· Private foundation
Dan and Sherry 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $107k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $535k
- $250k+2 grants · $3.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST ROBERT CATHOLIC CHURCH | $2,000,000 |
| CATHOLIC CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL | $1,084,500 |
| ST MARY'S FOUNDATION | $166,666 |
| SAN JUAN DIEGO ACADEMY | $110,000 |
| GRAND ACTION FOUNDATION | $83,333 |
| HOPE COLLEGE | $75,000 |
| AQUINAS COLLEGE | $50,000 |
| ONE WORLD SURGERY | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| BEER CITY DOG BISCUITS | $25,000 |
| HELP PREGNANCY AID | $16,666 |
| BROWN-HUTCHERSON MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| FRANCISCAN RENEWAL CENTER | $10,000 |
| ARTISTS CREATING TOGETHER | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY23–25, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
27 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 6 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, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.0M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GAGRAND ACTION FOUNDATION 202× · 2024–2025 · $167k · revenue +109%
- HCHOPE COLLEGE5× · 2021–2025 · $165k · revenue +8%
- BCBEER CITY DOG BISCUITS3× · 2022–2025 · $40k · revenue +565%
Funded once
- RCROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF GRAND RAPIDSone grant, 2024 · $2.0M
- KRKENYA RELIEF FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $350k
- SCSERVANTIS COMMUNITY CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $25k
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.
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.
The college for creative studies nurtures the creativity that is vital to the enrichment of modern culture. the college educates visual artists and designers, knowledgeable in varied fields, who will be leaders in creative professions that…
The Center's mission is to inspire, entertain, educate, and serve all in Northern Michigan year-round by presenting exceptional experiences across the full spectrum of the performing arts and offering impactful educational opportunities.
To lift the human spirit through the art of dance by providing: exceptional and diverse programming; high quality dance education; outreach to inspire and enrich the community; family-friendly programming including newly commissioned…
To present west michigan audiences with high quality broadway productions and to provide student arts education programs, enriching the community through professional performing arts, as well as to expand the diversity of theatre in the…
Engages, equips and empowers learners to explore their vocations, fulfill their potential and serve the world.
Equipping students to serve and glorify God. GCCS offers a Christ-centered education that is grounded in faith, connected through relationships, committed to excellence and prepared for service.
The mission of groves learning organization is to build confidence and success for learners, particularly those with learning differences such as dyslexia, adhd and executive function challenges. through research-based approaches and…
Grand traverse industries fiercely advocates strengthens and advances the dignity and opportunities of people with disabilities through services and employment.
To cultivate a thriving and connected startup ecosystem in nw lower michigan.
Changing lives through the power of work.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Goodwill provides exceptional opportunities for people facing employment barriers.
How this is measured
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 42 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Aquinas College ↗
- Who funds GRAND ACTION FOUNDATION 20 ↗
- Who funds HOPE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ONE WORLD SURGERY ↗
- Who funds HELP Pregnancy Crisis Aid Inc ↗
- Who funds GRAND RAPIDS CIVIC THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds GRAND RAPIDS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BEER CITY DOG BISCUITS ↗
- Who funds ARTISTS CREATING TOGETHER ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALING CENTER ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES WEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds NEW GROWTH PROJECT ↗
- Who funds VAN ANDEL INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds GRAND RAPIDS EARLY DISCOVERY CENTER ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds CAMP BLODGETT ↗
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: Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation · Frey Foundation · Jmj Foundation · The Meijer Foundation · Wolverine World Wide Foundation · Douglas & Maria Devos Foundation · The Community Foundation of the Holland/Zeeland Area Inc · WK Kellogg Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Paradise Foundation · The Meijer Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Dan and Sherry Bowen Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dan and Sherry Bowen Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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