How much did MARGARET SPILMAN BOWDEN FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 46% of MARGARET SPILMAN BOWDEN FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 18 grants

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

$18,000

Median grant

States reached

$4.5M

Total assets

Largest grants

FAUQUIER SPCA$50,000
ST JOHN'S CATHOLIC SCHOOL$44,000
THE NORTHERN PIEDMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$44,000
FRIENDS OF WESTON$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
ST JAMES EPISCOPAL CHURCH$10,000
MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF FAUQUIER COUNTY$10,000
THE CLIFTON INSTITUTE$10,000
HIGHLAND SCHOOL$10,000

02The need

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 (FY17–24, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6% — the area typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$475k · 16 repeat orgs$89k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +21% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.

16 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$475k

$3k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%

+4%

Still filing today

56%

100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $86k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

PhilanthropyEnvironmentAnimalsHousing & ShelterEducationHuman 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

FS
FAUQUIER SPCA
8× · 2017–2024 · $65k · revenue +95%
RT
RESERVA THE YOUTH LAND TRUST
4× · 2021–2024 · $37k · revenue +36%
FF
FAUQUIER FAMILY SHELTER SERVICES INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $35k · revenue +13%

Funded once

WA
WARRENTON ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY
one grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue +0%
HS
HOSPICE SUPPORT OF FAUQUIER COUNTY
one grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +4%

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.

Fauquier Health Foundation

Health

Fauquier Habitat for Humanity Inc

Provide affordable homes to families who cannot afford one through regular programs.

Housing & Shelter

The Virginia Home

Long-term care for persons with irreversible physical disabilities.

Health

Northern Virginia Affordable Housing

Increase supply of and equitable access to affordable housing in Northern Virginia through education, advocacy, and community partnership.

Housing & Shelter

Habitat for Humanity Virginia

Habitat for Humanity Virginia provides support to Virginia affiliates so that they can build or facilitate affordable housing by offering advocacy, organizational development, funding, and resource development

Housing & Shelter

Fauquier Historical Society

Preservation of the rich history of Fauquier County and education of interested parties

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Alleghany Historical Society

The Historical Society provides information to the public concerning the historical events in the area. The Society also helps with the restoration of historical

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Fauquier Chamber of Commerce

We are focused on, and a resource for, the business, government and community interests of local businesses in and around fauquier county, virginia.

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Carilion Franklin Memorial Hospital

Our mission is to improve the health of the communities we serve through our commitment to a common purpose of better patient care, better community health, and lower cost.

Health

Humane Society of the High Plains

To foster the humane treatment and shelter of animals

Animals

Citizens for Fauquier County

Conservation and Preservation of rural Fauquier County

Environment

Henrico Humane Society Inc

Animal Adoption and Animal Care

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northern Piedmont Community and the most unlike its peers is The Hill School Corporation. 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

14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

14/14

Grantees still filing

11/14

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$257,932Philanthropy$90,283Animals$64,833Environment$46,750Housing & Shelter$35,000Education$29,000Human Services$24,700Health$15,500

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.

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.

Fauquier Health FoundationVA24.6× affinity9 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fauquier Health Foundation · Northern Piedmont Community · The Jesse and Rose Loeb Foundation Inc · Wise Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 organisation 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.

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typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: RESERVA THE YOUTH LAND TRUST.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

4 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 842906892 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on RESERVA THE YOUTH LAND TRUST, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 24% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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Find your warmest path to Margaret Spilman Bowden Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

MARGARET SPILMAN BOWDEN FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Margaret Spilman Bowden Foundation?

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MARGARET SPILMAN BOWDEN FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Margaret Spilman Bowden Foundation?

More from the funding graph