project | $7,500 | 1 | 5% |
| Bowling Green Save Our Neighborhoods Group | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Bowling Green Band Boosters Association | $7,500 | 1 | 14% |
| Connecting Kids to Meals Inc | $7,500 | 1 | 0% |
| BG Dog Parks | $7,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Horizon Youth Theatre | $7,231 | 1 | n/a |
| Wood County Educational Service Center | $7,135 | 1 | n/a |
| Firefly Nights | $6,673 | 1 | n/a |
| Kenwood Elementary School PTO Inc | $6,366 | 1 | n/a |
| Ohio County & Independent | $5,525 | 1 | 0% |
| Bowling Green Pee Wee League Inc | $5,500 | 1 | 2% |
| The Cocoon Shelter | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Bowling Green School Foundation Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| National Alliance on Mental Illness Wood County | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Sleek Academy PTO LLC | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bowling Green Community 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: Toledo Community Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Toledo · The O-I Charities Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Bowling Green Community Foundation
- How much does Bowling Green Community Foundation give?
- Bowling Green Community Foundation reported 5 itemized grants totaling $34,681, out of $391,352 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 8 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
- What does Bowling Green Community Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (28%), Environment (14%), Food & Nutrition (14%).
- Who are Bowling Green Community Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: The Downtown Foundation Inc ($23k), Wood County Hospital Association ($14k), Foundation 22 ($11k).
- Does Bowling Green Community Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Bowling Green Community Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Toledo Community Foundation Inc, United Way of Greater Toledo, The O-I Charities Foundation.
- Where is Bowling Green Community Foundation based?
- Bowling Green Community Foundation is based in OH.
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