· Private foundation
Ethel N Bowen Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k319 grants · $755k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| BLUEFIELD STATE UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $43k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
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 +5% since the first grant, against -29% for the ones you funded once.
424 repeat relationships — 219 still active in FY2024, 205 since wound down; 101 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, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $266k 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
VIRGINIA STUDENT AID FOUNDATION INC4× · 2020–2023 · $69k · revenue +51%- BUBLUEFIELD UNIVERSITY4× · 2020–2023 · $63k · revenue +5%
- BUBLUEFIELD UNION MISSION INC2× · 2021–2022 · $15k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $25k
- GHGRAHAM HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $20k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $4k
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.
Shaped by the historic peace church tradition and nourished by a desire for excellence in all phases of its programs, bluffton university seeks to prepare students of all backgrounds for life as well as vocation, for responsible…
To impact the lives of all young people by providing educational programs that build character, instill life-enhancing values, and promote healthy choices through the game of golf.
The specific purpose of this corporation is to present a biblical, christian ministry of the gospel, hope, encouragement and strength to as many people as possible. the intent of those who will conduct this corporation's work is to present…
Blue forest is a non-profit conservation finance organization. we bring people, finance and science together to restore and protect our forests, watersheds, ecosystems and communities.
The mission of the WVU Foundation is to enrich the lives of those touched by West Virginia University by maximizing charitable support and providing services to the University, its students and affiliated organizations.
The mission of blue mountain community foundation is to be the catalyst that transforms the blue mountain region by growing generosity and connecting people, charitable causes, and community needs.
The mission of the bladen county hospital foundation is to serve the community by building awareness and philanthropic support for bladen county hospital as it provides compassionate, quality healthcare for all its patients.
Provides seminary, under-graduate, graduate, doctoral, and other continuing education programs
Blue ridge fellows are college graduates who begin their professional careers through an integrated, community-rich, nine-month program, learning to live out seamless faith in christ.
Bluecheck was launched in march 2022- we're a collective of humanitarian crisis response experts, entrepreneurs, and filmmakers with decades of experience addressing the needs of conflict-affected populations and documenting solidarity…
To enrich excellence through community ourreach, financial sustainability and ongoing funding of extraordinary educational programs.
Community lending
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bluefield State University Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Blue Cove Foundation Co Robert S&. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 634 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
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: Frank Litz Smoot Charitable Trust · K B Tierney Charitable Foundation Trust · The Stelio and Betty Tracy Corte Charitable Foundation · Celanese Foundation · Amazonsmile 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 Ethel N 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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