· Private foundation
Bowen 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 you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 52% of BOWEN FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k40 grants · $102k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $212k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $549k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION | $240,000 |
| REBUILDING TOGETHER OKC | $114,750 |
| NATIONAL COWBOY & WESTERN HERITAGE MUSEUM | $84,125 |
| OKLAHOMA COUNCIL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS INC | $60,000 |
| BLAZE'S TRIBUTE EQUINE RESCUE | $50,000 |
| COMMUNITY OF CONCERNED CHRISTIANS - GENERAL | $45,000 |
| SAVING OUR YOUTH | $40,000 |
| TEEN RECOVERY SOLUTIONS | $30,000 |
| WINGS SPECIAL NEEDS COMMUNITY | $30,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $20,000 |
| JESUS HOUSE | $15,000 |
| IMPACT OKLAHOMA | $11,850 |
| HEARTS FOR HEARING | $10,000 |
| DALE K GRAHAM VETERANS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CENTER OF FAMILY LOVE | $9,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $637k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +33% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
98 repeat relationships — 43 still active in FY2025, 55 since wound down; 11 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k 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
- RTREBUILDING TOGETHER OKC INC8× · 2017–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +23% · 40% of their budget
- NCNATIONAL COWBOY AND WESTERN HERITAGE MUSEUM8× · 2017–2025 · $661k · revenue +81%
- OCOKLAHOMA COUNCIL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS INC8× · 2017–2025 · $411k · revenue +35%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMAone grant, 2024 · $110k
- SASALVATION ARMYone grant, 2017 · $70k
- COCOMMUNITY OF CONCERNED CHRISTIANS INCone grant, 2024 · $32k
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.
The State Chamber is a statewide membership organization. Our purpose is to be the unified voice of business and the most effective advocacy organization at the State Capitol.
The organization's mission is to create and champion a vibrant and diverse downtown through placemaking, advocacy, and promotion.
Goodwill empowers people to reach their full potential through work opportunities, training, and support services.
To provide a statewide voice for children by enhancing & sustaining the growth of local casa programs which provide trained community volunteers to represent the best interests of abused & neglected children.
The Tulsa SPCA's mission is to improve the lives of dogs and cats, and their human companions.
The tulsa area united way unites people and resources to improve lives and strengthen our communities.
The tulsa regional chamber transforms the tulsa region by attracting and retaining employers, talent and tourism for long-term prosperity.
To revitalize urban oklahoma city neighborhoods and create affordable housing opportunities by rehabilitating historic homes, constructing new homes, and increasing community investment through home ownership.
Leadership oklahoma was organized to create, inspire, and support a dynamic network of leaders whose increased awareness and commitement to service will energize oklahomans to shape oklahoma's future.
The mission of the oklahoma community service commission is to engage oklahomans of all ages and backgrounds in community-based service which supports americorps programs in oklahoma communities. services may include assisting with…
Connecting, caring, advocating for wildlife, people, and wild places.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Leadership Oklahoma City Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bugles Across America Nfp. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
98 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. 98 of the 175 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 REBUILDING TOGETHER OKC INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COWBOY AND WESTERN HERITAGE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds WINGS SPECIAL NEEDS COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds BLAZE'S TRIBUTE EQUINE RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA COUNCIL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS INC ↗
- Who funds Hearts for Hearing Foundation ↗
- Who funds TEEN RECOVERY SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF OKLAHOMA INC ↗
- Who funds FIELDS & FUTURES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds GOLF FORE AFRICA INC ↗
- Who funds IMPACT OKLAHOMA INC ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA PROJECT WOMAN INC ↗
- Who funds HEARTLINE INC ↗
- Who funds THE HUGS PROJECT INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds ALLIED ARTS OF OKLAHOMA INC ↗
- Who funds The Center of Family Love ↗
- Who funds OKLAHOMA CONTEMPORARY ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DALE K GRAHAM VETERANS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds No Boundaries International Inc ↗
- Who funds POSITIVE TOMORROWS INC ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
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: Inasmuch Foundation · American Fidelity Foundation · El and Thelma Gaylord Foundation · Oklahoma City Community Foundation Inc · Communities Foundation of Oklahoma · Cresap Family Foundation · Harris Foundation Inc · Sarkeys Foundation · Fred Jones Family Foundation · The Merrick Foundation · Kirkpatrick Foundation Inc · Rainbolt Family 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 Bowen 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Oklahoma Public School Resource Center — 67% of income from government
- Newview Oklahoma Inc — 45% of income from government
- Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation — 31% of income from government
- Mental Health Association in Tulsa Inc dba Mental Health Association Oklahoma — 8% of income from government
- Remerge Inc — 7% of income from government
- Oklahoma City National Memorial Foundation — 1% of income from government
- Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City Inc — 1% of income from government
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.