· Private foundation
Daniel and Sharon Bowen Foundation
Its FY2024 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $120k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $300k
- $250k+2 grants · $2.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF GRAND RAPIDS | $2,000,000 |
| OUR SHEPHERDS OUR FUTURE | $250,000 |
| ST MARY'S FOUNDATION | $166,666 |
| GRAND ACTION FOUNDATION | $83,333 |
| ONE WORLD SURGERY | $50,000 |
| IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| HOPE COLLEGE | $30,000 |
| ARTISTS CREATING TOGETHER | $20,000 |
| BROWN-HUTCHERSON MINISTRIES | $20,000 |
| FRANCISCAN RENEWAL CENTER | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF WEST MICHIGAN | $7,500 |
| THE NEW GROWTH PROJECT | $5,000 |
| GR EARLY DISCOVERY CENTER | $5,000 |
| DOMINICAN SISTERS | $5,000 |
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 (FY23–24, $35k) 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 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.
21 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 15% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.3M 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
- HCHOPE COLLEGE4× · 2021–2024 · $90k · revenue +8%
- NGNEW GROWTH PROJECT3× · 2022–2024 · $15k · revenue +80%
- BCBEER CITY DOG BISCUITS2× · 2022–2023 · $15k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- KRKENYA RELIEF FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $350k
- SCSERVANTIS COMMUNITY CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $25k
- SMST MARY'S CATHOLIC CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $25k
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 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…
Engages, equips and empowers learners to explore their vocations, fulfill their potential and serve the world.
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.
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…
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…
Gdahc mission: together with our partners, we empower and improve the health and economic vitality of individuals, organizations and communities by catalyzing the power of collaboration. gdahc vision: healthy people. healthy community.…
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…
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.
We, trinity health grand haven hospital and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities.trinity health grand haven hospital is a member of trinity…
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…
Grand traverse industries fiercely advocates strengthens and advances the dignity and opportunities of people with disabilities through services and employment.
The university of rio grande/ rio grande community college is america's unique private/public institution of higher education designed to provide learners the opportunity to attain a high-quality, high-value education. our personalized,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grand Rapids Civic Theatre Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association 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 36 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 Aquinas College ↗
- Who funds ONE WORLD SURGERY ↗
- Who funds HOPE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds GRAND ACTION FOUNDATION 20 ↗
- Who funds GRAND RAPIDS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GRAND RAPIDS CIVIC THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds HELP Pregnancy Crisis Aid Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALING CENTER ↗
- Who funds ARTISTS CREATING TOGETHER ↗
- Who funds NEW GROWTH PROJECT ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES WEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds BEER CITY DOG BISCUITS ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds VAN ANDEL INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds GRAND RAPIDS EARLY DISCOVERY CENTER ↗
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: 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
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 Daniel and Sharon 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 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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