· Private foundation
Bowsher Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $1k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST JAMES DAY SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| BATON ROUGE YOUTH COALITION | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUND OF TX HILL COUNTRY | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +91% since the first grant, against -12% for those funded once.
7 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BRBaton Rouge Youth Coalition Inc3× · 2023–2025 · $30k · revenue +91%
- LKLOUISIANA KEY ACADEMY2× · 2018–2019 · $4k · revenue +228%
Teach for America Inc2× · 2018–2019 · $2k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- SJST JAMES PLACE OF BATON ROUGE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -71%
- CACAPITAL AREA UNITED WAYone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -2%
- GBGREATER BATON ROUGE FOOD BANKone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue -12%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Baton rouge college preparatory charter school equips all students in grades five through twelve with the knowledge, skills, and character necessary to excel in college and in life.
To strengthen, promote, and build the capacity of louisiana's nonprofit sector through education, advocacy, and member services.
To educate, unite and focus our community's resources in order to efficiently address the most critical needs of Brazoria County
Our mission is to shape the future of finance by developing leaders whose innovation, investment excellence, and human-centered leadership advance the industry and its adjacent sectors.
Drive solutions to common issues with an emphasis on workforce development and safety performance.
The purpose of the chamber is to initiate, stimulate and sustain planned business and residential growth and to contribute to an environment conducive to a superior quality of life for the citizens of west baton rouge parish and to engage…
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
Providing standards, guidelines, and procedures to those members engaged in practice of the real estate profession
The tulsa area united way unites people and resources to improve lives and strengthen our communities.
Leadership austin connects and develops leaders to courageously engage and transform our communities.
Empowering college admission counseling professionals through education, advocacy, and community.
Mid-city redevelopment alliance is a chartered member of the neighborworks america network of excellence. the 250-member network operates using best practices that ensure strong business operations, organized and strategic data management,…
How this is measured
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 17 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Baton Rouge Youth Coalition Inc ↗
- Who funds ST JAMES PLACE OF BATON ROUGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds BATON ROUGE AREA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOUISIANA KEY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds GREATER BATON ROUGE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
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: The Merice Boo Johnston Grigsby Foundation · The Credit Bureau of Baton Rouge Foundation · Irene W & Cb Pennington Private Foundation · Baton Rouge Area Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Bowsher Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bowsher Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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