· Private foundation
Ethel N Bowen Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +5% since the first grant, against -29% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 634 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
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: Frank Litz Smoot Charitable Trust · K B Tierney Charitable Foundation Trust · The Stelio and Betty Tracy Corte Charitable Foundation · Celanese Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ethel N Bowen Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ethel N Bowen Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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