· Private foundation
Bowman Family Foundation
Its FY2018 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2018.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WOODSIDE-PORTOLA VALLEY FP FOUNDATION | $88,163 |
| WOODSIDE SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $53,290 |
| SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY | $46,500 |
| LEAGUE TO SAVE LAKE TAHOE | $25,000 |
| REDWOOD CITY 330 SQUAD CLUB INC | $25,000 |
| OPEN HANDS INC | $25,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART | $20,000 |
| ST BEBE'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $15,200 |
| WARRIORS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| CHILDFAMILY RESEARCH&TRAINING INSTITUTE | $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 |
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 (FY18–18, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
8 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2018, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $160k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- WSWOODSIDE SCHOOL FOUNDATION2× · 2017–2018 · $73k · revenue +11%
- SFSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART2× · 2017–2018 · $43k · revenue +37%
- WWWENDER WEIS FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN2× · 2017–2018 · $15k · revenue +72%
Funded once
- CGCOLORADO GRAND INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $35k · revenue +144%
- RCREDWOOD CITY 330 CLUB INCone grant, 2017 · $25k
- C1CHP 11-22 FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $25k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.
The academy is a renowned scientific and educational institution with a mission to regenerate the natural world through science, learning, and collaboration. based in san francisco's golden gate park, it is home to a world-class aquarium,…
We believe opera is a uniquely compelling, entertaining and emotionally thrilling art form. our mission is to bring together growing audiences to experience opera's transformative power.
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
The mission of the university of california, irvine foundation (uc irvine foundation) is to raise and manage private funds to support uc irvine's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service. to this end, the uc…
Organization's mission ====================== the university of california, san francisco(ucsf) is among the world's leading universities dedicated to advancing health worldwide through biomedical research, graduate-level education in the…
A private school that cultivates and celebrates the intellectual, imaginative, and humanitarian promise of each student in a community that practices mutual respect, embraces diversity, and inspires passion for learning.
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
At san francisco friends school, students learn in a community grounded in the quaker values of reflection, integrity, peaceful problem-solving and stewardship. our teachers challenge students with a dynamic curriculum that inspires…
Nurture empathy and connection by engaging communities with socially relevant contemporary art
To advance the frontiers of astronomy and share our discoveries with the world. the two 10-meter telescopes of keck observatory are the world's largest optical and infrared telescopes. they have revolutionized our understanding of the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Golden State Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Wender Weis Foundation for Children. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 25 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 SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds WOODSIDE SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART ↗
- Who funds COLORADO GRAND INC ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN STATE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds REDWOOD CITY 330 SQUAD CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds LEAGUE TO SAVE LAKE TAHOE ↗
- Who funds LEHIGH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CHILD AND FAMILY RESEARCH AND TRAINING INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds WENDER WEIS FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds SAFE & SOUND ↗
- Who funds KQED INC ↗
- Who funds PETERSEN AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HENRY COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION AMBASSADORS INC ↗
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: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 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.
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.