Texas · Private foundation
Jack and Annis 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.
- $81k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 27
- Grants FY2025
- 33
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $6,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 28 to 36
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $839k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 18% of the organizations Jack and Annis Bowen Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 27 | $81k | 37% |
| FY2024 | 33 | $93k | 18% |
| FY2023 | 28 | $83k | 18% |
| FY2022 | 31 | $69k | 32% |
| FY2021 | 36 | $83k | 31% |
| FY2020 | 34 | $63k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amistad Mission Inc | $28,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Watercolor Art Society-Houston | $22,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Camp For All Foundation | $20,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Beacon of Downtown Houston | $18,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Women's Home | $17,500 | 4 | 0% |
| The Growhaus | $14,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Theatre Under the Stars Inc | $12,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Urban Harvest Inc | $12,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Nameless Sound | $10,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Houston Area Women's Center | $8,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 46 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 30 recipients with no EIN on record ($174k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Jack and Annis Bowen Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Houston Endowment Inc · The Brown Foundation Inc · The Powell Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Strake Foundation · The Elkins Foundation · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Vivian L Smith Foundation · Ting Tsung & Wei Fong Chao Foundation · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · The William Stamps Farish Fund
How this is measured
About Jack and Annis Bowen Foundation
- How much does Jack and Annis Bowen Foundation give?
- Jack and Annis Bowen Foundation reported 27 grants totaling $81,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 28 and 36 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Jack and Annis Bowen Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (30%), Education (9%), Food & Nutrition (9%).
- Who are Jack and Annis Bowen Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Amistad Mission Inc ($28k), Watercolor Art Society-Houston ($22k), Camp For All Foundation ($20k).
- Does Jack and Annis Bowen Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Jack and Annis Bowen Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Jack and Annis Bowen Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Houston Community Foundation, Houston Endowment Inc, The Brown Foundation Inc.
- Where is Jack and Annis Bowen Foundation based?
- Jack and Annis Bowen Foundation is based in TX.
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