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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 5 grants below total $31,091 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $408,223 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $377,132 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BG Save Our Neighborhoods | $7,500 |
| Wood County Hospital Association | $6,700 |
| Kenwood PTO | $6,366 |
| Wood County Agricultural Society | $5,525 |
| Bowling Green Schools Foundation | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
To provide support for Woodland Elementary students and staff
The wood county historical society is a community organization that makes connections between our past, present and future by capturing stories and cultivating memories of wood county, ohio and the county home.
Food for the elderly and needy
School related pto for the welfare of oakwood ohio elementary students and faculty.
The oakwood band parents association exists to promote, publicize and organize events associated with the city of oakwood public schools band programs for children in all levels and types of bands. the association provides support for…
Child welfare and protection
Operation of the washington county fair under the direction and guidelines of the ohio county & independent agricultural society.
Woodmont Band Boosters, Inc. is organized to support the students, parents, teachers, and administrative staff of The Woodmont High School Band program by raising funds, conducting events, and recruiting volunteers.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ohio County & Independent and the most unlike its peers is Sleek Academy Pto Llc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 15 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds THE DOWNTOWN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOWLING GREEN BAND BOOSTERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CONNECTING KIDS TO MEALS INC ↗
- Who funds BROWN BAG FOOD PROJECT ↗
- Who funds WOOD COUNTY HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds OHIO COUNTY & INDEPENDENT ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS WOOD COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE COCOON SHELTER ↗
- Who funds SLEEK ACADEMY PTO LLC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Toledo Community Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Toledo · The O-I Charities Foundation · Amazonsmile 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 Bowling Green Community 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.
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.