· Private foundation
Bowsher the Booher Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $72k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LA CASA DE AMISTAD INC | $15,000 |
| MICHIANA PUBLIC BROADCASTING CORPORATION | $15,000 |
| LOGAN COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC | $12,000 |
| ROBINSON COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER | $10,000 |
| ST JOSEPH CNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE NORTHERN | $10,000 |
| FAMILY CHILDRENS CENTER | $8,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +64% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 9 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- LCLA CASA DE AMISTAD INC8× · 2018–2025 · $109k · revenue +471%
- LCLogan Community Resources Inc4× · 2018–2025 · $47k · revenue +64%
- UWUNITED WAY OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY INC2× · 2018–2019 · $39k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMYone grant, 2022 · $28k
- BBBRIGHT BEGINNINGS FAMILY CHILDCARE INCone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
- GSGOOD SHEPHERD MONTESSORI SCHOOL INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +59%
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.
Empowering individuals to build stronger families and communities.
Helping individuals and families with life's changing needs by providing programs and services which will improve their quality of life.
Assist at-risk children, youth and families in acheiving their greatest potential.
A safe place is the leading advocate for eliminating domestic violence & human trafficking in northern illinois.
The mission of cardinal services, inc. of indiana is to assist and advocate for people with disabilities and challenges to live lives full of dignity, growth, and opportunity.
Strengthening lives, families, and communities through our cornerstone values.
Ywca northeast indiana actively empowers individuals and communities through advocacy, education, and support services, ensuring dignity for all.
Boys and girls village serves children and families in at-risk situations by strengthening their ability to succeed in life.
Inspired by its heritage since 1906, matrix human services advocates for and services the most vulnerable in the metropolitan detroit community and empowers individiuals and families to enhance the quality of their lives and achieve self…
To deliver quality and compassionate behavioral health services to individuals and families all the time through a trauma informed care philosophy and approach.
Listening ear crisis center in mt. pleasant, michigan, empowers individuals and families across mid and northern michigan by providing quality services and safe, affordable housing. with a history of serving over 30,000 people annually,…
Since 1897, when the women of mount zion temple created a safe haven for jewish refugees fleeing persecution in russia, neighborhood house has been a stronghold in the st. paul community, helping all people in need. a welcoming presence…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of St Joseph County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bright Beginnings Family Childcare Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 27 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 LA CASA DE AMISTAD INC ↗
- Who funds Logan Community Resources Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE VILLAGE A COMMUNITY MUSICAL ART ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHERN IN INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE NORTHERN INDIANA CORRIDOR INC ↗
- Who funds REAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH SERVICE BUREAU OF ST JOSEPH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MICHIANA PUBLIC BROADCASTING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds BRIGHT BEGINNINGS FAMILY CHILDCARE INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD SHEPHERD MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds IRIS FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER 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: 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
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 Bowsher the Booher 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.