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Lisha & Chad Bowen Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$1k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 57% of LISHA & CHAD BOWEN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,050
Median grant
2
States reached
$14k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TAMPA THEATRE$1,200
HUMANE SOCIETY$1,050
CASA$100
Individual grant recipient$100
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–21, $235) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS: $235 → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

ME
MI
NY
OH
PA
CA
CO
MD
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

25%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3k · 4 repeat orgs$8k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.

4 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
18

Total granted

$3k
$7k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+10%

Still filing today

50%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24
AnimalsYouth DevelopmentHealthFood & NutritionArts & CultureHuman ServicesOther

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

  • PC
    PACE CENTER FOR GIRLSINC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $1k · revenue +18%
  • HS
    HUMANE SOCIETY
    2× · 2023–2024 · $1k
  • COMMUNITY ACTION STOPS ABUSE INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $203 · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • VT
    VAST TRACK AND FIELD
    one grant, 2022 · $2k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $1k
  • BA
    BAY AREA LEGAL SERVICES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $875 · revenue +35%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Naples Zoo Inc

Naples zoo is accredited by the american zoo & aquarium association (aza) and has numerous animal exhibits placed on its 45-acre site. (continued on schedule o)each exhibit is unique and designed to simulate typical conditions for the…

Animals
2
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

3
Animal Care Sanctuary

Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…

Animals
4
Tampa Bay Partnership Inc

The tampa bay partnership is a privately funded, ceo-driven regional advocacy organization, committed to creating a unified, competitive and prosperous tampa bay.

5
Los Angeles Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

Spcala is dedicated to the prevention of cruelty to animals through education, law enforcement, intervention and advocacy.

Animals
6
Marin Humane Society

Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.

Animals
7
The Humane Society for Seattleking County

Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.

Animals
8
Allosource

Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.

Health
9
Birchbark Foundation Inc

By providing financial resources for those in need and educational resources to our community, birchbark foundation empowers people to make informed decisions in times of crisis and to be better advocates for their pets

Animals
10
The Arc Tampa Bay Foundation Inc

To secure the financial future of services for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities served by the arc tampa bay, inc. (continued on schedule o)this mission is accomplished through a comprehensive plan of building…

Human Services
11
Humane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

The primary mission of the humane society is to end animal cruelty, neglect and overpopulation in south carolina.

Animals
12
K9 Hurricane's Heroes Inc

K9 hurricane's heroes, a federally recognized, non-profit organization, provides "retired law enforcement and military dogs" with subsidized veterinary care so they can live a long and healthy life. often these incredible dogs are the…

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Morris Animal Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Lennar Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

12 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 24 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

VAST TRACK AND FIELD — $1,600 · OtherVAST TRACK AND FIELDHUMANE SOCIETY — $1,161 · OtherHUMANE SOCIETYIndividual grant recipient — $1,069 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBAY AREA LEGAL SERVICES INC — $875 · OtherBAY AREA LEGAL SERVICES INCPLANT HS ATHLETIC FDTN — $258 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $250 · Other+9 more — $928 · Other+9 morePACE CENTER FOR GIRLSINC — $1,283 · Youth DevelopmentPACE CENTER FOR GIRLS…RYAN NECE FOUNDATION INC — $750 · Youth DevelopmentRYAN NECE FOUNDATION …THE TAMPA THEATRE INC A/K/A TAMPA THEATRE FOUNDATION — $1,200 · Arts & CultureTHE TAMPA TH…SEASIDE SEABIRD SANCTUARY — $500 · AnimalsMORRIS ANIMAL FOUNDATION — $103 · AnimalsCOVE ANIMAL RESCUE CORPORATION — $100 · AnimalsAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $264 · HealthKIDS' FOOD BASKET INC — $250 · Food & NutritionSoutheastern Guide Dogs Inc — $235 · Human Services
Other$6,141Youth Development$2,033Arts & Culture$1,200Animals$703Health$264Food & Nutrition$250Human Services$235

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPACE CENTER FOR GIRLSINC — $1,283 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TAMPA THEATRE INC A/K/A TAMPA THEATRE FOUNDATION — $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBAY AREA LEGAL SERVICES INC — $875 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRYAN NECE FOUNDATION INC — $750 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSEASIDE SEABIRD SANCTUARY — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $264 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS' FOOD BASKET INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSoutheastern Guide Dogs Inc — $235 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION STOPS ABUSE INC — $203 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMORRIS ANIMAL FOUNDATION — $103 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOVE ANIMAL RESCUE CORPORATION — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLENNAR FOUNDATION — $51 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Vinik Family FoundationFL13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vinik Family Foundation · Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Lisha & Chad Bowen Family Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 2%
  • Bay Area Legal Services Inc14% of income from government
  • Community Action Stops Abuse Inc13% of income from government
  • Pace Center for Girlsinc2% of income from government
  • Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc0% of income from government
  • Seaside Seabird Sanctuary0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

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How do I get to Lisha & Chad Bowen Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Lisha & Chad Bowen Family Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 24 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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