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Lisha & Chad Bowen Family Foundation Inc

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.

$2k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Youth Development$2kAnimals$2kRecreation & Sports$2kArts & Culture$1kCommunity Improvement$1kCrime & Legal$875Health$368Human Services$303Other$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$548
Median grant
1
States reached
$26k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PACECENTER FOR GIRLS$1,845
HUMANE SOCIETY$548
OZONA VILLAGE IMPROVE SOCIETY$40
PALM HARBOR HISTORICAL SOCIETY$38
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

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MI
NY
OH
PA
CA
CO
MD
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

38%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5k · 4 repeat orgs$8k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
20

Total granted

$5k
$8k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+14%

Still filing today

50%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $78 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureHealthFood & NutritionHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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
    3× · 2022–2025 · $3k · revenue +18%
  • HS
    HUMANE SOCIETY
    3× · 2023–2025 · $2k
  • COMMUNITY ACTION STOPS ABUSE INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $203 · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • VT
    VAST TRACK AND FIELD
    one grant, 2022 · $2k
  • TT
    THE TAMPA THEATRE INC A/K/A TAMPA THEATRE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue +33%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $1k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
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.

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2
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
3
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Tampa Bay Florida Inc

Spca tampa bay is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that operates pinellas county's only nonprofit for-all animal shelter assisting all animals in need, regardless of species or circumstance, at its 10-acre campus in largo. (continued on…

Animals
4
Florida Animal Protection Foundation
Animals
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
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
8
Seward Association for the Advancement of Marine Science

The alaska sealife center generates and shares scientific knowledge to promote understanding and stewardship of alaska's marine ecosystems.

Animals
9
Pasado's Safe Haven

Fighting to end animal cruelty and create a more compassionate world.(continued in schedule o)fiscal year 2024-2025 highlights include:investigated/resourced 71 animal cruelty cases, provided care andrehabilitations for 398 animals at our…

Animals
10
Humane Society of Sarasota County Inc

As the areas premier no-kill shelter, the humane society of sarasota county engages the hearts, hands, and minds of the community to help animals.

Animals
11
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
12
Usf Research Foundation Inc

To promote, encourage and enhance research activities at the university of south florida.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Tampa Theatre Inc a/K/a Tampa Theatre Foundation; 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

13 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. 13 of the 26 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
8/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HUMANE SOCIETY: $1,709 · OtherHUMANE SOCIETYVAST TRACK AND FIELD: $1,600 · OtherVAST TRACK AND FIELDIndividual 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+10 more: $968 · Other+10 morePACE CENTER FOR GIRLSINC: $3,128 · Youth DevelopmentPACE CENTER FOR GIRLSINCRYAN NECE FOUNDATION INC: $750 · Youth DevelopmentRYAN NECE FOUNDATION INCTHE TAMPA THEATRE INC A/K/A TAMPA THEATRE FOUNDATION: $1,200 · Arts & CultureTHE TAMPA …+1 more: $38 · Arts & CultureSEASIDE 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$6,729Youth Development$3,878Arts & Culture$1,238Animals$703Health$264Food & Nutrition$250Human Services$235

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPACE CENTER FOR GIRLSINC: $3,128 over 3y, 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 budgetPALM HARBOR HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $38 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Lisha & Chad Bowen Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lisha & Chad Bowen Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Bay Area Legal Services Inc: 14% of income from government
  • Community Action Stops Abuse Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Pace Center for Girlsinc: 2% of income from government
  • Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Seaside Seabird Sanctuary: 0% 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, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 26 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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