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Mark and Katie Bowles Family Foundation at a glance

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Mark and Katie Bowles Family Foundation

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.

$65k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$129kHealth$122kInternational$43kEnvironment$10kScience & Tech$5kSocial Science$4kYouth Development$3kPhilanthropy$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $5k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$14k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LA JOLLA INSTITUTE ALLERGY & IMMUNOLOGY$50,000
DEFY VENTURES INC$10,000
KISS THE GROUND$5,000
WOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL$360
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 88% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Village Enterprise: $10k → 7%LA JOLLA INSTITUTE ALLERGY & IMMUNOLOGY: $50k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO: $3k → 11%VIP Inc: $2k → 14%Pepperdine University: $11k → 14%North Valley Community Foundation: $1k → 18%DEFY VENTURES INC: $20k → 17%SOUTHWEST INNOVATION RESEARCH LAB: $5k → 22%WOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL: $720 → 14%VILLAGE ENTERPRISE FUND INC: $10k → 7%LA JOLLA INSTITUTE ALLERGY & IMMUNOLOGY: $30k → 11%VIP Inc: $300 → 14%Pepperdine University: $5k → 14%Defy Ventures: $11k → 17%TEXAS A&M FOUNDATION: $3k → 22%Women for Women International: $360 → 14%Village Enterprise: $10k → 7%La Jolla Institute Allergy Immunolo: $25k → 11%Pepperdine University: $5k → 14%DEFY VENTURES INC: $10k → 17%Texas AM Foundation: $1k → 22%Women for Women International: $360 → 14%Village Enterprise: $10k → 7%LA JOLLA INSTITUTE ALLERGY & IMMUNOLOGY: $25k → 11%Pepperdine University: $2k → 14%Defy Ventures: $10k → 17%Women for Women International: $360 → 14%La Jolla Institute Allergy Immunolo: $25k → 11%Rob Machado Foundation: $3k → 14%Defy Ventures: $7k → 17%WOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL: $360 → 14%La Jolla Institute Allergy Immunolo: $15k → 11%SELF-REALIZATION FELLOWSHIP CHURCH: $500 → 14%DEFY VENTURES INC: $5k → 17%WOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL: $360 → 14%University of San Diego: $3k → 11%Women for Women International: $360 → 14%University of San Diego: $3k → 11%WOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL: $360 → 14%University of San Diego: $3k → 11%University of San Diego: $3k → 11%The Graver Foundation for Education: $6k → 11%The Grauer Foundation for Education: $5k → 11%The Grauer Foundation for Education: $4k → 11%SD Regional Econmic Dev Foundation: $4k → 11%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.
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$369k · 13 repeat orgs$13k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against -17% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
5

Total granted

$369k
$13k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
-17%

Still filing today

85%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationInternationalPhilanthropyScience & TechFood & NutritionOther
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

  • VE
    VILLAGE ENTERPRISE FUND
    4× · 2017–2021 · $40k · revenue +502%
  • PU
    PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2017–2020 · $22k · revenue +51%
  • SD
    SAN DIEGO CHAPTER THE LINKS INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $15k · revenue +220%

Funded once

  • SI
    SOUTHWEST INNOVATION RESEARCH LAB
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • SR
    SD Regional Econmic Dev Foundation
    one grant, 2018 · $4k
  • RM
    ROB MACHADO FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue -17%
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
The Scripps Research Institute

The scripps research institute ("tsri") performs high impact basic biomedical research, improves the human condition by fostering translation of its discoveries into useful products and engages in the highest quality graduate scientific…

Health
2
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
3
Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education
4
Stem Advantage

Talent is equally distributed, but opportunity is not. STEM Advantage mentors, prepares, and inspires first-generation, low-income, and underserved college students for careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). We level…

Youth Development
5
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
6
University of La Verne

The university of la verne offers a distinctive and relevant educational experience to a diverse population of traditional-age, adult, and graduate learners, preparing them for successful careers and a commitment to lifelong learning…

Education
7
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University

Stanford university is one of a select group of american universities that have achieved eminence in both undergraduate and graduate education and research - cont'd sch o.

Education
8
The Kimmy Duong Foundation
Philanthropy
9
University of California Irvine Foundation

The mission of the university of california, irvine foundation (uc irvine foundation) is to raise and manage private funds to support uc irvine's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service. to this end, the uc…

Education
10
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
11
University of Redlands

We welcome, educate, and empower a diverse community of learners for lives of meaning, impact, and joy.

Education
12
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas a&M Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Women for Women International. 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

15 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. 15 of the 19 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
8/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LA JOLLA INSTITUTE FOR IMMUNOLOGY: $105,000 · OtherLA JOLLA INSTITUTE FOR IMMUNOLOGYLa Jolla Institute Allergy Immunolo: $65,000 · OtherLa Jolla Institute Allergy ImmunoloSAN DIEGO CHAPTER THE LINKS INC: $15,000 · OtherSAN DIEGO CHAPTER THE LINKS INCUNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO: $14,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO+3 more: $6,800 · OtherDEFY VENTURES INC: $63,000 · EducationDEFY VENTURES INCPEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY: $22,000 · EducationPEPPERDINE UNIVERSITYGRAUER FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION: $14,600 · EducationGRAUER FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIO…Texas A&M Foundation: $4,000 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · EducationVILLAGE ENTERPRISE FUND: $40,000 · InternationalVILLAGE ENTE…WOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL: $3,240 · InternationalWOMEN FOR WO…KISS THE GROUND: $15,000 · Food & NutritionTARIQ KHAMISA FOUNDATION INC TKF: $5,200 · PhilanthropyROB MACHADO FOUNDATION: $2,500 · PhilanthropyNORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,000 · PhilanthropySOUTHWEST INNOVATION RESEARCH LAB: $5,000 · Science & Tech
Other$206,300Education$104,600International$43,240Food & Nutrition$15,000Philanthropy$8,700Science & Tech$5,000

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 budgetLA JOLLA INSTITUTE FOR IMMUNOLOGY: $105,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDEFY VENTURES INC: $63,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetVILLAGE ENTERPRISE FUND: $40,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetPEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY: $22,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSAN DIEGO CHAPTER THE LINKS INC: $15,000 over 3y, 9.9% of budgetKISS THE GROUND: $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetGRAUER FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION: $14,600 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO: $14,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTARIQ KHAMISA FOUNDATION INC TKF: $5,200 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTexas A&M Foundation: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL: $3,240 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetROB MACHADO FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetNORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLamar University Foundation Inc: $1,000 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.

American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Endowment FoundationOH10.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Mark and Katie Bowles Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mark and Katie Bowles Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Mark and Katie Bowles Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Mark and Katie Bowles Family Foundation 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 19 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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