California · Private foundation
James S Bower Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $3.2M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 60
- Grants FY2024
- 58
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 19%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $30,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $400,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 45 to 58
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 7
- Total assets, FY2024
- $89M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 19% of the organizations James S Bower Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $335k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 58 | $3.0M | 24% |
| FY2023 | 58 | $3.2M | 19% |
| FY2022 | 55 | $3.8M | 20% |
| FY2021 | 50 | $3.1M | 26% |
| FY2020 | 49 | $3.3M | 22% |
| FY2019 | 50 | $3.1M | 32% |
| FY2018 | 48 | $2.4M | 38% |
| FY2017 | 45 | $2.3M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carpinteria Children's Project | $2,400,000 | 8 | 27% |
| Santa Barbara Education Foundation | $1,648,000 | 8 | 18% |
| Hospice of Santa Barbara Inc | $1,585,972 | 8 | 9% |
| Calm Inc | $1,568,500 | 8 | 3% |
| Community Environmental Council | $1,510,000 | 8 | 12% |
| Uc Santa Barbara Foundation | $825,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Isla Vista Youth Projects Inc dba LEAP LearnEngageAdvocatePartner | $776,750 | 7 | 4% |
| Goleta Education Foundation | $526,000 | 5 | 66% |
| Sansum Clinic | $510,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics | $471,500 | 7 | 1% |
Show all 103 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 36 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
James S Bower Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 8 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 99 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Santa Barbara Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Williams-Corbett Foundation · Towbes Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · The McCune Foundation · The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation · June G Outhwaite Charitable Trust JS Poucher KL Englert & CM Cooney Co-Tr · Latkin Charitable Foundation · Fund for Santa Barbara Inc · Alice Tweed Tuohy Foundation · Mosher Foundation
How this is measured
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About James S Bower Foundation
- How much does James S Bower Foundation give?
- James S Bower Foundation reported 60 grants totaling $3,170,750 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 45 and 58 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does James S Bower Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (28%), Education (27%), Environment (11%).
- Who are James S Bower Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Carpinteria Children's Project ($2.4M), Santa Barbara Education Foundation ($1.6M), Hospice of Santa Barbara Inc ($1.6M).
- Does James S Bower Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does James S Bower Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as James S Bower Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Santa Barbara Foundation, Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation, Williams-Corbett Foundation.
- Where is James S Bower Foundation based?
- James S Bower Foundation is based in CA.
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