· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Nick Finnegan Counseling Center | $6,000 |
| Urban Harvest | $6,000 |
| The Shepherd School of Music - Rice University | $6,000 |
| The Beacon | $5,000 |
| Los Angeles County Fire Department | $3,000 |
| The Rock At Hope Lutheran Church | $3,000 |
| New Hope Housing | $3,000 |
| Wildwood Food Pantry | $3,000 |
| Sixty-Six Theater Co | $3,000 |
| Rose Bounty Food Pantry United Church | $3,000 |
| Nameless Sound | $3,000 |
| Care Partners The Gathering | $3,000 |
| Amistad Mission | $3,000 |
| Waquoit Bay Reserve Foundation | $3,000 |
| Philanthropy Kids | $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, $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 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.
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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AMAMISTAD MISSION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $28k · revenue +9%
- WAWATERCOLOR ART SOCIETY-HOUSTON5× · 2020–2024 · $22k · revenue +53%
Camp For All Foundation6× · 2020–2025 · $20k · revenue +547%
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
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.
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.
How this is measured
45 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. 45 of the 76 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 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 Theatre Under the Stars Inc ↗
- Who funds Urban Harvest 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 DENVER URBAN GARDENS ↗
- Who funds Houston Hospice ↗
- Who funds LOCAL INFANT FORMULA FOR EMERGENCIES ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF WASHINGTON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Menil Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Gardenia E Janssen Animal Shelter ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Jack and Annis Bowen Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jack and Annis Bowen Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Commonwealth Zoological Corporation D/B/a Zoo New England: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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