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Brooks and Marilyn Bower Family Foundation at a glance

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Brooks and Marilyn Bower Family 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.

$30k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$33kAnimals$20kHuman Services$15kHousing & Shelter$8kRecreation & Sports$8kEnvironment$5kFood & Nutrition$5kPublic Safety & Disaster$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$114k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ELECTRICAL SAFETY FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL INC$5,000
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY$5,000
SAVE THE ANIMALS FOUNDATION$5,000
TED FOUNDATION INC$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
FREESTORE FOODBANK INC$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–22, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%UNITING PARTNERS FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN: $3k → 15%UNITING PARTNERS FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN: $3k → 15%UNITING PARTNERS FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN: $3k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 5% of Brooks and Marilyn Bower Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Brooks and Marilyn Bower Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$60k · 8 repeat orgs$40k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +140% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
5

Total granted

$60k
$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+140%
+5%

Still filing today

88%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthAnimalsHuman ServicesEducationFood & NutritionPublic Safety & DisasterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TP
    THE PETE FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $13k · revenue +155%
  • KH
    KENTUCKY HUMANE SOCIETY - ANIMAL RESCUE
    4× · 2020–2024 · $10k · revenue +139%
  • UP
    Uniting Partners for Women and Children
    3× · 2020–2022 · $8k · revenue +186%

Funded once

  • SG
    SEE GOOD TO BE GOOD INC
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • RM
    RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF KENTUCKIANA INC
    one grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue +5%
  • SheJumps
    one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +23%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Progressive Animal Welfare Society aka Paws

A champion for animals since 1967, PAWS is a nationally recognized leader - rehabilitating injured and orphaned wildlife, sheltering and adopting homeless cats and dogs, and educating people to make a better world for animals and people.

Animals
2
Nine Lives Foundation

We are a community-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization operating a cat-onlyclinic and adoption center. We rescue at-risk cats and kittens, provide them withclinical care and nurturing to address their medical and behavioral needs and…

Animals
3
Feral Cat SpayNeuter Project

Our mission is to save the lives of homeless cats by providing access to high volume spay/neuter surgery in a safe and humane environment, collaborating with others and mentoring like-minded organizations to increase spay/neuter in their…

Animals
4
Women's Humane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Inc

As america's first animal shelter, founded in 1869, women's humane society dba women's animal center (wac), assists people in the community, saves the lives of animals, and improves the health of pets through its shelter and adoptions…

Animals
5
Shelter From the Storm Animal Rescue Inc

Reduce the euthanasia rate of healthy and adoptable animals and improve the lives of companion animals by finding permanent homes for animals in need, providing support to communities who do not have access to humane organizations,…

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6
Partners for Animal Welfare Society

Animal shelter for the protection and care of abused and neglected animals.

Animals
7
Philadelphia Animal Welfare Society

Dedicated to saving philadelphias homeless and at-risk pets through rescue, adoption, and provision of veterinary care and other pet owner support services.

Animals
8
Alliance for Suicide Prevention of Larimer County

Prevent suicide by raising awareness

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9
Petfinder Foundation

To prevent the euthanasia of adoptable pets and support animal welfare groups to this end.

Animals
10
Animal Adoption & Rescue Foundation of Winston-Salem Inc

Aarf is a nonprofit organization serving the winston-salem area dedicated to finding loving homes for dogs and cats through rescue, foster care, veterinary services, adoption, and education.

Animals
11
Washington Humane Society

The washington humane society protects animals, supports families, and advocates for positive change to create a world where all animals can thrive. we enrich the humanity of our communities by promoting compassion and encouraging people…

Animals
12
Animal Care Sanctuary

Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Foundation for Suicide Prevention; the most unlike its peers is Ted Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

16 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. 16 of the 19 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
8/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DE CAVEL FAMILY SIDS FOUNDATION: $7,500 · OtherDE CAVEL FAMILY SIDS FOUNDATIONNATIONAL EATING DISORDERS ASSOCIATION: $7,500 · OtherNATIONAL EATING DISORDERS ASSOCIATIONSEE GOOD TO BE GOOD INC: $5,000 · OtherSEE GOOD TO BE GOOD INCIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBREACH OUTDOOR EDUCATION CENTER: $5,000 · OtherBREACH OUTDOOR EDUCATION CENTERTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $5,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYKENTUCKY HUMANE SOCIETY - ANIMAL RESCUE: $10,000 · AnimalsKENTUCKY HUMANE SOCIE…Animal Care Society Inc: $5,000 · AnimalsAnimal Care Society I…SAVE THE ANIMALS FOUNDATION: $5,000 · AnimalsSAVE THE ANIMALS FOUN…THE PETE FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 · HealthTHE PETE FOUNDATIO…RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF KENTUCKIANA INC: $2,500 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD HO…AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $2,500 · HealthAMERICAN FOUNDATIO…Uniting Partners for Women and Children: $7,500 · Human ServicesUniting Partn…THE CENTER FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesTHE CENTER FO…FREESTORE FOODBANK INC: $5,000 · Food & NutritionElectrical Safety Foundation International Inc: $5,000 · Public Safety & DisasterTED FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Community ImprovementSheJumps: $2,500 · EducationWALDEN SCHOOL CORPORATION: $2,500 · Education
Other$35,000Animals$20,000Health$17,500Human Services$12,500Food & Nutrition$5,000Public Safety & Disaster$5,000Community Improvement$5,000Education$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE PETE FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetKENTUCKY HUMANE SOCIETY - ANIMAL RESCUE: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUniting Partners for Women and Children: $7,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetDE CAVEL FAMILY SIDS FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 2y, 30% of budgetNATIONAL EATING DISORDERS ASSOCIATION: $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFREESTORE FOODBANK INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAnimal Care Society Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSAVE THE ANIMALS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF KENTUCKIANA INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSheJumps: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWALDEN SCHOOL CORPORATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Mightycause Charitabl…The Community Foundat…Baird Foundation IncKosair Charities Comm…Honorable Order of Ke…The Community Foundat…Aetna Foundation IncJpmorgan Chase Founda…The Pfizer Foundation…Charities Aid Foundat…National Philanthropi…Network for Good
Mightycause Charitable FoundationFL17.2× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Kosair Charities Committee Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · Aetna Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · Network for Good

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Brooks and Marilyn Bower Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Brooks and Marilyn Bower Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 19 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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