Missouri · Private foundation
Bowsher the Booher Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $80k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 56%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 9
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.6M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 56% of the organizations Bowsher the Booher Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 53% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 7 | $80k | 14% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $85k | 56% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $90k | 44% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $87k | 43% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $65k | 14% |
| FY2020 | 6 | $73k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 6 | $76k | 67% |
| FY2018 | 5 | $42k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| La Casa de Amistad Inc | $108,700 | 8 | 2% |
| Logan Community Resources Inc | $46,500 | 4 | 0% |
| United Way of St Joseph County Inc | $38,500 | 2 | 1% |
| The Village a Community Musical Art Alliance Inc | $29,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Junior Achievement of Northern in Inc | $21,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Michiana Public Broadcasting Corporation | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Boys and Girls Club of the Northern Indiana Corridor Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Youth Service Bureau of St Joseph County Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Real Services Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Center for the Homeless Inc | $12,340 | 2 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| La Casa de Amistad Inc | $108,700 | 8 | 2% |
| Logan Community Resources Inc | $46,500 | 4 | 0% |
| United Way of St Joseph County Inc | $38,500 | 2 | 1% |
| The Village a Community Musical Art Alliance Inc | $29,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Junior Achievement of Northern in Inc | $21,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Michiana Public Broadcasting Corporation | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Boys and Girls Club of the Northern Indiana Corridor Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Youth Service Bureau of St Joseph County Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Real Services Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Center for the Homeless Inc | $12,340 | 2 | 0% |
| The Salvation Army | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Good Shepherd Montessori School Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Bright Beginnings Family Childcare Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| St Joseph County Public Library Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Iris Family Support Center Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($217k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bowsher the Booher Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Muessel Ellison Mem Irr Tua · Carroll F V Char Tr-Main · Clark Sa & Fp Mem Fd Irr Tua · Community Foundation of St Joseph County Inc · University of Notre Dame du Lac · Klockow Harvey R and Doris Fdn · Asante Foundation Inc · The Pokagon Fund Inc · 1st Source Bank Foundation Inc Xxx-Xx-Xxxx · Fields Foundation Irr Tua · United Way of St Joseph County Inc · Judd Leighton Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Bowsher the Booher Foundation
- How much does Bowsher the Booher Foundation give?
- Bowsher the Booher Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $80,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 9 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Bowsher the Booher Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (44%), Education (16%), Youth Development (15%).
- Who are Bowsher the Booher Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: La Casa de Amistad Inc ($109k), Logan Community Resources Inc ($47k), United Way of St Joseph County Inc ($39k).
- Does Bowsher the Booher Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 56% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bowsher the Booher Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Bowsher the Booher Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Muessel Ellison Mem Irr Tua, Carroll F V Char Tr-Main, Clark Sa & Fp Mem Fd Irr Tua.
- Where is Bowsher the Booher Foundation based?
- Bowsher the Booher Foundation is based in MO.
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