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The Bagwell Foundation at a glance

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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.

$21k
Granted FY2021
15
Grants FY2021
6
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Religion$49kEducation$44kPhilanthropy$5kHuman Services$3kEnvironment$2kFood & Nutrition$1kAnimals$500Other$0
02FY2021 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$246k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
BECAUSE OF JESUS$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
HELLEN THOMAS EVANGELISTIC ASSOC$1,000
NATICK EDUCATION FOUNDATION$1,000
NATICK COMMUNITY ORGANIC FARM$500
ARC OF ARENAC COUNTY$500
TAILORED FOR EDUCATION$500
KMS PTO NATICK INC$500
THE CLASSICAL ACADEMY OF SARASOTA$300
MARIE SELBY GARDENS$200
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 (FY17–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 68% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%NATWICK EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%TAILORED FOR EDUCATION: $500 → 16%SHEKINAH WORSHIP CENTER: $7k → 14%HERE I AM MINISTRIES: $1k → 16%1ST BAPTIST CHURCH OF DEWEY OK: $2k → 14%FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF BV: $2k → 14%RESTORATION CHURCH: $3k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF THE OZARKS: $6k → 19%BIG CAT HABITAT GULF COAST: $500 → 9%THE RINGLING: $250 → 10%ARC OF ARENAC COUNTY: $500 → 14%INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTI: $1k → 14%MEMORIAL SCHOOL PTO: $3k → 8%DEWEY BAPTIST CHURCH: $1k → 14%SALVATION ARMY OF BARTLESVILLE: $2k → 14%HEALING GRACE CHURCH: $5k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF THE OZARKS: $4k → 19%THE CLASSICAL ACADEMY OF SARASOTA: $300 → 9%MEMORIAL SCHOOL PTO: $3k → 8%DEWEY BAPTIST CHURCH: $1k → 14%BARTLESVILLE FIRST BAPTIST: $1k → 14%HEALING GRACE CHURCH: $5k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF THE OZARKS: $4k → 19%FELLOWSHIP OF BELIEVERS: $6k → 9%NATWICK EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $3k → 8%BARTLESVILLE FIRST CHURCH: $1k → 14%HEALING GRACE CHURCH: $3k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF THE OZARKS: $3k → 19%FELLOWSHIP OF BELIEVERS: $3k → 9%NATICK EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $1k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF THE OZARKS: $3k → 19%MARIE SELBY BOTANICAL GARDENS: $500 → 9%MEMORIAL NATICK PTO: $1k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF THE OZARKS: $2k → 19%MARIE SELBY BOTANICAL GARDENS: $500 → 9%NATWICK COMMUNITY ORGANIC FARM: $500 → 8%UNIVERSITY OF THE OZARKS: $2k → 19%MARIE SELBY BOTANICAL GARDENS: $500 → 9%KMS PTO NATICK INC: $500 → 8%UNIVERSITY OF THE OZARKS: $2k → 19%MARIE SELBY GARDENS: $200 → 9%NATICK COMMUNITY ORGANIC FARM: $500 → 8%UNIVERSITY OF THE OZARKS: $2k → 19%MOTE MARINE AQUARIUM: $125 → 9%MEMORIAL SCHOOL PTO OF NATWICK: $500 → 8%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

IL
MI
MA
CA
AR
OK
TX
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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$80k · 10 repeat orgs$24k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
12

Total granted

$80k
$19k

Still filing today

50%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21
EducationEnvironmentFood & NutritionReligionInternationalOther
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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF THE OZARKS
    5× · 2017–2021 · $28k · revenue +69%
  • NE
    Natick Education Foundation
    3× · 2019–2021 · $9k · revenue +344%
  • The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc
    3× · 2017–2019 · $2k · revenue +183%

Funded once

  • SW
    SHEKINAH WORSHIP CENTER
    one grant, 2017 · $7k
  • RC
    RESTORATION CHURCH
    one grant, 2020 · $3k
  • FU
    FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF BV
    one grant, 2017 · $2k
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
Northeast Academy

To provide a secondary education for children

Education
2
Naperville Christian Academy

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
3
Halifax Academy a Christian School

Education of students.

Education
4
The Garden School

Providing a classical christian education for PK-12 Students

Education
5
Nittany Christian School

To operate for educational purposes as a private school

Education
6
Trinity Classical School of Houston Inc

Trinity Classical School is a Christian school that uses classical curriculum and a collaborative approach.

Education
7
The Nantucket Education Trust Inc

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.

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8
Brown School Parent Teacher Organization of Natick Massachusetts

To fund activities for the student of Brown School of Natick, MA

Education
9
The Canterbury Episcopal School

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…

—
10
Charis Classical Academy Incorporated

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.

Education
11
Central Texas Christian School Inc

To educate students with the transforming truth of christ, inspiring academic excellence, godly character, and integrity in life pursuits.

—
12
Norfolk Christian Schools

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.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Natick Education Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 30 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HEALING GRACE CHURCH INC: $12,625 · OtherHEALING GRACE CHURCH INCFELLOWSHIP OF BELIEVERS INC: $9,000 · OtherFELLOWSHIP OF BELIEVERS INCNatick Education Foundation: $8,500 · OtherNatick Education FoundationHELLEN THOMAS EVANGELISTIC ASSOCINC: $7,000 · OtherHELLEN THOMAS EVANGELISTIC ASSOCINCSHEKINAH WORSHIP CENTER: $6,500 · OtherSHEKINAH WORSHIP CENTERMEMORIAL SCHOOL PTO: $6,000 · OtherMEMORIAL SCHOOL PTOSERVE NWA'S FUND AT PURE CHARITY: $5,000 · OtherSERVE NWA'S FUND AT PURE CHARITYRESTORATION CHURCH: $2,500 · Other+15 more: $15,075 · Other+15 moreUNIVERSITY OF THE OZARKS: $27,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF THE OZARKS+2 more: $800 · EducationThe Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc: $1,500 · EnvironmentTHE NATICK COMMUNITY ORGANIC FARM INC: $1,000 · Food & NutritionBECAUSE OF JESUS INC: $1,000 · ReligionTAILORED FOR EDUCATION INC: $500 · International
Other$72,200Education$28,300Environment$1,500Food & Nutrition$1,000Religion$1,000International$500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF THE OZARKS: $27,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNatick Education Foundation: $8,500 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetHELLEN THOMAS EVANGELISTIC ASSOCINC: $7,000 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetThe Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATICK COMMUNITY ORGANIC FARM INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBECAUSE OF JESUS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetKMS PTO NATICK INC: $500 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetTAILORED FOR EDUCATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CLASSICAL ACADEMY OF SARASOTA: $300 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.

  • 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 THE NATICK COMMUNITY ORGANIC FARM INC ↗
  • Who funds BECAUSE OF JESUS INC ↗
  • Who funds KMS PTO NATICK INC ↗
  • Who funds TAILORED FOR EDUCATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CLASSICAL ACADEMY OF SARASOTA ↗

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.

The Bank of America C…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC6.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation 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 The Bagwell Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bagwell Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc: 0% of income from government
  • The Natick Community Organic Farm Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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.

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 30 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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