· Private foundation
Corinne R & Henry Bower Memorial
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 54% of CORINNE R & HENRY BOWER MEMORIAL’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 $10k3 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BUCKS COUNTY SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION | $12,000 |
| PHILADELPHIA CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE | $7,772 |
| CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF ALLEN COUNTY | $7,772 |
| NEW LEASH ON LIFE USA | $7,772 |
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, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 40% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of Corinne R & Henry Bower Memorial’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 98% of the giving stays in PA; read by stated purpose it is 92% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +69% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 4 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, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
- SJST JAMES SCHOOL3× · 2017–2022 · $25k
- WCWISSAHICKON CHARTER SCHOOL3× · 2017–2022 · $20k · revenue +68%
- RSRETIRED SR VOLUNTEER PROGRAM3× · 2017–2020 · $15k
Funded once
- PCPHILADELPHIA COLLEGE OFone grant, 2021 · $36k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $25k
- TJTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $19k · revenue +79%
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.
Charter school providing students a content rich, adademically rigerous core knowledge education with a well-defined, sequential curriculum in a safe, orderly disiplined and caring environment.
The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
Public Trust is a non-profit organization on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania that fosters learning, creativity, and collaboration in support of justice and equality.
The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…
To cultivate an enduring appreciation for dance through world-class performances, to inspire the next generation with exceptional education and professional training, and to connect with the community through meaningful and inclusive…
PACS prepares students to achieve the highest level of their potential, whether academically, social or morally. Our aim is to create life-long learners who exercise self discipline and self motivation and attain a high level of human…
We connect the people and places of philadelphia through art and partnership. the organization is a free-standing platform that endeavors to show forward-thinking, high-quality contemporary visual and performance art in the city. the…
The association for public art (apa, formerly the fairmount park art association) commissions, preserves, interprets and promotes public art in philadelphia. dedicated to creating a museum without walls that informs, engages and inspires…
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
Germantown academy inspires students to be independent in thought; confident in expression; compassionate in spirit; collaborative in action; and honorable in deed. germantown academy is a private school educating students from pre-k…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Philadelphia Children's Alliance and the most unlike its peers is Thomas Jefferson University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 30 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 WISSAHICKON CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ARDEN THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA SCENIC WORKS ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Abington Art Center ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds NEW LEASH ON LIFE USA ↗
- Who funds Episcopal Academy ↗
- Who funds Hunting Park Christian Academy ↗
- Who funds OPTIONS IN AGING ↗
- Who funds CONNECTEDLY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS BOARDING HOME OF WESTERN QUARTERLY MEETING ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA YOUNG PLAYWRIGHTS ↗
- Who funds BROAD STREET MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds 1812 PRODUCTIONS 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: The William Penn Foundation · C F Holdship Charitable Trust · Independence Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · J Leon Lockard · Clarence a Rowell #2 · Skilling Joseph Kennard Td · Hamilton Family Charitable Trust · The Gordon Charter Foundation · Hamilton Family Foundation · Henrietta Tower Wurts Memorial Foundation · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main
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 Corinne R & Henry Bower Memorial 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.
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