How much did BOWMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION grant in FY2018?

BOWMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION reported 16 grants totaling $349,461 in its FY2018 IRS filing.

Where is BOWMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION based?

BOWMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION is based in CA.

BOWMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION

Foundation Dossiers

· Private foundation

BOWMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION

This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.

$349k

Granted FY2018

Grants

Communities

$88k

Largest

01What you fund

01FY2018 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2018

Under $10k5 grants · $11k
$10k–50k9 grants · $197k
$50k–250k2 grants · $141k

$15,200

Median grant

States reached

$269k

Total assets

Largest grants

WOODSIDE-PORTOLA VALLEY FP FOUNDATION$88,163
WOODSIDE SCHOOL FOUNDATION$53,290
SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY$46,500
OPEN HANDS INC$25,000
LEAGUE TO SAVE LAKE TAHOE$25,000
REDWOOD CITY 330 SQUAD CLUB INC$25,000
SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART$20,000
ST BEBE'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH$15,200
CHILDFAMILY RESEARCH&TRAINING INSTITUTE$15,000
WARRIORS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$15,000
WENDER WEIS FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN$10,000
STANFORD UNIVERSITY - UNDER ONE UMBRELLA$5,000
THE HENRY COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$2,500
CONSERVATION AMBASSADORS - WOWS$1,500
PETERSEN AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM$1,308

02The need

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 (FY18–18, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7% — the area typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your 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.

San Francisco Conservatory of Music

The conservatory offers undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate musical education.

Education

San Francisco Classical Voice

SFCV's mission is to engage audiences, artists, and arts organizations, and forge meaningful connections through music journalism.

Arts & Culture

Marin History Museum

The Marin History Museum is an active, artifact-based institution dedicated to sharing local history with the people of Marin County and beyond.

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Sonoma Valley Museum of Art

The Sonoma Valley Museum of Art builds community around art.

Arts & Culture

San Francisco Opera Association

The world-renowned san francisco opera is considered one of the most important operatic organizations in the united states. great singing, outstanding conducting and productions sensitive to the music are core values of the opera. the…

Arts & Culture

Segerstrom Center for the Arts

Developing and operating a major performing arts center presenting the finest in performing arts.

Arts & Culture

San Francisco Friends School

Educating, inspiring, & nurturing girls & boys in the tradition of quaker learning.

Education

San Diego Museum of Art

To inspire, educate and cultivate curiosity through great works of art.

Arts & Culture

Santa Cruz County Symphony

The santa cruz county symphony's mission is to inspire, educate and engage through artistic excellence, distinctive musical performances and varied activities that celebrate and enhance the cultural vibrancy of our community.

Arts & Culture

San Francisco Challenge

Recreation & Sports

San Francisco State University

To provide private financial support to assist the university in meeting its educational mission.

Education

San Francisco Art Studio Foundation

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Francisco Symphony and the most unlike its peers is San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

9 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

9/9

Grantees still filing

6/9

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$175,863Arts & Culture$67,808Education$53,290Human Services$25,000Religion$25,000Philanthropy$2,500

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.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA2.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: 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 organisation BOWMAN FAMILY 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.

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0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

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typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

04Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: REDWOOD CITY 330 SQUAD CLUB INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 275102956 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on REDWOOD CITY 330 SQUAD CLUB INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 33% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Bowman Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Bowman Family Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

BOWMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

9 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Bowman Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph

BOWMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

9 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Bowman Family Foundation?

More from the funding graph