· Private foundation
The Bolwell 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k49 grants · $103k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Stand Up to Cancer | $10,000 |
| Duke University | $6,000 |
| Vail Valley Foundation | $6,000 |
| Alight | $5,000 |
| Save the Children Foundation | $5,000 |
| Vail Christian High School | $5,000 |
| Internationl Rescue Committee | $5,000 |
| Good360 | $5,000 |
| Direct Relief International | $5,000 |
| St Gianna's Place | $3,500 |
| Doctors Without Borders | $3,000 |
| Breast Cancer Research Foundation | $3,000 |
| Amazon Conservation Team | $3,000 |
| Water for People | $3,000 |
| The Hunger Project | $3,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $34k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 24% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +2% since the first grant, against -3% for the ones you funded once.
54 repeat relationships — 42 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 95% 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
Save The Children Federation Inc5× · 2021–2025 · $27k · revenue +1%
DUKE UNIVERSITY4× · 2021–2025 · $27k · revenue +1%
DIRECT RELIEF5× · 2021–2025 · $27k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- THThe Hope Centerone grant, 2023 · $3k
Central Texas Food Bank Inc2× · 2021–2022 · $3k · revenue -28%- WTWalk to Defeat ALS Charlotteone grant, 2022 · $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.
Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.
A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
Ahip is the national trade association representing the health insurance industry. ahip's members provide health care coverage, services and solutions to more than 200 million americans. we are committed to market-based solutions and…
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
Our mission is to invest in and accelerate the development of the most promising future leaders in biomedical research with global impact.
To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.
To eliminate disparities in health care access and outcomes by providing superior quality health and human services through an integrated world-class delivery system for latino, multi-ethnic underserved communities in southern california.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
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See schedule oustelecom exists to ensure members can compete, grow and thrive to build a world where families, enterprises and communities are connected through the power of broadband.our member companies have committed a considerable…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vail Health Services Foundation and the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
62 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. 62 of the 83 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 Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds ALIGHT ↗
- Who funds VAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GOOD360 ↗
- Who funds ST GIANNA'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds THE GLOBAL HUNGER PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMAZON CONSERVATION TEAM ↗
- Who funds WATER FOR PEOPLE ↗
- Who funds STAND UP TO CANCER ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds READ ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds CARITAS OF AUSTIN ↗
- Who funds EAGLE VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Active Minds Inc ↗
- Who funds BREASTCANCERORG ↗
- Who funds VAIL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Family Place ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds THE LOOMIS INSTITUTE D/B/A THE LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Global Green USA ↗
- Who funds THE FLATWATER FOUNDATON ↗
- Who funds EAGLE VALLEY LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds CAP & CONQUER INC ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WALKING MOUNTAINS ↗
- Who funds DIVINE CANINES ↗
- Who funds TOMAHAWK CHARITABLE SOLUTIONS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN POLICE OPERATION BLUE SANTA ↗
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: United Jewish Foundation · Austin Community Foundation Inc · The Joyce & Paul Krasnow Charitable Foundation · Helle Family Foundation · The Precourt Foundation · Frechette Family Foundation · Frey Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Bright Funds Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc
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 Bolwell 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Shatterproof a Nonprofit Corporation — 2% 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.