How much does The Bolwell Foundation give?

The Bolwell Foundation reported 50 grants totaling $113,345 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 41 and 48 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.

What does The Bolwell Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (34%), Health (19%), Education (13%).

Who are The Bolwell Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Save The Children Federation Inc ($27k), Duke University ($27k), International Rescue Committee INC ($27k).

Does The Bolwell Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Bolwell Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Bolwell Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Jewish Foundation, Austin Community Foundation Inc, The Joyce & Paul Krasnow Charitable Foundation.

Where is The Bolwell Foundation based?

The Bolwell Foundation is based in CO.

The Bolwell Foundation

The Bolwell Foundation at a glance

· 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.

$113k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$10k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

International$173kHealth$98kEducation$65kHuman Services$48kEnvironment$33kCommunity Improvement$23kPhilanthropy$18kHousing & Shelter$17kOther$0

02FY2025 · 50 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k49 grants · $103k
$10k–50k1 grant · $10k

$1,500

Median grant

States reached

$2.3M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Stand Up to Cancer	$10,000
Duke University	$6,000
Vail Valley Foundation	$6,000
Alight	$5,000
Vail Christian High School	$5,000
Save the Children Foundation	$5,000
Internationl Rescue Committee	$5,000
Direct Relief International	$5,000
Good360	$5,000
St Gianna's Place	$3,500
The Hunger Project	$3,000
Amazon Conservation Team	$3,000
Water for People	$3,000
Breast Cancer Research Foundation	$3,000
Doctors Without Borders	$3,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$444k · 54 repeat orgs$25k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +14% since the first grant, against -3% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$444k

$20k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%

-3%

Still filing today

83%

40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthInternationalEducationAnimalsHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther

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

Save The Children Federation Inc
5× · 2021–2025 · $27k · revenue +1%
DUKE UNIVERSITY
4× · 2021–2025 · $27k · revenue +1%
IR
International Rescue Committee INC
5× · 2021–2025 · $27k · revenue +38%

Funded once

TH
The Hope Center
one grant, 2023 · $3k
Central Texas Food Bank Inc
2× · 2021–2022 · $3k · revenue -28%
WT
Walk to Defeat ALS Charlotte
one grant, 2022 · $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.

Allosource

Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.

Health

International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International

America's Health Insurance Plans Inc

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…

Membership Benefit

American Association for the Advancement of Science

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,…

Science & Tech

American Gas Association

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…

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The Water Research Foundation

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…

Environment

International Biomedical Research Alliance

Our mission is to invest in and accelerate the development of the most promising future leaders in biomedical research with global impact.

Health

American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment

Altamed Health Services Corporation

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.

Health

The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International

Worldwide Vets Incorporated

Our goal is to sustainably improve animal welfare, provide veterinary care, and improve veterinary education globally. in order to achieve this goal, we work in over 10 countries, across 5 continents, supporting local people and animals,…

Animals

United States Telecom Association

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…

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vail Health Services Foundation; 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.

04the grantee network

62 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. 62 of the 83 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

61/62

Grantees still filing

37/62

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

International$172,530Other$139,290Education$58,000Health$45,250Human Services$37,425Philanthropy$29,700Community Improvement$23,149

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

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.

United Jewish FoundationMI15.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Bolwell Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bolwell Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home