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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 FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Education$31kEnvironment$16kFood & Nutrition$15kHealth$12kPhilanthropy$11kHuman Services$11kCommunity Improvement$8kArts & Culture$7k
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $34,681, the rows itemized in this filing. The $391,352 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $356,671 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$7,231
Median grant
1
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The Downtown Foundation$7,500
BG Dog Parks$7,500
Horizon Youth Theatre$7,231
Wood County Hospital Association$6,950
BG Youth Baseball$5,500
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Brown Bag Food Project: $8k → 12%Wood County Agricultural Society: $6k → 12%The Cocoon Shelter: $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 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
Bowling Green High Bullpen Club

Bowling green high school baseball boost

Recreation & Sports
2
Wood County Sports Association Inc

Wood County Sports Association Inc's purpose is to manage a youth sports league and facility for recreational baseball and softball for local community.

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3
Green Baseball-Softball Federation

Community Service - Youth Baseball / Softball League

Recreation & Sports
4
Make Wellston Beautiful Inc

Youth recreational athletics

Environment
5
Bowling Green Recycling Center Inc

Recycle items in bowling green and wood county ohio

Environment
6
Toledo Band Aid
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7
Woodland Little League

Baseball for youth

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8
Woodland Elementary Pto

To provide support for Woodland Elementary students and staff

Education
9
Pta Ohio Congress
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10
Woodbury Athletic Association

To promote the athletic and social development of the youth of the city of woodbury, mn, through organized sports as a means of healthful recreation and physical fitness, and to maintain high standards, fair play, and good sportsmanship.

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11
Alderwood Little League

Baseball and softball little league

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12
Woodford County High School Athletic Boo Ster Club

Provide financial support for wchs athletics

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ohio County & Independent; 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.
04the grantee network

10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 18 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FOUNDATION 22: $11,250 · OtherFOUNDATION 22BOWLING GREEN SAVE OUR NEIGHBORHOODS GROUP: $7,500 · OtherBOWLING GREEN SAVE OUR NEIGHBORHOODS GROUPBG Dog Parks: $7,500 · OtherBG Dog ParksHorizon Youth Theatre: $7,231 · OtherHorizon Youth TheatreWOOD COUNTY EDUCATIONAL SERVICE CENTER: $7,135 · OtherWOOD COUNTY EDUCATIONAL SERVICE CENTERFIREFLY NIGHTS: $6,673 · OtherFIREFLY NIGHTSKENWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO INC: $6,366 · OtherKENWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTO INCBOWLING GREEN SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · OtherBOWLING GREEN SCHOOL FOUNDATION INCSLEEK ACADEMY PTO LLC: $5,000 · OtherSLEEK ACADEMY PTO LLCTHE DOWNTOWN FOUNDATION INC: $23,353 · EnvironmentTHE DOWNTOWN FOUND…WOOD COUNTY HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION: $13,650 · HealthWOOD COUNTY HO…NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS WOOD COUNTY: $5,000 · HealthNATIONAL ALLIA…BROWN BAG FOOD PROJECT: $7,500 · Human ServicesBROWN BAG FOOD…OHIO COUNTY & INDEPENDENT: $5,525 · Human ServicesOHIO COUNTY & …THE COCOON SHELTER: $5,000 · Human ServicesTHE COCOON SHE…BOWLING GREEN BAND BOOSTERS ASSOCIATION: $7,500 · EducationCONNECTING KIDS TO MEALS INC: $7,500 · Food & NutritionBOWLING GREEN PEE WEE LEAGUE INC: $5,500 · Recreation & Sports
Other$63,655Environment$23,353Health$18,650Human Services$18,025Education$7,500Food & Nutrition$7,500Recreation & Sports$5,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE DOWNTOWN FOUNDATION INC: $23,353 over 3y, 14% of budgetWOOD COUNTY HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION: $13,650 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN BAG FOOD PROJECT: $7,500 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetBOWLING GREEN BAND BOOSTERS ASSOCIATION: $7,500 over 1y, 14% of budgetCONNECTING KIDS TO MEALS INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOHIO COUNTY & INDEPENDENT: $5,525 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBOWLING GREEN PEE WEE LEAGUE INC: $5,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetTHE COCOON SHELTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS WOOD COUNTY: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% 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.

Toledo Community Foun…United Way of Greater…The O-I Charities Fou…Amazonsmile Foundation
Toledo Community Foundation IncOH15.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Toledo Community Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Toledo · The O-I Charities Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Bowling Green Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bowling Green Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 18 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 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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