· Private foundation
The Bagwell Foundation
Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HEALING GRACE CHURCH | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF THE OZARKS | $3,500 |
| SERVE NWA'S FUND AT PURE CHARITY | $3,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF THE OZARKS | $2,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTI | $1,000 |
| HELLEN THOMAS EVANGELISTIC ASSOC | $1,000 |
| BECAUSE OF JESUS | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| NATICK EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| ARC OF ARENAC COUNTY | $500 |
| TAILORED FOR EDUCATION | $500 |
| KMS PTO NATICK INC | $500 |
| NATICK COMMUNITY ORGANIC FARM | $500 |
| THE CLASSICAL ACADEMY OF SARASOTA | $300 |
| MARIE SELBY GARDENS | $200 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 68% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
10 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2021, 4 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2021, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF THE OZARKS5× · 2017–2021 · $28k · revenue +69%
- NENatick Education Foundation3× · 2019–2021 · $9k · revenue +344%
The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc3× · 2017–2019 · $2k · revenue +183%
Funded once
- SWSHEKINAH WORSHIP CENTERone grant, 2017 · $7k
- RCRESTORATION CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $3k
- FUFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF BVone grant, 2017 · $2k
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.
To provide a secondary education for children
Provide a quality christian elementary and high school education that guides young men and women to know and love christ in every sphere of life
Education of students.
Providing a classical christian education for PK-12 Students
To operate for educational purposes as a private school
Trinity Classical School is a Christian school that uses classical curriculum and a collaborative approach.
To generate private support for public education on nantucket, to foster private and public partnerships that benefit the children of nantucket public schools, and to honor excellence in teaching and learning.
To fund activities for the student of Brown School of Natick, MA
The Canterbury Episcopal School provides a rigorous education in the humanities, arts, social and natural sciences for students in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade. The faculty encourages Canterbury students to explore and examine a…
Charis Classical Academy provides a gospel based, classical education experience to students that is based on the curriculum developed by Charlotte Mason and which incorporates the university model.
To educate students with the transforming truth of christ, inspiring academic excellence, godly character, and integrity in life pursuits.
It is the mission of norfolk christian schools to equip students spiritually, intellectually, and physically to love god and to serve him as christ's ambassadors in the world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Natick Education Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Because of Jesus Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 30 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 UNIVERSITY OF THE OZARKS ↗
- Who funds Natick Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds HELLEN THOMAS EVANGELISTIC ASSOCINC ↗
- Who funds The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc ↗
- Who funds BECAUSE OF JESUS INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATICK COMMUNITY ORGANIC FARM INC ↗
- Who funds KMS PTO NATICK INC ↗
- Who funds TAILORED FOR EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CLASSICAL ACADEMY OF SARASOTA ↗
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: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation 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 The Bagwell 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Natick Community Organic Farm Inc — 0% of income from government
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.