· Private foundation
Harry E Bovay Jr 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, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k63 grants · $230k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $196k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $593k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000,000 |
| Philmont Scout Ranch | $436,616 |
| Texas A&M Foundation | $208,000 |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital | $202,000 |
| Bevill State Community College | $132,617 |
| Retina Research Foundation | $50,000 |
| Samaritan's Purse | $25,000 |
| Allen Community College | $20,228 |
| Washburn University | $20,154 |
| Girl Scouts of San Jacinto | $20,000 |
| Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Fndation | $17,000 |
| Itawamba Community College | $15,176 |
| Kansas State University | $13,025 |
| West Alabama Children's Advocacy Center | $12,646 |
| Northwest Georgia Council | $12,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $205k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 71% of Harry E Bovay Jr Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 50% of the giving stays in TX; by stated purpose, 80%.
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 +30% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.
53 repeat relationships: 32 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 9 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $82k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- RRRETINA RESEARCH FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $418k · revenue +76%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC2× · 2018–2024 · $412k · revenue +125%- TATexas A&M Foundation5× · 2017–2024 · $331k · revenue +90%
Funded once
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $300k · revenue +28%- JFJOSEPH F WELDY HOME FOR CHILDRENone grant, 2023 · $114k · revenue +17% · 34% of their budget
- DCDirectors Charitable Giftsone grant, 2021 · $61k
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.
Baylor college of medicine (bcm) is committed to advancing human health through the integration of patient care, research, education, and community services.
Southern wesleyan university is a christ-centered, student-focused learning community devoted to transforming lives by challenging students to be dedicated scholars and servant-leaders who impact the world for christ.
A private institution of higher education, offering both undergraduate and graduate courses to students.
John brown university (jbu) provides christ-centered education that prepares students to honor god and serve others by developing their intellectual, spiritual, and professional lives. (continued on schedule o)jbu serves traditional…
The mission of baylor university is to educate men and women for worldwide leadership and service by integrating academic excellence and christian commitment within a caring community.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
Aacsb international provides quality assurance of business school programs, the latest in business education intelligence, thought leadership, and learning and development services.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Shaped by christian principles, mcmurry university challenges students to examine our complex world from multiple perspectives in preparation for lives of leadership, service and professional success.
Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
How this is measured
36 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. 36 of the 99 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 RETINA RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds Texas A&M Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JOSEPH F WELDY HOME FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds WEST ALABAMA CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLACK WARRIOR COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds LAMAR AMBULANCE SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
- Who funds WESTMINSTER COLLEGE ↗
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: Tulsa Community Foundation · Folds of Honor Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Greater Houston Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Harry E Bovay Jr Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Harry E Bovay Jr Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Friends of the Children- Central Oregon: 16% of income from government
- New England Baptist Hospital: 1% of income from government
- Lesley University: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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