· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Shepherd School of Music - Rice University | $6,000 |
| Nick Finnegan Counseling Center | $6,000 |
| Urban Harvest | $6,000 |
| The Beacon | $5,000 |
| The Rock At Hope Lutheran Church | $3,000 |
| New Hope Housing | $3,000 |
| Wildwood Food Pantry | $3,000 |
| Amistad Mission | $3,000 |
| Nameless Sound | $3,000 |
| Menil Collection | $3,000 |
| Magikids | $3,000 |
| Los Angeles County Fire Department | $3,000 |
| Waquoit Bay Reserve Foundation | $3,000 |
| Philanthropy Kids | $3,000 |
| Sixty-Six Theater Co | $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, $32k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
47 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
- AMAMISTAD MISSION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $28k · revenue +84%
- WAWATERCOLOR ART SOCIETY-HOUSTON5× · 2020–2024 · $22k · revenue +53%
Camp For All Foundation6× · 2020–2025 · $20k · revenue +476%
Funded once
- WBWaquoit Bay Nat'l Estuarine Research Reserveone grant, 2024 · $5k
- BSBUFFALO SCHOLARSHIPS FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue 0%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $3k
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.
Plant, protect and promote trees all over the greater Houston area.
The mission of the Houston Museum of Natural Science shall be to preserve and advance the general knowledge of natural science; to enhance in individuals the knowledge of and delight in natural science and related subjects; and to maintain…
The Houston Local Information Initiative, Inc. provides public service journalism that reflects the civic needs of the diverse communities comprising Greater Houston.
Glasstire is a website about visual art in Texas. Our mission is to expand the conversation about visual art in Texas.
CAMH presents extraordinary and thought-provoking arts programming and exhibitions.
The mission of Breakthrough Houston (BTH) is to work with highly motivated students to achieve post-secondary success and empower aspiring leaders to become the next generation of educational advocates.
To advance the conservation of birds and their habitats in the Greater Houston Gulf Coast region by acquiring and maintaining critical habitat as bird sanctuaries, providing education programs and nature experiences, and advocating policy…
Houston MediaSource aspires to be the community media center for the City of Houston. HMS provides public access to media platforms that promote citizen engagement, protect the right to free expression, and provide opportunities to advance…
The mission of the Houston Arboretum & Nature Center is to provide education about the natural environment to people of all ages and to protect and enhance the Arboretum as a haven and sanctuary for native plants and animals.
Wonderworks educates students to become better-qualified college applicants and better equipped to succeed in undergraduate studies by exploring challenging subject matter and techniques in a college setting.
The Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Houston's mission is to inspire and enable all youth, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens.
Seeking to put God's love into action, Houston Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope to provide a world where everyone has a decent place to live.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Beacon of Downtown Houston and the most unlike its peers is Big Bad Con Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
45 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. 45 of the 76 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 AMISTAD MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds WATERCOLOR ART SOCIETY-HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds Camp For All Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE BEACON OF DOWNTOWN HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds THE WOMEN'S HOME ↗
- Who funds THE GROWHAUS ↗
- Who funds Urban Harvest Inc ↗
- Who funds Theatre Under the Stars Inc ↗
- Who funds Nameless Sound ↗
- Who funds Houston Area Women's Center ↗
- Who funds BICYCLE COLORADO ↗
- Who funds River Oaks Chamber Orchestra ↗
- Who funds Foundation for Modern Music ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY CLUB OF WINTER PARK INC ↗
- Who funds COMMONWEALTH ZOOLOGICAL CORPORATION D/B/A ZOO NEW ENGLAND ↗
- Who funds Pacific Art League ↗
- Who funds HOUSTON YOUTH SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds ELIZABETH F GAMBLE GARDEN ↗
- Who funds WOMAN'S CLUB OF PALO ALTO ↗
- Who funds LOCAL INFANT FORMULA FOR EMERGENCIES ↗
- Who funds Houston Hospice ↗
- Who funds DENVER URBAN GARDENS ↗
- Who funds Menil Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FILM FORUM INC ↗
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: 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
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 Jack and Annis 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.
- Commonwealth Zoological Corporation D/B/a Zoo New England — 2% of income from government
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.