· Private foundation
Margaret Spilman Bowden Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $355k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FAUQUIER SPCA | $50,000 |
| THE NORTHERN PIEDMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $44,000 |
| ST JOHN'S CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $44,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $42,000 |
| RESERVA THE YOUTH LAND TRUST | $34,000 |
| WARRENTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT | $32,000 |
| FOOTHILLS HOUSING CORPORATION | $30,000 |
| FAUQUIER FAMILY SHELTER SERVICES INC | $25,000 |
| CATLETT VOLUNTEER FIRE AND RESCUE | $18,000 |
| THE HILL SCHOOL | $14,000 |
| FAUQUIER FISH | $12,000 |
| HIGHLAND SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| FINLEYS GREEN LEAP FORWARD | $10,000 |
| ST JAMES EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $10,000 |
| FAUQUIER COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
15 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $86k 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
- FSFAUQUIER SPCA INC8× · 2017–2024 · $65k · revenue +95%
- RTRESERVA THE YOUTH LAND TRUST INC4× · 2021–2024 · $37k · revenue +36%
- FFFAUQUIER FAMILY SHELTER SERVICES8× · 2017–2024 · $35k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- WAWARRENTON ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETYgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue +48%
- HSHospice Support of Fauquier County Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +55%
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.
We are focused on, and a resource for, the business, government and community interests of local businesses in and around fauquier county, virginia.
To fight hunger in fauquier county by providing our neighbors in need with nourishing food and encouraging self-sufficiency through vibrant community partnerships
Our mission is to provide an accessible, safe, and nurturing environment in which school-aged children learn, grow, and play to promote the development of the whole child.
The free clinic offers quality medical, dental and mental health care to residents of fauquier and rappahannock counties who lack appropriate alternatives for these services.
The organization seeks to reduce poverty, revitalize low income communities and empower low income individuals and families to become self-sufficient.
Promoting for the benefit of the general public, the preservation, protection and enjoyment of our natural resources, principally in the lower james, york, rappahannock and chowan rivers and surrounding watersheds.
Each year, nearly 5,000 pets come to the fairfax county animal shelter. friends of the fairfax county animal shelter (friends) funds medical/dental treatment, parasite prevention, spay/neuter procedures and behavioral training beyond what…
The mission of clean fairfax is to encourage environmental stewardship and urban sustainability in fairfax county, virginia through education, programming and community involvement. clean fairfax works on litter prevention efforts,…
To advance agriculture and agriculture-related education through best-method demonstrations, classroom instruction, on-farm workshops, and hands-on learning. the farm supports the community by contributing all of its agricultural products…
Franklin County Humane Society dba Franklin County Animal Rescue (FCAR)promotes the health, welfare, and humane treatment of animal in Northwestern Vermont and provides temporary shelter for them with the goal of finding them good,…
To foster the historical and genealogical heritage of fauquier county, virginia.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Clifton Institute Inc and the most unlike its peers is Reserva the Youth Land Trust Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 23 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 FAUQUIER SPCA INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN PIEDMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RESERVA THE YOUTH LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds FAUQUIER FAMILY SHELTER SERVICES ↗
- Who funds FOOTHILLS HOUSING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE HILL SCHOOL CORPORATION OF MIDDLEBURG ↗
- Who funds HIGHLAND SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds PIEDMONT REGIONAL ORCHESTRA DBA PIEDMONT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF FAUQUIER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FAUQUIER FISH ↗
- Who funds FINLEYS GREEN LEAP FORWARD ↗
- Who funds THE CLIFTON INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF FAUQUIER INC ↗
- Who funds WARRENTON ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Hospice Support of Fauquier County 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: Northern Piedmont Community Foundation · Fauquier Health Foundation Dba the Path Foundation · The Jesse and Rose Loeb Foundation Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Wise Foundation · William a Hazel Family Foundation · Fhi Services · Amory S Carhart Memorial Fund · Blue Ridge Community Foundation · The Bank of Clarke County Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Margaret Spilman Bowden 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.
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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